Early Morning Blogging

Awesome to hear from you again!

I'm sorry to hear that you're more depressed than ever. Depression is a real motivation killer. I'm glad that you're doing some beading/jewelry making, though. My Mom does the same thing - jewelry making. We're in the process of getting pics of all of her stuff, and are then going to create and Etsy where she can sell it. Etsy's a great site for it. Also a wonderful place to get ideas.

Once you get your online store going, let me know! I'd love to see the rest of your stuff. I love the items you posted pictures of above.

Awesome! My Mom does some wire wrapping. She's taken all sorts of classes for jewelry making over the years.

I've never even thought about making patterns for jewelry before. My Mom doesn't - she just kinda visualizes it and then makes what she sees in her head. I should throw this pattern idea by her. I'm sure she's heard of it - but I'm curious as to why she doesn't use them.

Oh, right - I understand. That makes a lot more sense.

Yay..thanks! I'll check it out. I'll link you to my Mom's store once we've got it up and running.

keep your house and win some money renting it
it is not much, usually, but it's constant (usually)
Today house prices are small (except for China, i guess )

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There is a god website about spirals that would lend itself to wire designs. I will get back to you with alink but there are plenty of leads in Google images.

I always wzanted to mess around with semi precious stones but was put off because of the femininity of the hobby. Being in construction allowed me to see things you might miss though.

Bench grinders from Sears or whatever they are these days come with tile cutting diamond blades dead cheap these days.

And if you go on geology sites, I am sure you can get people to send you samples of pretty rocks. I used to go along the sea shore in North Wales when I lived there and pick up some nice stuff, to soft to tumble but I bet they's sculpt well.

Sci fi fans would go for dragons and chess piece type stuff, they wouldn't have to be Michaelangelo's David or Greek god proportions.

Just stuff you see in the stone. Take a look at Terry Pratchett's Disk-World mobilia.

Maybe not what you are thinking of but who knows what you will get up to when you progress? That sort of crap is very big over here. Can you imagine grown men forming societies to paint Star Trek models?

You think you are depressed? You haven't lived, girl.
(My son has a collection of castings of dragons etc. I haven't seen him in years. One has to laugh eh? Who knows maybe he's got rid of them.)

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Look up Staffordshire Hoard and Sutton Hoo jewelry. That might be more up your street. It is exquisite and I am sure there'd be a market for samizdats in the English Midlands.

I wouldn't mind some chisel handles in that enamelware.

These are beutiful:
http://www.moondancedesign.com/fractals.php

I was thinking of a maths site though that tells you how to make spirals:

Some of my stuff since I couldn't get on my blog here:
https://groups.google.com/group/sci.geo.earthquakes/browse_frm/thread/c985769ae7eda4c2?hl=en&tvc=1

Some links to spirals on there.

Have fun.

Happy New Year !
La Multi Ani !

by the way: one of our Olympics, a young woman, had a terrible car accident this year !
well, she survived, but something was not ok...she could move her toes , yes she was Olympic at those games in wheel-chair !
Now, almost a year later, she still can't walk: her muscles need very hard training plus she can't coordinate all the muscles, bones, etc, because her brain connections have to be made from now on. She probably needs another year or more to be able to walk almost normally.
But...it was kinda miracle (and i'm not the religious kind of guy)