Inspiration

I know I've been slacking in the blog department here....I'm still trying to get a handle on all this.
Looks like I'm just in time to get one posted for the month of August.

I wanted to talk a little about my history with books since they are an inspiration to my designs.

I started reading at about 3 years old and have never looked back. My dad had a huge book collection and  I remember taking some books off of his shelf and reading them. I remember an adult horror book called Came A Spider that I read at about 4th grade.

Yes, I still have the book. Through the years my dad has gotten rid of a lot of books so I have acquired a some of them.  I started Stephen King because of him. I remember seeing that silver shiny book called The Shining on the shelf.  (I have that now as well).
I'm not sure how people get into reading the genres that they do, but for myself I can say I started horror as far back as elementary school with unknowing help from dad.  This is my Stephen King bookshelf as it stands now.

The 2nd shelf has the Anne Rice Vampire Chronicles but I am sure that will get booted sooner or later as I need room for more King!  All the rest of my books are scattered about the house and garage in cabinets and shelves.  I wanted to incorporate my love of books into my jewelry and this is what I am doing....

This is taken from Pet Sematary = Sometimes Dead Is Better

Also a Poe inspired piece,

Nevermore.

I hope you will continue to follow me on my journey of jewelry making and reading!

Any comments are welcome, I'd love to hear your own stories of books or anything, really :)