Pain.  Pain.  Go away!!!  Come again another day…. cos I know it’s too much to ask that it fuck off for good.  😐

Have woken up this morning feeling like I have been hit by the proverbial truck again!  Want to cry, but don’t have the energy.

But at least I have something to show for my grizzly back condition this morning.  I’ve spent most of my weekend working with Surly at the jewellery bench doing the little pendant that I am making with the diamonds I got for Christmas.  Spent Saturday working on the shape, flattening a bit of gold, sawing out the shape, and filing it until we was happy with the shape.  Sunday was mostly setting the stones….drilling the little holes, and counter sinking them to seat the diamonds, and then pushing the gold around to hold them in.  Quite a lot of this bit Surly had to do himself, as i quite literally don’t have the hand strength for doing the grain setting bit.  Never mind, Surly tells me most jewellers outsource their setting work anyway.  After the setting, beading the background, engraving a bright cut to define the yellow gold edge, final polishing and rhodium plating.

So after all that hunched over at the the bench bit, then standing around on concrete floors, my back hurts quite a bit.  But on the upside, I now have a cute little pendant to show for it..

I’ve been trying to figure out if it still looks like a starfish, because the longer I looked at it over the weekend, it was starting to look like a flower!  And well, a flower won’t go at all with the fish I’ve been wearing for the last few years, (okay maybe like, the last decade) or so.  😐
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