Good evening good evening!
I’m just about to run out the door to carve pumpkins with a gaggle of girls — I’ll be sure to take my camera since this evening could turn out rather similar to the zucchini night we had a couple of months ago.
I wanted to show you a few of the pieces I finished today.
First off is this glorious necklace:
Je suis une smitten kitten. Smitten like Pinkerton when I give him a half saucer of tuna like I did this morning. Oh boy. You haven’t ever seen a cat wag his tail like Mister Pinky does for tuna. This necklace features a gorgeous slice of burro creek jasper in an elegant violet hue. I’ve hand forged a series of organic shapes that sprout off the sidewall of the shadowbox — I was hoping for a cellular sort of look with the interior of the pendant and the organic shapes suffice. These shapes are repeated on the outside of the shadowbox wall and are used as bails. There are chains growing out of all sorts of places on this pendant. Some hang straight down, free, others are connected in loops to other bail points and one especially long chain is connected up to the main chain that hosts the actual pendant. It’s rich. It’s jangly. You’ve not seen anything quite like it, except for maybe under your microscope in your first year biology class whilst at University.
I can’t wait to continue on in the direction of this concept….I’ve got all sorts of fantastic ideas on the tip of my mind.
The rest of the goods look like this!
I’ll be updating the Etsy shop tomorrow as soon as I have everything photographed and ready to fly! Now it’s off to do some pumpkin carving.
CONFESSION: I actually hate carving pumpkins, they make my hands very itchy and my hands are already taking a beating with the turn of the weather. Let me know if you have any secret tricks to keeping your hands looking well in the dry, cold, winter months — I need all the help I can get. If things become much worse I’ll have to start crazy gluing the cracks in my fingertips shut so I can wield a pair of tweezers while at work in the studio!
Love,
The Plume