whats up.....

Hey everyone! I've been gone for a while. Real life just takes over sometimes and there's nothing you can do about it. Between my brother being in the hospital and myself and my mom getting sick. Renovations in the house...a fulltime job and coronation:) its been rough. But I. Will be back with new stories and gripes...pics and jewelry and maybe a tutorial video of how to do jewelry

BRU NOT BRUSH. BRU CAFE IN NEW HAVEN

Making some concrete skulls for a DAY OF THE DEAD art show at BRUSH CAFE in new haven ct. The end of THE month! Facebook me for details

Blog! Blah:)

Cape Cod Crafters in Mystic CT.

So ..........................
I went to the Cape Cod Crafters to load up my 1ft wall with my wares. I of course overproduced.
 It is a 1ft wide 7ft tall or so wall space with pegboard. i bought peg baskets to put things in as if it were shelving and had some real problems putting all of the jewelry that i Brought with me as well as all of the plaster and concrete hangings and my explanatory signage and my magnetic board with my magnets............whooo!
 so the manager decided to give me the extra almost 1ft to the right of my space (attached) to hang my bigger items as well as my signage, so that all of my jewelry could be hung uninterruptedly...yeah, it's a new word I made up...and the space looks great!
 I didnt realize till I looked at the pic that there is a gap in the center of the pegboard, but I have my bracelets hung on the top of it and the tags hang below and into it, that must be fixed!
 Well, bhope you stop by and check it all out live!, They allow crafters to do some hands on crafting there so maybe I will be there painting or jewelry-ing...yes another new word! LOL
 I am looking into purchasing pre-made hang cards for the jewelry, its not too expensive and will look tons better than my hang cards, it's just finding the right ones. ya know, sizes and printing and stuff. nite!
luvs!
ME

Cape Cod Crafters in Mystic CT.

Hey kidz! 

 As of the 16th, I will be selling my stuff at Cape Cod Crafters In Mystic CT. as well as on Zibbet! 

 so if you are in the area after then, stop in and give my stuff a look in person! 

 but as usual, on Zibbet, the coupon code THANKYOU42 will still get you 10% off your total ! 

 and online, I still have the REWARD POINTS PROGRAM! so add em up and get yer free stuff!

 Love yas!

Damiana

SITTIN AND CHILLIN ON A SATURDAY

sitting in a hotel room in Boston. bored out of my frickin skull. about jeweller-ied out! made 8 pendants and 4 pairs of earrings and 1 key chain. Here on a special ops mission as one of my co-workers would say. He is young and very cute, but so immature as to actually hurt your head if you are around him for too long. but he is a great kid. good hearted and just came back from boot camp.
anyway, special ops like i said. lol Not allowed to blog about it because it isn't about me, I just have to be here to help and to drive back.
 Everything I could possibly need is literally right around the corner.
McDonalds
shaws
rite aid
golds gym
h&M
Dollar tree
T-Mobile
a discount fabric place Sew Fabulous or something like that.
I bought tapestry squares! Gorgeous 14inch approx squares! I am thinking of satchel bags or messenger bags and some wallets. OH! they were 2 for  $! I got all of the good ones!

 So I have gone with the OLD SCHOOL wire wrapping on some stone geode slices ! The stunning colors are amazing by themselves but what to do with them? I have one in bright pink with white and clear it is kinda kidney bean shaped so I wrapped it long way in 3 strands of round 12 gauge aluminum jewelry wire which was then wrapped in 20 gauge silver plated wire to keep it together as one tract of wire. I tightly wrapped it around the outline of the stone, pulled a bail to the tippy top, stretched some prongs from the top and bottom wires to keep the geode slice in place then finished it off with twirlies on a diagonal very cute i think!

 The next one is  gorgeous shades of browns to rusts and clear. The colors just twirls within the stone so I kept the wire work soft and didn't pull it angularly the bail at the top is a double twirly, seperated  into a v and then decorated with curly twirls to one side and one to the other side that is larger. the center has a hanging dichroic glass square bead in the same earth tones with a hint of blues and greens within the dichroic  glass itself.

 There is a stunning blue one that looks like water so I did this one horizontally making the wire into waves all around it decorated with twirls abross the top length and adding jup rings to the sides to attach chain to. the stone is so beautifil. the edges are white to a dark blue center, but it has clear running through it on the shape of the stone with a little "island" off to one side. it sort of looks like a map very cool.

 One more very pink stone from the outside to the center. pink to clear/white i wrapped it with dual 12 gauge liver plate wire from the top bail, around it in an S shape then around back to the front again, back around and split the wires apart at the bottom and coiled them in opposite directions. Adorned the top with a silver dragonfly on an angle. sooo cute! love this one.

 I had some large amethyst flat oval beads about 2 inches maybe, drilled top to bottom I did one in gold and one in silver, the gold was pulled through and looped on each end then the tail on each end was roughly coiled from end toward the center. then dangling from the bottom is a Swarovski heart in Iris? I forget what the color is called but it is purple to green and multi faceted. LOVE THEM.

The second one is done in dual silver wires same way as the first, but the dual wires gives it a stunning look, plus the ends of each wire get twirled in opposite directions, giving it a more filagree look to it. plus the addition of the heart dangle. even my mom loves it!

 A giant MOP heart pendant factory glazed in blue with a butterfly wrapped in 18gauge silvered wire in to rough coils tornado wrapped at the point and a large white glass pearl in a wire wrapped cage dangling from the bottom. this one makes a statement!

 a large pink MOP bead in a rounded rectangle drilled top to bottom. I inserted gold wire through it beaded it with Swarovski bicones in ROYGBV then bent it into a triangle. at the top is a twisted and coiled S shape beaded with Swarovski large beads in multi AB and ROYGBV then another AB into the coil. Sweet!

 Speaking of sweet, lol, I found some beautiful Creamsicle colored Agate or Turquoise oval beads done top to bottom in dual orange jewelry wire with a single loopp at the center of the bead, separatedm then up the back into a coil. with a single clear AB disco ball bead at the bottom. very cute.

 EARRINGS! I have made some earrings as well! Dichroic glass rectangles mixed with discoballs and AB multis,

wire wrapped frosted green glass beads with green and copper ball beads and clear green spacers, hanging from silver french hooks

 Red wire wrapped glass pearls with clear red lentils and red bicones on silver french hooks

Silver plated suns with metal ribbed spacer beads and AB multis in the center on silver french hooks

 Hey, I even made a key chain. LOL its an antiqued brass bee shaped pendant with large golden acrylic rhinestones with three teradrop shaped dangles set onto a snake chain key chain finding. just playing with it. maybe some more ideas will come?

 I also started another green and black MOP lentil bead pendant. I attached a Silver butterfly charm to it that hangs off the edges with the wing tips, I am thinking maybe a clear bead at the bottom and two coils at the top like they were antennae? hang it from them? dunno. sounds cool. (this is what it turned into...)

 PHOTOS TO COME! (they came!) remember i am in a hotel room so i have to do things when i can

Damiana

edited sun jul 31