Engagement Sale!

Just a short post today because today is a very exciting day. Today is the day my sister got engaged to her boyfriend (I guess now he's her fiance. that's going to take forever to get used to!). She was very surprised. He took her out to a garden she had wanted to go to so she got to take all the pictures she wanted and he got to ask her in the middle of all the flowers. it was a beautiful surprise. To add my Etsy shop to the celebration I've decided to have a sale on rings specifically :) Every ring in my shop is 25% off from now until July 31st! ^-^

You Know You Should Be In Bed When...

My very first post and it's going to be about myself.
As I got home from hanging out with my sister and our boyfriends I realized I had a custom order ring to make that I said I would deliver tomorrow, so instead of going to bed I grabbed my ring mandrel and set to work.

I wrapped the wire around the mandrel - right size and everything, and cut it off. then I realized I had only made a single loop when my rings are made with a double loop band. cursing myself for wasting silver wire I wrapped it around the mandrel again - this time twice around for the double band. I cut it off in the wrong spot however, so it was a single hoop again.

Now getting a little mad at myself for not being entirely together I wrapped the wire twice around the mandrel, made my double band that I've made a hundred times before and measured out my 26 gauge wire to wrap the beads on.

only when I started wrapping the beads on did I realize it was supposed to be a copper ring - not silver. Cutting my losses and going to bed. I'll make something of all this waste and finish my ring in the morning.