Coming soon!
Whoa, blew past my birthday on the 23rd and still didn’t get a post up. Things are going on in the personal life–kid stuff, relative stuff, work stuff–as usual. But I am here today because a couple of new items stand to be posted soon–the recent earrings for which I uploaded a drawing, and a new bracelet about which I had no time to post information.Above are the promised new Texas earrings, which we lovingly call “Texas Bling Earrings” thanks to my clever husband Matt, always full of good ideas. They are a whopping 1.38 inches in width, and for me that is big, but they glorious in this size. You will have to excuse me, but I reserve the right to brag when I am in the blog. And at shows. But I do personally love these earrings. They are fun to wear–not too heavy at all despite the size–and flashy. But even while having the “bling” factor, they are very pretty because of the texture contrast. I used a small grinding bit, and lightly sanded the entire outside area, then polished to a high shine the state of Texas–as promised!! The result is smashing, in my opinion. The blue topaz are very pretty–you can see the star that’s cut into them, but not too easily since the stone is small at 3mm. But anything bigger did not appeal to me for some reason. I may change that, because a larger bezel would be easier to work with at least. Bling, bling, bling!
Hopefully the picture will look good on the site. Despite the fact that we have a nice photography setup (we have an EZ Cube and accoutrements), silver is not easy to photograph when it hasn’t been oxidized or has large areas of smooth and/or polished texture.
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Shauna
I was reading this post because it came up in a Google search I ran on “texas earrings”–always nice to see your own site come up near the top of page 1 ANYWAY onward we go–and read the part about oxidation (in the context of making the silver photograph more easily). I just learned, for the sake of being factual about things, that using liver of sulfur (LOS) as a patina is not correctly termed “oxidation” of the silver. The reaction has to do with the sulfur reacting with element(s) in the metal and nothing to do with oxygen. So I will have to change all references to that at the website.
Shauna
I was talking to a friend at the local school festival, and I noticed that during our conversation she kept looking back again and again at the Blings! Eventually she laughed about it, telling me the earrings were beautiful and definitely eye-catching, explaining her wandering eye…That’s what I wanted–so there’s my confirmation: earlier I said that I wanted to make them and see if we’d get any response. Personally, I love wearing them. They are light enough and really stand out–you know how it feels when you are wearing something fun and gorgeous–it makes you feel light on your feet. I usually wear more subdued earrings, but this was definitely a mood I was in, so am happy to have pursued it. Go Bling! Texas Bling!