Adventurine

Adventurine

   A lovely, light green pair of earrings.
 

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Amber

Amber

      A honey, yellow pair of amber earring.
 

  
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Flowers

Flowers

   
    My next-door neighbor gave me these, beautiful, spring flowers (daffodils and tulips).   

 

Coral

Coral

   These coral cats-eye earrings are my favorite, so far.  I inlaid mother-of-pearl chips on the bottom portion.

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Green

Green

    A little bigger cabochon, needs a little more ornate setting.

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Blue

Blue

     The blue ones are my favorite.  They are a little darker than the picture.

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Lil' Greenies

Lil' Greenies

     The pinkies were so cute, I had to make a pair of green earrings.
 

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Pinky

Pinky

     Restocking my sterling  silver earrings.  A cute little pair of pink cats-eyes.
 

    
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Purple

Purple

   I'm still playing with the boxes.  Trying to empty shuttles.  I have lots of thread on these shuttles, and will make the next box with purple rings and cream chains.

Dad's

Dad's

     I learned to silversmith, the spring of 2002.   That summer, I went out to visit my parents.   I brought some tools and silver, to show Dad how to silversmith.  He picked out a bloodstone (March's birthstone) and soldered a pendant.  We had gotten as far as soldering it, but not the finishing up....grind, sand, polish and setting.  
     Recently, Mom had gone through Dad's stuff and came across the box of silver, I left for him.  In it, was the unfinished pendant.  I finished getting the silver ready and sat the stone.  I strung the pendant on one of my Grandmother's (Dad's Mom) silver chains.

Valentine's

Valentine's

     A Valentine's card I made for my niece...

Tea Caddy

Tea Caddy

    My tea pot needed a tea caddy to store my, pretend, tea leaves.  This one took two cans of Ginger Beer.  The glass beads were found in a Geocache.

 

Tea Pot

Tea Pot

    I found a pattern, on the net, for a tea pot.  Three cans of Ginger Beer mixer, was used to make this adorable tea pot.

 

Markers

Markers

    I won a set of extra fine, black markers on Facebook, through Arteza.

 

Outside

Outside

     We wanted to try catching a pike through the ice.  No fish, but beautiful view.

 

Tank

Tank

    This one was very hard.  This is the German Tiger 1 tank.  My brain was so fried, I had to dig into the chocolate stash!
 

      This German tank was the most powerful tank in the world when it was introduced in August 1942. The 88mm gun was extremely powerful and the heavy armor made it almost impervious to attack. The success of the Tiger was so profound, that no allied tank dared to engage it in open combat. This psychological fear soon became to be known as "Tigerphobia".

Black Pearl

Black Pearl

   Yes, there really was a shipped named the "Black Pearl."  This is another Metal Earth model.  This one was a challenge.

     Black Pearl captained by Henry Morgan, one of the world’s most notorious pirates. The Black Pearl which first sailed in 1669 fought many battles; the most famous of which was an invasion in Panama in 1671. The following year Captain Morgan was put in prison in England. Years later he returned to Jamaica as a judge and governor. Henry Morgan died in England in 1688 after a long illness.

Angel

Angel

    I was looking through, one of my many, tatting cases and found this angel.  It was completed, just need the end hidden.  You can find this pattern  here.

 

Testing

Testing

     I was test tatting for Robin again.  This time a lovely heart motif.

Empty

Empty

    I needed to empty a couple of shuttle.  Used one of Ninetta's motifs.