Well, pour moi, the weekend could really be any day of the week! When the true impending weekend (Saturday & Sunday) is looming before me on a Friday afternoon, I ponder hard on what exactly I’d like to spend those days doing. I think I’d like to go quail hunting, skiing, hiking, running, climbing…or perhaps I’d like to sit in my studio for a cumulative 24 hours and make some stuff.
This weekend past, the latter idea won out.
I was glad.
If I work over a weekend it is MY time to really explore new design ideas. I give myself two whole days to make exactly what I want to make or to finally give some flesh to concepts I’ve had in the tips of my frontal lobes for months, or sometimes years.
New to the shop today, you’ll find:
[turquoise and sterling silver]
[montana agate and sterling silver]
[land of the silver birch earrings — sterling silver]
[botswana agate and sterling silver]
HOLY CATS WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE THIS STONE
not only does it feature the typical botswana striations BUT it also has floating dendrites on either side of the chevrons and it’s unlike ANY botswana agate I’ve ever seen before and oh how I want to keep it
[montana agate and sterling silver]
[green chrysoprase and sterling silver
[imperial jasper (mexico) and sterling silver]
[land of the silver birch earrings — sterling silver]
This jewelry will all be found in the shop today!
Ok. About the Land of the Silver Birch Earrings. Do you know this song?
LAND OF THE SILVER BIRCH, HOME OF THE BEAVER
WHERE STILL THE MIGHTY MOOSE WANDERS AT WILL
STILL LAKE AND ROCKY SHORE
I WILL RETURN ONCE MORE
BOOM DITTY BOOM BOOM
BOOM DITTY BOOM BOOM
BOOM DITTY BOOM BOOM
BOOM
BOOM BOOM
This might sound strange, but it’s what I based the design on. I think these earrings look like little, abstract canoe paddles and if I’ve failed to mention prior to this post, I would consider myself, and all members of my family, to be avid canoeists (it breaks my heart that my 22 foot Clipper prospector, bright yellow with Kevlar skids on the bow and stern has failed to join me in my country of residence). And as for canoeing itself, the only thing that comes close to the experience of canoeing in Northern Saskatchewan is canoeing in the Yukon, or interior Alaska.
The other Land of the Silver Birch Earrings are based on the same campfire song but feature, instead, an abstract beaver at the base of what is supposed to be a birch tree.
I had the idea of wire wrapping (not an uncommon jewelry making technique) earring shanks a while ago and finally got to doing it this weekend. Much to my shock, I saw a similar design online today which just goes to show that my theory of creative peoples being interconnected slaves to one giant, pulsating, master-mind-artistic-brain-mass in the fourth dimension might just be true (yes I really am a serious sci-fi dorkazoid when I’m out of the public eye).
Anyway, I’m off to do
off to do the
shop
shop
a roo.
Love,
The Painters Wife
Ok, so where is the Botswana ring – I gotta have it!!!!
HEy. I totally know that song, but then again. I am CANADIAN.
LOVE LOVE LOVE the turquios earrings near the top.
I like that your post contained the words ‘dendrite’ and ‘dorkazoid’. Nicely done.
Haha, I was most definitely singing that song while I read your post as soon as I read that first description. Now I think it will be in my head all night!
I loved singing that song when I was a little girl, around the campfire, in a round! Oh my!
oh man…we have a huge problem. for once i wasn’t compulsively checking your blog several times today (wait, should i admit i do that?) and I MISSED the debut of the new jewels and I MISSED my opportunity to get my loverly hubby to buy for me the green sharky ring. or if he wouldn’t, i’d find some reason to buy it for myself. it is AMAZING jill. for real. and i’m sad it’s gone. on another note, those square turquoise earrings are also unreal. nice weekend’s work lady. i’m just about to sit down to Chicken Vindaloo on basmati with my hubby pie. hope you have a tasty evening too!
xoxoxo
You are soo right about us being connected to the same source, what did you call it??? I see it all the time; and you look delightful in your own silver birch/beaver earrings. Really gorgeous. I love silver birch.
Oh ladies!
Thanks so much for these great little comments!
Michele: The Botswana Ring has flown the coop! I’ll try to have another one made this week sometime.
Melissa: I love those earrings as well! I have to give full credit to the cabochons though, they are really quite glorious stones.
Miss C: SNORT
Fawn: I sing that song all the time. I even taught it to a friend of mine from Bainbridge Island, Washington while I lived in New Zealand…I wonder if she remembers it. I’m going to call her now and find out.
Jord: Oh man. I love chicken vindaloo. If I could have a small snail colony in a goldfish bowl in the living room, I’d name them all Chicken Vindaloo.
LittleJeans: Then the North is for you oh lover of silver birch!
XO