So, my wife and I went out to get snaps for the doll dresses she is crocheting for Goodfellow dolls. While she got snaps I picked up a few things and ...

 Voila! I made some rings with Beadalon Elasticity stretch cord. 

So, while the plumber was fixing a sink and replacing the washroom sink I put together a few things to keep myself busy...

so it is simple component work. It kept me busy.

After 26 weeks of chemotherapy my wife's cancer is in remission for the last 9 months. To celebrate she went to Lakeland Florida to a Martha Pullen sewing class.  We had a great time. She went to class all day for 3 1/2 days, making a bag and wallet, notecase, jump drive case, glasses case. All were monogramed and really nice. I laid around in the sun, read, found non national chain restaurants to have my meals(hers were included in the class). Now that  I am recharged I am preparing for the first of my summer art fairs. I have been confirmed with Lathrop Village and am waiting on Hazel Park and Utica.

I have to start by apologizing, it has been a long time. My wife has been fighting stage four colon cancer, we have both retired and are finding how inadequate our retirement insurance coverage is since the legislature in Lansing "reformed" our insurance coverage as retired public employees. Then the Legislature taxes our retirement and takes away our Homestead Property Tax credit. A real triple whammy.
Even so, I still worked my summer art fairs and continue to operate my online stores.

 This 's That's the Point! Gold tone small right triangles, either engraved or encrusted with tiny clear rhinestones and larger points inlayed with faux ivory.
I played around with these components for several days before I was satisfied.












Spikes took less than an hour. It just came together and I didn't want to change a thing.

That is the funny part of creativity sometimes it makes you work for it  and other times it is almost instantaneous.


While I have been typing this I have been baking some desserts for Thanksgiving. It looks like the whole family will be here plus dear friends, somewhere between 7 and 14 people depending on who shows up when.

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving.

More Rose of the Heart.

 Additions to the Rose of the Heart Collection at Articents.com.

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New Chained Heart Collection.

I have gotten through the summer art fair season and its time to recharge and replenish my wares.

I have been busy creating more necklaces in the Rose of the Heart Collection and starting a new collection called Chained Heart in the Square Marketplace.

 

 

 

Stop by at Square Marketplace and shop.

 Well it was my turn to end up in the hospital. I had a lung
collapse. Talk about taking your breath away! It was not a fun experience.  However, the lung is repaired, I have recuperated
sufficiently that I think I am ready for the first of two art fairs
I have scheduled. I missed the deadlines on several for which I intended to apply. I was flat on my back in the hospital.

 You may have noticed the metal and chain components in many of my Rose of the Heart sets. These are Tori Spelling components, which I have used and modified to my own design specifications.




This bouquet is hematite gray and Montana pale blue rhinestones.  I removed all the findings from the back, then used jump rings to suspend the pearls, rhinestones and chains
beneath the bouquet.

I loved the gold chains but not their ends. I ended up modifying the back of the flower component. I removed all the finding fittings on the back, attached a tube clasp in the middle, so the flower covers both ends of the chains.