I have had my head in this PC trying to get my website designed and ready for content, but I took a little time to make something special for my oldest daughter’s birthday, between ring orders and a few simple chain orders.
Order of the Dragonfly Necklace: sterling silver, 22k gold, labradorite, and sugilite.
1itt1e5mith(11:25AM): Papa, RU online?
CosmicFolklore(11:27AM): Yeppers
1itt1e5mith(11:28AM):can I have a pitbull?
CosmicFolklore(11:29AM):Nope
1itt1e5mith(11:34AM): Can I pierce my lip?
1itt1e5mith(11:45AM):Can I get a tatto?
CosmicFolklore(11:46AM): You misspelled tattoo.
1itt1e5mith(11:49AM): May I go to the Janes Addiction concert 4 my birthday?
CosmicFolklore(11:52AM):Are you working on that chain? I have to have that finished by tomorrow. And, I’ve already told you I was taking you to the concert.
1itt1e5mith(11:54AM): TESTY!!!
CosmicFolklore(11:57AM):Look, I already have your birthday covered as far as presents. Now, I have the sketches ready for you to cut those two labradorite cabs.
1itt1e5mith(11:59AM): We need more of the pinkstuff. Did you get me a spider? I the big brown one that we saw at jungle mungle
CosmicFolklore(12:00PM):Cerrium Oxide, Its in the blue jar below the laps. Just scoop some out into the smaller jar and add some water.
1itt1e5mith(12:05PM): K
1itt1e5mith(12:10PM): Didyou get me that MRC shirt?
CosmicFolklore(12:15PM):OMG!!! can you not wait?!!
1itt1e5mith(12:16PM): Every year I just get a bike and U promiced something different.
1itt1e5mith(12:19PM): Can i have friends stay over on my birthday. its on a friday this year :o)
1itt1e5mith(12:21PM): Why cant i have a pitbull
1itt1e5mith(12:27PM): Can I have a mountain lion? Sunshine’s dad got her a one.
1itt1e5mith(12:29PM): Was this the only slab of lab?
CosmicFolklore(12:29PM): WAS??!!!!!! >:(
1itt1e5mith(12:30PM): Just checkin to c if Ure there, lol:o)
1itt1e5mith(12:42PM): Where do babies come from?
1itt1e5mith(12:49PM): Can i have a baby?
1itt1e5mith(12:59PM): Do you want me to cut this sugarlite 2?
CosmicFolklore(12:59PM): No, I will cut that (sugalite). Just cut the lab and stay exact to those drawings.
1itt1e5mith(1:00PM): But it looks so sweet like sugar :o)
1itt1e5mith(1:59PM): The cabs are done, will get chain now, byzateen?
CosmicFolklore(2:01PM): Cool, yes Byzantine
1itt1e5mith(2:19PM): What do you say about thesleep over? plllllzzzzzzzzzz….
1itt1e5mith(2:25PM): I hate making chain, do I have to pull the wire too?
CosmicFolklore(2:27PM): 18g yes, the drawplate is under the mill.
1itt1e5mith(2:45PM): I want to be a rockstar when I am older.
1itt1e5mith(2:47PM): This sux
CosmicFolklore(2:47PM): lol, I remember saying the same thing at 11
1itt1e5mith(2:47PM): 12
CosmicFolklore(2:49PM): not yet
CosmicFolklore(2:55PM): OK, you can pierce your butt, face, lips, whatever; tattoo a swatzticha on your forehead (for all I care) when you are old enough to have your own job, where they are too stupid to care what you look like.
CosmicFolklore(2:56PM): We already have a dog that you whine about having to feed. A pitbull would eat him.
CosmicFolklore(2:57PM): babies come from getting too close to boys and catching boy bacteria
such as sperm.
CosmicFolklore(2:57PM): No 12 years are not allowed to have them. The middle school
says so.
CosmicFolklore(2:58PM): No spiders…. PERIOD!
CosmicFolklore(2:58PM): You can have one friend stay the night, and there is no such person as Sunshine. She cannot possibly have a Mt lion.
CosmicFolklore(2:59PM): HERE is the jacket that I had made for you
CosmicFolklore(3:02PM): HERE is the necklace that I made for you
1itt1e5mith(3:15PM): Thank you !!!!!
1itt1e5mith(3:15PM): You’re the best Papa ever!!!!
CosmicFolklore (3:18PM):do you remember picking out the fabric for that?
1itt1e5mith(3:19PM): Yes!!! :o)
CosmicFolklore(3:21PM): I don’t mind if you want to look unique, but I thought this would be more original than wearing nasty hoodies with all of those skull MCR shirts. I also know that you like vampires, but you are just too beautiful to be wearing spiders and such. Think of it as an Order of the Dragonfly instead of Dragon :o)
1itt1e5mith (3:24PM): Like Vlad, Prince of Wallachia
CosmicFolklore(3:26PM): or, his myth, or lore :o) (Folklore)
1itt1e5mith (3:34PM): Cosmic, man
CosmicFolklore(3:35PM): :o)
1itt1e5mith (3:37PM): Can I be an actress when I grow up?
CosmicFolklore(3:38PM): I WANT THAT CHAIN!!! FINISHED!!!
1itt1e5mith (3:39PM): Jeepers! I cant wait till U get that website finished. It’s making you so darn testy :o)
1itt1e5mith (5:31PM): Can I make asparagus tonight 4 dinner?
Also, I had this made for her, and traded a hand forged ring for it.
Sorry for being so texty, LOL. Just wanted to make a statement on the conditions of communicating with our children in a hi-tech world. :o)
And, yes, she finished the cabs and the chain. I wish that I could say the about me and my new website, LOL.
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Alana 04.13.09 at 4:13 am
I love your jewelry designs! Very nice, and this post certainly was fun to read. I can relate big time! I wish you the best with getting your website up and running.
Michael Johnson 04.13.09 at 10:22 am
Thanks Alana,
I am probably over-complicating my web. I am the pickiest client that I have ever built a web for :o)
LOL, and it still amazes me that I can be in the next room or on the porch working online, and she will “text” me. I think one day we will all only communicate with bad English and IM’s. LOL.
Judy in Kansas 04.14.09 at 12:03 am
Really fly - both the neckpiece and jacket. She is the luckiest girl ever!! Her chain is pretty darn fine too.
Michael Johnson 04.14.09 at 9:04 am
Thanks Judy,
The chain was made by her little sister (9 years old). She started making these when she was 7 watching me teach a class on Viking weaves. She sat in the corner watching and playing with some copper wire. After the class, she brought me her weave and it was better than most of my students. I use her as an example of how anyone can do these for my reluctant or unsure students. But, she is just now getting to where I can use her weaves in my designs. It takes a consistent weave of consistent spacing to make a quality weave that I can use in my designs for the public.
Jerry Fowler 04.14.09 at 4:52 pm
That is a really fine piece of jewelery! Nice threads too. Just wait until they start driving and texting. That will scare the bejesus out of you.
Michael Johnson 04.14.09 at 7:17 pm
Well, they see me pull over to talk on the cell, and I hand the phone to them to text for me while I drive. So, maybe monkey see, monkey do, will kick in by the time they have to make those choices :o)
Besides, I haven’t decided if I will buy them a car. I think teens should have to work to pay for it themselves.
Teens with cars and extra spending money = trouble :o)
kaytaylor 04.17.09 at 11:22 am
Michael,
No worries w/ YOUR two daughters! How can they not know how much you love and cherish them? Your work is terrific, Michael, not excluding the two girls. Be sure to keep us posted w/ your work & your daughters’ progress.
In high school, our two always had to ask to use a car. No “gift” cars for them until soph. yr. in college, and they were not new; then option to buy from us after graduation/job. Tough in high school when most all of their friends seem to have their own cars — paid by their parents. Could go on & on about this topic, but won’t.
Michael Johnson 04.17.09 at 8:11 pm
Thank you Kay,
My dad owned the town jewelry store, and yet he never gave me anything. He bought a 74 Pinto and made me work to buy it from him. But, I have very fond memories of that car. And, we used to work together to supe it up. At the time I was very jealous of his Montecalro SS that he never let me drive. But, now, looking back, I am very grateful. And, I learned a lot about cars and working.
Thanks, I will do my best to keep you guys posted. I am anxious to get Sage to the point where she is making complete designs, so that I can show her work off :o)