Cancer Awareness and Strength of Heart - Fine silver and pearl necklace

Over the past year I have learned of three girl friends battling the fight against breast cancer, including a long time childhood friend.
They are all, like me, under the age of 40.

I came up with the design for this necklace as a tribute to those lovely ladies and their incredible inner strength.

Hugs to my amazing friends , and to the rest of you out there fighting against this disease!
You are an inspiration!

xoxo,
Andrea

I was so very bad . . .

Sometimes it really is good . . .

to be a bit bad. Yummmmmmm!
We picked up these truly scrumptious goodies at a new cupcake shop in town. The idea was to take a few photos to use for some still life paintings. The boys helped me pick them out and then of course we got to eat them, yay!

Hope you all have been having a good week. I've had the boys (hubby included) home all week for Spring break. I've been sneaking in a bit of work here and there, but mostly been having some fun family time.

I did manage to take some photos of my new birdhouse with sweet little birdie necklaces. Tweet, tweet!

Hugs,
Andrea

Playing with Porcelain

Well, after I purchased my itty bitty kiln over the holidays to start firing pmc, I decided it might be fun to play around with clay again. I have had a lot of experience over the years with low fire clay, but had never used porcelain. So, I thought, why not give it a try? I ordered a high temp pyrometer to go with my firefly kiln and started having some fun!
"Retro Fun" Porcelain Circles and Lemon Jade Rondelle Earrings. Aren't they fun? ;-)
Porcelain Pendant - hand stamped. I used a black glaze and wiped part of the glaze away from my design. The pendant hangs from a necklace of black stone beads. Earthy, yet elegant.
I love this piece, and hopefully someone else will too. I just can't seem to get a good photo to capture the richness of texture and shine of the porcelain with the clear glaze. I just love to lay in the grass and watch the birds soar in the clouds, and wanted to capture a bit of that in this piece. The pretty bird hangs from a sterling silver chain with little Amazonite beads for a touch of "sky".