Year of Jewelry Week 5

It seems like the little critters are walking all over my jewelry designs lately, I can't seem to keep them off my workbench. It must be my son's influence: he has a million of these plastic animals in his room -- maybe they are magically transforming themselves into silver so they can rest from his antics a bit...

This is another pin that I started at Connie's class but didn't have time finish until now. It used essentially the same technique of a safety pin construction, but the body of the pin is made into a snake wavy design, which reminded me a little lizard...

Gecko, gecko, get out of here...