Distinctive Style & Design

I design and make rosaries and jewelry. Check here for new designs and ideas, sometimes before they make it to my web site. For more of my products see my web site: www.RosariesAndJewelryByLaura.com

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Location: Aurora, Colorado, United States

I have been making rosaries for about 29 years, and jewelry for almost as long. I enjoy the whole process from beginning to end, and can usually be found to have a pair of pliers, wire and maybe some kind of beads in my hands, except possibly when I'm sleeping.

Saturday, July 25, 2009

The year that was!

Last year at this time I started on a year of ups and downs that I am very glad is finally getting back to "normal" whatever that is! Because of a lung condition I had to take some medication that I absolutely hate, and along the way ended up with a broken pelvis and fractured vertebrae as side effects of the meds. Thank heavens those have mostly healed. Now, however, I'd embarked on another journey with my teeth. They are having to pull all the teeth I have left and eventually make me dentures. Since I have so little bone in my lower jaw, they had to do a graft this last week when they pulled all the lower teeth. Next week they pull all the top teeth. After another 6 weeks I may have some upper teeth, but it will be at least another 3 months before I have any lower teeth. Did I ever mention that nothing is easy when it comes to dealing with my body and it's health?



On a more positive note, my good friend and "sister" is redoing my web site into one that is more professional. (For some strange reason I have yet to fathom, she actually LIKES to do this!). For my part, I'm working on some new and exciting designs to put up when it's done. I'm having a lot of fun working up new ways to use wire and gemstones as well as having bought some really neat gemstones to make into rosaries.



Along with all of the above, I hope to be able to put some more time into learning new techniques. Last year wasn't too conducive to doing that because moving around physically was hard most of the time. Since that has gotten easier, I'm looking forward to trying my hand at some of the new stuff. It's exciting and scary all at the same time. There are a couple of technical things I need to work out, then I can get started working.



I'm hoping to get some pictures of what I'm working on up soon. My computer crashed and I've been working with a newer one and putting in all the information I lost from the other one. None of it was able to be recovered from my old one, so this is just stuff that has to be done before I can play. Hopefully most of it will be done soon and I can get back to doing what I love--playing with wire, metal and gemstones!

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