I've been a very busy person for a few years now working six days a week with both jobs, and now I have my jewelry business in the mix. It's been a long time since I've had time to paint a mini. Maybe if I manage a vacation here at some point I can finish a few that have sat half painted the past few years.
On the subject of Jewelry I wanted to share with you folks something that happened earlier this year. If any of you have ever been over to the Fire Mountain Gems website and looked through the jewelry contests you might have seen a familiar name there...
The results were announced back in February that I took Grand Prize Silver Medal in the Gemstones Category of their international jewelry contest last year. For those of you unfamilar with these sorts of contests, it might be the jewelry world's equivalent of winning a Silver Demon.
The piece I placed with took me 36 hours to create from start to finish, and included Tigereye, Brecciated Jasper, a carved bone dragon I hand painted, Japanese seed beads, gold plated beads, copper wire, and a host of other beads and components.
http://www.firemount...011GEMSTNWINNER
If you click on the above link and scroll down to second place you'll see my entry titled "My Chinese Zodiac."
Enjoy!
At least now you know what I've been up to in my absence...
Taking home the Silver
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Enchantra
, Jun 24 2012 07:18 PM
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Enchantra
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Posted 24 June 2012 - 07:18 PM
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Posted 24 June 2012 - 08:01 PM
I like yours better than the first place one, but i'm in no way qualified to judge. Congrats
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Posted 24 June 2012 - 09:44 PM
That is stunning! Congratulations!
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Posted 24 June 2012 - 09:55 PM
Congrats! Your piece sure look like you put more work into it, beautiful.
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Posted 24 June 2012 - 10:04 PM
Congrats! A beautiful piece of work!
2012 Painted: 2, 2012 Acquired: 132
"The battle between Minis I Want and Money That Needs Not To Be Spent is eternal, and wearies the soul."--Nanite
"you don't buy miniatures to paint, rather you buy miniatures to daydream about painting and that you like to daydream a lot!" Ed Pugh
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Posted 25 June 2012 - 05:12 AM
I like yours better than the first place one, but i'm in no way qualified to judge. Congrats
I find your comment funny.
Why?
About half the folks who have looked at this since February have said the same thing.
In my opinion of course I feel the person who got "Presidents Choice" should have been the Grand Prize Gold Medal Winner...
The Federal Government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as "progress," doesn't spread. -Andy Rooney
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