[chinese turquoise, carnelian & sterling silver]

[a custom Selah Ring for Anne]

[rutilated quartz & sterling silver]

[rhodochrosite & sterling silver]

[prehnite, 14 karat gold & sterling silver]

[montana agate & sterling silver]

These new jewels are happily winging their way into the shop right now!

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]

This jewelry will all be found in the shop today!

Ok.  About the Land of the Silver Birch Earrings.  Do you know this song?

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,