I’m glad to say it’s been quite the day!
The clock is striking 5 o’clock here at Plume Gables and I’m finishing work for the day and about to go for a ramble with RW and the poochies–smoochies. Before I attend to my evening activities, I’d like to give you a look at the items I finished today:
A five piece, hand pierced pendant featuring sterling silver, 14 karat gold and ocean jasper. I don’t know what to say about this necklace except that I had the stone in my pocket this morning while at coffee and so I started sketching designs and I came up with a tree design that sprouts from the stone. VERY unusual and one hundred percent MINE. My favorite aspect of this piece is the fact that the ocean jasper orbs seem to look somewhat like tree rings on the cross section of a stump. So, I like to think that this is a mighty live oak rising up from the detritus of the forests of old.
Oui oui?
I think it’s such a cohesive design and a wonderful example of how a piece of jewelry can be designed AROUND a stone or based on the properties of a stone. I’m very pleased with it.
Winnowing Ring, which is the act of blowing air through grain to separate the grain from the chaff: front and back views for you. 100% sterling silver. 100% grown from the heart of this granddaughter of a wheat farmer (Grandpa and Grandma are getting a centennial farm award in Canada this year for keeping 1100 acres of NORTHERN GREAT PLAINS farmed and in the family for an entire century –amen!). This baby is highly rusticated, oxidized and brightly polished on a wide band that has one fluted side. A bit sculptural and very special special.
I did not mean for this ring to turn out this way but here’s a lovely-sort-of-rainbow-ring composed of sterling silver and chalcedony (front and back view). It also is highly rusticated, oxidized and satin finished. It’s one of a kind!
For quite a stint now, I have been obsessed with finding ways, delicate ways, detailed ways to set my work apart from the plethora of other stuff on Etsy. Embellishing ring bands is a healthy and practical obsession and my bands have been so pretty lately that I can’t help but show you the back and front of things! I know that there’s hardly such a thing as a healthy addiction or obsession (in most cases) but I surely would love to hear about your healthy addiction.
Right now.
PLEASE AND THANKS.
XO
PS Thanks for your rapidfire fingers this morning. It’s
always a bit shocking just how quick custom request listings
zip out of the shop! Thanks for the love and sorry
to those who missed out
or were snaked:)
Ahem…my healthy addiction would be…you?…and Judge Judy…she makes everything right.
JUDGE JUDY!!!!! HAAAAAAAAAAAAA! I knew you were a lady of class Miss C:)
My healthy addiction is reading your blog! 🙂 And it is good for my soul.
Beautiful new work. I love, love the Winnowing Ring! I am quite partial to wheat and farms and prairies…
Congrats to your grandparents on the centennial farm award. It is so sad to see all the farms and fields I knew as a child turned into housing developments, Walmart, etc. One thing I love so much about Alberta are those wide open spaces! And I would love to someday take a road trip through the prairie provinces.
I love that tree and the concepts behind it!
That pendant is 100% VERY COOL!!!! Niiiiice job Ms. Plume!
My healthy addiction is ‘yogging’…I just got back into it after 4 weeks of sickness and chaos…feels divine!
Hope these guys haven’t already been in the shop and snapped up. I must have one of them!! Really different and gorgeous.
wow.
My healthy obsession, apart from sharing yours… I would have to say would be my honey – Mr. G.
OH how I’m obsessed in the loveliest of ways. 🙂
your tree just brought out my smile!
it’s always a guilty pleasure to stop in and read your blog on my study breaks. thank you 🙂
OHMIGODOHMIGODOHMIGOD that tree necklace is FREAKING AMAZING!!!!!!!!!
(did you catch my excitement and enthusiasm in the above sentence?! i really hope so)
i love you jsl.
xoxoxo
A healthy addiction of mine…….I wouldn’t call it an addiction exactly but a neccessity. I have restless leg syndrome (yes, it’s a legit. syndrome) but I hate taking pills so before bed if my legs are feeling extra twitchy, I’ll do about 100 leg squats and literally collapse into my bed. It was way worse when I was pregnant, and toward the end of those 9 months I was doing about 150 every night! Pretty impressive if you remember that I had an extra 40+ pounds on those hind-quarters at the time! I couldn’t do that now that’s for sure. But as far as obsessions go, at least this one keeps my theighs at a reasonable size! HA!
Also, I agree with Aspen Wear, reading your blog is a weekly, if not daily obsession! And it’s totally healthy because you bring me up on more days than I can count on my fingers and toes.
ps – is that how you spell theigh? It looks wrong to me – maybe my next obsession should be reading the dictionary….
My healthy addiction is shopping on Etsy, but my hubby would suggest it’s not-so-healthy for our bank account…
Love the new pieces! The Winnowing ring would look mighty fine on the finger of a daughter and granddaughter of Alberta grain farmers. And I just happen to be one…what a happy coincidence 😉
Jillian,
that tree pendant is absolutely incredible! Like wow. Now I can’t decide which I like more this one or the Seraphim one from a few days ago. Lucky for me they are both probably too heavy for my neck.
My healthy addiction (other than etsy 🙂 is probably living in California (all the green and the blue and the gold spaces I just love).
That Winnowing ring is gorgeous.
Hmm… healthy addiction? My morning tea, I suppose. I feel parched without it. My new favorite is wild rooibos from these guys: http://www.equalexchange.coop/ (available at your local Ten Thousand Villages)
PS: I had a previous misspelling and had to fix it (hence the deleted comment).
totally cool new gems jillian. love it! and i appreciate the “snaked” comment. ha! ummmm. my healthy addiction would be bad tv. yes, i love rock of love with bret michaels and gossip girl *shuddering*.
I just love the tree necklace! Make more!!
oh my WORD. i feel totally stupid going ga-ga over this stuff exactly like the previous 16 people, but i can’t hold back. these things are amazing. that tree…
always and forever proud of you.
Well, I think God blessed me with these long fingers primarily to adorn myself with your jewels, I do say that is what he had exactly in mind… and I am catching on…
I adore that you would take into consideration all types though, there is where your bleeding heart shows;)
Healthy addiction…. umm venerating (drooling over) others obvious talent, running, and crafting… I over do the running sometimes? You too I would imagine:)
I have never seen a necklace I like better than your tree one. Wow. The way the stone looks like roots, and like a tree, and then the fact that it’s actually stone and hence came from the ground. What can I say? I might be besotted with trees in general and this necklace in particular. And I love the red sofa and chair by the way. It looks a lot like a red chair in my living room which I love. My healthy addiction is definitely dark chocolate. And my dark-haired husband. Yummm–to both.
–holly fike