Necklace Finished

I'm a little late posting this week. Spring break and I sort of forgot. I finished my necklace this week. I think I put about 18 hours into it. When I get back I will start covering the bracelet. I am also going to make myself a less huge necklace to wear at the show opening.

This week I have been putting a lot of thought into how I will present my work, and I was given and interesting idea to display it in a fish tank. I like the idea, and I'm currently working on visualizing different ways to set something like that up.

Necklace Underway/Postcard

This week:

10 hours painting and attaching corals to the necklace

1 hour doing finishing work on the inside of the ring

15 minutes photographing pieces

2 hours working on postcard

This week I did a lot of documenting because the postcard is due. Thank you, Peter for all of your help! The necklace is coming along, but I didn't get nearly as much done as I wanted to. I included what my postcard is looking like right now, but I am not certain if this is the final product. I still have until Monday to decide. I've also been thinking about naming the project, and I kind of want to name it "Zooxanthellae," which is the protozoa that coral depends on to grow. Death of Zooxanthellae=death of coral. The only thing about that title is that I have trouble pronouncing it, and I feel like that isn't a good sign.... anyways I've also been thinking about postcard quotes and right now I'm leaning toward "You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there."- Edwin Louis Cole. So I guess those will be my major decisions for the weekend.

Finished Ring!

This week I spent a total of probably 16 hours working on my project. I don't really have a good breakdown of how much time I spent on specific things because I was doing many things at once, but what I spent my time on was using a tap and die set to peg corals onto my ring form, and painting the corals to go specifically with the composition of the ring. And there it is, the finished product. This week I am going to start covering the necklace and I'm going to make my postcard for the show, so I will need to take better pictures of the ring.