A friend got in touch with me and asked if I had any jewelry stock that she could come and look at. I thought this is a great chance to sit down and create some pieces since I have not done any jewelry making in awhile.
You see, I have been considering going back to school for some time now. It has been on my heart for months now and what I thought I would start with, to get my feet wet again, is a Certified Gemologist certificate from the Gemological Institute of America. It is mainly online, but I would have to go to Carlsbad, California for a week or two, for lab classes.
Now, back to where I started. I was all excited to be working with silver wire, findings, and beads again. I had all my tools out and in some semblance of order, I am not an orderly person, in fact organized chaos is a good description. My board was out and I started pulling out some beads. Blues, greens, black, purples, all different colors. I started working with some silver wire to make some loops for an earring, I grabbed a bead, oops, there it went.... Falling to the ground under the desk, where it was dark and hard to see since it is a little dark downstairs, if you ask me. ( I'm all for a hundred watt bulb right over my head when I work on something) I found the bead, then went on. This happened a number of times for several days. I started working on a bracelet, earring, and necklace combination for myself made with Rainbow Flourite and silver. I took a larger silver bead and all of the sudden, plink, plink. If falls from my fingers down behind the boxes next to my desk. I took a deep breath, a little frustrated from the other beads I had been dropping previously, and went on. It happened again.... I would have to say the last straw, as far as me realizing maybe I should not get a Certified Gemologist certificate and possibly work at a jewelers down the road was when I was polishing a glass bead. It's called blueberry glass. It has a slight hue of blue to the glass and blue striations through it. It really is very pretty. So, I was polishing this bead since it picks up fingerprints very easily, with a cloth and apparently squeezed a little too tightly. It flung forward into one of the compartments in my little roll top desk. It's still there, I didn't even bother to get it. I just sat there and thought to myself, if I were working at a jewelry store, I would be the one who has some woman's diamond that costs thousands of dollars and I just flung it across the room. Then in my minds eye, I saw myself crawling around on the floor looking for it.... No employer would be too impressed with that I would have to say ! Then I thought to myself, "Lord is this way of showing me to just start classes for a vocal performance degree?" I do feel that it is the Lord impressing on me to start classes. I don't know why, but I do know it hasn't let up for months and months. I'll just keep praying for clarity and see where the Lord takes me.
TTFN, Margaret
ps I'll post some photos of what I made soon :0)
I love this stone. It is tourmalated quartz. It is neat seeing the black fibers snaking through the white, sometimes clear quartz.
