I kept waffling on which tourmalines I wanted for my sapphic necklace and now pride is here and I have no tourmalines and no necklace 😭

happy *quiet, chill* pride

Moss agate, sterling, fine silver. #silversmith

Prong-set Maligano jasper, sterling silver. Available!

Slowing down a bit because I’m starting to run low on materials and that makes me anxious, but I busted out the copper to test connections for my rocky butte jasper piece. Surprised to say that I prefer the jump ring connection! Also did bezels for poppy and rocky butte jasper.

happy anniversary to me and my partner, our oldest dog had a seizure and we’ve scheduled his forever nap appointment for this evening literally the only day I told him not to pick and he just gave me four middle claws all the way up

Went from really excited to commission a local jeweler for a pendant to turning it down after he fed my sketch through genAI. He was polite about it but I hate when artists use genAI. rip the work was otherwise neat.

I DIDN’T MELT IT THIS TIME My very first prong setting (third try lmao) - I measured nothing, like a rebel or a very lazy carpenter. And also clipped one prong a bit short. But it holds! 17g sterling silver and aquamarine

Single-evening smithing fugue state with this little orbicular jasper cab I bought in February. She’s rough and not really sale-quality, but I’ve been so down and not creative lately that this really helped. Before I made this I melted my first prong setting. Again. 🫠 So back 2 basic bezels 4 me.

How many attempts does it take to make a sterling pendant? It’s a present for my mom - when I was a little kid, I asked her to draw me something. She drew me her version of Snoopy, and I asked “can’t you do any better?” And thats how she knew I was going to be an artist 😂 #silversmith

Texas tech now bans students from writing about LGBTQ issues in any form. Mentions of gender identity, orientation etc in textbooks must be skipped. Deafening silence so far from all the brave heterodox free speech absolutists www.erininthemorning.com/p/texas-tech...

I decided the stargazing pendant needed to be reworked. I like the larger person layered on the ground better!

Tonight I sat at at my jewelry station intending to work on a silver necklace project and not work with any stones. Instead I started working with this medusa quartz for a copper wall hanging piece 🤪

A second marble and moon piece! I melted through two sets of prefab findings before I decided to make my own pin parts. After I take some better photos, I’m gifting it to a coworker! Sodalite, fine silver, sterling silver, copper wire, piano wire #silversmith

Marble & Moon 🌎🌕 Finally finished this pendant after struggling to solder the bezel to the backplate for several sessions! I’m really proud of how close it is to my original sketch. I’ve been silversmithing for almost three weeks now! 🤪 Sodalite, sterling, and fine silver

8-1. would love to hear the democratic party dead-enders spin this one for me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

if you ban therapists from saying "you should kill yourself", that would be exactly as bad as banning them from saying "you should not kill yourself" i am smart and wise and on the supreme court of the united states of america

I got my silver bench all set up on Saturday…and immediately melted through my first bezel done by myself. Mostly figured it out on Sunday though - and the stones all worked on the post-pickle test fit!

I took two silversmith classes this week, and made my first pieces! Also, I met the shop cat and he let me give him skritches.

This quote isnt just out of touch or disappointing, its fucking dark. Gay people are not a conversation parents need to have with their kids? Knowing gay people exist doesnt require therapy?? Any parents who thinks that way needs to have their kids removed ASAP. Get in a volcano, Pete.

My coworker drew a little fanart of my dog and I immediately framed it for my desk. Ansel’s first fanart 🥹

AI-generated artwork is officially not eligible for copyright protection after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the appeal. The court ruled that a work must have a human creator in order to qualify for copyright. (Link: www.reuters.com/legal/govern...)

van gogh was a late 19th century weeaboo. in this essay I will -

I could really use a wish right now wish right now wish right now #pokemonpresents #pokemonww #browt

Is this the FIRST time we’ve had a dog-themed starter? I think yes? I hope its secondary type is fairy #pokemondirect

why does browt look like it’s gonna fight green piggies in block towers #pokemondirect

That gecko is TESTING me #pokemondirect

Now it can (again) be told: We had a tagline for DART: “66 million years ago, an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs. In 2022, Earth strikes back”. Everybody loved it except some (1-whimsical) NASA folks, so it was never officially adopted. It did sneak into some things, though…

My partner has a friend in Saudi who gave her his mom's lamb kabsa recipe and friends let me tell you it is DELICIOUS

My job is great bc sometimes I get an email like “due to a structural issue with the detonation tube we have cancelled the upcoming video shoot” Imagine if I was an accountant instead

Oscar's interview 🎙️🖼️

you know this guy is a FOR REAL photographer because he's telling the story of his brutal, unconditional arrest by federal goons and can't help but slip in a gear review

I signed up for two basic silversmith classes in March. I'm really excited!! I have so many ideas but I want to make sure I have supervision the first couple times I use a torch :'D

Thinking about that time the My Little Pony comics, of all things, absolutely bodied Scott Adams.

My most insufferable internet trait is that I will occasionally message people on fb marketplace and tell them that the rock they’re trying to sell isn’t what they say it is

URGENT: my dog

Look I built a haunted sandcastle! In France. Honhonhonhon Shiny hunting is kind of broken but I’m really happy bc I’m finding a bunch of Pokémon I wanted in other games but wasn’t willing to grind for. Like Palossand!

magical

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

I’m starting the year right by having ice cream for breakfast 😌

This is just going to always be my go-to response to this kind of thing anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

I bought a postcard print (and some other stuff!) from @pigeonpost.shop for my postal worker partner, but I’m kind of thinking we might frame the bag instead. Added realism, you know.

My biggest accomplishment this year is that I managed to use up TWO entire chapstick tubes without losing them.

I think a lot about how if you changed the framing of the christmas shoes from one lousy fuck who doesn’t understand generosity and kindness until he sees a kid trying to make his dying mom one last christmas memory and into one

The rise and fall of queer cartoons aftermath.site/queer-cartoons...

I shotgunned a beverage for the first time this morning in a conference room at work. I tossed a camera plate in the wagon and it pierced the side of the can. mustn’t waste it! (it was a winter edition red bull I’m not getting sloshed on company time. regrettably.)

okay what is up with middle school cool animated animal farm by that right wing animation studio we’re playing feel it still over literal capitalist pigs crashing sports cars I guess it makes a type of sense in the irony department but what the f u c k

I have been looking to replace my daily purse bag because my camera does not fit my perfect bag would be a 9x11x6” or 8x10x6” vertical crossbody satchel in leather, with a flap opening, ipad pocket, and one zip compartment and one flat front pocket I am not certain she exists, and I despair