Ribbit Ribbit!

So it stopped raining.. still gloomy, but not raining.....
Here's a little taste of why I will be inhumanly exhausted at the end of my work day......


That is Texas Tech University Jones Stadium... I didnt take these pics... not sure who did, they just got forwarded to me. Tech has a game Saturday and they are scrambling to get the water pumped out in time... I am ready for today to be OVER. Its been wild....

Now on a more serious note than even this... Ike is still on the move... A big chunk of my family is in his path..... I will be glued to the tv this weekend watching the news reports and worrying..... Keep them in your prayers for me please.....

Serena

The news says 8+ inches!  Its not currenlty raining.  Time to go to work.  News reported that Texas Tech is closed.  So off I go to work soon to see how bad the chaos can be.   I want sleep

Rain Rain Go AWAY!

10PM the news reported we are over 7inches and its still raining.....bleck.

UPDATED 9:31pm we are offically over 6 inches if rain in the City of Lubbock.  They have issued a state of Emergency for both city and county and most of the area schools have canceled classes.  We just got home from dropping Wyatt off at the Grands house for the night and filling up the truck with gas... we filled up and it was 3.49 a gallon,  we followed my Sister in law home to make sure she got there safe in her little car and then when we went back by where we had just filled up the gas prices were 3.55 a gallon.  Many of the roads are flooded out.  THere are three main roads into town from our house and the two main ones ofthe three have police and fire personell sitting at the intersection making sure people make it through and pushing the ones that dont out of the intersection.....   Mike put out his new rain guage at 6pm and when I waded out through the pond that is our yard to check it at 7om is was already showing and inch and a quarter.  Wild stuff.   I am contemplating braving it to check the rain guage again for grins.... ...ok its 3/4" higher than before....  now i AN GOING TO GET READY FOR BED! BRRRR.....

5.48 inches by 6pm today and its still coing down in buckets.  You cant tell our driveway from our ditch and the playa across the streed is about 50 feet past where I have ever seen it before.  Parts of town are impasable.   Wyatt is driving me nuts!  He is bouncing off the walls.....  Tempted to just send him out in the rain to play!  Bear the bunny is running around the house exploring and loving being a house rabbit.   And you know what?  all this rain and we arent even on the coast where hurricane Ike will hit!   We are getting remnants of Lowell this far inland.   I can only imagine how the path of Ike will affect the state... YIKES!  

I will be back later to post some more pictures of new stuff.. been busy. Gonna go eat dinner now

Serena

A personal keeper piece... Blue yes BLUE Tigers eye, Apatire and Sterling silver.

I love love BLue tigers eye.  A little love story for you....When I was 7 or 8 I was at a flea market with my mom and found a large piece of blue tigers eye with no gold streaks in it.  I fell in love.  If I remember right he wanted like 10 dollars for it.  I think I had like 2 dollars and I was heartbroken.  He took pity on me and sold it to me for my two dollars.   I treasured it .  With all the moves I dont know what happened to it.  But it facinated me and something about it touched me deaply.  When I started designing jewelry I started looking for blue tigers eye remembering that pretty piece from my childhood.  At the local gemshow I found a vendor with some quarter sized polished nuggets.  While chooseing 3 for myself I had a strange realization, the color of blue tigers eye is eirily similar to the deep blue of the love of my lifes eyes.   His eye color has always facinated me,  I like to think that when I saw that breathtaking streaked blue so many years ago...  it was a part of the twisted path that led me to the man I love so much.   When I found this piece I chose it for its unmarred blue.  No obvious gold streaking.  I wanted to compliment it but not draw attention from the piece itself so I put a simple silver bail on it and paired it with a teeny faceted apatire rondelle to compliment the lighter blues and a sterling silver flower to make it a little more feminine.   I have worn it nonstop since I finished it.  I did go back and buy the other blue tigers eye she had,  it has gold streaking through it but is gorgeous also.  I havent decided what to do with it....

Its hard to capture the lighter nuances of the blue tigers eye.  It looks darker in the pictures than it really is.

Chameleon Lampwork, Gold Kieshi Petal Pearls and Green Adventurine

I love these...  Chameleon lampwork beads from Java Bead, gold keishi petal pearls, green adventurine rounds.  Of course the heapins and earwires are all handcrafted by me.  

The new Apatite & Pearls piece

Ive been busy this weekend! 

Dark Blue Apatite faceted nuggets with clustered keishi cup pearls on sterling silver headpins hanging from sterling silver 20gauge earwires handcrafted by me. 

Still in progress.. this will be the matching necklace...  

HUGE SALE EVERYTHING NEEDS TO GO!

I am having a huge sale in my etsy shop. I want to move everything I have listed out.
Check it out!

wyndfyredesigns.etsy.com

even the Clearance priced items are reduced even more. Some of the prices are $10 or more off!

~Serena