Finishing =]

I know I mentioned that my butt was being kicked in my last post, but not today! I was the one kicking some butt and I am so happy with the progress I made today.  Firstly, here are three pieces for ArtUnleashed, the fundraiser for students and student scholarships.  You see the ring from yesterday finished, and another ring with an oval amber and then earrings with oval amethyst. I LOVE this work, I'm so happy with it, and I can see so many places this can go (including casting to make a whole line of jewelry)  We are going to make breadcrumb work as a project in Advanced, a term coined by the lovely Stephanie Tomczak.  Breadcrumb work is the non-one-of-a-kind and more affordable work you make that either gives people on a budget a taste of your work, and the idea is that these littler pieces are the breadcrumbs that people can follow to find your one-of-a-kind work. I like that term, and it seems to be catching on with all of us.

Here we see my lantern pod finished, whaaaaaattt? It took many hours to etch, but it came out really awesome and I'm very excited about it.  The jade bead is set inside here as well, and all I need now is the rest of the beads to sting. Yay progress!