A lovely early spring day. I took a nice little nap at the top in the sunshine. #hiking #nature #outdoor #trees #flowers

Haven't made a linocut in years. It's still fun! #artstr #printmaking

I had a request for a zodiac calendar, so I made one. A little late in the year, but I'll update it in October for 2027. I painted the backgrounds in watercolour, scanned them, then I drew the constellations digitally. #watercolor #artstr #calendar

Mud is fun! Until you have to clean everything. #bikestr #mtb #outdoor #adventure

I love rescuing plants from the half dead discounted shelf 🤕❤️

🌌✨ #watercolor #artstr #nostartstr

Hello snow 🩵🩵🩵

Painting more small things. #artstr #nostrartstr #watercolor #painting

Here's my stand from last weekend! It was quite successful, but the two full days of sitting+standing still made my back hurt so bad I haven't been able to work (I'm a masseuse), so I've lost way more earnings this way than I got with the stand. Life is funny that way. #artstr #nostrartstr #jewelry #handmade

Final steps are polishing off any rough soldering remains that could snag on the skin or clothing and attaching the chain. Sometimes I add a black patina. And that's it! It's quite a lengthy process. I'm currently working on a new display setup, using nice books.

Step no.4! Making shapes out of a thicker wire and soldering them on to make the stones into pendants. This is the most creative part of the process, though it is not my favourite part, as that is hunting for nice minerals to turn into jewelry. 🤭 I have waaay to many stones at home... In this step you have to be really careful not to overheat everything with the soldering gun, that's why I make several pendants at once and switch in between. If the solder overheats, the shapes just fall off as everything gets liquid! #artstr #jewelry #handmade #soldering #nostrartstr

Here's step no. 3: reinforcing the edges of the soldered part with wire. This ensures more sturdiness and a more polished finish. It's slow work. Also, I'm still super grateful to my friends who didn't want for my hobbies to kill me and got me a fume extractor for my birthday a few years back.

I am making new pendants for a mineral expo next weekend. Step 1: cover with copper tape Step 2: solder the copper surfaces Steps 3-6 to follow.

A nice little hike with @r0uge0t

A really nice day for getting older ❤️ View quoted note →

I got a lovely birthday present from Nature today 🥰 They would have gone bad in a day or two (noone goes to this hill), so I'm really happy we found them before that!

I'm prepping for a stall at a mineral expo in September. I make pendants with Tiffany technique (soldering onto minerals), but people find these expensive (they take a long time to make) and I never sell enough to make it worthwhile. So I'm also making quick simple earrings, rings and pendants, which in my experience sell way better (Even though they have zero artistic input 🙃. They are fun to make though) and I can cover my stall this way. This is a phantom quartz with a fox tooth that I made for a friend. She found the dead fox in the forest with the tooth lying next to it and she wanted a keepsake. A nice amethyst cluster, amethysts are by far the most popular. This one I'm really proud of, a statement malachite piece. And these are the cute little money makers 😄

Had an amazing vacation around the border between Switzerland, France and Italy. Awesome trails and hikes, zero injuries and nice weather. #mtb #hiking