Auspicious Start

I mean, I knew this would happen as soon as I added a blog to my site.

"Izzie, why would you add a blog to your website when you know you will never update it?"

"Oh but I WILL update it, because it's on my site!"

Reader, I did not update my blog. How often is one supposed to update a blog? This is a bit like making a new years resolution to keep a diary and writing three pages, then leaving it until March and writing "Oops! Forgot about this!"... then leaving it until August and doing the same.

Only worse, because everyone else can see it too! Horrible. This is the writing equivalent of catching me talking aloud to myself. Forgive me.

So, an update: I made ribbon necklaces! I've been making bangles and beads with flowers in them! I'm very very excited to start getting them out into the world! This week so far has been a Finishing Week, where I'm working on de-burring, sanding & polishing my pieces. Having only one desk is really doing me a disservice at the moment - I absolutely long for the day when I can have a desk for curing resin, one for finishing, and another clean desk for piecing parts together.

It's the little things that really take the time - having to deep clean your space between uses so that dust or sticky pieces don't touch anything else and ruin it takes almost as long as actually doing those tasks.

Still, it's good to get the finishing done and out of the way. Each piece undergoes a twelve-step process from being taken out of the mould: they're deburred by rotary tool and file, then sanded using ten different grades of sandpaper & micromesh. It takes time, but it's worth it for the shine & the clarity - the highly-polished resin magnifies what's inside and looks gorgeous... if you ask me, anyway.

Besides, I have to get the grunt work done before I go for my Injection - you might think it was foolish of me to start a jewellery business while suffering from a currently undiagnosed but still Troubling inflammatory problem with my hands, and you'd be right. If I'm lucky and my physiotherapist's hunch is right, the injection will stop the pain & might cure me for the foreseeable future - if I'm not, I'll be back to waiting lists and more tests. Let's hope for the former, I guess.

In the mean time, I'm burning a lot of cassette tapes for when my spotify premium subscription runs out - if you have any suggestions for things to listen to, musical or otherwise, I'd love to hear them.