Wow, I'm really behind! I have been making jewelry, I just haven't had a lot of time to take pics and post them with the end of the year chaos!
I call this piece the Rainbow Sky. I've had this final piece of amazonite for a while and finally decided to do something with it. I got to thinking about how the rain is essential to the rainbow. A rainbow is a sign of hope and promise, and yet it cannot exist without the rain. Within every difficult situation, every trial, there is a rainbow. We can use the adversity in our lives to grow stronger and to build character if we recognize it for the opportuinty that it is. These promises are alive in the rainbow.
The amozonite is such an incredible blue .. it's like a slice of the sky. A literal rainbow of tundra sapphires frames the stone which is captured in a needle lace bezel setting. A solitary blue topaz dangles at the bottom of the piece, representing the rain or adversity which eventually shows us it's promise.
My other half says that any Drag Queen would be proud to wear it. LOL It is a substantial piece, and it certainly commands attention, but I'm hoping that it appeals to more than drag queens. :) Either way, I am satisfied with it because I wanted to represent blue skies and the promise of the rainbow at the passing of the rain/adversity and I think I captured it, even if it is a litty loud and showy. :)
Catching up, and trying to finish this YOJ, so this piece is one of those I made lately, but that I hadn't had time to photograph again and post. In December, I lost all the pictures on my computer that were not posted somewhere on the web so I have to take them all over again. 
