joy.joyner on Feb 27 2010 | Filed under: Gemstone, beach, daily adventure
I spent some time, a few days ago, photographing new necklaces to list. We live on the second floor of a two story building, below us there are just 5 single car garages. Often times, the best lighting is just outside my front door on the “porch”. Mom models for me, then I take some [...]
joy.joyner on Jun 22 2009 | Filed under: Daily Stuff, Gemstone, In the works, Recently Finished
For the past week or so I’ve found myself wanting to wrap chains in any free time that I have. It has turned in to a bit of a meditative exercise for me with the repetitive motions and simple technique. Today I took the time to snap a picture of a few of the pieces [...]
joy.joyner on Apr 22 2009 | Filed under: Beady Goodness, Gemstone, Jewelry, Recently Finished
Shaman Stones
by GoddessJoy Designs
Over the past two weekend I’ve been lucky enough to attend a bead show along with a gem and mineral show. I manged to find some great deals and some amazing stones to create with. This necklace features some of them.
One of my finds was a beautiful strand of natural Iolite drops [...]
joy.joyner on Apr 09 2009 | Filed under: Daily Stuff, Gemstone, Recently Finished, art bead scene
Sort of.
A fiber optic cable was cut in San Jose today, leaving our area without phones or internet access for most of the day. I took advantage of the lack of distractions to work on a necklace for the April challenge over at Art Bead Scene. This month’s theme is…
I love this painting! The symbolism [...]
