I went on a bit of a jewelry making rampage this past weekend- I tried out a new style of wire-bendy-y earrings, and they're a great deal of fun to make. Uploaded a bunch of pictures of things to flickr.

Also! I've put a pair up for auction over at con_or_bust! And there's a lot of neat stuff up for auction over there, if you happen to not be enticed by my awesomesauce earrings. (Okay, I think they're awesomesauce, at least.) Go! Look! Bid! And Con or Bust just announced they're branching out into helping people of color attend any con, not just Wiscon, which is also pretty awesomesauce.

And speaking of things that are awesome, you know what's exciting for me? The fact that it won't be February anymore in about half an hour. I am so done with this month, y'all have no idea.

Sterling silver, maybe-moss-agate and serpentine. I honestly have no excuse for these. I was going to put them the other way around, with spiraled endcaps, but then I found myself reaching for the flat headpins and somehow these happened instead. >_> These things happen.



Glass and bronze wire, on brass earwires. I love those square beads; should've gotten more of them. They've actually got a sort of milky swirly sheen to them in places, but my camera ate the subtleties in the coloration.

Glass, silver plated wire, and a base metal ship charm. 8 or 9 inches long, depending on where you clasp it; I think I'll pick up some chain tomorrow to make it properly extendable so it isn't quite so long. (Although I confess I don't actually know how long a bracelet should be; I have tiny wrists, and I don't wear bracelets as a rule, anyway- I have a tendency to lose them.)

Very fond of the colors in this one; glad that I have more of these beads. They (and the ones in yesterday's earrings) came from a friend's destashing endeavor, so I have a gigantic bag full of odds and ends and assorted unsorted beadery. I'll have to sort them all eventually, but it's something like three pounds of beads, so the task is a little daunting.

Silver, swarovski, and some mystery stones. Kind of meh on these, but at least I churned something out; today was an unproductive day all around. (These have been sold.)

Bracelets are really hard to photograph. Also, I probably should've done this in copper, not silver, so I wouldn't have had to half ass the clasp (you can't see it, but believe me, it is missing one whole buttock), and so it would have made a matched set with The Salmon Hungers.



I am enjoying this project a great deal so far; I'm hoping it will help push me outside of my comfort zone and try making new and different things. More pendants, more bracelets, maybe even a necklace- something other than endless pairs of earrings.

Today was a bit of an odd day, until I realized I was completely dehydrated. That tends to put me a little out of my head, and I'm still feeling kind of scattered and full of the urge to chew my fingers off. *sigh*

The next town over is on fire; brushfires are pretty rare around here, so I was kind of alarmed to see the giant cloud of black smoke on the horizon when I got out of class.

Instead of NaNoWriMo this year (since I've no desire to even pretend to make the attempt anymore), I'm doing a sort of daily crafting challenge. I'm determined to spend at least one hour a day at my work table, Making Things.

Here is my offering for the first of November:



Lampwork glass and silver plated wire, and I'll get around to making matching earrings eventually. Pleased with how this came out, though I may redo it at some point in the future. I'm fond of those beads, and I'm glad I finally figured out what to do with them.