Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Where did the week go?

The last week has been hectic. Much time spent on volunteer work I do and then away to Virginia for the Thanksgiving weekend.

The day after we came back, our fridge (2-1/2 y.o. GE) died at midnight. GE can't come until Thursday. Since I have all the meat for our December holidays (we have family coming into town for 2+ weeks), I spent yesterday scrambling to buy a mini-fridge and freezer chest, reorganizing the laundry room to fit the freezer and getting that squared away.

I made my second etsy sale last week, which was a nice boost. And I finished off two new pieces I put in my shop this morning. I have a few others underway, but need to finish them off. At any rate, here are the two new pieces.

I made this bracelet because it uses a palette I love. Golden citrine nuggets, champagne citrine pear-shaped briolettes, golden rutilated quartz briolettes, hessonite onions, tundra sapphire rondelles, and vermeil.





I love how luminous this piece is. Teal fluorite rounds, lemon quartz spiral-cut briolettes, prehnite teardrops, citrine onions, and peridot teardrops with vermeil.


7 comments:

Elizabeth @ My Life, Such as it is... said...

Those bracelets are lovely. Congrats on the sales! I totally understand about how time flies myself. Thanks for visiting my blog.

Whispy Love said...

Ah so beautiful! I must say that I think the first one is just a little more precious though!

Kim Caro said...

i adore the bottom one

Anonymous said...

hessonite onions sounds so funny, but so beautiful!

I love the names of stones and things, like, briolette is such a beautiful word!

Amber D. Mcnabb said...

Very beautiful! Somehow it makes me hungry the way you describe them. LOL

Andrea said...

Thanks, you all. What sweet comments! Thanks for coming to check out my blog.

Anonymous said...

Magnificent stones Andrea! You combined the colors so beautifully!