Trinket #279 - Carnelian Ring

Another LONG day, another quick trinket. This time, it's a ring made from silver wire and a chunk of yellow-orange carnelian.

Trinket #267 - Citrine Candy Corn Earrings

Okay, they're not really supposed to be candy corn, but the teardrop shape combined with the gradual darkening near the bottom of each bead made it so candy corn was all I could see. It's either that, or I have a bad case of Halloween on the brain. (Probably the latter - I did pick up four masks and a basket full of glow sticks FOR NO REAL REASON at Target today. Someone hide my debit card!)

Trinket #261 - Glass Pumpkin Pendant

With a design derived from last week's Carnelian Pumpkin Pendant, I decided to try again with some Czech glass for a slightly different look. This pumpkin is a frosted and carved orange glass sphere accented with a tiny stamped glass leaf and a green stem. I think it turned out festive without being garish.

Trinket #259 - Fall Gemstone Earrings

These beauties are made with a pair of new earring forms I picked up last week specifically to highlight certain gems. They're doing a great job here of showing off petite teardrops of carnelian, citrine, and peridot.

On a side note, I am not getting bored with making jewelry, but I am EXTREMELY bored of photographing it. In hopes of pulling myself far away from a rut, I'm going to be making a conscious effort over the next week to try and challenge myself with new and different photo techniques. Patience, please - this could be painful to watch...

Trinket #255 - Carnelian Earrings

I've always been fascinated by natural stones. I spent the better part of the day yesterday combing through gem catalogs, so today I decided to use a couple from the stash to create these earrings. This pair is made from two tumbled chunks of carnelian.

Fall still seems far away here in central Virginia, where the high temperature tomorrow is still in the lower nineties, but I'm going to be getting ready for the changing foliage by pulling out the autumn colors over the next week or so.