tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80888447537350910492024-03-13T15:30:23.715-08:00*Numinosity*A blog that chronicles my artistic endeavors including lampwork beadmaking, jewelry designing, collecting, sewing, altered art with day to day musings on my life, thoughts and travels.
By Kimberly RogersNuminosityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13464230956125740370noreply@blogger.comBlogger350125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8088844753735091049.post-30424574510973600542015-09-06T12:13:00.002-08:002015-09-06T12:13:26.757-08:00Jumping Back In<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It's been a busy summer for me with long periods of solitude and time to make beads and jewelry.</div>
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I am so surprised that it's turned into a full time job for me.</div>
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I decided to dig out some of my Thai silver hoard and use a few pieces from time to time.</div>
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These were some polymer pieces I made using Blue Bottle Tree's Rustic Beads tutorial.</div>
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How wonderful it is to have a stash of your own handmade components at the ready.</div>
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I picked out some of my own torch fired numi-sticks for this set and dug into what was one of my first ever bead catalog purchases (before online catalogs even!)</div>
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Those little jasper heishi beads are from that very first haul.</div>
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I've been making some extra large and bulbous "end of the rods scraps of the day" headpins that I call my "embonpoint " series. I've been selling some of these in my etsy shop from time to time.</div>
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You don't need to add much to call them earrings. I used a couple of my "Spacey Crusters" and some Faerystones earwires here with a few little African brass spacers.</div>
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I found that Petra's Scorched Earth ceramic pieces were the perfect accompaniment to these lovely geode slices.</div>
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In case you thought I was going too neutral on you I made these "Fruity Coodlers"</div>
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They are an offshoot of my "Spacey Crusters"</div>
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"Spacey Crusters" of course!</div>
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Just Crust if you Must</div>
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Or Lustrous and Crustrous</div>
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Extree Long Numi-sticks with abbreviated headpins (redo from another set) and some of RaggedRobyn's wonderful stoneware beads</div>
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Another set using beads from the beginnings of my bead hoard. Resin Filled stamped Thai silver beads that were brought back to me by a friend before I had ever even visited Thailand. 1995 or so?</div>
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It was before I was even lampworking I'm sure.</div>
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We took a trip to Lake Michigan to gather up some Leland Glass. What fun!</div>
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Leland Slag glass is a by-product of the iron industry in the late 1800's when they mixed limestone and coal to extract the ore. The waste product was this beautiful glass that they deposited in Lake Michigan and it's still washing up to this day.</div>
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I purchased this Leland slag glass cabochon thought from a local shop in the town of Leland</div>
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OK, still a fan of creepy baby dolls here. Antique store score. </div>
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She's squeezable and she squeaks!</div>
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Some of my first murrini ever. Yeah I've been making lampwork beads for almost 20 years and never made murrini. i think part of it was that I thought it was too graphic for my organic style. I've gotten over that now.</div>
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Cuz you can crust it up and do this!</div>
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A little view of Bar Harbor and the Porcupine Islands from Cadillac Mountain</div>
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An erupting poppy from the yard.</div>
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Just a few more months here before we head south for warmer climes. Missed you all!</div>
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Sometimes I just have to revisit some of my former components.</div>
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I have such a big list of things I would like to have in stock at all times in my shop but have come to realize that that is just a fantasy and there is a limit as to what I can do so I pick and choose what I'll be featuring at any given time. I have re-christened these numi-baubles so you will know they come from me...yeah, branding.</div>
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Most of them are made with transparent to keep a gemmy quality about them, they are made on 20 gauge copper wire so you can twist and wrap them into your designs</div>
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I have done a few opaque ones as well.</div>
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These are my Tintinnabulations made out of vintage tin plates.</div>
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They retain an oh so distressed quality with the enamel and patches of the old paint resisting some of the application. They are lightweight and are totally fun to make as my less than perfectionist nature lets me play and just see what happens. I do these after the piles of frits and enamels get sullied and blended after much use making my numi-stick copper enamel matchsticks which I am a bit more persnickety about even application and purity of color ( well, sometimes anyway)</div>
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I am proud to announce the <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/MAKUstudio">MakuStudio</a> with be carrying some of my numi-stick matchsticks along with her amazing raku ceramic pieces. That is a winner for me as I don't have to man a booth or anything and get to rub my little enamel shoulders with her awesomeness.</div>
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I had a bit of fun twisting and curling and hammering the copper wire and adding a patina.</div>
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Birgitta Lejonklou of <a href="http://www.angelwhisperer.etsy.com/">AngelWhisperer</a> made this sleek ceramic focal feather.</div>
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Wish I could say that the copper chain was hand forged by me but I'm still using the excuse of being too busy making components to put some good soldering hours under my belt.</div>
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Which reminds me of my pet peeve of the week. Can you EVER opt out of LinkedIn? I swear I got rid of those mothers a year or two ago and they have resurfaced again and you have to sign in to sign out.</div>
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This old focal came up from the murky depths. It wishes it was labradorite or just to be near some.</div>
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Speaking of labradorite, That <a href="http://www.loveroot.etsy.com/">LoveRoot</a> Nikki Zehler is making some OBSCENE beauties of rings out of some otherworldly cabs. Check her out!</div>
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I think I thought these were the same color when I made them...or I was going to make a series and changed my mind. $8 not yet listed.</div>
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So here is Bea with her boob stain.</div>
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Don't we all feel a little tattered sometimes?</div>
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But jewelry makes us feel better, doesn't it?</div>
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I'm in love with these...and they are still in the <a href="http://www.numinositybeads.etsy.com/">shop</a>!</div>
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I made these this week too but some stuff is going before I have a chance to show it.</div>
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I've gotten all backwards about this promoting lately.</div>
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An old spark plug gapper, slightly enameled</div>
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Lovely Jana <a href="http://www.happyfishthings.etsy.com/">HappyFishThings</a> droppers with a little of the Roman glass</div>
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Another focal bead just waiting for some love.</div>
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and speaking of green, i can't forget our old traveling doll friend Candace, wherever she may be.</div>
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Numinosityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13464230956125740370noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8088844753735091049.post-55292241452038821012014-12-03T04:43:00.000-09:002014-12-03T04:43:19.641-09:00Journeying South Again<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Putting the fall in snowfall</div>
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I managed to get a taste of winter in Alaska with an early layer of snowfall before we left and had a graceful cross country ski out back on the old trail.</div>
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We had a full deck of plans as usual this time of year which involved several states and visits and a road trip.</div>
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My first adventure after was down in the Hill Country at Lucky Star Art Camp</div>
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I had met the organizer Lisa at Squam Art Retreat a few years back when she was one of my roommates. It was her dream to manifest a women's art camp down in the Hill Country of Texas and she made it happen. I vowed to give my self a treat after a very business filled summer of pretty much focusing on my handmade component business. </div>
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I felt I had been neglecting certain aspects of my creativity like the mixed media and journaling that I had been doing a few years back.</div>
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My retirement pastime has turned into a full time job it seems!</div>
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I I took a workshop with Mindy Lacefield called "Field Notes" and this guy emerged</div>
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I took a Mixed Media alchemy class with my friend Corrine Gilman</div>
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I met some great people at the camp and boy did they feed us well. Such a gorgeous location on the Guadalupe River</div>
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After Camp was over we explored a bit in the town of Gruene</div>
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Took a short detour to Maine to visit my mum and celebrate my aunt's 94th birthday.</div>
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So glad we did. We lost dear old Martha just a few days after her grand birthday party. She had said she wanted to go out in style like her brother Raymond (my father) after a nice celebration.</div>
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I guess the those Rogers are true planners.</div>
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I ate some incredible seafood stew!</div>
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and then headed oback to Austin and got a room at this iconic hotel</div>
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It was too cold however to see the bats come out from under the bridge</div>
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Sage wisdom at the pizza joint.</div>
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We road tripped it back to Arizona and I am back in full production mode for a spell as my shop has been vacant for a bit too long.</div>
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I really needed the refreshing break and replenish my well.</div>
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The numi-sticks torch fired copper enamel matchsticks are proving ever popular and I try to come up with some different styles.</div>
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I returned to my vintage tin plate stash and had the idea to cut them up to see how they took the enamels.</div>
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I just acquired a frit crusher! This means I can turn big glass into little glass all day.</div>
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I achieved a more subtle stoney effect with some great milky frit pieces and a mottled background</div>
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OK I wasn't going to let loose of any of my shield dagger shapes ever. I was saving for my own designs but I made a lot so now I'm ready but they will be limited.</div>
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More minimalist numi-matchsticks with some real silver leaf pieces.</div>
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Crubbly crusty whorl. Super happy with it's sage wisdom</div>
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I had some beads make there way back to me. They are glad to be home but I think they wouldn't mind some more travel</div>
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another subtle one with milky salmon frit and an underlayment of sparkle. Very organic.</div>
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I paired up some "frayed knots" with Lucy Haslam's</div>
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"Tangled" ear wires from her <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/Faerystones">FaeryStones</a> shop. She's got a fabulous new shop with ear wires and handmade chain. I've already put in an order and received some finely finished satiny findings. she takes great care in her work, that is evident.</div>
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These are "Bruised Birch"</div>
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crubbly whorls</div>
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Wicked Fiwah</div>
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caramel swirl</div>
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Can't even think about selling these yet!</div>
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I had one rod only of this crazy color, Sunset Rose</div>
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NumiBuds!</div>
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Bat buds!</div>
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and finally one of my early attempts at something sculptural.</div>
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I'm off to a bead show in Anchorage and maybe will have a few goodies left to put on my Facebook page or Etsy shop. Stay tuned and thanks for looking!</div>
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Oh the heartbreak! This is what happens when you are trying to get phone reception in the studio by a window near your bead stash while trying to work with tech support on your internet connectivity.</div>
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I broke the delicate tip right off of my <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/HappyFishShop">HappyFishShop</a> daggers. This is the first she's heard of it.</div>
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I have applied some of my Aves's Apoxy clay for to rescue this piece. Now that it has sufficiently hardened I think it should hold fast and is ready for some paint. I'm going to paint it in some sort of contrasting color.</div>
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And then I got too futzy with my wirework here and broke my point of connection.I was in love with these honey droppers of Jana's ( HappyFishShop again)</div>
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Please don't think her pieces are too fragile, it's me that's doing the damage!</div>
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Ave's Apoxy Clay to the rescue once again. This is ready for paint and I'm confident that they will stand up to reasonable abuse now.</div>
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So what do you do when a tourist customer buys from you in person and finds this when they return home from their trip. I got the message that the "stone had broken"</div>
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This means two things to me. I didn't talk up my work enough to let them know that it's actually a ceramic piece made by another artisan although I know it's part of my spiel these days, I'm certain I wasn't specific when I sold these.</div>
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Also I don't do much for packaging other than a bag when I sell at the farmer's market and I should realize that when I sell to tourists I should take take some rough handling into account although I do ask them how they want it bagged up in most cases . So I feel partially responsible in this case and can't bear to have a disappointed customer that has fallen in love with a set only to find it broken and unwearable upon return home. Lucky for me I am on a chummy basis with my gal <a href="http://www.scorchedearthonetsy.etsy.com/">Petra </a>all the way over in the UK and she is going to help me out with this so I can do a remake. Talk about going the extra mile!</div>
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I made these "mussel shell" beads eons ago. I don't know how they showed up on my work table again but they were begging for a remake with this wonderful lapis. WIP of course, they need earwires.</div>
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I was going back to some simplicity yesterday so I could do some serious shop fluffage. I have a bead show in October and a am starting to wonder if I can ever get my inventory back up.</div>
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These are some combinations I've been working with and as you can see I am loving my bicone bead roller.</div>
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They disappeared as soon as I showed them though so there ya go!</div>
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'sbeen awhile since I went all limp on you.</div>
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Limpet's I mean.</div>
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Man, I can't get enough of this yellow umber!</div>
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I have just a few rods left of this strawberry something or other glass and so I've been hoarding it. What's the point of that? Use it I say.</div>
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Experimenting with some crubble concepts. Oooh coffee!</div>
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Crubbly cube's how ya been? Haven't seen you 'round these parts lately.</div>
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Very old WIP that is about finished. A <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/SLArtisanAccents">Staci Loiuse </a>polymer piece.</div>
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Kuchi metal glued to some salmon skin leather with one of my crusty crystal headpins sandwiched in by another piece of leather that I sewed together.</div>
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Keeping it real with some rust and nails</div>
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I was kind of proud of this one. It sold fast. Bye bye favorite piece!</div>
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Still struggling with pieces that have a lot of wire work. I guess I'm a fan of the drapey but it was fun to use some of my polymer pieces to go with <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/WondrousStrange">WondrousStrange's</a> beautiful raku piece.</div>
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Knobular amber, I was entrusted with a deceased friend's stash of amber and have been putting up some pieces in my <a href="http://www.numinosity.etsy.com/">numinosity Etsy supply shop</a>. They are un-drilled but some nice specimens.</div>
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It's a pleasure to photograph amber I've found. So photogenic.</div>
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I'm off to Salmonstock festival for a super long weekend of driving and fun. See you next week!</div>
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Numinosityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13464230956125740370noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8088844753735091049.post-27028187539230295352014-07-29T09:40:00.000-08:002014-07-29T09:40:12.927-08:00Gifts From My Canadian Neighbors<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It was a great mail day yesterday.</div>
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This unusual bead by Canadian bead artist Julie Wong Sontag from <a href="http://uglibeads.wordpress.com/">Uglibeads</a> showed up yesterday.</div>
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here is her <a href="http://www.facebook.com/uglibeads">facebook </a>link and her <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/uglibeads">Etsy</a> link too.</div>
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Then I had to go back to town to deliver a package and found my giveaway winning earrings from <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/nearlylost">jiorji</a> at <a href="http://nearlylost.squarespace.com/blog/">NearlyLost</a></div>
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here's her <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Nearly-Lost-Jewelry-by-jiorji">fb link</a></div>
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They seem to have the same aesthetic about them coincidently don't you think?</div>
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Being born in Maine and living in Alaska I consider Canadians my dearest nearest neighbors and I can truthfully say I have never met a Canadian I didn't like and if the ones that I actually haven't met are sending me gifts.......!</div>
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Numinosityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13464230956125740370noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8088844753735091049.post-46701554029002241802014-07-24T12:12:00.000-08:002014-07-24T12:13:12.874-08:00Lighting a Fire with Torch Fired Enamel Matchsticks<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I'm having an auction currently on my <a href="http://www.facebook.com/numinositybeads">Facebook Business page </a> currently and have 30 sets up for bids. I thought I ought to let you know here if you might be interested. I'll be listing the ones that don't sell on Etsy at a later date. Here are a few examples of what's being offered. Auction ends 10:00 ADT Friday July 25th ( Alaska Daylight Time)<br />
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Numinosityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13464230956125740370noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8088844753735091049.post-24826456783234950842014-06-25T14:00:00.001-08:002014-06-25T14:00:20.603-08:00Let Bicones Be Bicones<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I'm going to dip my toes back into blogging. I just can't figure out how I let it go so long. It seems that I used to practically think in blog moments as I went through my day.</div>
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My semi-retirement pastime has become a full time job.</div>
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So mostly I have been making beads, torch fired enamels and jewelry. That's it with some well placed fun times and trips in between.</div>
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My newest thing is my beadroller for bicones. I'm really enjoying the shape so here you go!</div>
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The first set of beads must have been unwittingly inspired by the shell I picked up on Ocracoke island last month when I went for my nephew's wedding. That's the shell as a prop.</div>
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I have been experimenting with half crubbly effects with with some lusciously striated new ivory glass that has been great fun to work with</div>
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I made these yesterday. Things have not been resting long in my hands before they go flying off into the world.</div>
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I have been getting quite a few custom orders and had a request for round crubblies in the cogs colors</div>
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These focal polymer faces were HappyFish pieces by Jana</div>
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matchsticks, oh matchsticks....been coming up with some super premium combos and they have been flying away too.</div>
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I've been using some of my polymer headpins for my own work</div>
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Delving into my Petra stashes</div>
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The salmon skin leather has been mighty popular here in Alaska.</div>
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Vintage turquoise chip beads from my mother's 1970's necklace</div>
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mixing my enamel shields with some of my polymer pieces</div>
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A challenge with Petra's grapes balanced by RaggedRobyn discs</div>
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I had to keep these for myself!</div>
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Messing around with my new cabochon press</div>
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Petra and pyrite</div>
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I was just looking through my sold items on Etsy the other day and realized it has been about exactly 2 years since my shop took off. It seems more like 3 or 4 to me really.</div>
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I smile when I see some of my earlier sales to <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/WillowStudioJewelry">WillowStudioJewelry</a> and <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/fancifuldevices">fancifuldevices</a> way back when.</div>
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What was going to be my semi-retirement business seems to have gone into full time.</div>
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I have to travel to take a break from it most times!</div>
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Which by the way I will be closing shop on Friday for a trip to the Copper Canyon in Mexico.</div>
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I'll be back around the 16th</div>
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Yet I enjoy coming up with some new and novel components.</div>
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It challenges me to make something that is usable and affordable and just a little different from others.</div>
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So glad you guys are liking the crust.</div>
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These are my latest "Crustoleum Flyntstone Cogs"</div>
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I save some of the newest and weirdest for myself and my own designs</div>
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It's been so long since I've blogged, been feeling that horrible word...busy</div>
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putting some things together for my jewelry end of the business</div>
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some <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/HappyFallout">HappyFallout </a>and tektite with some of that Roman glass</div>
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I had fun right after the Tucson Gem & Mineral show mixing up some of my finds with some pieces.</div>
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There's some <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/RaggedRobyn">RaggedRobyn</a> bits at the top there.</div>
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went a little XaZ beads crazy at the show. Nice raku</div>
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I did a heart. it was pink to begin with and I crubblified it and Valentine's Day came and went and it sold. All the way to Denmark</div>
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I do love the crubbly cubes and am thrilled to see how some are using them.</div>
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I have a Pinterest account for <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/numinosity/designers-using-numinositybeads/">designers using NuminosityBeads</a>.</div>
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Sometimes I pin your if I see them and you can ask me to join the group if you wish.</div>
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I think you have to be following it, I'm not sure. Ask me through Pinterest.</div>
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been a long time since I did the lampwonk studniks and the first time I've actually used them in earrings.</div>
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Go see Nikki at LoveRoot, she's used them too. They may be on my Pinterest page because knowing her they've already sold.</div>
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PicMonkey Business</div>
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I did pick up a load of Roman glass for my <a href="http://www.numinosity.etsy.com/">Numinosity supply shop</a></div>
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I always pick up a few sale-ables at the gem show, makes it fun</div>
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"Buying for others"</div>
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Did you catch these druzy whatchamadinger agate wonders?</div>
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I have all manner of sizes and two colors. </div>
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I feel compelled to take photos of each selection because they vary so.</div>
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so if you don't see something ask me because there are more.</div>
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and I am selling whole strands too.</div>
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and titanium coated druzy crescents...also in natural color</div>
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Oh, and to top it all off I got an actual article published in Belle Armoire Jewelry.</div>
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Ray of Sunshine beads</div>
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"Ray of Sunshine Beads"</div>
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Beads made in honor of my father, Ray Rogers incorporating his ashes within the beads. Made for family members.</div>
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having fun in the polymer realm with new shapes and lots of color.</div>
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Why not poly headpins?</div>
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Endless possibilities</div>
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Faceted poly beads using ideas from <a href="http://shipwreckdandy.blogspot.com/">Shipwreck Dandy's</a> <a href="http://www.sculpey.com/projects/rustic-faceted-bead-bracelet">tute</a></div>
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I was definitely on an orange binge</div>
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Matchsticks were flying out of the shop this week.</div>
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Some new frit to play with</div>
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but I finally finished a couple!</div>
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Giving some orphan beads their place in the sun.</div>
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some of my epoxy clay experimental headpins put to use.</div>
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These wings carried them right on out of my facebook biz page during a flash sale,</div>
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Extending my reach thru social media because I need to reach some of the non-makers too.</div>
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But friends with good taste all the same... and some are also artists I might add.</div>
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I vowed to use these zinc chandeliers that I bought last gem show before this coming gem show.</div>
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And a dainty thrift shop chain was dismantled for the drops.</div>
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Oh, PicMonkey collage time!</div>
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More bang for the buck for no bucks</div>
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Poly chunk beads messy painting is fun with <a href="http://thebluebottletree.com/polymer-clay-tutorials/">Blue Bottle Tree's awesome rustic component tutorial</a></div>
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Next stop is the gem show starting next week and I hope to share some of the fun finds along the way.</div>
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">XOXO Kim</span></i></div>
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Well, well, well, here I am again after a long absence.</div>
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They say your first experience of the new year can set the tone for the rest of the year.</div>
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I woke up on a dry-docked yacht in the desert.</div>
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It was actually one of the dwellings for rent at the <a href="http://www.theshadydell.com/">Shady Dell Trailer Park</a> where we had partied the night before. The grand ideas of hiring a cab fell through although they called and woke me at ten to four AM to let us know they could pick us up finally but we were comfortably ensconced in the yacht by then.</div>
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This morsel has been a WIP for a a bit of a while.</div>
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I wanted to experiment with the Apoxie Clay that I learned about in Michael deMeng's class.</div>
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The bead was a wonky vessel of sorts, meaning that it was hollow bead with only one hole.</div>
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I had never quite figured out how I was going to use it (and nobody else had either because I was never able to sell any of this series)</div>
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Apoxie clay is great for attaching things to things and is paintable and carve-able and dries within a few hours. It's a two part system as any epoxy.</div>
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So this pendant was not soldered at all, just stuffed and it adhered the two pieces just dandy. (dandily?)</div>
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Did a little designing with some of Marsha Neal Minutella's Spiky organic ceramic bits and made some sgrafito beads as well. </div>
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I am still struggling with the whole bracelet idea...</div>
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sizing and such... finishing and such...</div>
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but I have a pile of bracelet ideas half strung.</div>
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I thought I had a buyer for this one when I showed it online but the pesky Australian import rules about seed pods squashed it thoroughly. Be careful people, you don't want your customers to pay hefty fees and experience months of delay or the possibility of your piece being returned because you included some organic matter in your design that they don't allow.</div>
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Messing around with the Apoxie Clay and checking out the difference between Apoxie Clay and Apoxie Sculpt when making these headpins. Apoxie Sculpt is more of a Play Doh texture when working it, more supple and the Apoxie Clay is stiffer, more like polymer clay.</div>
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It was a little dark in the house when I painted them. I couldn't tell the difference once they dried and were painted.</div>
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Inspiration for crubbly cubies.</div>
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The crubbly cubies inspired me to take this picture.</div>
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Went on a crubbly cubie streak. Cornerstones of funky beadwork designing.</div>
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and made a few earrings</div>
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I ended up having to keep these for myself since I dropped and broke the tip off of one. Now it's glued and they are mine.</div>
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I discovered some new frit that takes to my headpins quite well.</div>
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The only reason these are still in my shop is that I put a certain LoveRoot on moratorium for buying because she's joining me at the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show next month.</div>
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I'm excited to have a pal and partner in bead crime.</div>
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I met the neighbors.</div>
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Remember the "clown house" I spoke of way back when.</div>
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Well we've got invites there now. Lots of fun.</div>
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Things you can see on a typical bike ride in Bisbee, AZ</div>
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Mining runoff.</div>
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I hope to be back on a bit more of a regular schedule (in the loosest meaning of the word)</div>
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and keep more up to date with this blog. Things got busy there for awhile!</div>
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<i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">XOXO, Kim</span></b></i></div>
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I got out my gold leaf the other day for a little bit of holiday flash. I'm pretty pleased with the results on these opalescent headpins.</div>
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Winners!</div>
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Extra long brass wires on these blingy transparent leaf headpins</div>
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Goldstone latticino limpet bead caps with metallic edges.</div>
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see how they match my prop shell</div>
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I was experimenting with layered headpins. The second one just didn't behave so I flattened and twisted it. Makes even a more interesting set and I know you guys aren't afraid of mismatched!</div>
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I might have shown these before but they are merchandise now.</div>
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In my <a href="http://www.numinositybeads.etsy.com/">Etsy shop</a></div>
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Butter criffles 'n' spikes</div>
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Blueberry, Cranberry - Alaskan inspired criffles</div>
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Orphan assortments in the shop. lots of them!</div>
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A great focal. If you don't want this, I do!</div>
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It's been a great year in ye olde numinositye shoppe and many thanks to you all that keep me going.</div>
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I know I've fallen off on blogging and following partly because I've been so dang busy in the studio keeping my shop stocked. Also I became a guest blogger over on <a href="http://www.lovemyartjewelry.blogspot.com/">LoveMyArtJewelry Blog</a> twice a month and I guess I don't have so many blog blathers in me to overflow into my own.</div>
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I just did a post this week about murrini and millefiore cane.</div>
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And now for some potatoes that my son illustrated to send you on your way.</div>
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We just arrived back in Arizona after the 5 week trip to the states from Alaska.</div>
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It was pretty intense with lots of road travel and socializing.</div>
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I started out by attending Art Is You in Stamford, Connecticut which put me on the east coast, my former stomping grounds.</div>
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I had been wanting to take a class from <a href="http://michaeldemeng.blogspot.com/">Michael DeMeng</a> for years, in fact had one canceled here in Arizona that I had signed up for a few years back. He does have online classes too.</div>
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I ended up taking two of his classes to make up for that missed one.</div>
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What you see here is some of my "Good Brushes Gone Bad" projects.</div>
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I learned a lot about some really cool paint applications and new materials that I'm itching to expand on ( notice the baby being birthed beneath the eye)</div>
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That eye was from some Bollywood CD trash that I found in India)</div>
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This one seemed very Alaskan totemic don't you think?</div>
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The face in the middle was from my Uruguay Haul last year and I'd been saving that little stub of a pencil for a long, long time.</div>
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That's the kind of fun you can have in a Micahel DeMeng class!</div>
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I used one of my old lampwork dog bead attempts in this one. he always seemed rather Simpsonesque to me.</div>
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Using another one of my relaxing babies and a anenomonic lampwork piece I made this cover for this tin in the "Teeny Tiney Shriney" class. I still need to paint where I connected the glass to the top.</div>
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I loved learned his technique of coloring mica to make it look really old.</div>
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I used a lighthouse from a Beech Cliff sardine can to harken back to my Maine roots and since it was my first job at the cannery and all.</div>
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I took <a href="http://inthelightofthemoon.blogspot.com/">Cat Kerr's</a> "Tube Soldered Pendants" class and it was my first foray into playing with solder.</div>
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I filled the tubes with glass stringer nubs from my lampworking.</div>
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It was great to finally meet Cat after years of blogging and she had been a participant of my ill-fated <a href="http://numinositybeads.blogspot.com/2010/04/candace-wants-to-travel.html">Candace, the traveling doll </a>escapade.</div>
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I also took a class with <a href="http://thealteredpage.blogspot.com/">Seth Apter</a> of mixed media fame.</div>
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This is front and back cover- reflecting a bit of Indian theme it turns out.</div>
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The most challenging class was with <a href="http://www.rsalley.com/">Richard Salley</a> and <a href="http://www.artretreatinthedesert.com/p/instuctors.html">Jessica Jordan</a> as I have only a couple of day long metal smithing classes under my belt. This was also made in one day. </div>
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I'm pleased to know that they will be providing workshops during the gem show in Tucson in February.</div>
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Little did I realize that the influence of Michael DeMeng would translate so directly into my lampwork upon my return home. I had used murrini on the ends of headpins before but when I used <a href="http://www.fyrebeadz.com/catalog.php?category=64">Donna Millard's murrini</a> that I had picked up when I saw her in Alaska these magnificent eyeballs appeared!</div>
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I warmed up to the torch making some more matchsticks and have been trying to come up with some batches to list so that I can fill my shop once again.</div>
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I am taking custom orders and that's why you might not be seeing so much new stuff appearing quite yet. I am working on it!</div>
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After my CT workshop I flew to Dayton and met my bead buddy and jewelry artist extraordinaire Nikki of LoveRoot. She has a new <a href="https://www.facebook.com/LoveRootArtisanJewelry">facebook page</a> by the way and is already sharing some of her magic in tutes and such. Go Nikki!</div>
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From there we set out for the Michigan cottage that has been recently reacquired into my husband's family and hung out with his two sisters and some cousins for several days.</div>
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We then drove up and through Canada and down into New England ending up at my Mom's place where my brother and his family from Bali were still staying.</div>
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We got to celebrate our respective birthdays a day apart, my brother and I and also did Halloween with his young children</div>
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After that we had a whirlwind trip in a southerly direction meeting up with folks at every turn.</div>
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We did six states in one day once. All in all I saw 3 sister in laws, 1 brother in law,</div>
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1 bro, 2 sis's, 1 mom, 1 aunt, 4 cousins ( one I hadn't seen in 40 years) 3 old high school friends, 1 junior high school friend that I hadn't seen in 40 years, 2 art workshop/ blog friends, one new bead buddy and another Etsy customer. 2 old Alaskan friends, 2 nephews and one niece.</div>
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I apologize to those of you that I had hoped to visit along the way but nearing the end of the trip we were getting anxious to head to the barn. Next time, OK?</div>
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I only misplaced/left behind one hairbrush and one set of sunglasses and only lost one earring ( one of my own) gained quite a few pounds with the impossibility of avoiding wheat and gluten on the trip which I hope to wear off quickly now that I'm ensconced in Studio South.</div>
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I have two new paintings of my brother's to hang in our house here and one of Michael DeMeng's own teeny tiney shrinies for my collection.</div>
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Numinosityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13464230956125740370noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8088844753735091049.post-57968185163922223372013-10-23T18:41:00.001-08:002013-10-23T18:41:49.416-08:00Random Road Trip Pics<p dir=ltr>A few pics from the trip. Trying to see if I can manage to blog from my phone.<br>
I made a ring at Art is You. Went on a paddle wheel river cruise and met LoveRoot Nikki. Not in that order.<br>
My laptop computer battery was all bulged out from it's storage in Arizona these last 6 months so that's kind of dead in the water until I find a new one. </p>
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It's been an interesting month since I returned from my trip to Maine.</div>
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I hit the ground running in my shop with a backlog of custom orders and what turned out to be a record breaking amount of components going out of my shop.</div>
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I was in full production mode as I knew I was going to be shutting down for all of October and partway into November. I did happen to let a few of my regular customers know it so that may have accounted for some of the rush.</div>
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I've had some interesting mail days with surprises from some very nice people.</div>
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This beautiful postcard made by Marcia Dunne from</div>
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showed up with this lovely snack pack of goodies. What's even more amazing is that it went to our address in Arizona first and got forwarded to me here in Alaska!</div>
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(with some nice scorchedearthonetsy pieces used to quite an advantage))</div>
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and then I got these in a trade that I didn't know was a trade when I sent some headpins to Deborah of <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/Tribalis">Tribalis</a> to try out. This design knocks me out in its grace and rustic simplicity. She has more to sell too in her shop.</div>
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And then <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/readbetweenlines">Priscilla Moore</a> of ReadBetweenTheLines was decommissioning some consignment pieces that she had recently gotten back and was GIVING these away! I spoke up quickly.</div>
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I had some little copper tube beads that I enameled. They are a little sharp edged for stringing and I'm not sure if I could command the price I need to make for these little numbers. A buck a bead? what do you think?</div>
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I thought I would show you one of my focal beads that I have saved out as it is one of my favorites. I'm thinking of branching back out into making more of these. Focals used to be my primary focus in beadmaking. I kind of miss it.</div>
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And now I'm about to embark on my epic travel starting with a 300 mile trip to sell at a bead show in Anchorage and flying through the night to the east coast to meet up with my sister who I talked into attending <a href="http://www.art-is-you.com/mysitecaddy/site3/artis...stamfordgeneralinformation.htm">Art Is You</a> art retreat in CT. I'll be taking five days of classes with some of the biggies in mixed media like Michael DeMeng, Seth Apter, Cat Kerr and Richard Salley hoping to play a bit with the mixed media which I just haven't seemed to have much time for in trying to keep my shop stocked.</div>
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I also talked my sister into manning my table that will be set up for a day in hopes of introducing my work to some new folks.</div>
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After that I'm flying to Ohio to meet up with my husband who is driving up from Arizona and get to meet Ms. <a href="http://www.loveroot.etsy.com/">LoveRoot </a>herself - Nikki Zehler on her birthday, no less!</div>
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Then it's off to check out my husband's old family cottage which he managed to re-acquire recently in Michigan and have a little reunion with his two sisters. </div>
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Off to drive to Maine from there and have another visit with my family again and then simply <i>drive </i>back to Arizona with the intent of visiting and meeting a few more folks along the way like polymer clay guru Ginger Davis Allman of <a href="http://thebluebottletree.com/">The Blue Bottle Tree</a> and the illustrious Janet of <a href="http://www.anvilartifacts.etsy.com/">AnvilArtifacts</a></div>
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We should be back in Arizona by the second week of November or thereabouts where I will be getting back in the mode in my Bisbee studio. I do hope to be filling you in along the way with some tidbits from my road trip.</div>
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I did a post today over at <a href="http://lovemyartjewelry.blogspot.com/2013/10/frit-whats-that.html">LoveMyArtJewelry</a> today too discussing frit and some of its uses. Stop on by.</div>
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I don't usually participate in these sort of challenges but I was intrigued with the beads that <a href="http://dreamsomedesigns.blogspot.com/2013/08/wonky-bead-blog-hop.html">Kristi Bowman</a> had made up and one of the requirements for purchasing was to use them for this <a href="http://dreamsomedesigns.blogspot.com/2013/08/wonky-bead-blog-hop.html">blog hop</a>.</div>
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Doubling the challenge for me was that this was out of my color comfort zone added to the fact that designing with chunky beads was outside of my comfort zone as well. I also had never designed using primarily polymer beads.</div>
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I went strait to work as soon as I had the beads in my hand and had this necklace finished the same day as I knew that I wouldn't have the time during or after my trip back east.</div>
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I had some really nice <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/WondrousStrange">WondrousStrange</a> ceramic shell disc pieces that were screaming to be included.</div>
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Also a wonderful <a href="https://www.etsy.com/people/shipwreckdandy">Shipwreck Dandy</a> faceted polymer piece that was perfect in it's gemlike splendor to balance out the chunk and funk. </div>
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Let's see yes I had some <a href="https://www.etsy.com/transaction/144517149?">numinositybeads mini criffles</a> of my own that were hanging about. This necklace was making itself! </div>
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With a ragged worm tube remnant for which to dangle as a focal piece and then accented by some faceted turquoise rondelles and a few red Tibetan mala bead to finish it off, I was quite pleased.</div>
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I'm not accustomed to wiring pieces together so this has a stiffer design than most of my necklaces.</div>
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Numinosityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13464230956125740370noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8088844753735091049.post-82449437588956398122013-08-30T10:09:00.001-08:002013-08-30T15:01:41.346-08:00My Dear Dad <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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An unexpected turn of events occurred on my Maine vacation visit to see the family. I just couldn't wait until October as I had planned to meet my newest nephew and spend time with my brother and his family visiting from Bali. With a wedding in Alaska that was smack dab in the middle of the month of August and my husband being away at the beginning of August I was delighted to find a halfway reasonable ticket the day after the wedding to the east coast. In my haste I had forgotten that my older brother and wife had already "booked" a visit at our family camp and I felt a bit guilty for totally overlapping their visit but they were quick to let me know that I was welcome to be there at the same time.</div>
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My son had been back for a visit early on in the summer because he had a strong calling to be around his grandparents as we all have had it in the back of our minds that it could be a last visit.</div>
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My father, Raymond Rogers was a cancer survivor for over 30 years. We almost lost him when I was in my 20's before he had any grandchildren at all.</div>
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There were several episodes in which I just happened to be visiting that he experience various health crises, the most major one being a massive heart attack on the very last hours of a visit to our new home in Arizona 4 years ago. I was able to care for my mom in the sunniest and warmest of places while he had his quadruple bypass and subsequent aftercare. How convenient!</div>
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He is a survivor through and through and has bounced back remarkably from many more tentative health crises.</div>
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The week I was here he was doing better than any of us had seen him in past years but the lack of mobility and ability to really do much of anything was wearing on him I know for sure.</div>
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Tuesday night my one brother and family and I took off for a facebook friend meetup on a glorious Maine coast day allowing for my other brother and his wife to enjoy a little less crowded time with the folks. My eldest brother is extremely busy as the chancellor of the University of Alaska and has to carve out precious time to visit with family.</div>
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Several friends and neighbors had stopped in to visit that day and my dad enjoyed it very much. </div>
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We had a wonderful dinner with Alaskan salmon grilled by my brother and blueberry salsa lovingly prepared by my sister in law and a rare home baked blueberry pie that my mother cooked. She'd given up on baking desserts years ago. I had made a huge jar of kimchee at my brother Dan's request which my dad bravely tried even though he didn't normally like spicy food he actually enjoyed it.</div>
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I gave him a little extra helping of pie and got to sit next to him at dinner.</div>
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After dinner the folks settled down into the other cottage which is yards away from our original family cottage and were watching an old Sean Connery movie. We stopped in and sat with them and I went back to the other cottage and within several minutes I heard my brother shouting that something was happening to dad. It seemed he had just kind of keeled over and I was there in time to witness his last few breaths while my older brothers brothers heroically did hundreds of chest compressions and mouth to mouth until the EMT's showed up. And because my folks neglected to bring the Do Not Resuscitate order with them from their winter home the EMT's were obligated to work on him for another 20 minutes by state law. </div>
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I was able to hold his head in my hands and comfort my mother and my dear sweet father passed away with Three of his five children and daughter in law and wife of 65 years were present in the room when he died..</div>
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We made a circle around him and held hands for some silent reflection.</div>
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Since he passed my two sisters have arrived and there is not one of us that is not comforted and uplifted by the manner and timing in which he orchestrated his exit from this earthly plane.</div>
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There were several signs before and after that some of us experienced in the form of unique animal appearances and dreams that have made the experience so much more numinous.</div>
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The very next morning after his death we were standing outside in a circle and my little 15 month old nephew from Bali began waving and beaming as if someone was standing in the gap in the circle where no one was standing and then he pointed to the sky. He repeated that again later on, pointing at the other cottage and waving, then pointing to the sky.</div>
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I needed to chill out the the same morning having a few moments of quiet reflection overlooking the bay after the adrenaline filled and fairly sleepless night, closing my eyes and allowing a few tears. When I opened my eyes from the half reclined position, a perfect bald eagle soared across my field of vision.</div>
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He was a dear sweet gentle and loving man and I feel that I got the gift of being able to say goodbye to him these last four years and bathe in his lovingness and care as well as being able to have the chance to let him know how much I cared for him. Who can ask for more?</div>
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His passing not a tragedy but a blessing and he will be missed by so many.</div>
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We're so grateful that he didn't have to endure any more hospital and doctors visits and that he passed peacefully in his own home surrounded by so many that cared about him.</div>
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In his classic style he made sure he was ahead of me in cribbage this week, 3 games to one, skunking me the first game! </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>XOXO Kim </b></i></span></div>
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This giveaway is closed now and the winner that was picked by the random number generator is The lucky Cynthia of <a href="http://www.beatnheart.etsy.com/">Beatnheart</a>!</div>
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It has been one mostly hot and dry summer here in Interior Alaska.</div>
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It was kind of cold at the beginning of the season but it went from winter to full on summer in a matter of weeks. ( That's me trying to keep warm at the farmer's market)</div>
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Enjoying new drink concoctions in the late night sun.</div>
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Mate infused vodka with pandanus leaf flavoring.</div>
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( Asian meets South American fusion)</div>
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Seeing my honey and my son off on their archaeology expedition</div>
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Cass-man, my son... yeah I have a 30 year old son now!</div>
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Making lots of crusty beads</div>
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Unreal orange crush fruit loops Tang nuggets</div>
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Misbehaving beads that were taught a lesson</div>
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and just a few headpins</div>
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I had been feeling like I had been blogging more than I actually did here. That's because I had been blogging over at <a href="http://www.lovemyartjewelry.blogspot.com/">Love My Art Jewelry Blog</a> a few times and maybe I just ran out of time with things to say here but here's what you may have missed from me.</div>
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<i><b><a href="http://lovemyartjewelry.blogspot.com/2013/08/30-beads-later-by-kimberly-rogers.html">30 Beads Later</a></b></i></div>
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<i><a href="http://lovemyartjewelry.blogspot.com/2013/06/cant-get-enough-headpins.html"><b>Not Enough Headpins</b></a></i></div>
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<i><b><a href="http://lovemyartjewelry.blogspot.com/2013/07/a-good-day-to-thank-your-hands.html">A Good day To Thanks Your Hands</a></b></i></div>
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Now it's going to be the busiest week ever with my stepson getting married and we're hosting the reception for 100 or so at our place and the very next day I fly off to Maine to visit with my folks and my brother from Bali with his family.</div>
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So sorry if I haven't been visiting and commenting on your fine blogs, I've been a bit of a lurker lately.</div>
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Ciao for now, Kim</span></i></div>
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I've been on myself to get into production to make more components.</div>
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It seems that the jewelry making is more relaxing and can be done in the house watching TV and whatnot and the real work is the focus at the torch. </div>
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I keep pressuring myself to make huge runs of all of my best selling components and then something new and novel to stretch myself creatively.</div>
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But I am becoming discouraged by the lack of sales of my jewelry this summer at our local market.</div>
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It's always been a given that I could move it in person but this year has been different so far.</div>
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Not sure if it's my change in style or economy. I know that I love what I'm making and don't want to go back to old bread and butter items that I used to rely on.</div>
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I'm hoping to have some new best sellers.</div>
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Suddenly I'm doing better online than in person.. with components that is.</div>
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So I imagine that I need piles of all of them but there's only so much time and I can only handle about 3 hours of torch time in a day.. it used to be 4 but I need to listen to my body and hands and eyes and I will stop at the precise moment I feel I've had enough or mistakes and accidents and burnout can happen.</div>
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I did do something that has been on my list for three or four years that I had been procrastinating on.</div>
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At least that gave me a chance to improve my photography since I first had it on a list of things to do.</div>
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I want to make more of these stony faceted nuggets.</div>
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The great news though is that I got recognized for my polymer clay work last week.</div>
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I got a couple of emails from folks in the know ( thanks Ginger and Richelle)</div>
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that I had been featured on the front page of the online magazine <a href="http://polymerclaydaily.com/2013/07/09/polymer-for-dancing/">Polymer Clay Daily</a>.</div>
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Talk about beginner's luck! Now that was a huge surprise for sure.</div>
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Less jewelry making and more components? Really?</div>
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I think I should give the "shoulds" a big shove.</div>
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I'm gonna do what I want!</div>
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Numinosityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13464230956125740370noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8088844753735091049.post-49524059964896281352013-07-07T13:43:00.000-08:002013-07-07T14:34:50.888-08:00Polydoodles<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Last post I told you about my conversion from polymer virgin to polymer slut.</div>
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I had been referring to buying supplies then. Well, something happened to me last week when I was recommending <a href="http://thebluebottletree.com/tutorials/">Blue Bottle Tree's tutorial</a> on making rustic beads with polymer clay. I was purchasing the tute for a friend that I thought would like it and then I started looking into it myself and thought I'd try my hand at it. She also sells it in her<a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/thebluebottletree"> Etsy shop</a>. </div>
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This first face is an homage to my inspiration Paryb Happy Fish ( Jana) from <a href="http://www.happyfishshop.etsy.com/">HappyFishShop on Etsy</a></div>
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She has been a great inspiration to me.</div>
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I started with what I was familiar with...headpins of course. I used copper just for a change of pace and made them nice and long so you could get a few extra wraps in </div>
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These came out pretty well I think considering that they looked like brown turds on a stick before I set to a'painting on them.</div>
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Those stamping supplies that I have neatly tucked away for my mixed media and collage work came in handy.</div>
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Remember my clay pieces that I couldn't fire because of the wire and then I painted them to see the effect? Well now I know it was just one step toward the inspiration for these.</div>
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I think these were a pair of my favorites from the bunch</div>
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Then we start on our 100 miles trip to the farmer's market on a cool and clear day and drive through a wall of smoke right near the air force base. Turns out this particular fire was caused by artillery shell practice and it's threatening neighborhoods now and may be still growing. I knew I was in for a day of being lightly and fragrantly smoked like a fine scotch or smoked salmon ( forgive me the repetition my facebook friends, I only have so much material floating around in my head)</div>
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It turned out to be the worst day of sales that I can remember. My one order from Etsy yesterday even topped it. I was feeling mighty discouraged but some cool things happened. People visited, someone brought me some ephemera that was included in one of their Etsy orders that they had no use for, the Ukrainian lady at the Honey Bakery felt sorry for me and gave me some slices of her famous pies....and then an old flame from way back from over 30 years ago handed me this picture which I don't even recall seeing before</div>
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That was some of my embroidery work in my sweatshirt.</div>
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The day ended with a wedding of a couple that had been together over 30 years ago that had reunited only just recently. It was a reunion of sorts as well. It seems that a lot of history of my life was presenting itself to me that day.</div>
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I have been corresponding and following artist <a href="http://www.khenkel.blogspot.com/">Kim Henkel of "Letting in the Light"</a> for a few years now.</div>
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She does some of the most soulful nature inspired artwork , journals and mini books as well as jewelry making.</div>
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This picture is the little accordian book that she gifted me.</div>
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We have more than a little bit in common despite the fact that we live in different countries she is one of my nearest neighbor bloggers actually living right off of the same highway as we do.</div>
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The great Alaskan highway separates us by almost 400 miles. ( they call it the North Highway)</div>
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We both are named Kim and live in remote subarctic junctions and both have the nearest city about 100 miles away from us. She goes to Whitehorse and I go to Fairbanks.</div>
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Both of our husbands studied archaeology and I just found out this weekend that we are both from a family of five kids.</div>
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We had spoken of a meet-up for a few years now and in fact my husband had already met them at their home when he was driving through a few seasons ago.</div>
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I also knew that they had a place on beautifully spectacular Kluane Lake that I had driven by on the highway several times in my travels.</div>
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It was our 6 year anniversary and Canada Day which seems to be a tradition to take a trip to Dawson City, Yukon. This year I suggested a different more relaxing trip for a couple of overnights. The smoke was getting oppressive from wildfires and we hoped to escape it and breathe a little fresh air after our heatwave and subsequent smokiness. Although Kim's husband is very busy with the fire season she agreed to meet us and let us park my little teardrop trailer at their lovely spot in the woods by the lake.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdsNh8NTg3k9rpOzj-DFrzSWS6I-h2-KQmj7WxXIk8S5RBo3p_I4fUzDSZbfK7HnoYFqVQ2UoLef8NjSEROzd3p7vZfPtgXbV0vJBNWOr4gR6CDpZXfjezL6E9kpPGEtzA2j6sHphSuCgp/s1000/tdrop.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdsNh8NTg3k9rpOzj-DFrzSWS6I-h2-KQmj7WxXIk8S5RBo3p_I4fUzDSZbfK7HnoYFqVQ2UoLef8NjSEROzd3p7vZfPtgXbV0vJBNWOr4gR6CDpZXfjezL6E9kpPGEtzA2j6sHphSuCgp/s400/tdrop.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
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This is their modest abode by the lake that I dubbed the Shakwak Shack since it is planted in the Shakwak Trench situated between the mountains and Destruction Bay on Kluane Lake</div>
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And then I got to meet Kim. I was very happy that she could make the trip as well because I knew that she was still recovering from a concussion from a hockey injury from over a year ago and it has been a slow but steady healing. Imagine getting the instructions to stay in a darkened room and not think for hours a day. That's what she had to endure among many other limitations to her normal life.</div>
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The lake is vast...at least 30 miles long with not many inhabitants or residences on the Bay.</div>
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Their little place is one of only a few that have a road to it.</div>
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We went walking and beach combing</div>
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Honey was getting a little too close to the terns here. He was about to get dive bombed.</div>
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A driftwood cache for plundering</div>
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Sand encrusted patina-ed copper!</div>
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I can see where Kim gets her inspiration and solitude</div>
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Modeling my <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/HappyFishShop">HappyFish</a> earrings (with a cee-gar of course)</div>
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He had a dream the first night about where someone had caught a lake trout so he went to that place first thing and caught us some lunch</div>
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We did a little exploring in the nearby village of Burwash Landing</div>
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So peaceful and windswept with the sounds of the waves lapping and steady strong breezes...OK wind I mean</div>
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A total collaboration as Dave caught it, I seasoned it and Kim did the cooking.</div>
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My spoils from the beach combing</div>
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I don't know if any of you remember my <a href="http://numinositybeads.blogspot.com/2012/10/clay-daybaby-its-cold-outside.html">post last fall</a> when I had been gifted a large chunk of high fire clay to play with.</div>
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How excited I was to make a bunch of these pendant pieces using a topographical model that I had bought at a garage sale. Then I found out that the steel wire I used was not going to withstand the high firing so I ended up with quite a few useless pieces like this one. Just for fun I put an acrylic wash and mica watercolor paint and a coating of hard coat Mod Podge. I'm pretty pleased with the effect but alas it won't probably hold up as a component as water can simply dissolve the unfired clay and who knows if the mod podge could protect it enough. It does give me an idea for some polymer pieces.</div>
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Up until now I have been a polymer virgin until I started seeing pieces like this paisley piece by Heather Powers of <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/humblebeads">Humblebeads</a></div>
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There is a little bit more about the use of sari silk over on <a href="http://lovemyartjewelry.blogspot.com/2013/06/were-so-sari.html">LoveMyArt Jewelry</a> Blog that I just wrote.</div>
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I just had to get this piece by Jana of <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/HappyFishShop">HappyFishShop</a></div>
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And how could I leave out Staci's components at <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/slartisanaccents">SLArtisanAccents</a></div>
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Leave it to me to turn from a polymer virgin to polymer slut overnight!</div>
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An Alaskan heat wave! It's been up to high 80's and low 90's for days on end and since the sun barely sets it's been pretty warm at night too.</div>
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All of our stores are out of air conditioners, fans, ice cube trays and bug dope.</div>
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Kind of funny that the clay piece that I made at the top was during a deep freeze here.</div>
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It's a land of extremes.</div>
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Meanwhile back in my sweatshop where I make handfuls of headpins while my safety glasses slip off of my sweaty nose and I can't have a fan going because it messes with my torch flame too much I have been trying to keep up with the demand for headpins. </div>
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Crusty headpins. I'm trying to make assortments in 3 shapes- drippy, half crystal and orbs.</div>
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I have a new assortment just waiting to model for me in the little light tent. I would provide you with a gratuitous fistful pic but I've already got them all sorted out and waiting in a queue for their shots.</div>
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Keep in mind folks that these tend to go pretty fast in most cases but I'm happy to take orders.</div>
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Another one of my sari silk chokers, this time using one of <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/scorchedearthonetsy">Petra's</a> fab pieces.</div>
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Many thanks to <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/anvilartifacts">AnvilArtifacts</a> Janet for the twisties. I think they are perfect for this piece.</div>
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Oh and I forgot to mention king salmon steaks on the grill, we had some success!</div>
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This is how some folks catch salmon in Alaska. It's called a fish wheel. It does all the work catching them while you sit around a campfire and wait for a thumping sound which means one has been scooped up.</div>
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A little drink I invented with miniature king crab legs...no, bacon.</div>
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Actually its slivers of Trader Joe's Spiced Chile Mangoes in chilled Finlandia vodka with a splash of agave. My creativity has no end don'tcha know!</div>
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