Mhoti Studio

Today is Friday the 13th.  Tammy Adams from Paisley Lizard set this blog hop up, made a whole slew of polymer clay pendants and shared them with a group of jewellery artists.  What a sweetie. It is now our mission to make something in keeping with superstitions and to share it on our own blogs as part of this Superstition  Hop Now a lot of people fear the number 13, and especially as a date when it lands on a Friday.  I'm NOT one of them . I have always had very LUCKY Friday 13th's.  In fact it's often one of my luckiest days, a day when things always seem to go right. Some folks don't like black cats. Again I'm NOT one of them, I LOVE black cats, and have shared my home(s) with them since childhood. Ladders ? Don't walk under them something bad will befall you! Mirrors ? Don't break one or 7 years of bad luck will come to you! Spill salt ? throw some more over your shoulder! Step on a crack ? you'll break your mothers back.! superstitions ...

Holy smokes where has the year gone? It's halfway through October already.  That means it's time for the DANSE MACABRE blog hop.  It's hosted by Lee Koopman of   Strega Jewellry She has put together a group of artists that are making something to do with  The Dance of Death (danse macabre) I chose to interpret this in a friendly way not a dark and dangerous way  as I am a chicken shit when it comes to scary things.  I made some earrings for a monthly challenge and while designing them I decided to carry it a step further and make a co-ordinating necklace.  But how to take a dark garnet swirl and make it macabre?  I added a leather bat to it.   I just love my leather scraps stash .  After sketching a bat I then had to transfer it onto the black leather.   I cut out the pattern placed it on the reverse side and traced around it with a silver marker. (It was the only thing that would show on ...