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.
