Blue light? Ring. 21/21.

I keep making my pieces at night, and even when I finish on time, sometimes it seems to take forever to get the images uploaded. I might have to start leaving the blog for the next morning and just getting some sleep! As it is, I seem to be sitting up half the night wrestling with file uploads and then backdating my blog entries to fit the date the piece was made. One day I will actually make it to the studio in the morning, as has been my intention all along. Mostly it seems not to happen, because I haven't slept the previous night, so I end up spending hours in bed in which it would be smarter to be awake and productive, and hours working and blogging when it would be far wiser to be asleep. I've always had a natural tendency to be a bit of a night owl, so this cycle becomes habit all too easily.
Let's see if I can break it this week. I would like to do so before the Fringe Festival starts in Perth, as there are shows I want to see, mostly late at night, and I can't be doing that then coming home to make things. Need to be creative in the morning, go out at night, then come home and sleep.
The challenge within the challenge - and I thought the actual making things was going to be the difficult part!

So, this was day 6 of my Artificial Colours & Flavours Week, and I stayed with the Gooshy Grips. A family member suggested a Gooshy ring, so that's where I went. It's a fairly large band this time - still only 3mm wide by about 1.7mm thick, but I've made it a size X (inside diameter 20.8mm). It fits my middle finger quite comfortably, so would fit a larger hand. Looking at it with my post-creation critical eyes, I think the band should have been a bit wider for this one, for visual balance. Also, those end caps could have done with being slightly bigger across the diameter, or maybe I could have made little bezel cups instead. Something with a more secure looking hold on the gooshy. Not that it's going anywhere - the rivet is good and tight - but it would be better to be sure the edges weren't going to pop out, as I've not glued them or anything. Easy enough to push back into place if it moves though. It would just be better that there was no chance at all of it happening. Still, these are prototype pieces and I'm learning plenty in the making of them. What I currently lack in finesse I'll hopefully have gained before the year is too much older.

Blue Lantern Ring. Gooshy grip, sterling silver.

This was one of those days in the studio we all have now and again. Nothing went right the first time. Several things didn't go right the second or third time either. I'm not going to tell you how many times I had to solder that ring band! (And that was the easy part of the job!) I got there though. Sometimes it pays to persevere. Other times it's best to just down tools and walk away from it for a few hours, or even a day or two, and do something else. So far I haven't had to do that. Unless you count the days when I set out to do one thing, then changed my mind and made something else instead. It's a good thing I'm not working on specific orders for clients with particular wishes and deadlines!