Pics on Flickr...

No time to chat...

Posted new pics on FLickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wyndfyredesigns/

Got a new necklace ont here... pretty pretty....  Need to take pics of the other stuff tommorow..... busy busy!

Gnight!

~Serena

Saturday goes by fast...

Got my metal stamps... also found some more pink opal  and sodalite briolettes.  Grabbed a strand of Amazonite Ovals...  just before someone snapped up every strand that was left.  The Labradorite ovals I got yesterday... all but one strand sold by today and I happened to show them to someone that I was visiting with and she snapped them up.. Im glad I got them when I did! Talked to a bunch of different people today.  Two experienced jewelrymakers,  and 3 learning....  Gave my email and phone number to one girl and offered to teach her and also reffered all three to my favorite store...  Gemstone Junction.     It was a fun productive day.  My Peruvian opal rondelles arrived today, they are delicious.   Tommorow I need to get some stuff done and quit buying supplies...   Well... I have made the decision that if I can get those peruvian opal rondelles for that price again I am going to buy all I can!   But thts it... I hope.     I am trying  another silver pickle out...  My vinegar just isnt cutting it lately so I am trying ALUM.   Will be doing heapins in the morning and will see how well it works.   

Well gnight for now!

~Serena

Saturday....

To do list for today....

Academy- Tent/Awning...

Friendze -  metal stamps

Gemstone Junction - because I cant resist...

Hobby Lobby - not sure.

Yesterday,  sold a pair of earrings...  so was able to buy more supplies...

-Labradorite ovals (YUM!)

-XL Chrysophase nuggets.. hal strand

-XL Rondelles of Rhodonite (WOW) half strand

-1 strand of crazy horse rounds that I have been intending to buy for a while.

-1 strand of Amethyst crosses that I have been eyeballing for a year...  at a reduced to sell price!

Off to get things done!

~Serena

Blam... importing the old blog into the new one...

I did it! I just got my old blog imported into the new one!!

All my old posts and pictures and useless rambling transfered over without a hitch.

Picking up some supplies today. PRETTY PRETTY THINGS.... Thinking of pretties to get done for the next Art Market. Contemplating going in with some friends for a booth at Petersburg. Short notice and I have to get ready for Wy's birthday party the day after the booth. Not sure if its worth it or not. I need to get out there and do more, but man is it a lot of WORK haha....

Plus Mike still has doctors appts and stuff and hopefully clearance to go back to work. I just dont know... I had picked out a bunch of stuff at GJ that I wanted but she got some really nice stuff in and now I think I will have to change my mind and get different things... Two weeks until the next Art Market! I have a lot to get done!

~Serena

Boro lampwork

Boro lampwork
Originally uploaded by Serena Coulson Designs

Added a few things to Flickr tonight. Managed to grab a few minutes of decent light. Not to cloudy not too bright. These earrings arent finished yet, my plan is a pretty cluster of colors on the top. But in the sun they just begged to be photographed. The perspective on this pic just keeps grabbing my eye. I sure do love that encased boro lampwork. After taking this photo I am wondering if I should do anything else to them. Fun colors!

I'm working a a few ideas finally. Finding a bit of groove. Made a simple pair of sunstone drop earrings tonight. Kinda trying to keep things simple. Mike is doing quite a bit better for now, I'm afraid to hope that that means that this ordeal is almost over... Hes still hurting, but it seems to be getting less and less today. I sure hope so.

~Serena

~Serena

Ho Humm.....

SO I wanted to make SOMETHING this weekend...  but I just cant get anything to work out.   Bought some red/multicolor onyx heishi and green adventurine heishi yesterday.  Thougt I would do somthing with them but just cant figure it out.   I ordered silver Friday night,  Im itching to get it in so I can make a zillion headpins to work with and make a couple pairs of earrings I have planned.  Need earwires and stuff.  Tempted to bang on some copper.   Need to clean house some and tackle a mountain of laundry.   We picked up our newish car yesterday.  A little Ford Escort 2000ish something.. not sure of the year..  Filled it up from empty and it took $20.  Thats just tooo weird..... I rejoiced when gas was cheap enough that I would fill my truck for $42...  This little gal has a zillion miles on her,  but is still pretty zippy and doesnt use much gas zipping!   Best of all is the 4 doors and BACK SEAT!!! yay!   A family of three with one poky noisy 3 almost 4 year old in a single cab pickup is not fun.     

For now I am going to tackle housework... maybe Ill get soem jewelry done and update this later today....

~Serena

Yikes....

So I thought the week couldnt possibly be any more horribly stressful...  HAHAHA... was I wrong. My hubby has been sick(hurt/ sick... kinda both long story) and was doing better after an ER trip Friday and a visit to the quack shack Tuesday...  Wednesday we attended a funeral and though he was hurting he was doing ok...  Felt ok Wednesday night also.. hurting abit around 10ish but was planning on going to work Today...  Yeah right...  He woke me up at 1:30pm to inform me he needed to go to the Emergency room.  The pain was unbearable.   So our entire day was spent in the hospital.   Now we are looking at him being out of work for two weeks and he is on adamant instructions to do NOTHING... "no lifting no pulling, no bending, no manual labor, no straining, and NO WORK"   They covered it all on the note.. So I pack him up and drive him home leaving his truck at the hospital since he was pretty hopped up on painkillers when he was released. His Dad goes to bring the truck home for us and it dies on the way and wont start...  so on top of the medical bills, prescriptions,  and getting to look forward to two weeks without pay we now add truck repairs to the list... I cant take much more before I crack.   If he could at least start feeling better I could have some hope.  I cant stand him hurting and miserable and not being able to do anything to make it better!       I dont even have the energy to beat the heck out of some copper for a necklace I have in mind....  

~Serena 

Stress relief and making something cool!

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Originally uploaded by Serena Coulson Designs

I was compelled to pull out my copper and relieve some tension this evening.... Its been a long 6 days of stress and worry and sad news, and I needed something... So I pulled out my trusty autobody hammer that the love of my life bought for me. and some heavy gauge copperwire (I think is 12 guage) and created these pretties. Suspended on sterling silver rings and hung on my sterling silver earwires. They are tough but still kinda dainty. I also made another longer pair too that are in the tumbler... I will have to wait for some daylight to photograph more, I was having to hurry and take this picture while I still had light. I changed up the moonstone necklace a litle too. to me missing something... I will finish it up and rephotograph it later too.

~Serena

Getting the hang of this!

Moonstone and name
Originally uploaded by Serena Coulson Designs

Here is the moonstone necklace in all its finished glory....

Uploading pics.....

ok I am adding updated nice pics of the moonstone necklace and the green and pink jade pendant to Flikr.   Then I am giving up for the night. I might put them up on here tommorow....  I rounded up about three quarters of our chickens and gifted the garden detroying monsters to my best friend T.  Two of the ducks too.  Now my barn yard should be a little more manageable.  My feed bill too~  But  catching 30 or so chickens to sort them all out is exhausting work.  So I dont have the energy to do much else....   

~Serena

Changing over to the new blog site!

I have the new blog setup and started.

http://serenacoulsondesigns.blogspot.com/

I will try to keep this site updated while working on getting it all up and running. Had my first booth at the Downtown Art Market this past weekend and did well. Looking forward to the August market. I even have a custom order for a pair of earrings to match a pendant I sold.

~Serena

Slowly changing things over...

I got my Flickr badge added just now. Still working on getting this up and running. Still have alot of things to do and very little time to do it. I need to work on getting my Etsy shop badge on here next. Of course I dont have anything listed on Etsy right now. Since I am planning on returning to the Downtown Art Market in August I'm not sure if I should put anything in my Etsy shop or not.

The peach moonstone necklace posted yesterday is emerging and possibly complete. I am itching to get it done and start some earrings. I need to make a few more pairs of earrings to replace what was sold this past weekend. I also need to work on another horse bracelet and coiled copper bracelet, both sold. Quite a few things I havent had time to photograph sold! The sun is shining today so this evening I plan to take pictures of quite a few pieces. I want to make sure I have photos before anything sells now! After that I need to make quite a few more headpins to get started on some more pieces. The August market is Saturday the 8th so I have to get a lot done! Plus plan and get Wyatts birthday party done! The chaos never stops! But I love it!
~Serena

Getting a groove on!

WOW!  The Lubbock Downtown Art Market went amazingly awesomely well yesterday!  For me at least!   I sold about half my pieces!   Even sold a piece I had made for myself that I really didnt intend to sell....  I will have to work on recreating it though...  I had been thinking lately that it I needed to make a similar piece but more earthy for me.    My mom only sold two peices.  She was kind of dissapointed,  but she is running with it and going to try new designs like the ones she sold.    It was miserably hot though.  I considered skipping August except a few people that came by and bought from us, requested we come back so they could come buy more...  cant skip now!!   We had a cheapy awning and it was a royal PIA.. we are planning to invest in a nicer one AND folding tables.  My big tables are horrible to load and unload.  The wind kicked up just a bit and our awning tried tobecome a kite... even tied down.  We are learning from every bit of it though!    When it was over we headed to restock some supplies for some designs I had and I was on cloud nine,  sadly though while we were there I got a phone call from a friend of my husbands that his mother had died.  He was trying to contact my husband to let him know.  It was expected,  but still hard on them of course .   We watched their youngest two kids today while they were making arrangments.   Those two kiddos are real sweethearts and I laughed when they picked them up because my husband didnt want to give there little 9 month old girl back...  he wanted to keep her lol.   He is such a softy and loves babies.  I forgot how much FUN babies are and how snuggly.  If they werent soo expensive I would want a couple more haha.   

I worked on a new piece during the market and got it complete,  A green Jade pendant with a cluster of pink and green jade at the top.(The colors came out a little dark in the pictures.)  Today I started on a peach and rainbow moonstone necklace that is really coming together....   My pics are a little sucky because the camera battery was pretty much dead.  I tore the house apart and FINALLY found the charger... did I mention I destroyed the house Friday night looking for the charger too...  Today I cleaned up THAT mess haha.    This pic might be a little more close to real colors:

Counting down until the Art Market....

Wow...  2 more days to go until the Lubbock Art Market.   

I've been working on my earring cards and packaging.  Decided on a logo to use for now. Simple and sweet.   Ill be working on incorporating it into my blog header soon if I can get the time.  Im worried about the weather this weekend... we are in the middle of a horrible heatwave.   The bank signs were reading 106 on the way home... Im hearing different forcasted highs for tommorow... 106,  109...etc...  scary hot.   Of course the blower motor on our house ac chose this evening to die... Mike is planning on taking it in tommorow and getting a new one... hopefully quickly!  I planned to keep the dogs inside tommorow... now Im not sure what to do.  Luckily we have a small window unit in our bedroom(we like it COLD at night)  so will stay cool to sleep.   Might have to drag the dog crates in there tommorow and hope they all fit(uggg... Im dreading dog HAIR in my bedroom). I wrenched by back this weekend and its still bothering me horribly...  Sitting is misery... so I'm not going to linger much longer.... I've been sitting for a couple hours already working on stuff.   I DO plant to start posting pictures soon,  just need to find the charger for the camera darn it and figure out where I put the picture cards....   Hopefully we dont roast this weekend... 

~Serena

Getting started!

So here I am!  If you are wondering who the heck I am check out my old blog at Wynd Fyre Designs 

I will be trying to move some of those old blogs over to this one and a ton of other things.   So bear with me.   It seems like there aren't enough hours in the day to get it all done.    July 11th I have my first booth at Lubbock  Downtown Art Market.   I am hoping it goes well.    I still have packaging to get done and a zillion other things... so I better get moving!

~Serena