Photo Hunters: Important

Important

I was going to post a photo I took of the American flag a couple years back to represent freedom which I feel is very important. But it's on my external hard drive and like always, I don't feel like fooling with hooking it up. Sooo, here is a photo of a pendant I made recently when I first starting playing around with making jewelry components from clay. The pendant is one of my first, so it's not very pretty but like freedom, it is also an important message.

Enjoy!

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Photo Hunters: Long

Long

I am extremely uncreative today and could not think of a good photograph for this week's theme. So what did I do? That's right. I took a picture of my new camera. There are a couple of reasons for this. One, the lens on it is quite long compared to any camera I have ever owned. Two, the lens I *want* for it is even longer. And three, because I waited so dang LONG to get the camera! *grin*

Enjoy!

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Photo Hunters: Red

Red

Yeah, it's been a while since I've participated. I keep meaning to but always forget.

This week's theme is "red" and a few things come to mind when I think of red. One would be blood, but since I'm not going to make myself bleed just for the photohunt, let's move on shall we? Next, I think of my hair. I have some photos of my red hair, but they're all on the external drive and I didn't feel like messing with that tonight. Then lastly, I think of gemstones. One of my favorite gemstone colors is red. Try as I might, I can't stop buying RED gemstones. Carnelians are a favorite of mine.

So, I poured out a few bags of red gemstones and snapped a quick photo. The oval ones with the stripes are red zebra jasper, but all the rest are carnelian beads and cabochons.

As always, click on photo to enlarge.
Enjoy!

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Photo Hunters: Dirty

Dirty

Dirty? Use soap!

This happens to be one of my favorite hand soaps. It's one of the few I can find that isn't antibacterial (which I refuse to use because I don't feel it is safe and regular soap gets rid of germs just fine).

Happy Saturday. Be clean. Use soap. :o)

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Photo Hunters - Happy

Happy

Happiness is: Monk in a sterile room.

(Thanks to my hunny for the photo idea!)

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Photo Hunters - Two

Two

Once in a while, my wonderful handsome man surprises me with some flowers. I have two favorite flowers - tulips and white orchids. These two tulips are from a beautiful bouquet he brought me a long time ago. They were so lovely I had to photograph them!

Aren't they puuurdy?

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Photo Hunters - Shiny

Shiny

Now I'm sure you're wondering what the sam hill this crazy looking contraption could be and what the yahoo it has to do with "shiny"?! It is a professional grade rock tumbler and its job is to make things shiny! My wonderful parents (Momma Belle and her Hubby-Beau) gave this to me for my birthday last week. It was the perfect gift... just what I wanted! (Of course, I only dropped about 100 hints in the past few months...)

So what does it do, you ask? Well, it can obviously tumble gemstones, but I don't use it for that. I use it to polish and burnish the metal pieces in my jewelry. Lemme tell you, it gives sterling silver a professional show-room shine! I couldn't believe it when I first saw the results. I'm obviously in love, here. I'm in love with a rock tumbler. Shhhh... don't tell my Hubby-Beau, k?

Anyway, onto the real shiny stuff. I wish I had a better camera so you could see for yourself the lovely shine my new toy leaves!


Jane's Hope Breast Cancer Awareness Ribbon Earrings**:




Sterling Swirly Toe Ring:




Parallel Chain Maille Earrings:




Euro 4-in-1 Chain Maille Earrings:




Copper & Carnelian Ring:




If you likey, please visit our jewelry website where we have hundreds of shiny items for your inner Belle!

**These Awareness Ribbon earrings are the first item in a line we are creating in honor of my grandmother, Jane, who passed away from breast cancer complications a few months ago. 50% of the profit from every item sold in the Jane's Hope Collection will go to The Rose, a breast cancer charity based in Houston, TX.

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Photo Hunters - Hair

Hair

Here are a couple rather unattractive make-up free unstyled hair photos I took of myself when I cut it a while back. I cut about 6" off or so. It's actually even shorter now (a bit under my chin) but it's up in a ponytail today and not fit for pictures. :o) I looove short hair!

And as a bonus, a picture of the good dog, Trixie, before we cut off her long shih-tzu hair. Now it's kept really short like all the rest of the pictures I've posted of her. I miss the shaggy look!

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Photo Hunters - Shoes

Shoes

I'm late... again... but here are my photos for this week's "shoe" theme. I originally had the perfect picture in mind. When I was in high school, we went to Arkansas and Tennessee for a family trip, and we came across this enormous "shoe tree" that had literally hundreds of pairs of shoes tossed up into its branches. I have a picture of my cousin and I standing underneath it, but I am not sure where the picture is at the moment. I tried to find it, but gave up after digging around in the garage for a few minutes when I decided that it's probably best if I stop lifting and moving heavy boxes around while my mole hole (see previous post) is still healing. Sooo, anyway, I bring you the alternate plan.


My everyday shoes - a pair of brown suede flip flops and a pair of black suede-ish flip flops. I wear flip flops everywhere unless it's cold or rainy.

And the sweetest pair of pink baby slippers ever made, for the little girl alive only in my dreams, hopefully to be realized someday.

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Photo Hunters - Art

Art

So it's been a while since I've participated in Photo Hunters. I haven't had much time or energy to figure out photos on topic lately since I've been working almost non stop on our retail website (which is up, functional, and almost complete!). But! Today I checked the site and saw that this week is too easy. I am a jewelry artist, with a recent emphasis in wire work and in the process of learning chain maille. For those of you that don't frequent my blog, the following pieces are done in copper because I practice my "art" in copper before moving on to the more expensive metals (and I just flat out love copper!) Soooo anyway... here are some photos of my latest pieces of art, completely handmade except for the beads. Enjoy!

Mobius Flower & Wrapped Briolette Earrings





Byzantine Weave Bracelet





Simple Glass Ring

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Photo Hunters - Water

Water

Here is a photo of my beautiful man watering part of our not so beautiful lawn after laying some fertilizer on it today. Hopefully it, too, will be beautiful soon thanks to his hard work! :o)

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Photo Hunters - Empty

Empty

I think the photo here speaks for itself. There's not much worse than an empty bag of what was your favorite chocolate! Have you tried these??? This was my first bag and seriously they're so good; they're my new addiction. I'm dreaming of some dark chocolate...

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Photo Hunters - Drink

Drink

You might be wondering what this picture has to do with the word "drink". Well, when my crazy dogs decide to tear something up (this photo shows when they killed their bear and left its innards everywhere) and make a huge mess, it makes me wish I were a drinker because I feel like I need one! ;o)

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Photo Hunters - Salty

Salty

I have two pictures today. I just could not resist! The first is obvious. A bowl of salty peanuts. Who can resist a bowl of salty goodness? I eat peanuts like they're going out of style.








The next one is one I took while visiting one of the many stretches of beautiful Texas coast land. I just so happened to see a bird and was able to take three consecutive shots of it, with the last one capturing it taking off in flight! Ahh, look at that lovely water. Can't you just taste the salt in the air?

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