I’ve been having a bit of a fascination with faceted stones on the internet lately… after doing my taxes I realized I had some money for a big buy, which I haven’t done in a while, and so, I present to you, the shiny shiniest of shinies! I’ve got citrine, …
I always love seeing the in-progress shots of artists at work, so hopefully you do too! Laird and I have been honing our soldering skills at a basic jewellery forging class this winter, and it’s super fun! We’re working on a single bracelet each, but I tend to work pretty …
I’m pretty proud of these little babies. One of our family’s oldest friends (Bernadette) owns the best health food shop on the island, Bay Health Food on Union St in Glace Bay. She had a tea party this week where a reflexologist (Sister Melda!) gave a talk and I won …
A studio I can work in without clutter, and the space to lay out and work on 100 pairs of earrings all at once? With room for my computer, DVDs, and even more working space? Surely, I’ve died and this is heaven.
Here’s a sneak peek at the jewellery/craft studio we’ve been building in the house we bought in June. It took a little while to get started but it’s been going pretty quickly once we did. I thought you might like to see the future space where the magical jewellery fairies …
I was feeling uninspired so I rummaged through my supplies and found these little hair clips.. I wasn’t sure where I was going with them but these little wire nest pairs make me pretty happy! This is a new product I’m rolling out this week.
I’ve been playing with a new style and I really like it! There are some handmade lampworked beads in there, firepolished glass, crackle glass, and lots of tiny silver beads. Loving it!
Aren’t these fabulous? My friend Angie has been telling me about the virtues of alcohol ink for at least a year, but last weekI finally got my fingers dirty. And oh man! Fun! I will of course be making jewellery out of these. Look at the sets made from regular dominoes …
Oh, lookit my custom order of lampworked beads from my favourite glass artist in Victoria ! I can’t wait until they get here! Laird really wants to start lampworking and fusing glass, and I think when we get our place we’ll ensure there’s room for a glass area with a …
I am extremely happy to finally be able, after nearly a decade of wiresmithing, to present the public with a line of jewellery that is centered on the lore of mystical properties of gemstones. They’re my Focus pendants, and here are a few! Happiness: Renewal: Strength: Friendship: I also have …
In the ramp-up towards this fall’s craft market, I’ve made nearly 100 new pairs of earrings, most of them from a fabulous batch of new glass beads I received recently. In my never-ending quest to find the best way to photograph my jewellery, I tried hanging earrings from the top …
I’ve finally managed to get a real sort of update onto my website. I replaced the Rings and Earrings pages with representative images instead of individual works for sale, as that just never worked out very well – those always have a high turnover and I just can’t keep the …
These are the earrings I made for the home show I had on Sunday: And yesterday I got a whole passel of new beads, including flowers, raspberries, butterflies, leaves and crackle beads – so of course I had to make more! These are destined for the Cape Breton Centre for …
I recently received shipment of these amazing lampworked beads: They’re gorgeous! I did this with some of them: Laird has my photo studio so the lighting isn’t the best here. Also I’m lazy. The large pendant in the middle on the neckwire is all mine. The rest are pendants I’ll …
Don’t you just love getting a look at other people’s workspaces? Here’s mine! Click through for the full set of images plus descriptions on Flickr.
I’m rolling out this starfish series with a bang. That thing has been rolling about inside my head for a very long time. I’m SO glad I finally got it out! Plus, I totally made it another kitchen-sink necklace (gotta stop doing that)… it’s got: hand-sculpted polymer clay starfish & …
For the past few weeks my friend Angie and I have been working in her amazing paper studio. She’s teaching me things and letting me use some of her materials while she works on her own projects, and I am making boxes in which to store, display, and sell my …
Today I woke up wanting to make more starfish. The clay is exactly what I needed to kick-start my creative mojo again. I needed something different. Today’s batch is more colourful. I also started to wrap them and they’re turning out pretty great. Exciting! I’m putting some leather in as …
I actually don’t like commissions because I worry about them too much – and I’m also somewhat of a slacker and don’t want to disappoint people. But despite that, I took two commissions on a couple of weeks ago; oddly enough, they’re both with beachcombed materials. It took a few …
