The other night, a friend told me that if I was feeling stumped while out in the studio, I should just reinvent the wheel and reinvent it perfectly over and over again until I found my footing once more.
So I’ve been reinventing the wheel around these parts, my sweet tweeters,
and enjoying myself thoroughly.
Yesterday I finished up another Glitz Ring. This one features a frosty citrus slice of druzy agate set in sterling and crowned with some ravishing bits of debris.
I also whipped up an Up From the Earth Ring, which I haven’t done in a while. It’s been hard to find pieces of turquoise I really admire lately so I pulled this cabochon from my stash to work with yesterday. I bought it three years ago from a lapidary artist in a small Arizona town I used to live near. It’s as beautiful as ever and is a gorgeous, thick, unbacked piece of turquoise. PURE rock. PURE business. I hope the lady who claims her can handle it…some rustication of fanciness on the metal portions of this setting make this piece feel like a relic. Which I love.
Lastly, all the way from Idaho (hang on….that’s HERE…) is this beautiful cut of Prudent Man Agate. I always like to let you know when a stone I’ve used is from this state of mine. Prudent Man Agate is one of my favorite rocks to work with and when I work with it, I’m supporting a local Idaho claim which makes me feel really nice, inside, where it counts. When you reach up and take it off the shelf over at Plumeville, you support an Idaho artist and an Idaho claim. Good on you! I’ve set this gorgeous and effervescent landscape in rusticated sterling. Just lovely.
I’ve got a handful of Love Cuffs I’m working on at the moment and they should be finished by this evening and in the Etsy Shop so until then, adieu, adieu!
xx
PLUME
:::EDIT:::
Thanks so much to the ladies who claimed these rings as well as the newest leather Love cuffs! I appreciate you so very much — it’s practically dreadfully beauteous (whatever that means). xx
I love your stripe-y shirt. Such a pretty blue! Not to outshine your pretty "back-to-basics" re-inventing rings. Completely lovely, as always.
I've been doing that lately with logo design. Going back to simplicity and finding something I love. It's definitely good advice.
Enjoy the rest of your day!
P.s. i named my fish Molson in your honor but he's sick. Send your Idaho love his way for some speedy parasite healing. Poor lil' fella…
They look incredibly gorgeous on your hands…and I am all with your friend, super suggestion!
xo
…HOT wheels…
luscious and yumminy.
love them all.
xx
i love the up from the earth ring that you made , it always gets noticed and the turquoise is so smooth. yummers maximum , so fun to see it on your blog again , a real jewel , I love your other rings to but so far I am not fast enoughxx
Just love them all….and the striped shirt. : )
Health and happiness,
Angela
Marina: My stripes love you back! Send Molson all my love! Glub glub!
MLJ: Thank you, dollface!
Nancy: GUFFAW!
Marie: Thank you, sweet Marie!
Mountain Dreamers: Ah yes, you have one of the sister turquoise cabochons in a ring setting, don't you. What dreamy stones….perfect for a dreamer like yourself. 🙂
Angela: Health and happiness INDEED!!! Thank you so much. xx
I absolutely LOVE that first ring and totally would have snagged it if I hadn't read that someone beat me to it!