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Snoozery

March 14, 2009 by The Noisy Plume

Good day to you lady birds and gentlebeards!

Everyone is busy with snoozery over in the living room of Plume Gables and so I thought it an opportune time to drop you a note.

It’s been really lovely and warm in Pocatello the past couple of days so I’ve taken great delight in dressing like a freak and not wearing a coat while visiting with my parental unit.

On the topic of having parents visit Plume Gables:

It’s so fun and it’s so amazing to see how much gets done while our parents are here! I would deem my yard “READY FOR SPRING” officially ever since Robert, my Mother and my Father dealt with it yesterday and today. My mom has also been busy doing all the cleaning and sewing that I’ve been too busy for lately (thanks so SO much Mum). Additionally, we spent a couple of days doing some furniture shopping and I’ll be glad to exhibit (in photos) the red leather couch and chair that RW and I snaggled up this weekend for our living room. We’ve always had second hand furniture, bits and pieces we’ve scavenged from government housing and lucky finds at thrift stores. Our new furniture is a dream to look at and a dream to sit on. We feel like adults. Adults with a red leather sofa.

I’ve just finished updating the Etsy shop a wee bit with some of last weeks designs that I failed to find the time to list. Included are:

The Appaloosa Ring featuring sterling & spotted agate and HEAVY rustication.

This is a back view of the Appaloosa Ring. It’s really lovely.

A Submerge Ring featuring ocean jasper, 14 karat gold & sterling. Though, you really should hold onto your boot straps for this one because I think I might have to keep it.

I’ve had this ring done for weeks. Admittedly, I’ve been hoarding it. It features a HUGE asymmetrical baseplate with 14 karat gold and sterling embellishment. The stone is an agate druzy in a fantastic turquoise color. I’m going to list it in the shop on Tuesday (no holds allowed…sorry!).

A few days off has been so good for me. Very often, I haven’t got a grip on how tired I am. Does this happen to you? I’m a bit A.D.D. and I usually don’t recognize my fatigue until my head hits the pillow at night. These past few days and nights with my parents have been very good, slow paced and healthy. Running on fumes is not enjoyable, I’ll be the first to admit. Nothing heals me up like mom’s French stew and my dad’s bear hug.

I really hope your weekends are going splendidly.

Love,

The Plume

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March 6, 2009 by The Noisy Plume

Hey Chickpeas!

Just a quick note to let you know that tomorrow at 11AM Mountain Time, I will commence the mega update in my Etsy shop. The above photo shows a pinch of the loot (as you might imagine, it’s a bit overwhelming). Anything that does not sell at the show this evening will be listed in my Etsy Shop on Saturday. Getting everything everything actually listed in one day would be against the laws of physics (there’s SO MUCH STUFF) so I’ll also be listing on Monday and Tuesday as well.

Happy Friday!

Be well birds.

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Battling the Dust Bunnies

March 5, 2009 by The Noisy Plume

First of all:

CALLING ALL BRIDES!!!

If you are getting married in the next decade or so, you’ll want to check out my sister’s Etsy shop. Little Miss Kathleen Jane is from the American side of my family and resides in the LA area. She whips up beautiful, bodacious, dreamy bridal accessories. In fact, RW had her stitch this frothy little shawl together for me for my birthday this year:

I’m already a bride but I plan on wearing mine to the tea parties I’ll be hosting in my gorgeous gardens this summer. Kathy has a degree in fashion design and has worked IN and FOR high-end bridal boutiques in Santa Barbara and LA as well as a ritzy furniture company named Giati (Oprah buys her deck furniture from these guys). She currently works for designer

Nicolita Caliente Handbags and Bikinis

in Los Angeles but is attempting to go full time with her Etsy shop.

SIDENOTE: If you’re searching for new swimwear, stop off at your local Nordstrom to touch swanky bikinis that Kathy has a hand in crafting!

She is an amazing seamstress and is the girl to go to for alterations, veils, and anything else you can imagine you might need for the big day (or your tea parties).

The veils, shawls and wedding paraphernalia she carries in her Etsy shop are all designed by her and stitched by her as well. She’s the real deal, a credible and talented designer! Go see her shop pronto!

Now down to business:

I squeaked out a few new pieces of jewelry last night while I worked late in the studio.

Today in the shop you’ll find:

[lemon chalcedony & sterling]

[Pucker Up Ring: prehnite & sterling]

[a sliver of original poetry in sterling with a custom chain]

In other news,

I woke up this morning and spent hours battling the dust bunnies.

I’m not sure if I’ve informed you of RW’s newest adventures in renovation work. He just finished building custom moldings for the room that flows out of the living room. The custom work matches the original moldings in the living room fairly well. Since the original stuff is a century old and is no longer manufactured, RW had to piece together the new moldings to match the old moldings and each doorway is now framed with 17 individual pieces of wood he hand sawed, glued, nailed and mounted. It looks amazing and NOT like a birdcage made of Popsicle sticks like you might be imagining right now…I can’t wait to show you some snapshots of the new deal.

In the meantime, I’m doing my best to clean up the dust bunny rodeo which seems to get worse and worse every day as the fine gray stuff settles onto the furniture and floor. Yesterday, as I worked on my computer, I could actually taste it in my mouth. Ew. This morning I finally snapped and spent a pair of hours scrubbing things clean. It looks much better but I know I’ll simply have to do it again tomorrow and the day after that.

Yeesh.

CINDERELLY CINDERELLY

Anyway, I’m off to the Etsy shop now to list a few things and then into the studio for one last serious session of inventory boosting before the BIGlittle show on Friday.

You’re my favorite little potatoes.

Love,

The Granddaughter of a Saskatchewan Wheat Farmer

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Titanic, Seraphim and Turquoise

March 4, 2009 by The Noisy Plume

:::::EDIT:::::

I’ve had a few ladies asking about when the next custom order listings will be in the shop. This is my answer:

My Canadian parents are visiting us here in Pocatello next week, for a week. I’d like to be “mentally free” for their visit so I’m hoping to put the new custom listings in the shop around the 19th of March after their departure. I’m going to put three listings up that week and then hopefully I’ll be able to put up another three before the month is through. That will be six total for the month of March.

I’m sorry that I cannot list more than three custom order listings at a time. A lot of work goes into finding the right stone for people, designing their actual request and chit chatting with them and if I keep it down to three custom orders at a time I greatly decrease the confusion I feel when answering emails and convos. I’m going crazy with new design ideas at the moment and am making them as quickly as they come to me! Between custom work, I’m trying to keep you entertained with the regular stock designs I’m putting in my Etsy shop! I love hearing feedback from you on the designs I’ve been showing and selling to you on Etsy so feel free to drop me a line if you’d like to see more of a certain type of stone used or a certain type, style or size of ring you’d like to see more of!

As always, you’re the feathers in my cap.

LOVE,

Jillian

[Seraphim Necklace::mexican fire opal & sterling]

[Unsinkable Ship Ring::prehnite & sterling]

[turquoise & sterling]

I’ve been hoarding these for one whole week now and can’t bear to have them sitting about any longer!

These beauties are entering the shop today!

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RUSTICATING THE STERLING SOUL AND HOW TO COMPLY WITH THE GOODNESS OF CREATION:

March 2, 2009 by The Noisy Plume

Bushwacker Ring

[red jasper and rusticated sterling]

Feeding the Flame Ring

[mexican fire opal and sterling]

Well yes.

I DO have plenty of things to do today.

Thus far I have attended an art history lecture, chatted with my local barista, consumed shredded wheat with drizzled honey and checked in on the terrarium (see above photograph). The fact that I am literally, entirely without any sheet silver, solder, flux, liver of sulfur, sterling wire (in all round gauges), bezel (in all it’s forms) and chain makes working very difficult indeed. I’ve been peering out the front window all morning long hoping that UPS will swing by a day early and help me out a bit. I’ve resorted to thumb twiddling and half hearted attempts to photograph the mountain of jewelry I have stockpiled in the living room on various earring and necklace racks. Tedious for me (et toi).

I think I’m just going to go perch and preen in the studio for most of the afternoon which will, no doubt, result in sketches and the delicious activity of touching cabochons.

I’ve got a serious art nouveau and deco obsession at the moment. Combine that with the frilliness of the Baroque Period I’m currently studying in my art history class and you have some interesting jewelry ideas that I’m plucking from the trees in my mind like ripe plums off the trees in August. I associate work and creativity with growth, fruit, the fecund soil of the great northern plains, alluvial deposits in river valleys, glacial moraines, spring run off coursing it’s way over Idaho as the high places and low places shed their winter white coats and push green through their skins.

Oh I do.

I do associate making with the displays and functions of nature.

I can’t help it.

I want to testify, I want to solemnly swear that God’s green earth is just as spectacular as you might think it is. I want to make an oath, I want to perch on a podium and confess that goodness and creative genius flow from His fingertips and zap us all daily with gentle lightning strikes that hit our soul like a Tibetan monk strikes a gong high up in the Himalayas. Do you hear it? Do you feel it moving out from your spirit and spreading itself over the warmth of your skin? Let it display itself. Glow with it. Be good. FOR YOU ALSO ARE HIS CREATION.

I’m desperate to let my work testify to the shake and rumble of creation as best as it can. I want to rusticate my sterling to the point that it looks like the crumbled and weathered granite at the base of the mighty Sierra Nevada batholith. I want my silver to shine like the sea.

I want to look at it and touch it at the end of the day

and say, “This is good.”

I want it to be good.

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