Is there life after London?

Oooh. Good question. IS there life after London?? Well, I have managed to create a flickr account where I posted the (thousands!) of pictures from my trip. Believe it or not, I went through them all BEFORE I posted, and culled thousands more... I had so much fun. 2 weeks after I got back, I was definitely ready to go back. Too bad I'm completely out of money. Anyone out there with a big box of money they don't want?

Hah. Didn't think so. Oh well. I participated in a (very) impromptu jewelery fair. Some (ok, quite a bit) of trepidation and a great deal of education was involved. Alas, not much selling. Still, it provided a big jump start to organizing my pieces, and getting them "sale worthy". Since then, I've added the pics to my flickr site, AND I've started a little store on Etsy! Hurray for me. I've been making loads of new pieces; the amethyst necklace below is pretty fresh. I got the stones at a bead fair after I got back. The chainmaille bracelet is in the same style as the gold-filled one I've been wearing for quite a while, but with thicker, smaller rings, and narrower.

Well, and it's tax prep season. That's not really life, more like hell. Really, if I were not COMPLETELY out of money, I'd go back in a flash.

One nice thing I started after I got back is the very nice line of saw-pierced earrings. I've got a load of designs, many of which I drew after I returned.

I had made quite a few of my early ones into practice pieces in copper. This last set I made into very thin earrings and pendants in sterling silver. Very labour intensive, but very, very pretty. Some of them have quite the Craftsman flavour. Well, I DID spend a lot of time in the V&A and the BL...

Some of the copper practice pieces are also destined to become items, but first I have to do some very boring paper work, and also create a little system to put sales in. I'll be sorry later if I don't do that pretty soon.