OK..so I'm still stuck at home, coughing and sniffling. I thought I'd throw in a shot of the beach in Cabo and think about how warm, dry and sunny it was. I love the starkness of the desert (of course, they've thrown a few golf courses in, that you can see off in the distance) against the fabulous blue water in the Sea of Cortez.
As an added bonus, I thought I'd show you some of the jewelry I've made. A little history.....a few years ago, I broke my shoulder skiing and couldn't paint or do much else with my hand and arm. A friend who also paints hurt her shoulder as well. A few friends would get together and draw or paint once in awhile and she showed up one day with a box of beads because she couldn't hold a paint brush for very long........I'm trying to make the story short here...but......I fell in love with beads. Putting the colors, textures, sizes and whatever else together,was very much like painting. The one thing I have a problem with though, is not actually making the beads themselves. Somehow it was difficult for me to think I was actually "creating" something if I wasn't making every part of it. I tried fusing glass beads....didn't like how they turned out. I love lampworked beads, but don't actually like to do the lampworking myself.
I ended up doing some jewelry shows and also had my work in The Liberty Museum in Philadelphia and a gallery and sold quite a few pieces. I haven't done much with it lately. These are some pieces that I still have. I will be taking a workshop with Keith Lo Bue in a few weeks and perhaps I will be inspired to create some "found object" jewelry.......we'll see.
