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They sent me home with some sample molds. This is SO AWESOME guys. Went I took at Metals class at my bague argent femme medaille school, it was all with hand toolseven for the advanced students. For lost wax casting, students had to use a flex shaft to carve the one use wax mold by hand.

This studio creates molds in a CAD software (3D modeling) to the customer’s specifications. They then either mill a mold and inject it with wax (the left blue ring) or print it with resin in a 3D printer (the red onewhich was a setting for a ginormous stone and I got to try on the real ring!). The molds are then placed in dentist plaster, the wax/resin is melted, and the molten silver, gold, or other metal is poured in.

I had this puzzle box that my brother printed in my purse, since I was showing it to my grandpa during that trip. iphone 11 case The jewelers were fascinated by it bracelet argent ado and it led to a really cool discussion about the different kinds of new technologies out there.

Since I love bague argent homme 2016 jewelry so much, and love it even more that I’ve seen a real designer’s studio, I started looking around for jobs at jewelers’ for the summer since bracelet argent amour I can’t find any graphic design internships. I really hope my leads turn out. coque iphone 11 Working at a jeweler’s would be an amazing experience.

Farewell, 2014. coque samsung This is my year in books. It is one of my shortest booklists ever, with giant blocks of audiobooks (and podcasts) representing long drives and homework hours for my art and design classes.

I’m a little bit hard of hearing, and I’ve never been good at understanding people during phone calls.

Last year, during my c a bague argent bracelet argent infini personnalisé Drawing I class, we were allowed to listen to our headphones. I started listening to the Harry Potter audiobooks. I started off listening to books I’ve read already, and over 2014 I worked up to listening to new books. I still have a hard time hearing and retaining all of the information, but I can proudly say that I’ve listened to The Great Gatsby without having read it first and I followed along just fine! Listening to books is a very different experience, but I enjoy having something entertaining/intellectual to do while drawing, and my arthus bertrand bracelet argent listening skills have been improving dramatically. I can now follow along with conversations in our noisy dining hall without getting headaches!

It’s so interesting to go back and revisit these titles and the real life stories I experienced over this last year. custom iphone 11 case My hope is that over this next year I will have the energy to savor some classics I’ve always wanted to read. Which of these books have you read and do you have any recommendations for 2015

Last semester was a rough one. Despite having amazing friends and great activities every which way, by the end of the semester I lived each day simply to see it done and mark off items on my “to do” list. It was a variety of things: having 27 hours of classes a week (plus homework), getting behind on work for my Shoppe, bracelet argent luxe and (most predominately) some very bad experiences with a certain professor.

On the face of the matter, I did well. I’m maintaining a good GPA. I took calculus for the sake of learning calculus and expected to barely pass the class, but thanks to help from my professor and a math teacher in training friend, I got an A! (Plus it’s really fascinating, sooooo.) I was active at my campus ministry, found some time to bague argent karen hang out with friends, and even stayed on track with laundry. In Color Theory, I painted pieces that I am fairly proud of, and in my Literature gen ed called Heroic Quest I finally had a chance to study and discuss some deep philosophical pieces.

Outward appearances aren’t everything, though, and I was restless, overwhelmed, bracelet argent maille alternée and disillusioned. Praying, thinking, tinkering, reading, writing, and drawing random things in my sketchbook took prix bague argent saphir a backseat. star wars iphone 11 case Several of my classes were unfulfilling and in many ways a colossal waste of time and money. (My parents ruined bracelet argent breloque coeur me for school by teaching me to love learning; I would much rather get a B in a class that I learned a lot from than a perfect grade because I wasn’t challenged). I even became irritated at good friends because I have ebay bracelet argent ancien a hard time saying no and felt a lot of pressure to always be doing things. Put me in a group setting and I will talk to everyonebut the biggest thing that I learned from last semester is that I need alone time to refocus. coque huawei (Also I need more than five hours of sleep to keep from panicking).

My biggest goal for this semester is to allow myself to unapologetically take time for myself. iphone 11 case for girls It is the times that I feel I should be doing everything that I need to step back. I’m usually not the kind of person to spend five hours on Netflix when I am overwhelmed; I am the kind of person who will just do more things. Jack of all trades, master of none, and a very discontent Jack at that. coque iphone 6 pas cher There are a lot of very good things in my life right now, far outweighing my legitimately stressful problems. Isn’t it possible to make the most of every opportunity and also stop to smell the flowers

Speaking of working on my Shoppe full time, my dad built me a workroom!!! THIS IS THE BEST GIFT EVER! Well, okay, not literally ever, bracelet argent et fil as my parents have given me many wonderful bracelet argent plat homme gifts over the years, including, you know, being a part of solde bracelet argent pandora this family . but. this is so exciting you don’t even understand. coque iphone We partitioned off a corner of the separate garage, and I have a workbench and cabinet and shelves and office space and I AM SO EXCITED. coque iphone 8 pas cher This is especially nice to have my own space to bracelet argent montre cluse work in, with natural lightmy sister and I bague argent 5th avenue are in a smaller bedroom now and the “back room” in the basement is awfully musty. I’ve barely left my workroom since we finished building it, guys!

I am moving from Artfire to Etsy, and in the process I am putting several items on sale! These sales still have one or two unsold pieces, so check them out. coque iphone 5s Both are for 50% off. More information on these sales are on my facebook page.

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I can barely believe that my freshman year of college is over. So much has happened, and so much has changed in my life, that it is overwhelming to even think of discussing it without spending hours upon hours doing so. iphone case Life is like that; it’s bracelet argent patine so full that no matter what you do, you can’t fully share your experiences with anyone. Sometime I’d like to write deep words about this past year, but right now my life is so full of new things to do, and old friends to get back bracelet argent 20 cm in touch with, that I won’t butcher it by attempting to.

One thing that is very, very nice about being back home: being back home. I love my family. Being away from home, our local parish, bracelet argent 3 chaines and local groups of family friends is making me realize more and more what a blessing it is to be part of a big, eccentric, sarcastic, loving, geeky family. I also love living out “in the country” (even though we aren’t far from town).