Thursday, February 10, 2011
winter wheat....
winter commissions keep the bread rising. emerald Swarovki crystals, baroque pearls, gold and brass...
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Decolletage Busters...New Bib Necklaces
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Rare Pendants - brass, crystals and keys
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Origami...Rice Paper Rings
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Honey Homesteading
A central brass Art Nouveau floral finding is flanked by two worker bees. And falling below is the drizzling coppery amber? Treasures of soft Czech briolettes. Delicious. This necklace is 17" around with a 2" extender. Something sweet for the season.
Our honeybees here at the city homestead are buzzing around in the oddly warm Vermont early-spring sunshine. The hive made it through the winter and the little worker girls are coming home with pollen from some early blooming crocus. We do love our girls - especially now that the sap has stopped running.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Red, Red, Red
These days when I see red - instead of just feeling all fiery and irrational - I feel inspired and excited. My favorite way to work with red is to keep it in it's element, meaning: undiluted and the star of the show. I think red stands alone better than any color. When I do combine it I do it with something simple...
My Ming Tower is a demi-parure of earrings and pendant necklace: oxidized sterling with red bamboo roundels and simple handmade sterling silver wire. Red and gunmetal gray.
Leather designs - jewelry and clothes - are edgy, sexy and a little tough: my handmade red leather cuffs are handcut italian leather and finished with a simple button of mother of pearl. My red Corset Ring is the same leather that is cross-stitched with waxed twine (made to size and very sexy) and comfortable. Wearing leather - any time of year - shows you're a little different than the rest of the crowd. A little more cool.
Last week you saw our eggs, the nests, the boiling sap, the Vermont Spring and this week...a little more springiness: Male Cardinals. The lampworked glass bright Red Cardinal earrings hang from brass earwires...and are about an inch long. Pretty - but even more importantly - a lot of fun. I love the spring. Are you interested in bird earrings but not a fan of cardinals (or red)? I have blue-birds, doves and a flock of brass sparrows all ready for flight.
By the way - the geese are finally flying north - I see them flying over the lake and hear them at night - far away and very high, but distinct. I don't have any geese earrings, by the way. That would be...weird. They are pretty - and sometimes haunting - in the sky, but not very graceful hanging from the ear. Looking for something more sedentary?...Here's another little nest ring. Red glass pearls...made to order in your size in sterling silver. http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=42877829
Ripe, red, spring. Life is better decorated.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Skeleton's in the closet...are open for business
I do feel a bit selfish about how often I gobble up skeleton keys when it suits my whimsy. That is because feel that whimsy almost without end. As I write this I am sitting with a pile of about 40 vintage skeleton and door latch keys on my lap. I just poured them out of the Ebay box that some happy soul just sent to me. I am trying to be quiet because my two young sons are sleeping next to me (my husband has been forced out of the bed and anyway, I hear him charging around the kitchen mastering maple syrup-making. He's watching sap boil). But anyway, I AM being quiet.
The keys! The possibilities! I like opening secrets, packages, doors to buldings that are vacant or locked...peering in, you know? It makes me positively giddy to anticipate that unlocking of what I don't know. So when I use keys in my designs I am - I hope - sharing that anticipation http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=42108692 . Out of necessity I am also sharing the keys. Because I have too many. http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=42345438
Some of those designs that have been stirred out of me. You see, I am also trying to distill out my sweetness. How is it to watch me boil?
I feel pretty giddy about buttons, too. You may hear more about that soon.
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