New necklace!

It's taken me a bit longer than I had hoped to get back into the studio, but I am back in action and working on some new designs.
I've got a pair of sample earrings that are almost done (I'll post pictures when they are totally finito) and this morning I finished up this new necklace.
Pretty cute I think.


All sterling silver with some 14k yellow gold beads thrown in for fun!
I want to do a couple different versions to work out the kinks, but I like the way it's started.
There are a couple of other ideas floating around in the old brain at the moment, and I am thinking of some fun new ideas for Out of Hand as well.
(please note, I've added the Out of Hand link to the left, please check it out!)
Now I must brush my teeth and get the heck to work!

I love my tumbler.

For those of you who don't make jewellery at home, (or at all I guess) a tumbler is AMAZING.
It will take a piece of jewellery (or stone or metal) and will burnish the CRAP out of it so that when you pull it out, it's the shiniest, smoothest, SHINIEST thing you've ever seen.

I've got a mini one that I use in the studio here and I LOOOOVE it.
I've got some stuff in there right now actually. I'll pull those pieces out in about 5 minutes and wash them off and OOOH and AAAH for at least 50 seconds.

Then I'll put whatever it is in there (right now it's necklace components, but I will do this any time I take anything out of there) and put it on and silently hope for people on the street to stop me and ask "Where DID you get that fabulous thing??"

It's only happened a couple of times, but let me tell you.
AWESOME.

Also awesome? Check out the coolest 4 year old I know wearing a certain something.
(I nicked the photos' from Dee's blog, but I am sure she doesn't mind!)


I know you can't really see if she's wearing it in the second picture, but I just love that Sass!

Back to work!

getting back to business

Things have been on a bit of hiatus here at Janamade.
The staff crunch at work took much longer than I expected.
But I have hired and am almost finished training the new staff (who are awesome) so I can FINALLY start getting back to my own work.

Which is VERY exciting.

I've got some fresh ideas for Out Of Hand, which is coming up very soon (!) and I am hoping to update and refresh this here blog too.
Possibly this weekend, but I really want to make again. So I might save the blog updates for next week.

On today's agenda: earrings and a new necklace design I need to sample before I get too excited.

And next week I am ordering some display finally.
It was a gift from last Christmas, that I haven't been able to afford to order until now. But it's coming! Oh yes, it's coming.
Professional style jewellery display! Like a bust and really sharp rings stands.
Very cool.

And yesterday I picked up this guy to recharge my production!


And some evidence that I did indeed clean up my bench!


And I am going to leave this post with the last pictures we got of sunny fall weather. We took Norman to the dog park two weekends ago, and it was LOVELY!