Al Gravitar Rodando

Good Morning,

6:17am here and having a big cup of coffee to avoid passing out and to be found sleeping under my desk… and I wanted to show my latest piece.

I  was asked for a drop, or my idea of a drop and this is the result…

 I Love packing so much it gives such a difference, the pretty thing about this one is that as soon as you open it , a light smell comes to you and well it was a present for someone’s best friend had to be special.

This is the close up of the butterfly I made:

 The back of it has a bit of  a texture, I honetsly like matte textures and oxidized pieces more than super shiny ones..

There’s a small plaque with her initials that hangs on the side of the neck …

 And this is for me! … because I love thumb rings and well I didnt have any and people I hardly ever make things for myself but this is beginning to change.

 3 stackable rings.. the idea is that with every piece of wire i got left I will make me a ring to keep stacking it sort of like a memory of the materials used..  i hammered a bit and was more open to do things with them since i wasnt hoping they’d be perfect and did them so quick but I do like them a lot..

And yes well this is what I’ve done this past weekend.. have some halfmade pieces which hopefully will be finished soon.. I get so happy by people liking things…

Actually I received this email from a person that bought this piece  online., here’s an extract of the mail…

“Thank you so much.  The necklace arrived today.  It’s beautiful!  I love it!  It’s the perfect gift for my sister, who is graduating from university.  She will graduate about a week before her 43rd birthday.  She is married, a mother of 3, works full time, and still managed to complete her degree!  I am very proud of her and the necklace you made embodies the sentiment I’d like to express to her on this occasion.  “How high could birds fly….  I’m sure they can’t fly up to the moon, but what if one tried”

Am a happy Nat.

” To fall in the top silence,

we give everything,

the nights request not to be remembered,

I just know I’m flying far away,

I can understand I shouldn’t pretend to understand,

we give everything,

Clouds passs by the clouds of my head.

I’m just looking for the answer of me being here,

Distances don’t exist..

As I fly I sing to a name I haven’t heard..

My body has turned to a sight,

There’s beings who don’t believe in distances,

There’s an aroma of old times.

We give everything,

There’s no distances,

Just landscapes that together go away..”

This is my latest piece , I love pearls and this one has 3 freshwater pearls and I hope you like the change in the focus point… lil old poem I wrote once help me make this piece..

It’s for sale, because I think it’s time for me to sell some pieces online. .. my poor little store is all empty but well its a beginning…

 So the other day I met my friend Alejandro..he asked me to make him a cross for daily use.. and this is what I made for him. It’s pretty much the first time I make something like this and I like it it’s basic ..and it looks good  

 It’s a very classic design and well he wants it in white gold, I made it in silver first to get his approval..

Well I was making a ring the other day, but during class it was a request from someone and honestly well I’ve been at this for 5 months I’m not a jeweler yet and some things leave me clueless..

I had a request for a ring and I took the request to my teacher to see how it could be done, and I started and spent hours and hours trying to get through it and then my teacher told me about why we have to have our place.

So this is the situation if someone asks me for a piece and if it’s so time consuming that I’ll leave personal projects behind, then is just not a good idea.

I told that person that I was not going to able to make the ring for her yet, and there was no problem, and then I made me this..

If you make piece and that person wants one with a variation, wants the piece, wants one like it.. it’s good. But if someone tells me what to do how to do it.. then where do I put my personality on it ? Where is my touch? That thing that says I made it. These includes replicas, some people even get pictures of others people’s designs and say : “ I want this”

This is a ring I’m wearing daily with my version of a lotus flower, the ring is to remind me to work on my ideas and to try to keep it an art, personal, even if I make less money.

I’m happy to clear my brain..

I’d squish so many people …

Oceans would be bathtubs and Whales my bath toys.

And I would have a gigant pug as a loyal companion…

I’d be in another continent with one big jump…to visit friends I cant see…

I would carry supplies out of rich countries for the poor ones to create a balance..

I would knit the branches of the biggest trees..

I would tame the animals in Africa for my brother to play Safari..

…. I would make a ring out of the moon…

Too many things come to mind.. but well..

(pictures from PhotoDecadent)

So yesterday I was very very tired, had a bit of a hard day and was wearing this big heels of hell (I have to use heels at work) .. and in a point where I couldn’t take it, took a cab.

 I probably sat down with all the will in the world the cab driver said ” you sat down alright” and laughed.. He was 40 something looking like he needed coffee.

So I told him I was dying and my desperate sitting down was because of the heels..and I mentioned how If I could make rules in the world I would make men use KILLER heels at least once in their life..

So the taxi driver agreed .. and I told him like .. It’s dumb like we have to go through the labor part and still we keep some other small daily pains..

And that’s when I cracked up .. he said ” Well If I was a woman I wouldn’t have any kids.. at all If I had to because is human I’d had one BUT ONE ONLY.. I would need someone to be with me , i would be desperate it looks so terrible and I would get an operation or something…to never have kids again. I dont know how woman who have one kid keep having them.. ”

And I said ” yeee I agree adoption is always a resource too so many kids without homes.. “

Then I dropped one of those 3 min soups out of my grocery bag..

me:               ” ARGGHH my soup…”

He said …. : ” ahhh which soup..” , ” are those the ones you put in the microwave and are done in a sec? “…

me: Yup , you want one?

40 yr old cab driver: “Yeah, why not thank you”.

Then I got off feeling good not realizing we went from heels to his having birth plans to me giving him a  soup…

am a happy person..

Adieu

                                                                  (From foto_decadent)

… I can make it I just don’t have the time!!! grr… for now I’ll just stare at it and drool for a little bit..

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..people watch too many love movies,read too many love books, listen to too many love songs.

Here’s the scene:

- Place I hate but I had to agree to go….

-  … highlights…(not on me)

- Awkward silences..

- Looking at the clock every 5 mins…

To make a long story short.. I learnt one thing people look, and want a love story.. something out of a Hollywood movie..

I’m sure you knew this.. but it applies to men too..

He asked me about Chemistry .. and I answered that I was concentrated on my tiramisu not looking at any chemistry…

.. and I guess he was offended..

Why does every time one goes out with someone it has to be because your looking for something?

And as I’ve mentioned before.. and when your not looking for anything? then what…

If it’s meant to be from a movie instead of  those romance flicks.. or Gone with the wind..

I want something more Annie Hall…

Her voice, her style everything , she is a walking form of art.. this song I love so much, dancing to it, singing to it…