Heather and Greg

On Saturday Heather had the opportunity to take a class in making jewelry with Precious Metal Clay (or PMC for short). She used silver PMC and although it's still 99.9% pure it is in a form that is moldable like play-dough. It is the perfect grown-up art project.



This is a shot of the pendant in process. It's been molded rolled, cut out with an exacto knife, punched with straws and dried in a food dehydrator for a few minutes. Now it sits awaiting a sanding, as well as the gem mounting. The circle on the right is the jump ring and it will be just fired along with the pendant in the kiln for 20 minutes.





Here is the finished pendant. I haven't put the jump ring on it yet, but its been polished and given a petina to make the silver look less shiny and more aged. The detail also shows up better.




Heather models her new earrings in this picture. They were rolled onto a pattern, cut out using two circular cookie cutters. The process was the same as the pendant minus a few steps. No gem mounting, and no petina treatment were used.






A close up of one of the earrings. The other earring was done so the pattern flows horizontal instead of vertical for a different effect.

Our local community college hosted a Fall Festival event this weekend and Enlightek was one of the featured booths. There were all sorts of businesses from accountants to volunteer organizations looking for volunteers. We were the only computer support company there, thankfully. The event also had entertainment like the moon bounce seen in the corner of the first picture, a guy on stilts, clowns, and a local kids dance troupe who did a latin dance of some sort for like an hour (those kids must've been tired!). See below for a few pictures of the day.

Greg at his firt booth ever. Doesn't he look like the proud business owner :).

He had a raffle to encourage people to see his booth, and to donate some money to charity. Of course nobody chose to entry the raffle twice so we didn't collect a single dollar.

A close up of the table and Greg. We were giving away all sorts of little freebies. I loved the computer stress balls! So did a lot of people who came by getting handfuls for their grandkids/friends etc. They aren't free to us people!!!

The good wife supporting her hubby and helping man the booth.

The kids dancing around the parking lot. I swear they were dancing for an hour.

Labor Day weekend was spent pretty relaxed this year. Greg worked, I did housework and cooking, but we did find time for a bit of fun.


On Saturday I went up to B-more for Tina's birthday pool party. It was a gorgeous day, but alas, I didn't go swimming. I love this picture because Sebastian is in the background making rounds, ha!



We had a bbq at our house with a small group of family and friends. Here my niece Ella is trying on my Grandpa's cowboy hat. It typically sits on the saddle in the picture behind her. Grandpa wore that hat almost every day, but had a separate hat (Stetson) for fancy occasions.














Yep, that's right, I'm a kid magnet! Just before this shot both kids were in my lap. Ella decided she didn't want to share, but still stayed close by, so funny.



Eva, Lindsay and the pups who LOVE Eva. I mean they think she's just the bees knees. Otto would lick her till the cows come home if we let him.