It's a girl!

Hi All, as many of you would already know we were expecting our second baby in late Feb. I am very pleased to announce the safe arrival of a baby girl, Amber Monique, on Fri 26th Feb 2010 at a healthy 8lbs 2oz and 49.5cm long.





Big brother Jasper is thrilled with his "Amber baby" and is being a good helper to Mummy.



Things will obviously be a bit quiet on the jewellery front for a while, I will just be working on orders and no new pieces while we enjoy this special time.

Raid the wood shed!

I love using old logs as props, they have so much character and can really offset a silver piece of jewellery. This beautiful specimen was at the Tafe where I studied, I'd love to have something this spectacular at home.



I have some nice old logs in the wood shed that make good photography props.

My original favourite...


...got retired after the plumber spilt some blue goo over it.

Then I found a new one that had a nice little knot hole...


...but it met an untimely end at the hands of my hubby weilding an axe...



Alas the wood shed is probably not the best place for them. So the moral of my story is, if you do happen to find a nice log in the wood shed, perhaps you should move it somewhere safer! I'm off the examine the survivors to see if there's any 'talent'.

Come clean...

It is time I come clean about my addiction...

Yep that's right, I am addicted to Inner Earth Soaps. I love opening my bathroom cupboard and doing a lucky dip to see what scent we'll be using next.


Honey Bee Mine Handmade Soap

New in store - Rain Drop Ring

Just finished today, my Rain Drop ring is sterling silver with a tear drop shaped sapphire blue cubic zirconia.



Break the drought with the Rain Drop available now in my Etsy store.

While you were sleeping

I made a rookie mistake today. I put Mr2 to bed, waited for silence to fall, and assumed he was asleep! By assumed I mean I listened at the door on more than one occasion, but I didn't pop my head in to check.

I was in and out of the house, making jewellery, cleaning jewellery, washing my hands, photgraphing jewellery... all the while silence from Mr2's room.

It was on one of my trips to wash my hands, coming from the ensuite in the master bedroom I noticed the strong scent of taboo perfume coming from Mr2's room across the hall. Pushing open the door this is what I found!



There was a gift pack of Taboo on the spare bed in his room, silly place for it of course, but it was waiting for Granny who will be down in Feb to help while I'm having bubba2. Having emptied the whole tube of body lotion over himself and the spare bed (silently!!!) all jewellery making activities had to stop and the cleanup had to begin.



On the upside, before discovering Mr2's mischief I did get one of the pieces I was working on completed.



The Lunar Pendant is now available in my Etsy store. Made from reticulated and fused sterling silver it is one of a kind, and very hard to photograph!

Mr2 is now bathed and in bed asleep - yes I am sure of it this time! Sounds like the washing machine has finished - I had better go hang out the doona cover.

I spied a spider.....

Hubby was in the garage and picked up a paper bag of heat beads and found a lot more than he bargained for. The biggest female redback spider either of us had ever seen!



Well these ladies are about as Australian as Vegemite, but not something that I really encounter that often, thankfully!



Talk about a close encounter of the arachnid kind!

Place your bets!

Only six weeks to go until we meet the newest member of our family. As per my previous pregnancy we have opted to have a 'surprise', so as the weeks pass I am getting more and more excited wondering what we will get.

Everyone has a theory, whether based on their own experience, an old wives tales or maybe intuition.

So join in the fun, get your thinking/guessing/betting caps on... place your bests and give me your prediction.



To help your analysis here are some 'facts' that people usually use when sharing their wisdom with me:

• I am carrying pretty high and straight out to the front


• I have put on about 7-8kgs


• I had morning sickness for the first 3 months or so


• I am what people consider to be very small or compact or "all baby" as I often hear


• I have not had any food cravings or any specific aversions to foods


• To me my pregnancy feels pretty much identical to my first (which was a boy)


• My ob is predicting this baby will be just a bit smaller than my first - hmmm interesting... haha

What's your theory and why, and be sure to let me know if you need any more info ;)