Spider Solitare work....

So I am having what I call my "Spider Solitaire" days. The last few weeks has been pretty slow for the calls coming in, in fact my hours have been cut because of that. So on those days I know how bad it really is when I am playing many games of solitaire in a work day. Although some days I will switch it up and give myself a Mani or pedi in between calls. Not a bad day if I do say so myself, but it does get quite boring though. So today, I am actually so sick of solitaire I realized that I can BLOG!

Besides my boring work days, tomorrow I have off and I think I will be going outside and taking some pictures of some of the jewelry I have made since I have been down here. Hopefully Ill be able to have the camera most of the time, my lovely husband (he likes to be called Mr Clean) is now on a blog kick which I am happy about, but he does like to hog the camera now that we have it again. I am hoping taking pictures will actually give me some inspiration to make some more jewelry.

This is something I had made before we left. I made this for "Mr Clean's" mom (also my mom) for Christmas. I had just recently found this picture on my phone that I had taken. I wish it would have been with a better camera it would have turned out much better.

This is a project I had worked on for a dear friend from Shipwreck Beads, she is the pearl knotting teacher there. This is an antique bead woven necklace that had huge knots and holes in the weaving. This is what it looked like when I got done with it. Below is some of the pictures of what it was before I fixed it.

Here is one of the areas that was completely thrashed and broken.

This was another area that in this picture you might not see but there is some knotting, missing beads, and very uneven parts on the necklace. I did have to completely take this apart and restring the entire thing. You would think it would take hours luckily since there is only 2 colors the pattern was easy and only took about 5 hours to complete, where as other woven ones I have done have taken more like 15-17 hours to finish.

Tomorrow when I do take some more pictures they unfortunately will not be as intricate as these but they were fun to do!