<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss xmlns:atom='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' version='2.0'><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7483489705804864016</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 02:51:51 +0000</lastBuildDate><title>Sandra's Blog</title><description></description><link>http://matasick.com/blog.html</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (Sandra Matasick)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>8</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7483489705804864016.post-3891044192452985389</guid><pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 02:51:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-03-24T19:51:51.265-07:00</atom:updated><title>This blog has moved</title><description>&lt;br /&gt;       This blog is now located at http://matasick.blogspot.com/.&lt;br /&gt;       You will be automatically redirected in 30 seconds, or you may click &lt;a href='http://matasick.blogspot.com/'&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;       For feed subscribers, please update your feed subscriptions to&lt;br /&gt;       http://matasick.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7483489705804864016-3891044192452985389?l=matasick.com%2Fblog.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://matasick.com/2010_03_01_archive.html#3891044192452985389</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sandra Matasick)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7483489705804864016.post-4994434907254584936</guid><pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:27:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-03-24T08:55:42.123-07:00</atom:updated><title>new piece</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/jewelry-feb10-274-723184.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="133" src="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/jewelry-feb10-274-722738.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/jewelry-feb10-280-778456.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/jewelry-feb10-280-778010.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/jewelry-feb10-269-796220.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="133" src="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/jewelry-feb10-269-795782.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;input id="gwProxy" type="hidden" /&gt;&lt;input id="jsProxy" onclick="jsCall();" type="hidden" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="refHTML"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;input id="gwProxy" type="hidden" /&gt;&lt;input id="jsProxy" onclick="jsCall();" type="hidden" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="refHTML"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;input id="gwProxy" type="hidden" /&gt;&lt;!--Session data--&gt;&lt;input id="jsProxy" onclick="jsCall();" type="hidden" /&gt;&lt;div id="refHTML"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7483489705804864016-4994434907254584936?l=matasick.com%2Fblog.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://matasick.com/2010_03_01_archive.html#4994434907254584936</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sandra Matasick)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7483489705804864016.post-2521663430210232845</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:53:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-02-09T10:49:27.613-08:00</atom:updated><title>a engagement ring commission</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/Sandra-Matasick-jewelryjan10-564-740013.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="133" src="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/Sandra-Matasick-jewelryjan10-564-739614.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/Sandra-Matasick-jewelryjan10-567-739588.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/Sandra-Matasick-jewelryjan10-567-739171.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/Sandra-Matasick-jewelryjan10-568-767031.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="133" src="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/Sandra-Matasick-jewelryjan10-568-766645.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/Sandra-Matasick-jewelryjan10-569-709893.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="133" src="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/Sandra-Matasick-jewelryjan10-569-709469.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/Sandra-Matasick-jewelryjan10-499-770458.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/Sandra-Matasick-jewelryjan10-499-769984.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/Sandra-Matasick-jewelryjan10-558-742467.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/Sandra-Matasick-jewelryjan10-558-742043.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/Sandra-Matasick-jewelryjan10-498-762893.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="133" src="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/Sandra-Matasick-jewelryjan10-498-762444.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/Sandra-Matasick-jewelryjan10-497-714118.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="133" src="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/Sandra-Matasick-jewelryjan10-497-713669.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/Sandra-Matasick-jewelryjan10-496-733404.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="133" src="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/Sandra-Matasick-jewelryjan10-496-732949.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/Sandra-Matasick-jewelryjan10-494-793917.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="133" src="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/Sandra-Matasick-jewelryjan10-494-793429.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/Sandra-Matasick-jewelryjan10-495-760143.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;input id="gwProxy" type="hidden" /&gt;&lt;input id="jsProxy" onclick="jsCall();" type="hidden" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="refHTML"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;input id="gwProxy" type="hidden" /&gt;&lt;input id="jsProxy" onclick="jsCall();" type="hidden" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="refHTML"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;input id="gwProxy" type="hidden" /&gt;&lt;input id="jsProxy" onclick="jsCall();" type="hidden" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="refHTML"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;input id="gwProxy" type="hidden" /&gt;&lt;input id="jsProxy" onclick="jsCall();" type="hidden" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="refHTML"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;input id="gwProxy" type="hidden" /&gt;&lt;!--Session data--&gt;&lt;input id="jsProxy" onclick="jsCall();" type="hidden" /&gt;&lt;div id="refHTML"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7483489705804864016-2521663430210232845?l=matasick.com%2Fblog.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://matasick.com/2010_01_01_archive.html#2521663430210232845</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sandra Matasick)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7483489705804864016.post-3214898551419255780</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:50:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-03-17T06:37:44.114-07:00</atom:updated><title>Recent commissions from December</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/Sandra-Matasick-jewelryjan10-173-793579.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="133" src="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/Sandra-Matasick-jewelryjan10-173-793163.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;The walnut nut cracker story....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="133" src="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/Sandra-Matasick-jewelryjan10-170-762099.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;a href="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/Sandra-Matasick-jewelryjan10-195-776322.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/Sandra-Matasick-jewelryjan10-195-775824.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/Sandra-Matasick-jewelryjan10-246-786892.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/Sandra-Matasick-jewelryjan10-246-786892.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/Sandra-Matasick-jewelryjan10-183-745005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="244" src="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/Sandra-Matasick-jewelryjan10-183-745005.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/Sandra-Matasick-jewelryjan10-200-768194.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="133" src="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/Sandra-Matasick-jewelryjan10-200-767711.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;the wax carving (left)&amp;nbsp; and the sprue (above....ready for casting)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;the flask (above) right after casting&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/Sandra-Matasick-jewelryjan10-208-773955.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="133" src="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/Sandra-Matasick-jewelryjan10-208-773955.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;the finishing process and the finished nut cracker (below) 1lb of silver&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/Sandra-Matasick-jewelryjan10-214-707296.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="133" src="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/Sandra-Matasick-jewelryjan10-214-707296.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/Sandra-Matasick-jewelryjan10-183-745469.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/Sandra-Matasick-jewelryjan10-211-729823.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="133" src="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/Sandra-Matasick-jewelryjan10-211-729249.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/Sandra-Matasick-jewelryjan10-208-774411.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/Sandra-Matasick-jewelryjan10-212-760560.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="133" src="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/Sandra-Matasick-jewelryjan10-212-760093.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/Sandra-Matasick-jewelryjan10-210-745884.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="133" src="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/Sandra-Matasick-jewelryjan10-210-745357.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/Sandra-Matasick-jewelryjan10-248-701502.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="133" src="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/Sandra-Matasick-jewelryjan10-248-701056.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/Sandra-Matasick-jewelryjan10-263-750981.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="133" src="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/Sandra-Matasick-jewelryjan10-263-750981.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Univ. of Alabama maskott....and they won!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/Sandra-Matasick-jewelryjan10-230-737960.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="133" src="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/Sandra-Matasick-jewelryjan10-230-737540.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/Sandra-Matasick-jewelryjan10-231-770943.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="133" src="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/Sandra-Matasick-jewelryjan10-231-770495.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Engagement ring and wedding band, 18kt, sapphire and diamonds&lt;br /&gt;&lt;input id="gwProxy" type="hidden" /&gt;&lt;input id="jsProxy" onclick="jsCall();" type="hidden" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="refHTML"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;input id="gwProxy" type="hidden" /&gt;&lt;input id="jsProxy" onclick="jsCall();" type="hidden" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="refHTML"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;input id="gwProxy" type="hidden" /&gt;&lt;input id="jsProxy" onclick="jsCall();" type="hidden" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="refHTML"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;input id="gwProxy" type="hidden" /&gt;&lt;input id="jsProxy" onclick="jsCall();" type="hidden" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="refHTML"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;input id="gwProxy" type="hidden" /&gt;&lt;input id="jsProxy" onclick="jsCall();" type="hidden" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="refHTML"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;input id="gwProxy" type="hidden" /&gt;&lt;input id="jsProxy" onclick="jsCall();" type="hidden" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="refHTML"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;input id="gwProxy" type="hidden" /&gt;&lt;input id="jsProxy" onclick="jsCall();" type="hidden" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="refHTML"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;input id="gwProxy" type="hidden" /&gt;&lt;input id="jsProxy" onclick="jsCall();" type="hidden" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="refHTML"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;input id="gwProxy" type="hidden" /&gt;&lt;!--Session data--&gt;&lt;input id="jsProxy" onclick="jsCall();" type="hidden" /&gt;&lt;div id="refHTML"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7483489705804864016-3214898551419255780?l=matasick.com%2Fblog.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://matasick.com/2010_01_01_archive.html#3214898551419255780</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sandra Matasick)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7483489705804864016.post-583265379013891357</guid><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:05:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-09-21T15:47:30.152-07:00</atom:updated><title>other commissions and some playing around</title><description>&lt;a href="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/Jewelry-jan.09--178-792628.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/Jewelry-jan.09--178-792181.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 133px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 200px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/Jewelry-jan.09--171-790748.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/Jewelry-jan.09--171-790084.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 133px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 200px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Susan's ring-&lt;br /&gt;18kt, spinel, diamonds&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/Jewelry-jan.09--167-733820.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/Jewelry-jan.09--167-733389.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 133px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 200px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/Jewelry-jan.09--126-770792.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/Jewelry-jan.09--126-770353.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 133px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 200px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;a wax carving for a pndt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Carletta's pendant                                                                     &lt;br /&gt;18kt and p&lt;a href="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/Jewelry-jan.09--133-722068.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/Jewelry-jan.09--133-721402.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 133px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 200px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;latinum,                                                                          chrysoberyl, diamonds&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/Jewelry-jan.09--138-727740.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/Jewelry-jan.09--138-726675.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 200px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 136px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/Jewelry-jan.09--126-774119.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;input id="gwProxy" type="hidden" /&gt;&lt;input id="jsProxy" onclick="jsCall();" type="hidden" /&gt;&lt;div id="refHTML"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7483489705804864016-583265379013891357?l=matasick.com%2Fblog.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://matasick.com/2009_07_01_archive.html#583265379013891357</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sandra Matasick)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7483489705804864016.post-6750549864621963082</guid><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 17:44:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-05-18T10:58:32.708-07:00</atom:updated><title>New Commissions</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/IMG_0501-751869.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/IMG_0501-751440.JPG" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"&gt;Marie's Pin- sterling silver, 18kt yellow gold, pink sapphire&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/IMG_0499-732360.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 133px; height: 200px;" src="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/IMG_0499-731920.JPG" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"&gt;    Julie's Pendant- sterling silver, 14kt white gold, sapphire, emeralds,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"&gt;                     aqua marine, pink tourmaline&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"&gt;These pieces were a lot of fun to make and unfortunately I am not&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"&gt;a great photographer!  They are much prettier in person.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7483489705804864016-6750549864621963082?l=matasick.com%2Fblog.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://matasick.com/2009_05_01_archive.html#6750549864621963082</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sandra Matasick)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7483489705804864016.post-5229178276461720955</guid><pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 01:52:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-04-27T19:04:48.072-07:00</atom:updated><title>An engagement ring commission from Indiana.</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/100_4119-781073.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/100_4119-780668.JPG" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/100_4114-761214.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/100_4114-760691.JPG" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;pre class="WMmessagebody"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;What a work of art, Sandy! Thank you for listening so well to&lt;br /&gt;our ideas and incorporating them into a stunningly gorgeous&lt;br /&gt;design. I'm going to treasure this special ring alway&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;s.&lt;br /&gt;Many thanks,&lt;br /&gt;Gabriele&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/IMG_0028-788233.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/IMG_0028-787725.JPG" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;pre class="WMmessagebody"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/IMG_0027-797241.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/IMG_0027-796775.JPG" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; &lt;pre class="WMmessagebody"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;pre class="WMmessagebody"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7483489705804864016-5229178276461720955?l=matasick.com%2Fblog.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://matasick.com/2008_09_01_archive.html#5229178276461720955</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sandra Matasick)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7483489705804864016.post-34665763019314821</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:17:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-04-27T19:15:14.862-07:00</atom:updated><title>some commissions</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/IMG_0408-757938.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/IMG_0408-757466.JPG" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Katy's bracelet&lt;br /&gt;18kt, diamonds&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                     Monica's pendant featuring her diamonds                         and a malaya garnet&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/monica-pendant.jpg2-799219.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://matasick.com/uploaded_images/monica-pendant.jpg2-799214.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7483489705804864016-34665763019314821?l=matasick.com%2Fblog.html' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://matasick.com/2008_07_01_archive.html#34665763019314821</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sandra 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