Dragonflies flying about..


P1110375I found my Karen Hill Tribe Dragonflies sitting lonesome in one of my many boxes of stash!

I couldn’t think what to do with them and so I sat for a while playing about with ideas and being insects well they are often found flying in gardens over ponds etc..so I thought about how I would get that ‘just landed’ look..and here it is?! Landing on a circle of Silver with a cascade of flowers and sparkly beads..The other one I did the opposite way round and oxidised him, I added Amethyst and Swarovski Crystals..I put them on a 24inch chain I love them! The Blue one has been sold so I have the Purple one remaining waiting for a new home :)

 

P1110373It’s Saturday so what shall I make today

I dont know, have so many ideas I can’t seem to settle on one..



A sign of new times!


It’s been a tough week, but it’s the weekend and my creative mojo juices are flowing again woohoo! A week of self examinations, brow beatings and questions and queries fueled by music and quotations from favourite movies..I’m back!

I was taught at College to plot out a Pentagram, I am so chuffed..more chuffed than a chuffed thing on a chuffed holiday on chuffed planet!

So I plotted out my very first penty on my silver sheet..started to cut it out..fiddly is the word!

 

When I looked at it hmmm..doesn’t look that great. Then I filed in the overlapping look and the points into the outer circle..it is still slightly wonky but it’s mine!

 

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So there you have it! I shall be scribbling away new ideas and designs..



Rainy day


A miserable rainy day..listening to Craig Armstrong and his beautiful melodies, so soothing and heart warming. Life is truly hard. Life is bittersweet, Life is also amazing. One can have one foot in the past and continue to go around in circles forever and a day. However one can choose to walk on and walk forward. Life has taught me many lessons. I have learnt that you are responsible for the way people treat you. I learnt this while I was married to the ex husband. I learnt this from friends who took me for granted. I have learnt this from family members too. I am a good human being and I will not be down trodden. I will not be manipulated or cajoled into anything that I do not believe in.



Time for a new start


After recent events, my life has taken a turn not sure whether it’s for the worse or the better time will tell. The hurt, the pain and the stress is well, at it’s highest. I wont go into details but I have done all I can and you can only put your case forward and people will chose to believe or not. In this case is a ‘not’.

 

This is my motto:

Living with integrity means:

Not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships

Asking for what you want and need from others

Speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension

Behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values

Making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe

 

I live by that, some don’t like the fact that I do speak the truth and that I do speak my mind. Life is no dress rehearsal. Life is life. Why spend you’re time tiptoeing around people. If they cause you pain and upset get rid of them. If they are a burden to your own integrity again get shut. Yes I have been accused of speaking too harshly and I have apologised and those apologises were accepted at the time, however now it’s clear I wasn’t forgiven for speaking too harshly. My comments were left within a vault of the mind to be used as ammunition. I feel sorry for those people. Those people know who they are. I stand by everything I say in life, I am human and I have made mistakes but I never make the same mistake twice. Those of you who are from my past will revel in all this drama, I say fill your boots and your pockets too. It is a sad existence that you have sat around waiting for the precise moment of failure. Failure is not always failure, I/we tried our best and it’s experience too. Children do not come with manual books on how to operate. There are some in this life who think they are above everyone and know better. The dumbest people I know are those that know it all, you all know who that is directed to. *smiles*

There isn’t anything that any of you can do to me to hurt me anymore than I already am. You see I was there from the very first moment, the first smile, first steps…not forgetting providing a safe warm enviroment in my own body for them to grow into a human being and giving birth. I am the ultimate person qualified to know, no one can ever take that away from me. So, I wish you all well on your new path to discovery. I am gone from your lives forever and these words will linger in the ether when I’m cold in a box.

It’s a pity, that intelligence and compassion were not your forte because you would not only understand you would have the capability to care and empathise with the given situation. You are all blessed with brutish force, vicious idealogy for which there is no cure to rectify that sorry situation. Bullying tactics, SAS task force mechanics and as much sensitivity as a wheely bin with one wheel…I am not bitter, I am a free spirit that has let go from what was asking for freedom…You will never know how much we did for you until you reproduce yourself and it is then that you will discover the real truth I know that now. It will be years before you understand. You have lost the ability to grow within the loving family you were born into…. and you all know deep down you are not qualified to give advice because you have never lived it yet.

 

You keep sending emails and text messages it’s a waste of time I am gone. Emails have been changed and the same with phone numbers. You can all say what you like to whoever you like. I am not going to change or wither under attack. Because I am gone, gone from your lives. So please go and live yours.

 



Finished it off..Sterling Silver Bracelet with 9ct Gold link and Charm


I finished this off today. I love combining mixed precious metals AND precious metals with none precious accessories..but thats my more ‘darker side of girlie’ stuff haha!

I’m a fan of Diana Porters work and since she uses words and mixed metals I just love her work. I remember when I was younger always being told..you can’t wear gold and silver together…er why not? why not wear them together on one piece? hello? my love and search for mixed precious metals began.

9ct Gold and Sterling Silver Charm Bracelet9ct Gold and Sterling Silver Charm Bracelet

an example of my ‘darker side of girlie’

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It’s been a while you know..


yep, I’m back at College again learning new techniques. Just resigned from the PTA just dont have the time you know with work, study, kids, life and a good dose of shit for good measure!

So, erm let me think, my car nearly died..new waterpump and cambelt has given Nerys a new lease of life. My rose Gold arrived the other day so I’m thinking I’ll have a play once my mind is not so fragmented. Had a bad voices day yesterday, today not so bad. Did I mention I hear voices? I have Bipolar with schizophrenic tendencies this fuels my artistic temperament. I have made some things since I last blogged. Cullencrestskullpendanttwisted torquebanglecircles ring 9ct gold and silver9ct gold braceletcharmbangleheavycharmbanglelighthaematite toggle

See, I’ve been busy :o )



Nothing to blog…


Been twittering about being a ninja, with super powers…the sparkly worm is back on twitter but for how long? hmmm

Proper Jewellery..hmmm that is the question?

yeah yeah I know boring bint that I am…nothing to blog…sausage egg chips and beans tonight yay!




What an odd day of oddness?! Phone calls from old friends, kind comments from people one didn’t expect…hmmm I wonder what the mysteries the cosmos is holding for me in the future? Perhaps time is slowing for me? So I can catch up with life in general? Always rushing by so fast.

I have a million and one things I could be doing right now, but here I sit firmly rooted to my chair..my blue chair..now do I finish off the ring I was faffing with? oh damnit I haven’t put the pickle on!!!! Earrings?? Im thinking just plain? Simple everyday Earrings? What do you say?

 

Garnet leaf toggle bracelet



Midnight Stars


Yes, you may have guessed…I was up late or very early this morning..I got these Black Spinels a while ago. I saw some at a beadfair and was captivated by them..they were very expensive and sold :) I found some more Black Spinels on the net not long after…infact it was early in the year when I bought them…and yet they sat there doing nothing..I have a tendency to buy beading and silver and it’s sits there until inspiration takes me..Given the prices of precious metals, it’s worked out in my favour now.

midnight starsMidnight Stars

I added to Silver Freshwater Rice Pearls to respresnt the Moon.



Pure Dreams


Then, I got to thinking..hmm what else do I have stashed away in cupboard/boxes of stashness!! OOoh looky here! I found some gorgeous Octogon Faceted Garnets hmmm..

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I added a Faceted Square of Rose Quartz, being a gentle stone and a pendant about dreaming..gentle is good. Freshwater Pearls are like bubbles..floating inside your dream..so they got added too…