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.

blown...and forged...

I have had these beads festering in my imagination for some time...they come from the Netherlands froma very cool Etsy dealer called Sunyno (http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5146806&ga_search_query=sunyno&ga_search_type=seller_username) (sorry about the long link...no time to shorten it). I finally saw my inspiration ear wires on another Etsy maven of style: betsy3 (htp://betsy3.etsy.com) (that better?). She had a pair of similar wires and it made me think: "I can do that", or at least I can try...so I did. I'll be listing them soon - but they are here first.




I used gold filled, steel and sterling silver to make the earwires and findings. The sterling, where it is oxidized - is done so by using the egs from my flock of organic, city-dwelling laying hens. It's better for all of us (except the eggs perhaps). I love the contrast of the gunmetal and the clear glass.

Vintage Finds bracelets

Enamel earrings, antique buttons, rhinestone finds...lockets...skeleton keys...All of these, and more, are wired to vintage chains to make one-of-a-kind bracelets. Each one is a melange of colors and is never for the faint of heart. Want a showstopper piece? Want to wear something that brings you JOY and sparkle? These are the pieces that get attention, comments and inquiries. Wear them to the park, the grocery store...and out to the opera.

New Commissions

Recently, I received commissions to design peices to celebrate, sooth or just enliven the recipients. Here are some recent designs - thanks for looking:


Sapphire and Amethyst Lariat necklace in sterling silver with matched leverback earrings:













Murano Glass handblown glass bead with freshwater and glass pearls, handwired onto vintage brass chain necklace with matched post earrings:












Genuine Sapphire Rondelles on tiny sterling silver ball chain...necklace:













Sterling Silver dipped turquoise, garnets and sterling silver ball chain, lariat necklace with matched garnet earrings:













Restringing Project: Venetian Style glass beads, vintage findings:















This is my favorite kind of work to do...I m inspired by people and what is meaningful to them, and finding designs that invigorate their spirit is very good work!