NESTING

This past week i have been in a nesting mood, maybe because it was raining and cloudy all week. I just cant stop looking a decorating books and shows. I even cleaned out my closet this weekend! I have been promising my bestfriend i would finish it for about a year now (she did the main part of it while she was here on her last visit). But today it was so gorgeous outside i just had to open the windows and putter around dreaming. I tried doing my heartbook swap project friday night and i am just at a loss. It has acutally made me realize that i am a jewelry artist and that is what just what naturally comes out. I get so frustrated and think whatever collage or painting i make it just bad. Here is what i was working on, it needs tweaking but it is not to bad overall i suppose,

For a long time i basically just worked with gemstone beads etc since i was going to school to be a gemologist and worked in a diamond sorting room in CA. Then all of a sudden i just wanted to work in swarovski crystals and make simple sparking jewelry, Here are some of my pieces from earlier this year,
The gemstones are calling my name again though so i am transitioning back into doing mainly that. I am actually excited to get back to "my true love". I have to go buy some new stones though, and when i see them that is when i will really get inspired. It is weird, sometimes i just dream of something and then buy the stones to make it but most of the time it is the stones that tell me what to do. I am very grateful to have Cindy http://cindydean.blogspot.com/ to push me along, i had given up for a few years. She is my mentor :) We are doing a show at first friday and i have to busy if i am going to keep up with her!