Alone Star Jewelry

I have to thank Matt again for another great name, this time for the bracelet posted here. “Galveston Gumbo” is made from jump ring chain that Rio started selling in its current catalog; we bought both small and large varieties and this is the large one seen here. The jumps are a combination of regular wire jump rings, then flat wire jumps. Not what I expected but I got used to it fast. I made a slew of shells, then picked graduated sizes and attached 7 of them. The pretty hook and eye clasp works fine, but as usual, the shells began slipping down and while the clasp is nice-looking,…

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…

Spring is here in Friendswood, and my azaleas are bursting buds open daily. Just one of the colors (rose, second row in the middle) in my latest necklace. This is the first one I made so any flaws like horizontal wire that isn’t quite straight will be corrected on final versions. I couldn’t say initially where the design came from, but after checking my sketchbooks I had been drawing triangular images with curving wire, stars, grids and other elements before the design found itself in just one drawing. Also, the swarovski crystal beads at my bead shop haunt are displayed like candy and I had been pawing through them like…

Be looking for a new pair of Texas-style earrings at the site soon. I have already fired and semi-polished them, have received the order of blue topaz stones, and once my husband lets me off the hook helping him with work and I get my dapping block back from Lisa, I will finish these! I wanted to make something that was kind of flashy. That hasn’t been my style in the past, but evolution is a good thing, even darting down and then back up a side road now and then…I want to see if these earrings generate any interest. They are not an outlandish design (some might think a…

Greetings–just wanted to show off a new clasp we are using on our groovy Silver-on-Leather bracelets. We had been using bayonet clasps, but they are difficult to manage in a bracelet that fits more snugly like these. You can see this button clasp in the photo at right. The photo also shows two newly available textures: “dimpled” at the top and “diamond-etched” just below it (“organic”, currently on the website, is at the bottom). These upper two previously were sold only at our shows and not through the website. Remedied! I love all of these textures. Recently I created my own (seen below) for a Texas Tech bead I made…

Please see the comment attached to the previous post (Thursday, January 11, below). Thank you!

Here is a luscious li’l pendant. These look like a piece of candy, and everyone, girls especially, always have to touch them. It’s the glaze–the clear on top of that low-fire white clay is ever so creamy-looking. I am going to find some matching beads this weekend and see how those look, but this one is strung with braided white linen waxed cord. We call this one the Salsa heart after the name of the reddish-pink glaze. It isn’t a tomato red by any stretch, though; it’s nice and different.

Greetings once again. Why, it’s time to publish to the blog! Be sure to check our website for jewelry pieces that would be perfect for this next & sweet holiday..we have necklaces, earrings, and bracelets that fall into that category. I was taking a walk with the dog the other day (no, I was actually walking the dog–I am a Cesar fan), and musing about what my next blog post would be about. I am still somewhat foggy about the matter. Here are a few strays that are but surface observations and explanations that lack deeper meaning at this time…..We have new pieces that have been posted to the site:…

Greetings once again; now that the holidays have passed and our resolutions are in our faces it is time to set our sights not just to the future but to open our eyes to now. Our sister-in-law is undergoing her initial chemo treatments for breast cancer, and last night her hair finally let go–now she is bald. This makes one realize, and in her words, that for many of us the next 16 hours, the next stretch of awake time, should be the most important hours of our lives. Those exempt thus far from such huge and monstrous situations have to strive to appreciate our gifts, and I personally plan…