Okay, let's see what else there could possibly be to talk about in my life. Work is good. I just set my first pair of diamond earrings yesterday. That was quite the adventure! I didn't do a good job notching the prongs on the first mounting, so I will have to do that one over, but the second earring turned out great and gave me lots of hope! Maybe someday I will actually be good on a professional level at all this. Hopefully that ends up being sooner rather than later because I already do this on a professional level-ish. It is my job, but I look at it as more of an apprenticeship because I feel like I still have so much to learn. I do have to say though, that it is pretty cool to see something sold that I worked on.
Speaking of selling things, my mom suggested that I start and etsy store. It would be so fun, but I don't know how good I really am. She suggested that I sell things like this:
I made this and a few other similar ones for some artwork for my room. I figured that it's cheap to do it myself, rather than look for some things to put on my walls that I'm not really happy with, but paid a lot of money for. This way, it's also much more personal and something that I can relate to instead of something that just looks "cool".
Along with that project, I naturally have several others that I am working on simultaneously. They include other things for my room, things like more friendship bracelet style anklets, and another photo project. This one was a random craving more or less that I had one day. I just wanted to dress my sister up all fancy and take some pictures. That then expanded to a full project. So here is a little preview of the "America Project".
I think that I'll have a lot of fun doing this! I just decided to do some kind of representation of many/most/as my as I want to do of the decades in this country's history. I started at the beginning, and will hopefully make it to the current day. These are two "sneak peaks" of the first two sets that I did. I am sure grateful though that I have such a beautiful and willing model to help me out with all this! It looks like I need to do some photo shopping though, because you can see the vent for our AC in the second picture. Oops! Minor details right?
Last thing on the line-up for today. I get to go to Boise this week for BYS! I am so excited for this wonderful experience that I will get to have. It was wonderful last year, and I am consequently looking forward to a great week. But that's only the beginning of all the camps that I have lined up for this summer. There was the possibility that I could go to EFY the following week, but I decided against it, mostly because I have to work that Friday. Normally I could just take the day off, but this isn't just any old normal work day. Tracy Jewelers (the place I work for) is hosting "Hot Summer Nights" at Arbor Crest winery.
See? So I get to go work at this. It's not just any normal work day that I can just get off. But after that week, I will have a yearbook camp at Gonzaga. This is going to be very intense. I am ready to have my mind sucked out of my head, thrown in the blender, and hurled right back into my skull. That is just how mind boggling this should be. Sorry about the interesting mental picture that I just painted, but that is how I feel about it. Don't get me wrong, I am excited and it will be a good thing to go to camp. It will just really blow my mind! I'm not done though! The week after that, I will be attending girls camp, where I might not have any hearing left by the end of that week. I am really looking forward to this, but I will certainly be glad once it is all over. I will be so camped out that I will just want to go and sleep for a week straight! I know that won't happen, but I can dream right?
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