If anyone thinks I have posted little in the past few days it's because I have watched North and South (the one with Patrick Swayze) in most of my spare time. Now I'm done. :) It still holds up.
Esme - if we do it again - we have to get it to you... that's just not fair. what happened to it? where did it stop?
Kristie... last year (I think)... we started a box for surplus stones or findings etc, this is how it worked:
when it arrives to you, you are free to take something out as long as you put something else in (for the next person to choose from). some of us took pictures of what we took out and put in. It was fun. A bunch of us participated.
We all put our names on a list, someone was first (that person should get the box last too, so they can choose something from it). Then the first person sends it to the next closest person on the list and it goes on from there... the very last person - I think - donated everything they didn't want or need to a school or someplace like that.
Kristie, after 37 (edit, 38) years I have amassed a truck load of related crap. Including bags of stones, ranging from 50 - 100 drilled nugget turquoise beads (so stabilized they're almost neon blue, never used any, can't recall how I got them) to about 35 fire agates, and stuff in between, mostly 'high graded' by me.100s of feet of light chain. And wait...there's more....
I don't need anything, and wouldn't want the responsibility to pass it on, but I'd be happy to toss in some stuff to seed it.
I want to do the box too if you do one- I have loads to donate- and it isn't awful stuff either!
Sue, love the stone- I have a pink one in imperial on my bench almost ready to set!! On the photo with the ring upside down, there is a partial dark line at the seam - maybe if you re-do the LOS you can brush it out to even it up
thank you pennee. i can't wait to see yours too. you'll show us, right? i'm trying to decide on studio tonight- i want to go but it's pouring down rain- i hate schlepping my tools out in the rain! my bench partner isn't going so i'm alone, and i've got super early work tomorrow. all pointing towards stay home.....
I vote stay home Sue- I just spilled wine on my keyboard, I now get all sorts of extra letters and numbers when I type and have to go back and fix the words- will I ever learn not to have a stemmed glass near the keyboard?
I would've spent more, not much point, only one FM a station I want and there's a repeater on a mountain within feet of line of sight. The crummiest radio will get it fine but this one is worse than 'crummiest'.
I must have caught Ann's sleeplessness last night, and even though I did fall asleep around 5am til 10, I am starting to seriously run out of steam. ( It was actually probably a late in the day cup of strong tea that was the culprit)
I was kind of relieved to see the discoloration on the bezel seam of the jasper ring. (Intriguing jasper by the way and the setting looks very professional) When I polish a batch of jewelry using tripolie, I usually get what I think of as morning after grunge, which looks like that discoloration on the bezel seam, except it is often like someone spilled tea on what I just polished let it dry. It looks great right after I polish it and then over night it does this nasty change. Often I have to polish 2 or 3 days before it starts staying nice. I have never known why this happens. But it can be a real nuisance if I don't leave myself time to fine tune the polishing job.
CG, trying to polish that many pieces sounds like my idea of hell. You don't need taller elves, you need to find some damned souls.
The idea of a traveling box sounds like fun. I know I have a few things I picked up over the years which someone else might love but they aren't talking to me. It would be great if someone else had a use for them.
lsueszabo says looks interesting wendy. alas, too far for me to go for the day. all of us ohio folks are in the northern most areas of ohio. at least as far as I know. ----- Yes, it looks like a fun sale, but alas. 3 1/2 hours from me. I mapquested it. Thanks anyway!
Dreia, that's what remains to be made. Today's polishing was 15 other bracelets, and half of those are waiting for tomorrow. I'm done.
Not sure about the green, but it might be an overrun of the solder on fine silver, or maybe firescale if it's sterling. Next time, after your first tripoli polish, look at the joint area with light reflected off white paper, or a cool fluorescent light, it will readily show firescale or any discoloration.
Damon, I expect there will be. I wonder if two points of origin starting at the beginning and the end of a list might speed things up?
Don't really want to be on the list but I'd like to send some little bits to whoever starts it off. Have stuff I'll never use, and it's not all crappy crap. That way the second on the list has more choices.
