I have been really busy lately with my Jewelry. In addition to last month’s Autumnfest which was a pretty big success, considering we had to load up at about 1:30 pm because of the approaching thunderstorm, I have been trying to stock several shops where I have been placing jewelry so I have been twisting a lot of wire.
This weekend I decided it was time to step up my game and try to make some nicer jewelry. I have expanded from using only copper wire to using silver plated wire. I was just making the silverplated stuff for my wife but she finally convinced me to sell some. As usual she was right. Here are some pictures of some of the new stuff.
These are from copper wire and glass pearl beads. I have added some design to them after I finally figured out how to do it and make them both look the same.
These are silver plated wire with glass pearl beads. These are decorative cross earrings. I get ideas for some of these things when I am not able to work on them at the time and sometimes I can’t wait until I get back to making jewelry to see if they come out for real the way I pictured them in my mind.
These are some more silver wire and glass pearl beads. They aren’t really representative of anything, I just thought they would look good. The bottom picture is a ring I made for my wife from a decorative hair pin she found somewhere.
These are some copper wire earrings with some large glass beads. I have been working a lot with glass pearls lately and I decided to throw a little color into the mix.
I have a big show in Oxford Mississippi next month and I am really having to spend some time getting ready for that. Some of the new jewelry takes a lot more time to make so I am going to have to charge a little more for that than what I have been charging. Even if I raise my prices I will still be charging about 1/3 of what others are charging for similar work.
I forgot to mention that I have had some special orders for items lately. The main thing is that I have been having fun and enjoying it.
On the downside I have a lot of days lately where I don’t feel like doing a lot of anything and I don’t get much done. I have a couple of doctors appointments next month but I doubt that anything positive will come from them.
Sometimes it is frustrating to think of something I would like to do and then realize that there is no way that I can physically accomplish it. I guess my mind will always write checks that my body can’t cash. I can still twist wire and string beads though and I am thankful that it is something I enjoy doing.
Hopefully after the Christmas season when the special shows and sales die down I will get back to doing some drawing and making new comics.
Bo
I've Been Thinkin' 
I’m Still Thinkin’
I am probably guilty of this but I have a lot of excuses. I know a lot of people seem to run out of ideas but I usually just don’t have time to work on all my ideas. Sometimes it is because I just don’t feel all that well (and I get lazy sometimes) and sometimes it is because life throws a few things at you that you don’t expect.
This has been an interesting week. My grandson came home with us Sunday after Church to watch football with me and while he was waiting for the game we wanted to watch to come on he went outside to hit golf balls. He hit one behind the house and found a dead deer in the yard. It looked like it had probably been hit by a car and ran up into the yard and died. I hooked a rope around it’s antlers and drug him away with the lawn mower because I didn’t want Phil and Chester (my comic strip buzzards) dining that close to the house.
The dead deer was not the only problem I had. The yard had been dug up and there were holes all in it. The next morning I looked outside and the armadillo who had done the damage was back. I won’t go into detail but he won’t be digging up my yard anymore.
Things are kind of slowing down at the Farmer’s Market for my jewelry but I have been putting some in shops on consignment. One of the shop owners called me with some special orders and I am kind of excited about the way things are going there.
The fun thing about the jewelry making is that I keep coming up with new designs and learning how to make new things. Several people have brought things to me that they wanted turned into jewelry and that is working out good. Now I can say that I custom make jewelry.
I did get rested during my break and I am not pushing things. I haven’t had time to do much drawing but I have some ideas that I hope to work on soon.
That is the news from Gatorhead. Why don’t you leave me a comment and let me know what is going on in your part of the world.
Bo