Somethin's happening here.

What it is ain't exactly clear.
There's a gal with a heat gun over there
Saying, Bingo, you better beware.

Yeah, it's not clear what I'm up to but it does involve some makings. Like these mini muffin tin bezels using these rough hammershlerkin' diamonds that Opulent Oddities sent me in that giant box.

 And some rusty-crusty pink things. A new obsession of mine and Sparrow's.

Wire wrap much? Yeah, I wasn't thinking clearly here.

Both focal pieces were sent to me in magical, unexpected boxes. The top from the awesome readbetween, the bottom....I think from the last one I blogged. It's a blur.

And more gemstone rondelle strands with artisan pieces- like here, chains from missficklemedia and beads from Gaea.
Speaking of which- guess what I spent all of yesterday doing?
Sanding beads! Took forever but it had to be done. Here's the before:
See how some, though glorious, have quite a shine? Of the 3 strands I got, shinies appeared here and there.
So, after:
OK, the lighting's awful so you cant tell but they look etched. Here's a clearer example, though not my own.
From radiantmind, who offers the same bead set regular:
and etched:

OK?

I also made more utee glitteries.

I know, I like glitter but not shine, I'm nuts. I guess I find one glows from within, drawing the eye inward, and the other creates a glare on the surface which blocks the inner prettiness.

What else?

Changing this guy up a bit. (Seeing as there was a scrap of cloth under the cab- this was an hours-long mess.) Again, the looking-to-the-mysterious-inward-depths effect. Aka, the LTTMIDE. Yup, I coined that.
But what I really came to say is that Imna be in Cali for 3 days so I'll be incommunicado. OMG I can't believe I spelled incommunicado right. I wasn't even sure it was a word.