We got back from the beach last week. We didn't want to go home!! The weather was great besides some fog. We spent a lot of time walking on the beach, playing in the sand and running from the FREEZING cold water!
My aunt is selling her beach house :( I will be soooo sad when we can't use the house anymore. I've been going every year since I was around 5 or so. There are so many special memories I have there. Its the only place where I feel completely relaxed and myself.
Of course I went to my favorite crystal shop, the Crystal Wizard which is located on the Gleneden Beach Loop. I bought a Lemurian Seed Crystal that I had been admiring the year before. I haven't had a chance to take a pic of it but its about 6 inches long, pale pink with some beautiful companion crystals at the base.
Now its back to reality. I have two more summer pieces to finish and am also working on a good friends wedding jewelry (pics coming soon...). Then, starting my fall pieces. My first fall piece will be made with padparadscha sapphires which is a gorgeous and very rare sapphire. It is a color shifting stone which changes from orange to salmon depending on the light. I can't wait to work with this stone.
Photos by Jeff Scooler
I've finally finished my first fall piece. I'm running a little behind schedule! This piece is made with all natural baltic amber. I've been hoarding my amber for years. There is so much fake stuff out there, I'm afraid to buy anymore!
I finally got a piece done after about a month of not creating anything. This piece was inspired by the story of Atargatis. The first known mermaid stories appeared in Assyria, ca. 1000 BC. Atargatis, the mother of Assyrian queen Semiramis, was a goddess who loved a mortal shepherd and in the process killed him. Ashamed, she jumped into a lake to take the form of a fish, but the waters would not conceal her divine beauty. Thereafter, she took the form of a mermaid — human above the waist, fish below.
