Frosted tears

Today is the last day for my friend's visit.  But, before she leaves, we got some more jewelry made.  This time we did some beading.  (Okay, our kumihimo was beaded too.  But, somehow it seems different.)  We saw a beautiful beaded necklace at the beading store in Erie, so we came home and made one.  Cindi bought her beads at the bead shop and I got mine at AC Moore.  (Only because I originally wasn't going to make one and also they ran out of the frosted pink at the bead shop.)  Which by the way was a very nice bead shop in the West Erie Village Plaza on West 26th St.  So, take a look.   Oh, Cindi was creative and added the leaf.  The earrings are hers too.

Life for Lynn

No, Lynn is not going to jail.... but she did just have her second surgery for a brain tumor.   She is still in Houston, recovering but should be home soon.   They got all but 10% of the tumor and the good news is that it is treatable.  She will be going to Cleveland for her follow up treatment.   A few weeks back, we had a benefit fundraiser to help defray the costs of the trip to Houston and some of the medical bills.  I was asked to donate a piece to the chinese auction, so I made a special pendant.  I had Lynn in mind when I made it.  She is such an upbeat, positive, funny person that I put the "Live, Laugh, Love" phrase on the back.   For the front I created a design with the Bodoni ornament font for the lower case letter L.  (which could stand for Lynn or the other 3 words on the back.)  I cut the front design out and sandwiched a textured piece between the front and the back.  The front and back pieces were created with my trusty computer and a photo polymer plate.  The great thing was that one of Lynn's best friends (and a friend of mine) won the necklace.  She wore it the other day when we went shopping, and if I do say so myself... It looked great!