3 posts tagged “necklace”
Good morning World! I am once more tickled pick to announce that a photograph of my jewelry design is on the back cover of Creative Jewelry, Volume 7, 2008. A few years ago I entered a contest for jewelry designers at Fire Mountain. People from all around the world enter this contest so I was SHOCKED to find that one of my designs had placed THIRD overall, and won the natural pearls category. They also chose a second necklace as a finalist. There was some prize money involved so I bought myself a kiln, which I haven’t really used. Hmmm… It is on my “to do list” though!
Anyway, they used photography of both pieces in back cover advertisements on national beading magazines and also in their catalogs to sell the products used in the designs. I got an email the other day from someone asking for a kit or instructions so they could copy it. (Make up your own, don't copy mine!!) I got those emails the first time this piece was featured so I went to the store to see if I could find a magazine with the ad in it. Sure ‘nuf – there it was grinning back at me. So I giggled and showed it to the check out girl and other folks in line (complete strangers) and they made the appropriate appreciative noises. My necklace! On the back of a magazine! So I called hubby. And then I called my Mama. YaaaAAaaAaaYyyyYYYYYY!
*happy dance!*
What gift from a parent do you remember the most?
Submitted by jorge456.
I remember receiving a simple amethyst solitaire necklace when I was young. It wasn’t particularly valuable but it was the first time my mom had given me jewelry and I really liked that because my parents were very conservative and this was an extravagance for them. We were on a trip and I wore it everywhere, but somehow I lost it. I cried because I wanted them to know that I had really appreciated the gift and so I made a big fuss over the loss even though it wasn’t that big of a deal to me. But mom commented to dad that if I was going to get this overly emotional about a simple piece of jewelry that maybe I wasn’t ready for that kind of gift. And that was the end of that.
Well, I’ve been making these little creatures a lot lately - it's a full blown obsession with me. And I would like to come up with a good name for them. A friend of mine makes beaded people and she calls hers “dancing divas” – which I think is an awesome name. She’s not in the business at the moment but I don’t want to snitch her name, cause she may want it again. So anyway, help me come up with a great little name for my little bead people. They really crack me up! They move as you move. I'm thinking about selling them with a poem about hanging in there or something like that. Any ideas?
