Please accept my apologies for having SUCH A SLOW Etsy shop lately! Between studying, custom orders and this strange chest cold I have acquired I haven’t been getting much done! Today I do have a few offerings for you that I’ll be popping in the shop as the day drifts on by:
[cultured fresh water pearl in sterling silver scalloped setting]
THIS ONE IS ULTRA SASSY AND LOOKS VERY FINE INDEED WITH WILD LOOKING FINGERNAILS.
[just noticed that my cardigan is mis-buttoned in this photo…i wore it like that all day long yesterday…oh well. people already think i’m kind of crazy. i’ll pretend it was a purposeful fashion statement.]
While in the studio yesterday I took many moments to watch the rainclouds pour down over the face of the West Bench and was inclined to make a few mountain range rings. I explored a similar idea last year when I first moved to Idaho but these bands are more intricate than the first design concept. These mountain range rings feature two layers of sterling silver and are set with amethyst and carnelian respectively. The stones look like little moons suspended over those mighty orographic molars. Mighty lovely. Mighty perfect.
The mountain ranges wrap around the entire ring band and meet at the solder joint on the backside of the ring. The solder point on all four rings is very clean and continuous.
I’m smitten as a kitten with them.
Also, some new danglies featuring hand stamped squares and mustang jasper which is really stabilized and color treated turquoise from China. I found these beads in Jackson, Wyoming last weekend and spent WAY too much on them but the colors and matrix really spoke to me. Hope you love them!
I’ve just finished a champagne breakfast/brunch/lunch with a few girls here at Plume Gables and am headed for the studio for the rest of the day. RW had to drag me in last night at 10:30PM. I’m suffering this strange cold at the moment and was utterly exhausted last night after studying late and early in the morning but I could not drag myself away from my work space.
I’m feeling so free.
So pressed for time!?
Hastened (chastened) by the onset of summer.
The walls in the house are reverberating with silence.
We’re counting down the final week and a half I have with RW…
Dreaming of the Tetons.
Wishing for a horse.
Digging up the dandylions (like they weren’t meant to bloom on the planet in the first place).
Stroking the small poppy buds, furry with the promise of their full skirts and black eyes.
Readying the climbing roses for planting, allowing them to test the winds and the temperatures outside.
And the starlings are zooming
in their cloud of feathered browns
in and out of the arms of the grapevines.
Today as my girls were leaving,
one said,
“You should take a nap.
Remember? You’re the boss…”
This boss needs to adopt a more temperate work climate.
One that is steady and strong.
Not lacking impetus.
But more consistent with set times for rest
play
and work.
Perhaps the issue at hand is that I consider
my studio a space for rest, play and work.
Waiting, waiting, waiting for the mountain rings…will one fit my little fingers? Oh, the edge of this seat is so uncomfortable!
Another mountain girl waiting…
Also, as one who has been her own boss for nearly 24 years, and who also thinks of work as play (computer programmer), my experience is that it is an almost constant struggle to “let go” of work sometimes, to rest away from it. I walk in the woods, a mountain loop and a lake side path for my daily doses of rest.
But tomorrow, I take off on a jaunt in my motorhome – nowhere far, I’m not sure exactly where, and my work goes with, but the change of scenery and routine are a rest of sorts and often bring new perspective.
Everyone finds their own kind of rest I think.
Love them, and the nail polish!
i am in chicago
and i say
ooh
la
LA.
where’s my chambord? come over and we’ll have an esme…
Those rings were so beautiful, but gone so fast. Sorry to hear that your not feeling well, hope you are better soon. 🙂
Enjoyed the new pieces – especially those yummy scalloped bands, so feminine.
I wanted to thank you for turning me on to Grace Potter, and I would like to suggest one of my old faves – Lucinda Williams.
Hope you shake that nasty cold and get to feeling better.
You SHOULD take a nap. I wish we could have a tandem napping session in two with fluffy cloud beds. We are TOTALLY gonna have to stay at that place again.
I love those mountain rings with there little precipices — so very you ^_^
Holy heavens, I all too well know the involvement that it takes to run ones own small business and would really like to read this: http://www.amazon.com/Boss-You-Everything-Maintain-Business/dp/1580052363?&camp=212361&linkCode=wey&tag=wac061-20&creative=380737
I'll bet taking time to breath and recenter outside the fulfilling yet involved process of being your own boss is a highlight…
and, I so wish you were not feeling the discomfort that comes with stressing the immune system so's you can get even stronger:)) I would play my
gE-t'AR all day if it would make you feel better, assuming I play as well as the ears would like;)
oh mon plume…and the chicest of juenes filles, en Pareeee, wear their cardigans buttoned askew…mais qui…how could you not, non?!…ooh la la…c’est ci bon!
BEes: Sit back baby. Wish I had sent you a mountain or two:)
Ann: First of all, I’m quite excited that I’ll be seeing you in Missoula. I’ll be sure to bring you a large smooch!
Secondly, you really are so right, we all find our rest somehow and someway. I think I just need to accept they way I am. I’ve said before that I never feel anything in part, but as a whole. I feel entirely sad. I feel entirely happy…whatever I feel I feel it to the zenith in that exact moment. I think my work is the same way. All or nothing. When it’s all, I can do nothing else. When it’s nothing, I take myself away from it and fully rest (or at least I TRY to).
You’re sweet as a peach. Hope the motorhome is treating you well!
Miss C: Ooh! Thanks dear lady!
She: You say Ooh LA LA no matter where you go because you have Paris in your heart and little Eiffle Towers for fingers.
Rustic: Thanks you little darling.
Susie: OH DEAR. GRace Potter will turn your life into a svelte hip wiggling existence. I cannot stop moving when I hear her singing.
Em: Ooh. Tandem napping. I wanted so badly to look at the few Arizona shots I have of us the other day but I do not have them since the computer illness wiped my hard drive. Send me a shot of those fluffy tandem napping beds please. I love you. You had me at hello. See you in heaven….or in September…whichever comes first.
Fawn: I would actually have to agree with you on that one:)
Kayla: Going to read your link right now. AND since I do not have a piano at the moment, I might pull my guitar out and strum it for a bit today. Thanks for the inspiration Skinny.
XO
Nancy: OUI OUI mon petit pattapouffe!!!!! Vous êtes les genoux de l’abeille!!!
Bisou bisou!!
I love your work! It is gorgeous, soulful, unique….inspiring!
But HOW, HOW HOW HOW! do you keep your hands so beautiful and perfectly manicured as a metalsmith? Amazing, keep ALL of it up!
Well usually my hands and fingernails look hideous. I painted them the night before and then photographed my new pieces in the morning before I headed out to the studio:)
Trust me.
I usually have hideous hangnails and gator skin.
Ew.
Love the scallopped pearl ring. So very feminine! I want one!