Pea Pods

I am so excited to share the new jewelry I have been making! My husband got me a metal stamping kit for our 20 year anniversary which isn't until next tuesday. An early gift that I had to put on hold because I had to make 7 memory books for our dance studio's coaches gifts last week. Thankfully a friend helped me and she took over making 2 of them. So that left me with 5 books in 7 days. I got it done though. Yay me! ... literally the day of our team party (4 hrs just before) So for those of you calling me last week or wondering why I dropped off the face of the earth that is why...and I couldn't tell any of you on FB because some of the coaches are on my FB and it was a surprise :)

Ok so back to my jewelry! I finally got to dabble with my stamps and oooooh it was love at first pound! I have been pounding and shaping and wrapping! This is what my kit contains:

I LOVE my metal disc cutter, I can now punch out my own blanks and the hole punch is a must have! I am already looking in to getting stamps in other fonts. So now I can customize anything! I spent all of yesterday, hammering and enjoying these babies! I was also oxidizing some of the metal with liver of sulfur ...but that is not exactly fun (the smell is really bad, like rotten egg farts) ew.

I am so happy to finally have my passion for jewelry making return to me. I feel like I was in a dry period for 2 yrs. I would force myself to make something but I just wasn't feeling it and for those of you who make jewelry will understand if you aren't feeling it , it shows in your work. I think I just hit a wall with all I knew and it was time to learn new techniques. I am so grateful. Yesterday I made the pea pods pictured above. So I have gone from birds nest to wonderful pea pods =)

Thats it for now. Hope you enjoy your thursday, I need to get back to stamping :)

~Michelle xo

This is one of the books I made (I forgot to take pics of the others) Inside are pictures from all of our teams and sentiments written from the children to their coaches (Thankfully another mom organized getting the quotes I could not have done it without her help!) I still need to make one for me. (shoe cobbler without the shoes that is me) It was an honor to make these books for our studio. This has been one of the best years of dance for my daughter. :)