Jael's Art Jewels Blog: Inspired by a sunset

Monday, February 4, 2008

Inspired by a sunset

In one of my ebay user groups, there was a muse photo of a colorful sunset. I wound up making a flower cane inspired by the colors in this photo:

I also made a set of beads with these colors in mind, using the same flower cane:

The one problem I had was that I must have grabbed some fimo classic translucent when I was mixing up the packing for the cane, so it wasn't as clear as I wanted it to be. You can see where I cut away some of the packing around the petals in the focal bead. Not much I can do about it now!

I still like the set. I may keep it for myself. (wink)

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Starfish Story
Once a man was walking along a beach.
The sun was shining and it was a beautiful day. Off in the distance he could see a person going back and forth between the surf's edge and and the beach. Back and forth this person went. As the man approached he could see that there were hundreds of starfish stranded on the sand as the result of the natural action of the tide.

The man was struck by the the apparent futility of the task. There were far too many starfish. Many of them were sure to perish. As he approached, the person continued the task of picking up starfish one by one and throwing them into the surf.

As he came up to the person he said, "You must be crazy. There are thousands of miles of beach covered with starfish. You can't possibly make a difference." The person looked at the man. He then stooped down and pick up one more starfish and threw it back into the ocean. He turned back to the man and said, "It sure made a difference to that one!"