My plan for Christmas this year was to spend it with my daughter and her family including my two grandsons. It would have been the first time I'd spent Christmas with the boys at their house and I had been very much looking forward to being there. My daughter's birthday is December 21st so I planned to travel to her house on Monday getting there in time to celebrate with her the next day and then look after the boys while her husband took her out for dinner. There has been so little to look forward to during this pandemic that even the smallest outing becomes significant so you can imagine how important this trip was - is - to me.
Right now, it's not cancelled however, it is in jeopardy awaiting test results to see if the person I spent time with, and who was directly exposed to Covid, tests negative or positive. And even if the results are negative, Christmas is still nine days away and with the rapid spread of this new variant it's hard to know what's going to happen since my daughter lives in a different health region in a different province. It's not a discussion I want to have here on the blog since it's quite a sensitive topic however, I am attempting to distract myself from how angry I am that the individual was not vaccinated and that their freedom of choice is impacting mine.
A statement necklace is part of my style and Christmas pants definitely need a Christmas necklace. This decoration turned pendant was my starting point and then I made a series of aluminum foil balls that were then covered with polymer clay, pierced, baked, painted, textured, and glazed into hand-formed beads.
It wasn't until I looked at this picture that I saw the issue with the clasp and I didn't have what it took to restring it especially as it's for me and not a piece for sale. Maybe later. Maybe never. It is good and enough for now. I'll still have fun wearing it.
Talk soon - Myrna
Grateful - pretty shiny objects
So glad you're blogging again
ReplyDeleteGreat necklace and despite the pants could be a very refined Christmas outfit. Surely to be truly gaudy you need the ubiquitous Christmas sweater. I second that comment lovely to have you back blogging.
ReplyDeleteThank you. My youngest son is good at the ubiquitous Christmas sweaters. I imagine one will show up. I like the idea of being on that edge - is she gaudy or isn't she?
DeleteI've missed your blog posts! so glad you are back and I do hope it works out that you can spend Christmas with your family.
ReplyDeleteIt's lovely to hear that I've been missed. This week is harder than I thought because as you will have read in today's post, I did make it to my daughter's. Once I get home it's that lovely stretch of time between Christmas and spring when I get to spend most of it in the studio. YES YES.
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