What a summer it was! Definitely not one to spend time focusing on my blog, obviously, as guilty as that made me feel. And now it’s October. I think everyone these days wonders where the time goes.

This photo is of Eagle Nest, NM, where I did a show I’d never done before at the end of July. We camped, in a tent, with our mini doxie Olivia, and one morning it was 42 degrees. At the end of July. Brrr! Here’s another photos of the area:

 

 

While in Eagle Nest, I met Angel Fire artist Carol Rupp, who invited me to put some of my jewelry in her gallery. Carol’s work is fantastic, from landscapes to portraits to wildlife. Be sure to take a look. I am honored to have my work in her gallery.

I also met Carol’s friend Cindy Sprott, who is a fantastic stained glass and fused glass artist. She is the owner of Cinderella Glass, and she also shows and sells her work in Carol Rupp’s Gallery. Cindy, a seahorse lover and avid scuba diver, had me make a piece for her using a piece of chrysocolla drusy. So of course I had to incorporate a seahorse in the design. The pendant piece features a seahorse charm.

And I created a seahorse clasp for the piece, which then prompted me to make her a pair of seahorse earrings.

After teaching summer classes and attending the October Artsfest in Cloudcroft, I just finished 3 commissioned pieces for Carol Rupp. The first is a blue agate slice, the second is a titanium-coated quartz crystal, and the third is a combination of two copper nodules combined with some cubic zirconias.

 

 

 

 

 

 

On the homefront, we finally finished a bathroom remodel that we had been needing to do for years. My husband is a fantastic cabinet builder (he’s the one who built my amazing jewelry display cabinets for shows), but he’s also very busy, and I wanted to be finished. So I begged and pleaded for him to revamp an antique dresser into a vanity. I stained and finished the dresser and the drawer fronts, and he retrofitted the drawers to accommodate the plumbing. He built the counter top using a scrap piece of Avonite, a solid-surface material similar to Corian.

The next few weeks promise to be equally busy. I’m getting ready to take a Precious Metal Clay certification class at the end of this month, and after that I’ll be getting ready for a Christmas show, but I do hope to be a better blogger through it all. Really. Seriously.