Belated Happy Holidays!

[misora]

Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season, and a Happy New Year's Eve last night. J and I celebrated with champagne, friends and lots and lots of kids - which sparked several late-night discussions of "are we ready for it?" and "such a big commitment" but ultimately ended in "okay, let's do this." haha. Onward!!

Our Christmas haul was a little lighter this year, but we both still got things we wanted, and everyone was happy. Lots of good meals were made, including cakes and cookies of the seasonal variety (I'll have to post my oatmeal-cranberry recipe at some point), and a gym membership was fully utilized to the utmost extent.

Lastly, something I've been busy with while avoiding writing - not sure why, kinda blocked in that area - I've gone crazy with artisan jewelry lately, and these are a couple of my results.



I made these two pairs (plus two additional ones that I forgot to take pictures of) for J's sisters as Christmas presents.





It's so much fun, and so therapeutic/relaxing to do wire work, that I'm actually considering opening up an Etsy store to sell some of the pieces that I don't want to keep.

Now, off to make some chandelier earrings and a freshwater pearl necklace. ^^

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Goodness, you're a tough one for using only Swarovski! I always want to use them, but unless I find them on sale, there's no way I can justify picking them up. I've found a couple little packages of clear ones, which I've used very sparingly as I have so few, but they're beautiful.

lol I am so down with discounts :p

I would take a class outside of school, but I can't see taking a class that I wouldn't get credit for, you know? In any case, I don't think financial aid would cover it because it wouldn't count towards my degree (I don't think so, anyways). If financial aid won't cover it, I can't afford it :( I could take one during the summer at a place where the prices are lower, but I don't know where I'd start looking for a place and money would still be an issue, as I am not working. I should keep my eyes peeled, though.

[miss-sassy.livejournal.com]

Darn! Why am I anonymous?

That was me, heh.

[misora.livejournal.com]

Pssst, I'll tell you a secret - you can get great deals on Swarovski crystals on ebay. Normally they're quite expensive...$0.20/per 4mm bicone at my local beading store, I believe. But on ebay you can get HUGE lots of them - 100pc and 200pc - for a fraction of the total cost. :D

[miss-sassy.livejournal.com]

I just saw this today because the original comment was anon, but I'll have to keep ebay in mind! Thanks for the tip :D You're the greatest ^_^