More Projects in Progress

Sorry it has been SO long since I've posted BUT, here are some updates.  Firstly, my chinese lantern pod has been kicking my butt. I love the way this has come out now, and I am so glad I took the advice of my teacher Sarah Martin and redid the lines.  It has finally hit that Senior Show is in one month, and that I need to actually FINISH projects...which also means I need to START others.  Well, only one that still needs to be started.  Anyways, here is the pod ready to be etched tomorrow:

If you don't know the etching process you're just like me, but from what I think I know about it you hook the project up to one end of a battery and another piece of metal to the other inside a salt water solution, and everywhere where the resist is not slowly is etched away.  Here the resist is the black lines, painted with asphaltum.  One of the beads below (orange jade!) is going inside as the little seady-type thing inside the pod and I want to make a chain of graduated beads for the neckpiece. Yummy!

Also, here is a photo of the ring I made in a gem workshop we had at school with alumns of the program, it's not totally finished, but its close! It needs to be polished a little and the stones actually set in, other than that its done! It's a 10mm amber stone and two smaller (I can't remember the size) amethyst.  I'm also hoping to make oval amethyst earrings and an oval ring in this same fashion.

Craziness is happening now that it's so close to the end, and deadlines are not only coming up soon but more and more are popping up.  I was nominated for the Mary Louise Beitzel Award at UArts, and I'd like to have most of my senior show pieces finished to show during that jury process. However, it is taking place in a week from tomorrow, so we'll see how much I can finish by then!  I'll try to keep you updated on the work, wish me good luck!