A close up of the new bead, an original design carved by me and hand painted.
How do you combat the winter blues? Or do you go all zen and totally embrace the gray?
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February 5, 2012
Mums the Word - New Bracelet
How do you combat the winter blues? Or do you go all zen and totally embrace the gray?
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Left PA for the sun in the south. Lived in Alabama which I loved then moved to Delaware which really has the perfect weather.n Little bit of everything! I could never embrace the gray for some reason. Love the colors and the focal! Also love the idea of putting a bowl of oranges out!
Oh wow, it's beautiful! I love the colour palette you've used here - especially those raspberry shades. ANd the new bead is lovely - looks like such a great texture. What wire are you using, if you don't mind my asking? It looks so great with all of your components. Wish I could be there for the class next week! ANd your trunk show....jeez, I could spend a bob or two at your stand!
And PS Colour! Yes! I am more than ready for spring. I hope you're not regretting your move quite yet!! I would move somewhere warmer in a shot if there weren't things like jobs to be considered :-)
I love it. The connector and bracelet are both awesome!!
I love your color palette!
Your colors are right up my alley! I especially love the pop of orange in there. I've been working a bit with annealed wire and I LOVE the contrast between the matte wire and sparkly beads. Your focal is perfect with it all. I'll be watching your shop! This purple may surpass your teal in my favorite colors of yours.
(And I won't talk about how sunny and warm it was at the beach today. ;) )
I grew up in upstate New York, so I totally understand dealing with six months of grey skies. The running joke at RIT (in Rochester, NY where I went to college) was that Eastman Kodak founded his company in Rochester because he thought it was a darkroom! Now that I live in Virginia, there aren't as many grey days. But when there are I just turn to my colorful bead assortment or embrace it and do some black and white photography. Either way makes me smile!
"Plant Killa" too funny.
I love this bracelet, the colors are divine. I am 50/50 with winter. Sometimes I love the grey, other times I NEED color!
I do love those colours! Creating with colour and hammering metal usually gets me out of the blues at any time of year, but this winter the best cure for any blues has been my giggly baby boy as he speed crawls around the house!
Love these colors. I really like the cool, purple, teal palletes. As for winter blues, I've been having a problem this year because we have had very little rain. It has been sunny 95 % of the time since November. I need the overcast, dark, rainy days to get me motivated to bead. Maybe tomorrow--we are suppose to get rain. Yeah!!
The mum is fabulous and love the color, too. Well, the whole bracelet in fact.
I'm on the east coast of Florida so we have lots of sunshine!
I live in the Pacific NW where we hardly see the sun for most of the winter and sometimes the spring too. I take Vitamin D daily and use a full spectrum light to get my light exposure. It works pretty well .... this year's blahs weren't nearly as bad as usual.
The bracelet is awesome! I don't get the winter blues as bad as some do. I mostly hide out in fear of being cold! lol I think I could use some bright colours though... inspiration here I come!
Incredible carved bead! I love the overall volume of the entire piece. Is is lightweight? I am like you, the darker the skies, the more color I need. My one true escape is going to the Caribbean each winter. It is my inspiration year round. I make jewelry in preparation for the trip and then I make jewelry inspired by the trip.
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