Sweetheart Mania!

Well it's July and we are finally able to catch our breath a bit here in the studio. The Parenting Magazine feature had us crazy for months! We produced so many of these pretty little personalized Sweetheart Necklaces that I've lost count. I've said before that I owe my sanity to my wonderful studio assistant Shannon. Not only can she wire wrap her butt off but she has loads of patience (which I don't) and shes totally fun to have in the studio. Love you Shannon! Thanks to all of you for supporting us and ordering these necklaces for the moms, sisters, grandmas and friends in your life! Congratulations to Jayme P. who won the necklace from the contest here on the blog and to Denise J. who was the lucky winner from the Parenting website contest. We couldn't do it without you, our fabulous customers!



The one and only Sweetheart Necklace

Just a few necklaces ready to be shipped out

The lovely Shannon hard at work at the bench

Inspiration

A favorite question of non artists to ask of artists (and understandably so) is "Where do you find your inspiration?" Well, here is a really good visual answer to that question. I often say that I am inspired by colors and color combinations. Below is a lovely example of just that...


Some boring (but rather beautiful, don't you agree?) laundry drying

Recognize this color palette?

Clandestine Chic Interview

Sheena at Clandestine Chic interviewed me few weeks ago. Interviews are so fun because I'm always like "How DO I feel about that? Hmmm, let me think..." This is a great blog to check out. She covers really relevant stuff that is happening in the media, talks about great fashion and also writes about her travels. To read the interview, click here~ Thanks again Sheena!

The Wedding Ring

One of my girlfriends Dawn just got married to an awesome man, Philip and she asked me to make her wedding ring. The cool thing about Dawn is that she is super chill and definitely not a bridezilla. She gave me almost complete creative control. Her only requests were that she wanted some heriloom earrings from her Grandmother incorporated into the design and she wanted a blue center stone that was sustainably sourced.

The earrings were little diamonds with "jackets" consisting of 3 golden leaves. I cut the leaves up into single pieces and began laying out different designs.

Piercing

Soldering the band

The setting pre polish and stone setting.

Here is the finished ring alongside her engagement ring which is a lovely chunky simple gold band. You see I used 2 of the leaves, the 2 diamonds and a gorgeous blue sapphire.

I also made her wedding necklace with 3 of the other leaves and another blue sapphire. She loved them both- Phew! I think there may be more pressure when you have complete artistic control?

Covet this!

Charmed Ring



If you are in the Bellingham Washington area this coming weekend, come meet me! I'm doing a trunk show at Covet Boutique at 1311 11th St. in historic Fairhaven in Bellingham Washington. I am unveiling the new collections and will of course have many of my most popular pieces on hand as well. This is a great way to see how the lines work with one another.

The lovely Sally Poorman is the hostess with the mostess and here's what she says about her shop; "I love color and design, handmade products and independent designers, so the shop is a little burst of color and art." I can't wait to meet you all and see this gorgeous store!

A Frog in My Jewelry Box

My apple necklace got chosen to be in a great treasury on Etsy! Animalenvoy put together this beauty. I love the color palette on this treasury, blues with little shots of reds and oranges. Yummy! I notice animalenvoy is coincedentally from Boulder- small world huh?

Amy Esther ceramic beads

Amy Esther is a very cool pottery artist who I've featured before. She has a new ETSY shop called AE (Amy Esther) Bead Boutique where she is selling handmade ceramic beads. I especially like these two, chocolate waffle or lemon anyone?