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PLAYING WITH FIRE

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                            Listing on Etsy all these rustic guys tomorrow evening ! :) My talented friend Jacqueline from  Mooseberries  will have two huge jewelry shows this Spring and she has asked me to let my soul dance and play and so I did! :) Made with joy, hope you like them! ❤ Laura xo

A bear in the camp and jewelry making experiments

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I started working on this set when I was camping in N. Carolina.  Mikey  went fishing for six hours and I  needed something to do. For four hours he said. Probably, I often lose track of time. Especially when I'm in my creating zone. Time disappears. My materials: an empty soup can, left from my previous dinner, that I have thrown in the fire the night before.  You don't want to leave any food out or anything that smells like food next to your tent when you go camping in the woods. Unless you want to share your campsite with a bear. And that wouldn't be fun, believe me. Despite all our precautions (burning the cans and the paper plates, washing and storing everything away in a big metal tool box, etc etc), a bear has "visited" us the second night we camped there. Mikey has returned from his four hour  fishing adventure proudly holding the two gorgeous trout he caught, and grilled them later that evening ~ I must say I was excite...

Statement Earrings Tutorial ~ Ancient Treasures

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Hi guys!! It's me, the 13th Feeriee...remember me?? I know, I tend to journey pretty often into my La La Land... but, I do bring a lot of good stuff back with me.   Oh, I've read somewhere that the 13th Fairy never gets invited to the ball ~ nonsense!! She gets invited all the time, she's just too busy making jewelry. Anyways, I was wasting time  looking for some inspiration on Pinterest the other day, when I saw  these earrings ...pretty awesome, right? So I thought it would be cool to use them as inspiration for my next pair: ...I know, they don't look much like my inspiration pair, lol. There's an explanation. While I do love the clean, abstract shapes of the modern, contemporary jewelry designs, I am in love  with that rustic, organic form of rough crystals and the unique, imperfect beauty of handmade elements. So, here I am, trying to blend the opposites...aren't they cute??  A pair of  Ancient Treasures made b...