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Orion Designs: April 2013

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Saturday, April 6, 2013. I've been making these cookies for about a year. My friend Christine. Gave me the recipe and it is ridiculously simple. She was going gluten free and these cookies satisfied the need that she often felt for traditional cookies. Me? I just think they're delicious and have no plans to go gluten free. 2 cups almond meal/flour *. Press into a very well greased 11 x 7 pan. If you don't have that size pan, you can use a square pan. It may take a few more minutes to cook. I've purchased...

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Orion Designs: Customer Expectations

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Wednesday, November 13, 2013. Many of you know that I have been selling my jewelry on etsy. Since 2007. My 7th anniversary is coming up in February. I've been selling my jewelry for much longer than that in person - since 1997. Since the beginnings of my online selling, I've included length measurements in inches and centimeters. Is it possible that people have stopped reading descriptions thoroughly? Or is it that reading the phrase, "these earrings are 1 1/2" long" has no meaning without a visual?

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Orion Designs: November 2013

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Friday, November 22, 2013. How I revamped my craft show set-up this year. Here's a little detail on the new earring display I bought from Rio Grande. I invested in this little number from Rio Grande:. It holds 48 pairs of carded earrings and does not make a huge "footprint" on my table. I use each side to highlight a specific earring design. I chose 4 designs that deserve to be highlighted: glass triangles. Just pearls, hoops and enamels. Wednesday, November 13, 2013. Something happened fairly recently t...

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Orion Designs: Triangles and Wire

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Thursday, February 21, 2013. Sometimes the simplest jewelry designs are the most enduring. Back in November I did a blog post. About resurrecting an old style of earrings that I got tired of making. In that post I proclaimed that I would work on those earrings the very next week. HA! Three months later, I finally did it. I need to remember to NOT commit to such tight time frames any more. Cobalt blue, transparent, large, sterling silver. In the center: red, transparent, small, gold filled. I'm not sure w...

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Orion Designs: March 2013

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Thursday, March 28, 2013. Working By the Batch. Today started out slow and I was sure I would get very little done. With Rick out of town (he reached California safely yesterday), Jet has been very needy and I've been indulging him. By this afternoon, we had just about enough of each other and I got serious about making some necklaces. This collection of pendants were all made within a few hours - I was on a roll! Just tell me which one and what length! Thursday, March 14, 2013. In preparation of making ...

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Orion Designs: New Earring Display

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Friday, November 22, 2013. How I revamped my craft show set-up this year. Here's a little detail on the new earring display I bought from Rio Grande. I invested in this little number from Rio Grande:. It holds 48 pairs of carded earrings and does not make a huge "footprint" on my table. I use each side to highlight a specific earring design. I chose 4 designs that deserve to be highlighted: glass triangles. Just pearls, hoops and enamels. November 22, 2013 at 8:41 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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Orion Designs: July 2013

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Sunday, July 14, 2013. A Sale in My Etsy Shop! Hey guys - I'm having a sale in my etsy shop. You can use coupon code SUMMER20 to get 20% off your entire order through Tuesday July 16! If you haven't visited recently, there are plenty of new items for you to choose from. Here's a small selection of what you will find in my shop. Black Onyx Earrings with Mixed Metals. London Blue Topaz and Peridot Earrings. Copper Rutilated Quartz Necklace. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Promote Your Page Too. 29 FACES DAY 5.

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Orion Designs: Enamel Components

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Saturday, October 26, 2013. I've been working on some simple enamel components for earrings and necklaces. I want the focus of these pieces to be the color, hence the super-simple designs. I did a blog post. A week or 2 ago about making copper circles for this enameling session. Now I'll show you how some of them look with COLOR. I have another earring series to complete. These will be double dangles - one circle hanging below another. I'm planning some very fun color combinations for those! These compon...

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Orion Designs: May 2013

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Thursday, May 30, 2013. A Walk In the Woods. We found some concrete survey markers with brass plates dating back to 1922. For some reason, this excited me to no end. To think that my little rustic neighborhood was being explored back then kind of gave me the chills. Who were these people that did the surveying? This is the first one we found:. If you can't read it, it says US Coast and Geodetic Survey. Click on the photo to get a larger image and you can read the rest of the information. Every once in a ...