February 19, 2006
I had two goals today: Complete an eyeglass chain for a friend and submit one entry to the RingsNThings annual contest.
Chain is still in progress. I was fairly pleased with the initial results, but then realized that I had cut my beading wire too short (forgot to double it!) and now have to start over. Probably a good thing, because I also decided I wanted to change my design slightly. I don’t need to have it done until Wednesday, so still some wiggle room there.
I did get one entry in to the R&T contest, not that it wasn’t without it’s frustrations. The piece I’m submitting (one of them, anyway) is a large, three dimensional pendant on a hand-tooled chain, and it doesn’t work well for my favorite method of photographing jewelry: scanning. And while I have a nice digital camera that works well for photographing horses or other large objects, it’s not so hot for the details required for jewelry photos. After several trials and errors, and a recharge of the digicam’s battery, I finally had a photo I was happy with, and the necklace was submitted for entry.
After the contest closes February 28, I’ll post a photo of the necklace. I’m very, very pleased with it…and even hubby thought it was a clever and cool design.
At least now I can quit stressing about that. 
Now my biggest challenge for the week is to complete that eyeglass chain, and perhaps whip up a necklace and earrings to wear to two weddings I’ll be attending this coming weekend.
Nothing like being able to custom make my own accessories. 
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