I need a new faux name
LightNews LightNews
banner
michele207.bsky.social
I need a new faux name
@michele207.bsky.social
920 followers 1.7K following 2.8K posts
Jeweler with a corporate day job.
❤️ Sea Dogs ⚾ Maine snow standard time data puzzles gardening cozy mysteries legal podcasts minion gifs 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ ❤️

"Strategically pivoting to fuck it" - Last Week Tonight

sweet dreams, y'all

hennesseyjewelry.com
Posts Replies Media Videos
michele207.bsky.social
43.6645516459552, -70.28854705637997 (Portland, Maine)
11:41 EST
Facing ENE
Taken using Night mode on an Android phone.
Deep red aurora borealis with a tree in foreground.
November 12, 2025 at 6:00 AM
michele207.bsky.social
This is from Portland Maine between 11:41pm and 11:55pm. Residential neighborhood with street lights and brightly-lit apartment building next door, so all my eyes could see is a gray haze. My android camera, using night mode, got these. Most pics facing NE, last one is facing S.

#Portland #Aurora
Deep red aurora borealis Wider view of auroral borealis. Reds have faded a bit. House in foreground. Wider view of auroral borealis. Reds have faded a bit. Wider view of auroral borealis. Reds have faded a bit. House in foreground.
November 12, 2025 at 5:15 AM
michele207.bsky.social
I made so many Owl piece for my 2025 Garden Collection - necklaces, earrings, cocktail picks, ring dishes, hair forks.

This isn't even all of them!

#HandMadeJewelry #Owls #HairForks #RingDishes #CocktailPicks #Silver #Copper #Birds #Gifts
Collection of silver and copper jewelry and accessories featuring images of owls.
November 9, 2025 at 4:12 PM
michele207.bsky.social
Helpful Hint:

If you're using the gift link to follow the state Questions, change the view to "Township leader" to see the map displayed by townships instead of by assorted circle sizes. Like this:
Map of Maine showing early voting results for Question 1. The map outlines each township and assigns it a color range depicting the vote share of the winning vote
November 5, 2025 at 1:41 AM
michele207.bsky.social
Turn one dollar into two dollars with your employer's donation matching program.
November 4, 2025 at 1:17 AM
michele207.bsky.social
Maine Craft Association has a membership of over 500 Maine artisans. Their site lists upcoming shows, plus they have a retail store - Center for Maine Craft - at the rest stop in Gardener where 95 and 295 meet. mainecrafts.org

(Note - I am a member of Maine Made and Portland Buy Local)
Picture from the Center for Maine Craft website showing the store interior. There's a rack of cards, glassware and pottery on shelves, woven baskets, woven tapestries, a wood rocking chair, and a round table.
November 3, 2025 at 9:20 PM
michele207.bsky.social
I can't decide if I should put this death's head moth necklace in my Gardens Collection, which is comprised of flowers, birds, garden visitors, and harvest.

Bluesky, what do you think?

#DeathsHeadMoth #Garden #Insects
Copper pendant on a leather chain. The pendant is a three dimensional death's head moth, which is a large moth this a design on it's body that resembles a head. On this pendant, there is a skull design to represent the head part, because this is an art nouveau piece.
November 1, 2025 at 4:20 PM
michele207.bsky.social
If I put blue glass beads on these could I convince anyone they are blue jays and not cardinals?
Sterling silver bird earrings. The bird is a cardinal, one is left facing and the other is right facing. They are on wire earrings with a red glass bead on the wire just above the bird's head.
October 30, 2025 at 2:38 AM
michele207.bsky.social
*slipping in a commercial for my handmade jewelry*

#HandmadeJewelry #baseball #worldseries ❤️ ⚾

(DM me if you need shipping to Canada - I can do that 😀)
Two sterling silver pendants. Left pendant is an old fashioned baseball player in a batter's stance. Right pendant is two crossed bats with a baseball above the bats where they cross. Text at top is Baseball Sterling Silver Pendants.
October 29, 2025 at 2:47 AM
michele207.bsky.social
I'm at studio this afternoon and just finished these little pond creatures pendants. These are the first pieces I've made with the pond designs, and I love them, they're so cute!

#HandmadeJewelry #Pond #GiftsForGardeners #Frog #Lizard #Dragonfly #Beetle #Wasp
Five small round pendant charms made from thick sterling silver. Each has a different pond creature. Lizard, wasp, beetle, dragonfly, and frog.
October 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
michele207.bsky.social
This sparkly little black widow spider pendant is the newest piece in my Gardens Collection.

#HandmadeJewelry #BlueSkyArtShow #Spiders
October 26, 2025 at 5:02 PM
michele207.bsky.social
I'm spending the commercial breaks editing and listing a bunch of baseball stuff that I make. If you or someone you care about loves baseball and you want to support Bluesky artists, here's a preview...

#HandMadeJewelry #RingDish #Earrings #BaseballBat #BaseballPlayer #HolidayGifts
Five baseball themed jewelry pieces and one baseball themed ring dish. Left, top, and center are the same design - an old fashioned baseball player in a batter's stance. Left is a round copper ring dish. Top is a rectangular copper pendant. Center is a stelring silver pendant that's cut in roughly the shape of the player. Top right and bottom center is the same design - two crossed bats and a baseball at the intersection of the two bats. Top right is a rounded rectangular hair tie. Bottom center is a sterling silver pendant. Botton right is a pair of fine silver earrings. A baseball bat hanging from a small loop with a baseball on top of the bat.
October 26, 2025 at 1:06 AM
michele207.bsky.social
Mad props to The Sporting News for how quickly they updated their chart of the longest playoff games in MLB history. Mariners show up 3 times in the top 8 games. Seems you Seattle folks likes this extra-innings stuff 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

www.sportingnews.com/us/mlb/news/...
A chart showing the teams, series, date, innings, game length, and final score of the top 8 longest major league baseball postseason games. Teams Series Date Innings Game Length Result Red Sox vs. Dodgers World Series Oct. 26, 2018 18 innings 7 hours, 20 minutes Dodgers win 3-2 Giants vs. Nationals NLDS Oct. 4, 2014 18 innings 6 hours, 23 minutes Giants win 2-1 Mariners vs. Astros ALDS Oct. 15, 2022 18 innings 6 hours, 22 minutes Astros win 1-0 Braves vs. Astros NLDS Oct. 9, 2005 18 innings 5 hours, 50 minutes Astros win 7-6 Mets vs. Astros NLCS Oct. 15, 1986 16 innings 4 hours, 42 minutes Mets win 7-6 Braves vs. Mets NLCS Oct. 17, 1999 15 innings 5 hours, 46 minutes Mets win 4-3 Mariners vs. Yankees ALDS Oct. 4, 1995 15 innings 5 hours, 12 minutes Yankees win 7-5 Tigers vs. Mariners ALCS Oct. 10, 2025 15 innings 4 hours, 58 minutes Mariners win 3-2
October 11, 2025 at 5:30 AM
michele207.bsky.social
Fuuuuccccckkkkk.....

This is the affordable place in Portland to go for good seafood, and I love their sweet potato fries. Little Hitler ruins everything.
Screen shot of Portland Press Herald newspaper headline. "Susan's Fish n Chips closing in Portland after 36 years. The owner cited the challenge of rising costs.
October 4, 2025 at 10:50 PM
michele207.bsky.social
From the West End to Sebago Lake, the roads of home.

#TheRoad #BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin #PortlandMaine
View out an airplane window of Portland Maine. The West End neighborhood is in the foreground, then the sports complexes and Deering Park, the University of Southern Maine and Back Cove, then the suburbs. In the distance at the very top is Sebago Lake and the so-called mountains.
September 28, 2025 at 3:12 AM
michele207.bsky.social
A couple of fun keychains for #TheRoad

#BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin #AntiqueRoadster #Bicycle #KeyChain
Copper keychain. The square shape has soft corners and rounded edges. The design is stamped mountains and stars in the background and a raised design of an open-top antique roadster in the foreground. Copper keychain. The square shape has soft corners and rounded edges. The design is stamped mountains and stars in the background and a raised design of a bicycle in the foreground.
September 28, 2025 at 2:51 AM
michele207.bsky.social
So close to finishing tonight. I just need to set 3 stones and put ear wires on the earrings. I'll finish tomorrow, then a custom order, one more late inspiration flower pendant, then I start on the "Garden Visitors" collection 🐝 🦋 🦌 🧚 🐞

#EastCoastKin #Flowers #Gifts #HandmadeJewelry #Garden
Sterling silver jewelry, mostly pendants and one pair of earrings. There's a small basket of flowers - two are earrings and one is a pendant. A sunflower with a yellow citrine gemstone. Two roses and leaves with a pink gemstone center. Another large rose with two leaves an a big deep-red stone. And two flowers that are just solid sterling silver.
September 27, 2025 at 4:36 AM
michele207.bsky.social
I usually oxidize sterling silver pieces, but I like the natural silver color for these lighter color pendants. The sunflower hair fork also has enough detail that it works well without oxidizing.

#EastCoastKin #Flowers #ForgetMeNot #Sunflower #BlueFlowers #HandmadeJewelry
Three sterling silver jewelry pieces below the words "Flowers in bloom 2025 garden collection". Top left is a pendant with a lampwork glass stone. The stone is pale blue with a white forget me not flower in the center. Above the stone there are two small silver forget me nots. Bottom left is a pendant with a lampwork glass stone. The glass is green around the edge and pale yellow in the center. There are three blue flowers in the yellow part. Above the stone there is a silver leaf. On the right is a silver hair fork. The design at the top is all silver - sunflower with a yellow citrine gemstone in the middle of the flower and framed in a pointed oval shape.
September 25, 2025 at 12:12 AM
michele207.bsky.social
Nautical-themed hair forks with blue topaz gemstones representing the sky for #BlueSkyMonday

#EastCoastKin #HairFork #Topaz #HandmadeJewelry #Nautical
Sterling silver hair fork with two sterling silver design elements and a gemstone. Left to right there is a single mast sailboat, a topaz gemstone with a faceted top, and a lighthouse. The topaz is a darker blue called London Blue. Sterling silver hair fork with two sterling silver design elements and a gemstone. Left to right there is a compass rose, a topaz gemstone with a faceted top, and an anchor. The topaz is a medium blue called Swiss Blue.
September 23, 2025 at 12:28 AM
michele207.bsky.social
My first act to celebrate the end of 'bitching about the awful weather every day' season was to head to the Eastern Prom and look at this for a spell.

#PortlandMaine #BlueSkyMonday
This is a view of Casco Bay from the Eastern Prom in Portland, Maine. There are trees in the foreground, the middle third is blue water with seven sail boats, then there's a silver of an island in the bay. The top part of the photo is blue sky.
September 22, 2025 at 9:56 PM
michele207.bsky.social
My nice evening in my jewelry studio ended with me deciding that I didn't like one of my pendant designs.

Wish it had happened before I started cutting the silver instead of after I finished and set the stones, but shit happens, ya know?🤷‍♀️

I do like hair forks I finished, though 😀
Pair of hair forks with lamp work glass stones set at the top of the fork. The left one is a large oval with 3 flowers - yellow, green, and lavender - with a milky white background with gray swirls. The left one is round with a scalloped bezel. The stone is pale yellow with three flowers - orange, red, and purple - and swirls of dark green along the edge.
September 22, 2025 at 3:23 AM
michele207.bsky.social
1/2 Deer Hair Sagenite Pendant

Open back sterling setting lets you see through the stone. Bits of 14K gold are melted on the teardrop loop to enhance the stone's golden tones. See next post for stone info.

#BlueSkyArtShow #Angles
#EastCoastKin
#HandmadeJewelry #SterlingSilverPendant #OneofaKind
Sterling silver pendant. The focus of the pendant is a stone in a modified triangle shape - the two short sides are straight and the long side is gently curved to form an arch. The stone is set on a teardrop shaped round wire and at an angle so the arch is at the top. The wire has little globs of fourteen karat gold melted onto it. The stone is a milky white and inside it are fine, straight dendrites that look like brown hair.
September 20, 2025 at 11:50 PM
michele207.bsky.social
*scrolls madly through 857,942 photos to find one of Zakim Bridge because everyone who drives through Boston eventually takes a photo of this bridge*

#BlueSkyArtShow #Angles
#EastCoastKin #Boston #Bridge
The Zakim Bridge in Boston. Taken from the highway, approaching the bridge, this angle shows the nearest concrete pillar almost head-on, with the far pillar almost obscured. The pillars form a roughly 30 degree angle and join to form a sigle tower at the top. The cables on this bridge are white and go from the base of the bridge up to the pillars. On the left edge of the photo there's an apartment building with balconies, and in the forground there's a highway sign showing the off ramp for Logan Airport and the Callahan Tunnel.
September 20, 2025 at 3:12 PM
michele207.bsky.social
A desert mountain glows brightly as the sun rises on this one of a kind pendant. Rainbow Wonderstone (Rhyolite) and Citrine set on a stamped sterling silver pendant.

#BlueSkyArtShow #Angles
#EastCoastKin
#HandmadeJewelry #SterlingSilverPendant #OneofaKind
#MaineJewelry
Sterling silver pendant designed to represent a mountain in the desert glowing from a rising sun. The main stone is an offset triangle shape, it has narrow horizontal bands of pinks, oranges, and yellows. To the upper right of the stone there's a rond citrine gemstone, which is yellow. The bottom third of the silver background is stamped with small dots and lines to represent a desert and the horizon. The top third of the sivler background is stampes with small curved shapes to represent birds in flight. The top edge of the silver is three gentle curves meant to represent the upper edges of clounds.
September 20, 2025 at 2:47 PM
michele207.bsky.social
Sonoran Dendritic Rhyolite is from Sonora, Mexico. 'Rhyolite' is a rock formed from silica-rich lava. 'Dendritic' refers to the feathery pattern in the stone. The dendrites in this stone remind me of cascading wisteria.

#RockInTuesday #EastCoastKin #HandmadeJewelry #OneOfAKind
Sterling silver pendant. This is a heart shaped stone set in a fancy bezel called crown gallery bezel wire. This is because the wire looks like the top, pointed edges of a fancy crown. These pointed edges hold the stone is place. The stone is a pale pink with details called dendrites. Dendrites look like a pattern of fine feathers. The dendrites in this stone are a very dark pink. They fan out across the top of the stone a down toward the middle, so they look like branches of a flower-covered vine. The parts of the stone behind the dendrites are white, which makes their dark color stand out more.
September 10, 2025 at 12:34 AM