[Living_Dazed]

I started making jewelry as a hobby 6-7 months after my accident. Very therapeutic. Here are a few pieces

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[Living_Dazed]

One more

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Another...I can't figure out how to add more than one pic at a time.

[mrsD]

Very nice. Where do you get your stones?
I sometimes make spheres of stones
and found it very relaxing too.
When I get back to my computer tomorrow
I'll put a photo up. There are some reasonable
Sellers on EBay.

[Living_Dazed]

MrsD,

Thank you for your post.

I have purchased from box chain stores locally, fire mountain gems, a few lovely stores in Michigan and finding my own pieces on the beautiful waters of Lake Superior, upper Lake Michigan, and Michigan.

I love this hobby. It's relaxing and if I get overstimulated I can leave it and come back to it later. I like to make a variety of styles, and I love to play around til my design feels right, like a soft sweater in the fall. My favorite type of jewelry to make is bracelets.

I love rocks! I have just started using this medium. I'm slowly learning. The stones amaze me. I could rock hunt everyday until my brain gave out if I lived somewhere like that.

I'd love to see your work. No one else I know does this.

I also love your bird photo. I've become very interested in birds over the last year. A few weeks ago I bought a picture book more or less about North American birds. I'm going to put out a finch feeder Nd hummingbird feeder. I love to watch them.

Jace

[mrsD]

If you visit the UP you might like The Agate Lady...

http://www.agatelady.com/gift-shop.html

There is also a seller on Ebay called Rock Whisperer...who paints realistic turtles and animals on round rocks... they are really awesome. She is very popular now.
http://www.ebay.com/usr/rock_whisper...88.m1543.l2754
She only has one item now, a raccoon.
She lives in Bay City and has access to a huge commercial rock pile along the Saginaw river where she can choose the shape and size of her starting rocks for paintings. She sometimes finds puddingstones (jaspar conglomerates) in that pile too and sells them raw on Ebay.
Her turtles look totally REAL.

I've been to Whitefish point in the UP and collected stones many years ago. My MIL had a gift shop and wanted some painted stones and since I am an artist I did some for her then. They nowhere were as good as Rock Whisperer on Ebay!

photo #1 is a small sphere of quartz and citrine quartz
Photo #2 is a larger one with quartz and amethyst crystal

I bought most of my stones on Ebay. I like rock too and we have plenty around our summer place to do various things with!
(but not as nice as Lake Superior rock )

Here is one crystal sphere I did -- about 3 yrs ago... I did several and gave them as gifts...

[Lara]

I love your jewellery Living_Dazed, and the way you photographed them on the stones. Very nice indeed. That's my kind of jewellery.

mrsD, those crystals are incredible. Lucky friends who received those as gifts!

I was looking around the countryside where the agate lady lives. Beautiful part of the world.

[mrsD]

I believe The Agate Lady moves to New Mexico over the winter.
She has a trailer with all her stones in it!

We bought a plate of hers several years ago. And a friend of ours actually went to her place --her young son really loved it. (Grandpa is a Geologist--so they go to quarries, and various other rock sites on vacations).

[mrsD]

Yes, Lara, we can chat about that later.

Sorry for that little hijack .

[Lara]

Oh my, mrsD.
That's far too generous of you but thank you very much.
I don't know what to say really.

We'll have to talk about this.