Mitra Friant's Jewelry Blog

New Work...and old requests

I've gotten several requests for things that people have liked in my gallery. Rest assured, dear readers, that I am not ignoring you. I have a finished jewelry show Oct. 2 and then I am ALL about making my normal beads again.

Here are a few new beads I've been working on for my jewelry.  More slices that my friend Krista said should have the word "groovy" in the name...good point. They ARE kind of retro aren't they?

Back in the comfort zone...

I always start back on eBay with squeezed beads and usually in raku frit-based beads. I love that stuff and get a real kick out of playing with the effects. Here's one of the current eBay sets:

I have a trade show this weekend for my other business so I'll be in Boston until Monday, but I'll have new stuff and some really cool additions to the coldworked disk series I've been working on.

More focals are in the works too!  Stay tuned...

Still testing this thing

I'm really jazzed about this blog. My old one lived on my home computer so if I was at work or on the road I couldn't update it. This thing lets me update from anywhere and I can post pictures all the time.  I LOVE that!

I'm headed home for the long weekend where I WILL WILL WILL make a bunch of fun silver and glass pieces!

Grinding...

Here's a little new work from me. I got a grinder on a whim when a friend had buyer's remorse and decided to try to make some stuff that aren't organic beads encased in clear (although my friends keep making those and they ARE cool!). 

So I made these funky slices that I'll be incorporating into new jewelry for my first-ever jewelry show. Here's the prototype of one of my bracelet designs too. Forgive the crappy picture as I am at home with a camera barely clinging to life and the battery charger is at my office. Will I ever get it together?

New Blog

Well it's just a little insane how much time I can waste doing computer geekery. So tonight I decided to change my blog from my old software (which just wasn't practical) to something that I might actually USE every now and then.

So I spent the last two hours researching every blogging service and software I could find. This leads me to Typepad which I am going to try for a month. We'll just see if it's worth it.

Meanwhile, I should be making jewelry for a show I have in a month. My ability to rationalize doing EVERYTHING but making this jewelry is amazing. Last night I updated my whole rubber stamp website (Impression Obsession) and tonight I am contemplating adding a blog to it so I can show sample projects more easily. I get obsessed with the techno-geekery and I can't stop myself.

So enough of this...I am committing myself to pretty much non-stop beady work this long weekend. I'm gonna give this software a workout..