Scorchedosity and Petra-fying

Testifying on the Petra-fying

Using Petra's ScorchedEarthonEtsy components is some serious fun.

here are some of my newest NuministaChic earrings

I found myself some Afghani charms to dismantle at the gem show to give the pieces some antiquity and swing.

These were some winners that already are winging their way across country 

(to a displaced Alaskan, my ever loyal customers)

Had no idea what I was going to do with the Afghani flower caps until I saw that they nestled nicely underneath the lacy ceramic bead caps. And those were some headpins that I could never sell so I'm using them.

Some of Petra's snakeskin shields with my torch fired enamel disks.

Some guy thought they looked like fishing lures.

Let's call them "allures"

It was about time I started adding some color to my shop, it was all down to winter blues and greys.

I started with the same base on these headpins. look how much they change with the application of the baking soda!

This was something new. I applied filigrana stringers to meander about on these headpins.

I rather like the effect. I'd better make more because these also flew away.

I most likely won't be listing any more until we get back from our trip.

I really didn't think I'd have to fly further south to get warm. 

We got snow again here in southern Arizona but the good news is that in Santiago, Chile it's 84 degrees! We'll be arriving on Tuesday. Can't wait.

More matchsticks.

Good news for you international customers. I can enclose these in an envelope and you won't have to pay as much for shipping.

More crubbly headpins. I hope to get around to listing them today.

And this from Quisnam.

Her Etsy shop is here

I like the way she used one of my limpet bead caps at the bottom of the piece

( top  in this case)

Now if I can get her to photograph my work!

That's all today my lovelies.

You all have a great weekend!

Getting Grounded into the New Year...Hopefully!

Hatch chiles and me in New Mexico

Merry Ristras!

You know me and my utility covers!

I needed a warning that I might run my ass off during the holidays.

What a whirl it's been.

I got to meet some cool artist types that I admire.

Check out Elizabeth Frank's amazing painted carvings/assemblage pieces with a distinctly southwest flair.

She has an Etsy shop too.

We're looking forward to some play time together one day.

And I got to meet this lovely lady too at her home in Santa Fe.

Yes, chiles were involved as we were treated to a wonderful meal including Bloody Mary's at my request.

You may already know her as Darlicious Rejuvenations  or Darlene of DarliciousHouse on Etsy

I have a heck of a time keeping up with this partner and I'm a little tuckered out with the running and playing we've been doing.

(I've got my son visiting with his new camera and he was trying out some action shots)

I thought this one was wonderfully ridiculous and I'm not jumping very high...notice the hot pack around my neck...kind of lame, literally.

Then we tried some with my camera, that's the most action I could manage but at least I don't look quite so stressed from concentration in this one.

No, this isn't Alaska... this is effin' southern Arizona!

...and it still hasn't totally melted yet.

That there is supposed to be out view of Mexico.

I instagramed it to make it look like someone's nostalgic childhood memory.

Now for the good stuff... I have been utilizing the wonderful Petra's ceramic bits as I have somehow managed to carve out a few hours of time between the visiting and the visitors and too much funnedness of the holidays or else I may go cray-cray.

Those are her elephant skin beads peaking out from under my  torch fired enamel bits.

You prob can't tell but those are some itty bitty headpinny bits of mine. 

lemme know if they are up your alley and I can make some more sets.

So these got me excited... I was actually trying to make them into orbby blobbly lucious fruit-hanging bits  butthe glass started to get away from me and I smashed it down and now they are smashed sideways all button like and I must say I rather like them and they have a multicolored sheen from the Bella Donna frits I've been experimenting with.

Oh, and swoon on this new color for me appropriately called "ghee" with some extra frit sheen

This glass is called peaches and cream and with a little raku frit They serve up quite nicely.

Petra's dangles and coral and acoupla transparent beadcaps.

All they need is some earwires now.

I got the coral in my stocking. See not coal, coRal.

We went to this great hot springs before Christmas because I thought it apropros to have our end of the world celebration in a place called Truth or Consequences. 

what a great soak and stay we had at La Paloma Hot Springs and Spa

I would recommend it highly.

Oh, I kind of wandered there. I saw the coral beads in a little shop in that town and requested them as a stocking stuffer.

These still need some wires as you can see

Dichro sparklies

Bella Donna sheen action

We're staring off shiny this year as you can see.

High-grading my own supplies again. 

NKP beads and some vintage bits

More Petra-iffic components

ScorchedEarthOnEtsy

More NKP beads with my criffles

I finished this one earring, one more to go.

After this we have more visitors (family) and a few days trip to Mexico and then to Maine after that so if I don't get much posted send me calming, peaceful grounded thought and wishes.

My super fun retired life is about to wear me out and I could use a few of those solitary summer days in Alaska again.

I almost forgot to share my new resolution to do more journaling and I collaged 4 pages already.

I think this reflects how busy I've been feeling.

I chose the word "seed" as a journal prompt for the year.

This was a two page spread in silver and gold

Happy New Year to you all!

XOXO, Kim

Cold Weather Productions- On A Roll

Nothing like a bit of unseasonably cold weather to drive me into the studio.

Snowing and blowing to beat the band just 8 miles from the Mexican border.

Actually the torching studio was too cold so I spent the last two days making some new earrings.

I was trying to stretch a bit and make non-matching earrings extra long.

...and loose up some of my new supplies...punch holes into 1000 year old relics

wire it, dangle it make it balance somehow.

The sun came out enough to photograph a few

I realized that having the earrings close to the same weight was important to me.

I think it feels funny to have one significantly heavier than the other.

Blobs torched right on to the crude filigree

Ceramic pieces in the middle from a supply swap

Thanks, Robbie!

dapped disks of a crusty aluminum baking pan

numinosity headpins

yak bone mala beads

This is what I do with my own headpins

brass disks, yak bone mala beads and numinosity headpins

Was inspired to make some red earrings after reading alek's post at infinity stop

red yak bone mala beads, dapped copper disks, copper spacers

Copper earrings with wire

More amphoras~ currently in my shop

in the shop now

currently for sale

And just to show you what my first earrings looked like when I started out back in '97

even before I was making my own beads!