but there it was, reminding me of places tropical in nature (also unusual - i'm not a beachy person - too sandy). the bug hit me yesterday, so after playing with the blend and some transluscent clay and some silver leaf, a new jewelry project was born. i started stringing today, adding little silver beads to pick up the silver leaf in the beads and the focal starfish...and hated it. decided i needed a silver starfish, instead.i love silver. love it, love it, love it. so much so that i almost peed my pants when silver metal clay burst on the scene. a clay i could manipulate like polymer, but when finished, was a beautiful piece of fine silver? what more could a girl ask for? so for christmas, my thoughtful partner bought me one of those start-up silver clay kits. i was in jewelry-making heaven!
did i mention it was a christmas gift? did i mention it was from two christmases ago? what, you may ask, have i made during all this time? nothing. zip, zilch, nada. the 'perfection' bug bit, and that poor kit has been patiently waiting for me ever since.
but what could be so hard about getting a little silver clay, texturing it with one of my gazzilion stamps, and cutting out a simple starfish shape? since this morning i've been reading and rereading everything i have on silver clay, and now i've decided its too late in the day to start an undertaking of this magnitude. this is definitely a first-thing-in-the-morning project, which means it'll have to wait 'til next weekend. what's been my excuse all those other 447 mornings since i received my christmas present? hmmmmm....give me some time. i'm sure i'll think of something.
where are those mantras i wrote about earlier? that's what i should be reading. and rereading. and reading again.
peace & light -
m'lis
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