Necklace and earrings

Leopard Jasper, garnet, tiger eye glass and gold beads. I need a model - this doesn't do the colors justice.

Flowers

Moss agate with green and purple size 6 beads.  I'm not sure I'm happy with the length of the second strand, they hang together pretty closely.
  This second one was a total random play thing.  "Darling buds of May" is pretty corny, and it's not May, but you get the idea.  I can imagine a girl 8-16 liking it:

I cheated

So, you know what I in the face of my new knitting project embargo?

I won on a technicality.  Made jewelry instead.  
Which is harder than it sounds with Indy around.  The necklace is more me, sodalite, pearls, sterling and glass beads.  The earrings are gold plate, glass beads and dichrioic(bi-color) glass.  The sweater with cat face below is the next project in my sights to get finished with.  Wish me luck!

Hope everyone's having nice holidays

It gets hard to keep up with lots of normal life stuff during the holidays (not eating like a pig, exercising, bathing) so my posting gets sporadic.  But my knitting doesn't - in fact, I get time to do more of it, which makes me very happy.  (And, for fun, my spouse and I have decided to try breaking into Mastering the art of French Cooking which is totally awesome and yes, we only stumbled on the idea of this because we watched Julie and Julia.  Love that Meryl Strep.  The Julia parts of the movie made me want to go to France and drink about a 8 gallons of wine.  The other parts of the movie made me want to drink even more wine, but for different reasons.)  So, here are two things I'd love to finish over the break, along with the wristers.  And I've been playing more with making jewelry.  Fusionbeads.com takes Paypal, so if you ever buy anything from me, you can be assured the money goes either to yarn, or to these nice people out on the West coast.
I hope everyone out there gets some time off and to see/talk to the people they love.