Well, I suck at blogging

I'm not very good at updating my blog on a regular basis, apparently. I will try to work on that, as I feel there is no point to having a blog in the first place if one does not update it regularly. ::grin::


Alright, onto some updates.


1. My birthday was this past weekend. It was a tad bit depressing, but I will share the good details... I got two new (well, antique really) rings. I am very excited about this. I have a pretty big obsession with collecting antique jewelry -- primarily rings -- so I was excited when my mother saw one of the rings I was eying but wasn't about to spend that amount of money on....
Pictures!!!

This one I bought for myself. It's a rather large blue topaz stone set in sterling silver. I love it. I love how bright and shiny and huge it is... gawd... I'm such a girl.

This one is a bit harder to see, and the photo certainly doesn't do the ring justice. This one my mom bought for me. It's a white gold ring with diamonds and white gold filigree. It has a very intricate pattern to it and is so beautiful to look at. I absolutely love this ring. If I can get a better picture of it later, I will post it.

Over the weekend, I discovered an amazing new place to display my artwork and experiment with new techniques. There is this website called "ratemydrawings" and it's great because you can draw on the site's own photoshop-esque program and then... (this is the best part)... you can watch your drawings played back to you. You can navigate through the site and see other artists' work and you can watch how they did it and then rate their work. It's a wonderful concept, and I will be spending a lot of time there from now on.


Oh... and just because... here are my cousins and I... making asses out of ourselves (a few years ago). Enjoy! :)



**The top picture in this post is one I made a year or so ago. You can see more on my Deviantart profile HERE.