My Hobby...

Abalone shell horn earring with sterling silver ear wire.
Chinese carved Cinnabar beads with sterling silver ear wire.
Crystal bead and blue quartz bead with sterling silver ear wire.
Camel colored quartz bead with gold fill ear wire. (these look so cute on)
Gold fill leaf stamping with gold fill ear wire.

I have finally revisited my hobby of jewelry making. There for a while I was pretty busy with a newborn so all of those time consuming things fell by the wayside. I still am not back to it 100%, I am just back to making earrings. They are pretty easy to make and take less time than necklaces. I started making jewelry about a year and a half ago. When Michael and I went to Australia we went to several markets where local people would sell their "crafts." Anyway, at this one stand you would pick out what you wanted your necklace made out of and they would make it right there. I watched them do a few and thought...I can do this. So when we got back home I got on the internet, looked at some beading magazines, and got started. I ended up loving to do it and I actually sold many pieces. So I posted a few pictures of some earrings I made last week. The earrings really look better on, but I couldn't photograph them just right. They really aren't anything special, but I like them and they took maybe 30 minutes to make them all. I really would like to get back into it and sell some! I am also thinking about taking some classes at a local bead shop. Oh yeah, I called my jewelry CAK (or cake) which are my (maiden name) initials. Kind of cheesy, but whatever.