This is my last day at my job working for the Buyers Market of American Craft. I'm sad to leave behind all of the great friends I've made. We've had such good and crazy times together! I know that I will be back to visit. Even though I'm sad about leaving I'm also very excited to start this next part of my life. I have so many great things happening right now, I can't wait to see where my pursuits take me. Stay tuned...
Go visit Christy Klug at the Baltimore ACC Show! I've always loved her pierced jewelry and now she has some new enamel jewelry!
I love the cover of this book, it looks so peaceful and zen! It's now on my favorites on Amazon.com. I will have to buy it and let you know what I create!
I did buy myself a couple of presents at the BMAC Show, this is one of them. It's a Free Diamond Jacob Albee ring. The diamonds are loose in the ring with a sapphire crystal keeping them in. There is one ruby and the goal of the game is to get the ruby in the center hole. I love his jewelry and talking to him and his wife! Check out his website, he also works with meteorite! (He's actually shipping a ring to me so I don't have it quite yet, I can't wait!)
This cracks me up, thought I don't think it would work so well if the rings are a certain size. I'd love to buy these for all of my exhibitors so they'd have something funny, something that would bring a smile to their face at the start of the show. Go buy it, let me know what you think! Finger Food.
I am in love with the clean lines of this necklace by Michele Mercaldo, take a closer look at her website!
I feel like this photograph a lot of the time, far too much on my plate. I'm tired and hopefully some things will finish, others will slow down and then I'll really start making some jewelry again. I'll work towards those goals I posted several days ago. It's interesting, in my family we tend to say yes to everything we're asked and I've started saying no to things. I can only give away so much of my time before it's just not fun anymore. Right now I'm a member of too many jewelry clubs but that will change soon.
One of my favorite jewelry artists, the artist who made my engagement ring, is Anne Sportun/Experimetal. I love the soft quality of her jewelry, it looks comfortable and beautiful. Her photos are also a lot of fun with the use of props!
I found this great website called Perpetual Kid that has lots of fun products for us big kids! I especially love these nails/toothpicks! Go to the website, have some fun, smile!
As hard as it can be to design something beautiful I believe it is much harder to design something purposefully ugly. There is actually an Ugly Necklace Contest with money prizes. I've known about the competition for several years but haven't had the time to design a truly ugly necklace and apply. Entries are due in March, give it a whirl! The image above is the winner of the competition in 2004, you have to click on the link to the web page and just see the horror! And the funny faces people are making!
I love this infinity necklace by Jude Clark, it's made out of ruler. It makes me think about time and how it seems to go by faster and faster. Memories seem to blend together. You can see more of her work at Facere Jewelry Art Gallery.
I saw this new type of flooring in a magazine, it's called Liquid Lava and it's made by Jockimo.
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