Very late night

I'm having trouble sleeping so here's another blog post.

I'm still having trouble completely nailing exactly what my project is going to be.  I've gone back and forth with so many ideas and so many different sketches and just completely scrapped most of it.  I would still really like to do a chase and repousse piece wrapping around a vessel with the one design i came up with, but that would just be far too time consuming for right now.  When I get up I'm going to try to finalize some sketches so I can move ahead and make a model of my piece.

I still have not been able to remember to get rocks to set up my pitch bowl.  You would think something that simple that doesn't cost any money would be a little easier for me to get.  Hopefully with my mind fully on this piece I'll remember to grab some on my way into the studio.  It would be nice to be able to at least check off setting up my bowl out of my to-do list.

I've started working on some pieces for the student sale as well.  I'm still fairly lost with what I want to do with the herkimer diamonds I have.  It's been pretty hard to try and come up with a decent way to set them.  I'm thinking maybe using bezel wire around the entire stone and then attaching it to a band or a neck piece.  Still sketching out some ideas with that.  My model for the dream catcher earrings I made turned out fairly well.  I'm pretty sure I'll need to make it a deal smaller though as ideally I'll be making them out of silver.  I thought about using the herkimer diamonds as the decorations hanging below the actual dream catcher but they're too big to fit in with the design.

Back to the drawing board.