My Bead Soup
Last week I posted about my involvement in this season’s Bead Soup Blog Party and I shared the soup I sent to my partner, Christina. Today I want to share the soup she sent me! It arrived in an awesome...
View ArticleInspiration – Emberseeds Collection
Thus far I have just shown you my general inspirations – images which I’m drawn to in some way which therefore have some influence over the jewelry I create. Today I want to share something a little...
View ArticleInspiration – Reflection
I’m not a natural multi-tasker. In fact, even simple tasks that most people manage to combine, such as watching TV or chatting via typed conversation, I feel the need to devote my full attention to....
View ArticleInspiration – Bead Soup
I mentioned the Bead Soup Blog Party, I’m involved in at the moment, a few times. There are actually so many people involved that there are 3 separate dates for the reveal of the items made! I’m in the...
View ArticleInspiration – Hawai’i
I promised you photos, so here are photos. I had a really hard time choosing just a few to share with you because I took so many, and of a really wide variety of things. I have never been anywhere...
View ArticleInspiration – Autumn
Of course, it did take longer than expected to sort out my computer but it’s all done now and I should be back to my regular posting schedule Autumn never really reaches San Francisco; the small...
View ArticleInspiration – Sundrops Collection
I started sharing my new collections and inspirations behind them a while ago with this post about the Emberseeds Collection. Since then I’ve been working on gathering the images to represent my other...
View ArticleInspiration – Old Work
As you know I’ve been working on sorting my items in collections and designing new pieces for each line which are much more focused on the inspirations behind it. During this process I discovered...
View ArticleInspiration – Gemstones
I guess you already know I like gemstones – I use them in a few of my pieces, always real gemstones, never imitation ones or even lampworked glass or Swarovski crystal, pretty though they are. I also...
View ArticleQuote for the year 2012
My craft fairs are all done for the year, the final shipping deadline for orders is nearly here (December 14th) and I’m starting to pack things up, tidy things away and wind down production. This...
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