~closing my etsy sale~

halfoffeverything is the coupon code. i'm closing up shop to pursue my national boards license. cheers!

look around the blog. if you see and i have it, you get a great deal! thanks for your support. xoxo

aluminum hair curlers~

been a great week. one more week of snowboarding with 8th grade. they went to the top of the mountain! a first for this program. most kids, if at all, don't make it til the 5th week. so proud of their strength and courage. you should see the smiles! today? cloud cover holding in the heat so a bike ride out in la tierra is in order. gonna bike ride my butt off, literally. if i keep going, i should slim down like i used to be. was only lightweight when bike riding all the time, but then i stopped for a season, packed on some pounds and stopped riding for another season. now i'm determined to get back on that steed and go for it!
made two pair of earrings from 2 dismantled  vintage aluminum hair curlers. for perms right? anyway. fun fun while i puttered away breaking down chain and cleaning them up then laying out the design for the bead soup challenge. my reveal date is 3.30.13. can't wait! cheers y'all!

all better now with no heart~

and finished~

here today

gold foil and a cold~

came home sick today. hate being sick! especially hate leaving my classroom. BUT, i went and got some seriously hot red and green chile to kill the bug as well as some good tequila. ok, just a little in a sipper. like a hot toddy without the whiskey and honey and lemon and hot water. lol
so, my tommy says ~stay out of your studio and relax!~ i said i would so i brought the relaxing out to my kitchen table as forrest will be home soon and i can't sleep! when f gets home, i will. so there. got the fire roasting and got to the gold foiling of things.

anyway, i started with some buttons and a key plate. not sure of their exact name, those plates. but this one is from latvia and copper and cool. gonna be a necklace.

two different shots of the final result. pretty cool. have no idea what i will do with the buttons yet, but they are sweet. especially the teenie tiny one in the middle.

but then, i realized some of the glue has escaped through button holes and i had gold foiled the table!

shit, i'm in trouble! tom's gonna put two and two together...

bangle~

i cry for all of us these days; my brother, other bloggers, myself. yet, there is so much sunshine and light. i do hope it permeates all the sadness and gives way to renewal when the sighs are soothed and the shoulders unclench. when new paths are lightened and the signs say "all clear". xoxo