necklace I made a while back

You have to hit this photo to enlarge what Cynthia Thornton said to me in Sept. 2008 concerning everyone's favorite play toy, resin...

At the time I was making my first piece which included resin (see it above) and I was really confused as to what on earth I was doing! It was a request from a magazine that I do it, and I really wanted to do a good job. I also wanted to cry. The photo I will print above Cynthia's clear explanation will show you how kind and helpful she was concerning what I ended up with. I may have posted this photo before--the materials come from http://objectsandelements.com/shop/, and the resin I used was Ice Resin, from Susan Lenart Kazmer's shop part of her site. People are quite familiar with this kind of resin now, and I just made a new piece today for Australian Beading Magazine, for my column, "Our Beading World"! I really love trying things which don't frighten me too much, and this, if done properly, is really great for flexing your creative muscles! Love it.

Thanks to Susan for that initial resin and the materials, thanks to Cynthia for the great advice, and thanks to Simply Beads for the gorgeous photo of my very first piece, one of my favorite pieces of jewelry I have ever made. If I had my choice, everything I make would look like I dug it up, brushed of thousands of years of dirt, and discovered it on a site. I think this was even called Digg-it! :)