Soldered Photo Charms - Holiday Discounts!

Currently giving 25% off your total order from now till December 16th! Just enter in "blogspot" in the discount code box on my web site! Hurry and get your order placed in time for Christmas! December 16th is the cut off date for guaranteed shipping by Christmas! After December 16th you will need to upgrade shipping to rush delivery! To get your own custom soldered photo charm just visit the site place your order and then e-mail your photos to me and I will take care of the rest! Each soldered photo charm comes with a 18" silver ball chain if you would like a longer or smaller length just let me know! You can find examples of my work at various locations: Web Site, Etsy, facebook, artfire, and by clicking the slide show to the right of this page! Thanks for looking and I look forward to creating a special soldered photo charm just for you!

Life in a Blink

Do you ever wonder where time actually goes? It seems like everyday is the same routine get up, go to work, come home, get ready for bed, sleep and then start all over again. I mean sure you have your little things here and there softball or cheer practice a football game or two. But one day you stop and you look and your kids are 8, 4, 1 and uh oh there's one on the way?! How'd this happen!? Well we all know how that happens, but no really how'd this happen!? Eight years ago I looked into the eyes of the most beautiful little brown eyes I had ever seen. They looked back at me so trusting and needy now all grown up (so she thinks!) those same eyes still look at me with trust and need for my love but now have a since of independence in them, a look of self worth and determination to be her own person. Oh and what I would give to just hold my little guy for hours, to rub his back and smell his hair, to get that back again...now it's cars, trains, Batman's and swords! The faster the better and more more more mud please!!!! And then there's Meme she's only one and has the determination of my eight year old I swear! No cuddles for her just wipe my boo boo off mom and let me go I have places to see. Those little legs go faster than a marathon runner pitter patter pitter patter oops, fall down, no time for tears I have to catch bubba and sissy! Maybe with number four on the way I'm having maternal thoughts and lots of memories bubbling around in my head or maybe just maybe it's time for things to slow down for more time to be spent with the ones that matter the most. Maybe it's time to turn the TVs off, put the phones down, walk away from the computer's and just sit down with the ones we love and enjoy what we can before time takes what we can never get back. . .

Win a Soldered Photo Charm!

Finished up a custom order late yesterday evening and off in the mail it went today. It was a cluster of soldered photo charms along with a 3/4 inch sterling silver hand stamped charm. You can get yours with free shipping for a limited time on Etsy!

I'm currently having a contest on my Facebook page, become a fan and you could win a free piece of soldered or handstamped jewelry of your choice off my site - yes your choice! So hurry up become a fan and start referring fans because the contest ends Monday August 10th!

Ed Hardy Style Soldered Initial Charm

Ed Hardy style initial charms. The front will have the initial of your choice A-Z and the back is the tattoo look picture repeated without the initial. The colors are very light and neutral would go with just about anything! The glass is beveled I tried to capture the beveled glass in the top picture. Check out the site for more designs and prices!

Look Who's Walking!

Oh have to share I have three kids and out of three I was able to capture one of their first steps! I am so excited to share Mekiella's first steps!!! This is HUGE to capture your 3rd's first steps since usually it's the first that gets all the pictures and videos! Please excuse all of our annoying chatter in the back - we are just proud parents!!

Finished Soldered Charm

It's finished! I finished the charm yesterday evening and posted the finished product on Facebook for the happy mommy to see! It turned out great IMO! The shiny silver soldered shines almost as pretty as sterling silver, pictures just don't do these little guys justice! Next up three charms from two different customers I think for this next blog I am going to do a step by step process from start to finish on the charms I would love feedback or advice from someone on anything that they do different. I love advice and need lots of it!

Soldered Photo Charm In Progress

It's been work work work since the wonderful weekend ended! Tonight was the first night I got to work on some jewelry! The piece above is a 1 x 1 1/2 inch soldered charm with clumps of silver solder on each corner. The corners are sooo difficult (in my opinion) but worth it in the end, it gives the charm a unique look that sets it apart from other soldered charms!

Friends ~ Family ~ Good Times!

What a great weekend! Good times, good friends, and best of all being with the family! After our exciting episode of chasing the horse all over the pastor we ended up at Luke's house for the afternoon and hand out with the family until the dark of evening settled in and the fireworks could begin!

Meme loves the water! She outlasted us all in the pool but she always manages to con someone into staying in with her or taking her back in for a bit! Roman AKA Bubba discovered that this year he wasn't afraid of the fireworks and in fact he could light them himself (with supervision of course!)

Today we went out on the lake with Romans family we squeezed everyone onto the little boat - could of been a little overloaded but it was fun! Again Meme stayed in till her lips were blue and we had to drag her out screaming to dry and warm her up!

When we got home and got showered and ready for a relaxing lazy evening wouldn't you know it a knock at the door and one of our colts somehow managed to squeeze under or through a back fence and was running a muck in the neighbors back pastor.

Dressed again off we went jumping into the six wheeler and off to the back pastor to round up the little guy only to discover we would have to snip the fence to get him back in UG just what we wanted to do mend a fence after a hard day at the lake! Living on the farm never has a dull moment! Jewelry you say? Haha maybe tomorrow. . .

Happy 4th of July!

Today it was a yummy home cooked breakfast and I thought a peaceful morning until the neighbors horse ended up in our pastor and for the last hour and half we have all been running crazy after a stubborn horse that somehow knows it's making us all look like idiots! I stopped long enough to snap a picture of the peacock watching the show that we were putting on. Now I've laid the baby down for a nap while we get ready to go eat lunch with Grandmother then hopefully we can get home early enough to work on some jewelry before FIREWORKS tonight!Hopefully the day will be a little more calm and slow paced!

Getting Started

Hi! I've been making jewelry, to be specific custom photo soldered charms here and there for friends and family and just recently created a website. I've been reading blogs and finally tonight just did it created my own! So now I'm left wondering what to type, what to talk about, what to do. . . I finished up three charms tonight (camera no batteries. . . ) and tomorrow will finish up some more and yes change out the batteries.