Showing posts with label belle armoire jewelry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label belle armoire jewelry. Show all posts

Friday, November 18, 2016

How is it November already?

No, really?  How is Thanksgiving next week?  I am so unprepared.

I have my last show on Saturday at North Penn High School.  It's a wonderful show full of high quality hand picked artisans.  If you are local, I hope you will stop by.  I have been working on my indoor display set up, and I am quite happy with it!




It feels like a little shop you can walk into.  

I finally got some "real" pipe and drape instead of an old taped and tied up tent frame!  I am really liking it.  Very easy to set up.

I will have my bags and my prints available.  I also changed a few things up.  I have these smaller pieces that I offer, and they usually hang on a T-bar display.  They so often get overlooked though.  I think my other pieces are so big that little things just can't compete.  though I still like to make them, and I know there are still people who would like something daintier.  So I packaged them in individual boxes, ready for gifts.  I love it and I think they will finally get some attention now.  You can really see the detail in each one.






I really like how this style I am holding turned out.  I bought these antique brass belts years ago- because I LOVED them.  And there they have sat.  I have tried a few times to work them into pieces and they just don't turn out.  Soooooo, finally, it came to me, and I made a few of these pendants.  So perfect to show off a great fossil like this fossil coral slab!

I also have some cool news I have been sitting on for a few months.

The winter issue of Belle Amoire Jewelry features me for their Designer Collection.  I was so honored to be asked to do it.  Rice Freeman-Zachery did the interview and wrote an article that made me tear up.  She really listened and captured me and my creative process.  It was a pretty amazing experience.  So if you get to Barnes and Nobles, or a local craft store, check it out.  They did 12 pages of my work!  I also have a 4 page article in that issue.  

(this is the issue- not my piece on the cover though)



Now I am going to try to stop staring at my pieces in print and finish getting ready for my show and the upcoming holidays!!!!

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I do plan on having a bead sale early next week, before thanksgiving (monday or tuesday).  It will be on my Facebook page for sales.

I will also be offering some gifty jewelry for sale, and some will be made to order (this is new for me- but I think it will be fun to customize some designs for you guys).  Others will be sale items.  I will also have prints and bags available for the holidays.  So if you know someone who would love a block print or bag, check out my sale, or contact me.  I may be able to do ONE custom batch for the Holidays are over!!!!

Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Fossils in Belle Armoire

I have not been hitting the magazine submissions very hard lately- but I was really happy to get this article in Belle Armoire's current issue.  I mean, Susan Lenart Kazmer is has the designer collection in it, how awesome is that?  I love her work....so free form and organic.  

So I was really happy to be in that particular issue (set/oct/november 2015 Fall issue)

So, on page 58-61 you can find my Free-Form Wire Prong Setting article!

It was a lot of fun to do.  They only showed the front of ONE of the pieces though, and I wanted to make sure readers could have a chance to see the fronts of all of them.  Granted, the back is very pretty with all the free form circles and stuff, but the front has the cool stones and fossils.

From left to right there is a crystal, a fossilized horse tooth, a druzy and a fossilized trilobite.  I just love these pieces!  It makes me ready to make more very soon with some of my new druzy cabs I have been hoarding.



Anyhow, go out and get a copy- because not only is Susan in there, and me, but also Cat Kerr, Marlene Quigley, just to name a few!


It never stops feeling good to see your work in print.  Everyone should give it a go- you never know!