tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31302132440950774282024-03-12T21:06:14.001-04:00Elements Jewelry: Artful Accents for Your StyleSue Lawrence-Nesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14658017029302452024noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3130213244095077428.post-87355186282786791412008-09-01T12:05:00.006-04:002008-09-01T13:04:29.690-04:00Featured Artist on World Artisan GemsWow, September 1 and my interview with World Artisan Gems has been published. Wow, something new to put on my vita. <div><br />So much has been going on:</div><div>In the month of August I began preparing for Christmas shows, quilt shows, and other venues. Yeah, you are probably wondering about the the quilt shows. I am going to create quilt squares with PMC and enamel then turn them into pendants and pins. I will post them in the etsy shop after I finish the two shows I am doing this month.</div><div><br />At the end of August I became a Rio Rewards Certified PMC Instructor. Chris Darway was the Senior instructor for the class. If you ever get a chance please visit his site, pmctoolandsupply.com and check the links to his gallery. He was an excellent instructor and really made us push the envelope.</div><div><br />I have been invited to be the artist of the month for October 2008 at the yahoo groups metal clay forum: <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MetalClay" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MetalClay</a> I am still trying to decide which piece will be showcased. I am leaning towards the Angel's Rest pin that I used in the WAG interview.</div><div><br />In between all the jewelry happenings, we got the college sophomore back to school. Should be an interesting year as he will be living in the frat house. My 35th high school reunion is coming up the first of October. Was it really 35 years ago? It doesn't feel like it at all.<br /></div><div>There are a few projects running in the background like a Trunk Show in January/February in Kitty Hawk, NC. I am working on a series of Goddess necklaces that will be auctioned off to support a production of the Vagina Monologues. My friends and associates are in the process of helping me develop a catalogue. So it would appear that I am going to be very busy between now and March. I just love it when plans start to come together.</div><div><br />Here is just one of the Goddess necklaces and of course it is mine...</div><div><br /></div><div></div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5241094482487635122" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 279px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 321px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" height="303" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aADpWIasycE/SLwbqc7vbLI/AAAAAAAAADQ/olgwtgWWkaM/s320/FInished+Goddess+copy.jpg" width="189" border="0" /> <img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 211px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 244px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" height="303" alt="" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3046/2725847079_8713fe8919_m.jpg" border="0" />This beautiful lampwork glass goddess was created by Nicole Valentine. I love her work. You can find her on etsy at: NValentineStudio.etsy.com and here on blogger at: nvalentine.blogspot.com She is a very talented lampwork glass artist.<br /><br />Hope September is a great month for all...<br /><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Elements Jewelry
Eclectic Creations for body and soul</div>Sue Lawrence-Nesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14658017029302452024noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3130213244095077428.post-16186770796080124662008-07-15T18:15:00.003-04:002008-07-15T18:20:43.429-04:00Raspberry LemonadeI finally made a bracelet with some beads that I got from Fira Marina. It has turned out better than I could have imagined. It is now listed on my etsy site.<br />Raspberry Lemonade...it is bright, cheery, makes you think of Red Zinger Tea, Raspberry Margaritas...and so on.<br /><br />I have also just reduced all my seed bead grab bags 10%. Come get some seed beads, you know you want, need them.<br /><br />Happy Summer.<br />Sue<div class="blogger-post-footer">Elements Jewelry
Eclectic Creations for body and soul</div>Sue Lawrence-Nesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14658017029302452024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3130213244095077428.post-73506052619875420052008-07-09T14:24:00.003-04:002008-07-09T14:29:17.704-04:00<div align="center">$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ <span style="font-size:130%;"><strong></strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong></strong></span> </div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>THE GREAT SEED BEAD DE-STASH IS UNDER </strong><strong>WAY</strong></span></div><div align="center"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></strong> </div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-family:arial;">I am cleaning out ALL of my seed beading supplies. I have made grab bags according to color range and weight. Some of the beads have never been opened. I will be adding lots more including bugle beads and thread. If you are interested in more than 3 grab bags convo me and you will receive an extra 10% off the total. Keep checking back. Once they are gone, they are gone.</span> </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:georgia;"></span> </div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:georgia;">$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:georgia;">****************************************************************</span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Elements Jewelry
Eclectic Creations for body and soul</div>Sue Lawrence-Nesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14658017029302452024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3130213244095077428.post-48862584561598532962008-07-04T11:55:00.003-04:002008-07-04T12:10:31.442-04:00Happy 4th of July<div align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">Happy <span style="color:#3333ff;">4th</span> to <span style="color:#3333ff;">everyone</span><span style="color:#cc0000;">!!!</span></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">Have a sparkling good time.</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#009900;">I have spent the major part of the week photographing and adding lots of new pieces in my etsy store. I wish I enjoyed this part of the jewelry making as much as I enjoy the creative part. I will be the first to acknowledge that cameras and I DO NOT jive at all. It has been great having the college kid home because I just hand him the camera and he takes a lot of the pictures. However, when he returns to school in August I will be on my own again. I have come to the conclusion that the LCD screen on my first generation Nikon Coolpix is just to small. Also, it is ridiculous for me with tri-focals try to focus on such a small screen. I have been looking at a few of the new generation Coolpix and am floored that they are bigger and cheaper than my original. Such is the way with electronics.</span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#009900;">Back to the studio...</span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Elements Jewelry
Eclectic Creations for body and soul</div>Sue Lawrence-Nesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14658017029302452024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3130213244095077428.post-1323772812789216892008-06-22T09:29:00.002-04:002008-06-26T16:43:39.981-04:00YART SALE<div style="text-align: center; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Please stop by the etsy store and check out my YART sale.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Happy Sum-Sum-Summer Time<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Sue</span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Elements Jewelry
Eclectic Creations for body and soul</div>Sue Lawrence-Nesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14658017029302452024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3130213244095077428.post-88873584197496700892008-06-10T10:02:00.001-04:002008-06-26T16:47:11.201-04:00An Important Fraud Alert: Update<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">A BIG CHEER FOR ETSY ADMIN STEPPING UP AND DOING RIGHT BY THE LAMPWORK GLASS COMMUNITY. </span></span></span></span><br /></div><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);"><br /><br />Please visit and join Lampwork Etc. to find out about an awful case of "alleged" fraud and "alleged" misrepresentation by an "alleged" ETSY seller. You will look at Lampwork Beads in a whole new light.<br /><br />If you would like to spread the word, join LE for free, email all of your jewelry designer friends, and help to remove the "alleged" fraudster from webstores.<br /><br />thanks.<br /></span><p style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p><a href="http://www.lampworketc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=93411" target="_blank">http://www.lampworketc.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=9341</a></p><p style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.lampworketc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=93411" target="_blank"><br /></a></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Elements Jewelry
Eclectic Creations for body and soul</div>Sue Lawrence-Nesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14658017029302452024noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3130213244095077428.post-28662022171921983212008-01-01T17:50:00.000-05:002008-01-01T17:53:12.835-05:00Happy New YearReflections on the year gone by:<br />The Christmas rush and fuss is over for another year. Again it was a wonderful time filled with family and friends. We are very thankful that Ron's dad was able to be with us this year. Things have been so touch and go with him lately that we count each day as a blessing.Moses finished his first semester at Presbyterian with A's & B's, a girlfriend, as a pledge for Alpha SIgma Phi, and voluntarily being a member of the Monday Night Discussion Group aka Bible study. I am so amazed at the way he and all his friends have transformed themselves in just a short 6 months. It is hard to believe that in May that Senioritis ruled their lives and now in December they are quite the compentent young adults.<br /><br />It has been an industrious year for Ron and his fellow mountain bikers. They have now carved out 6+ miles of single track trail. I had to laugh when he asked for bulbs and such to plant at the entrance to the trail. Ron completed this year of biking with very few injuries. This means either he is riding more cautiously or he is riding the less difficult trails. Either way it is nice not to have had any broken bones to tend this year.<br /><br />As for myself it has been a most rewarding year. I have been so lucky to have had the opportunities to study under Sara Stine and Marcia Macdonald at the Sawtooth Center. I am looking forward to classes with them both in 2008. I am also going to get my first level certification in Precious Metal Clay this spring of 2008. Can't wait to do it. At the top of my wishlist is taking a weeklong class with Marcia at the Penland School. The other thing I hope to do this coming year is to teach a few classes.<br /><br />Here is wishing that everyone will have a happy and rewarding New Year.<br /><br />May grace and peace be yours,<br />Sue<div class="blogger-post-footer">Elements Jewelry
Eclectic Creations for body and soul</div>Sue Lawrence-Nesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14658017029302452024noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3130213244095077428.post-51837881609598432492007-08-04T19:14:00.000-04:002007-08-04T19:38:56.630-04:00What is Precious Metal Clay and Why should you Care?<strong><span style="color:#339999;">From the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">PMC</span> Guild site (see link):</span></strong><br /><span style="color:#339999;">"Precious Metal Clay, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">PMC</span>, is an exciting material developed and patented in the 1990s by Mitsubishi Materials of Japan. Microscopic particles of silver are mixed with a moist binder to create a material that has the feel and working properties of modeling clay. Using simple tools, objects are easily given shape, texture, and character. After air-drying, the objects are heated to temperatures approaching the melting point of the metal, where the particles fuse together to make a dense, fully metallic object. Fired <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">PMC</span> work can be polished, soldered, enameled, and enjoyed like any other silver item. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">PMC</span> is available in three different versions of silver and in a 22k gold alloy. </span><br /><span style="color:#339999;"></span><br /><span style="color:#339999;"><strong>Who is using <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">PMC</span>?</strong> Jewelers, certainly, who immediately appreciate the ability to achieve effects that would either be time consuming or impossible through traditional methods. Ceramists and polymer clay artists naturally gravitate to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">PMC</span> too, as do <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">dollmakers</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">beadmakers</span>, and artists who work with glass. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">PMC</span> spans all ages, with advocates as young as grade school and as mature as... well, very mature."</span><br /><span style="color:#339999;"></span><br /><span style="color:#339999;"><strong>AND....</strong> this is my point, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">PMC</span> offers artists who have strength and flexibility issues with their hands another medium to work in that offers a similar joy of working in metal but also is challenging enough to keep the creative juices flowing. </span><br /><span style="color:#339999;"></span><br /><span style="color:#339999;">Please visit the guild to read more about <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">PMC</span>. Then rush right out and support your local <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">PMC</span> artists.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Elements Jewelry
Eclectic Creations for body and soul</div>Sue Lawrence-Nesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14658017029302452024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3130213244095077428.post-46085033961018943232007-07-05T09:22:00.000-04:002007-07-05T21:14:05.867-04:00Hello and Welcome to my blog spot<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aADpWIasycE/Ro2XQDtldFI/AAAAAAAAAAM/7JDZzfZZzMg/s1600-h/ocean+jasper1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5083885856501363794" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aADpWIasycE/Ro2XQDtldFI/AAAAAAAAAAM/7JDZzfZZzMg/s200/ocean+jasper1.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color:#006600;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Hi All,<br /></span><br /></span></span><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;color:#006600;">Bear with me as I venture down the blogging path. This is a new experience for me as well as for the collective "you".<br /><br />I was pointed to blogspot by fellow etsyer's. It seems to be a nice way to attract attention to our stores.<br /><br />Please feel free to comment on my jewelry. Critique is very important to my growth as an "Art" Jewelry artisan.<br /><br />Thanks for stopping by,<br />Sue Lawrence-Nester, Artisan</span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Elements Jewelry
Eclectic Creations for body and soul</div>Sue Lawrence-Nesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14658017029302452024noreply@blogger.com0