The Life and Times of the Plume

The Love is in the Leather…

June 12, 2010 by The Noisy Plume

…and swirling all around.

I made these for you.

I’ll make them available when I return home from the jaunt I’m taking this evening

They are built of sterling, dendritic opal, amethyst sage agate and leather in beautiful, shady resisted and antiqued hues!!!

Scrumptious, supple and sweet.

Made for a woman who has admirable heart and biceps!

A dear dear friend told me this last night:

“you’re cracking your heart open like a nut, harvesting its marrow. there has to be recovery from that, or you’ll die.”
[KJK]

So I’m going to the city tonight for a pinch of respite.

And when I go to the city, I’m going to be wearing this:

Hopefully the urbanites don’t freak out when they see a bit of country

living walking down the streets!

xx
PLUME

Filed Under: leather, New Jewelry

Good Friday to you all. First off, let’s discuss the merit of a good hairdo. This morning I woke up and frankly, I did not care to take the time to shower so I pinned my hair up and ran straight for the studio with a cafe au lait in my hand (with honey…always honey). I also put on a darling outfit but I’ll discuss the merit of a delightful outfit at a later date…

As I was saying, I pinned my hair up in a lovely tousled sort of style with some structured braids acting as a headband for my short bangs and fly aways. It took a total of 9 bobbipins (I have very fine hair) and about 2 minutes and it made me feel like gold, as any updos will on any given day of the week.

A while ago, I had a friend I went to elementary school with (USA ENGLISH TRANSLATION: primary school) zip me an email asking how I manage to always look relatively nice in the photos I take.

My response was:

As a gal who works from home and is out of the dating pools, I have made a point to not let myself go. I wake up in the morning, do my hair, put on a bit of makeup and put on some clothing that makes me feel wonderful. What I wear in my studio is unpractical for the filthy work that smithing is, but it makes me feel good and it ensures that I always look nice for me, for my work (should I take myself out to lunch in the middle of the day while wearing one of my pieces) and for my husband — I love looking beautiful for him and I love knowing that he likes the way I look and I like it even more when I feel his eyes appreciating me as I cross a room or move about in our home.

I could wear sweatpants to work and behave, generally, like a haggy hermit but I reckon that’s a slippery slope and eventually I’d wind up with 27 cats and a home that smells of stale crackers and mothballs.

All of this said, from one girl to another, try to take the time. Outer beauty isn’t the most important thing of all but if you feel good in your own skin I reckon it makes it that much easier to take on anything else life may hand you on a silver platter!

On with other life details:

I knew I was going to want to keep whatever this slice of Utah variscite turned into so I made sure to craft a ring band that doesn’t fit any of my fingers. What a beauty. What a glitzy little thing! May the woman who claims her adore the weight and dazzle of this piece.

This is a massive slice of mookaite I’ve been hoarding for a year or so. I finally set it today and let’s be honest, a stone of this stature and hue needs a lot of respect. It talks the talk and walks the walk in a simple setting with some special treats on the backside of the base plate and ring band. It looks especially nice when paired with vintage Capezio cowboy boots…in case you’re taking notes.

And almost lastly, there is this other mookaite ring featuring a pile of sterling leaves and other detritus atop a flouncy ring band. Delicious in every way. To boot, this cut looks like the province of Saskatchewan in terms of shape and further more it looks like turning wheat fields mingling with canola fields which makes me want to smile and weep all at once. Sometimes my home feels like it is a universe away.

On deck for completion this evening are two Love Cuffs featuring dendritic opal from Turkey and amethyst sage agate!

I’ll be listing everything sometime tomorrow morning before I pop down to

Salt Lake City for a concert and a lovely evening with some really kind firefighters.

Have a beautiful weekend all!

Love you to your very bones and back again!

The Noisy Plume

Filed Under: New Jewelry

Pink

June 10, 2010 by The Noisy Plume

It’s been a very pink day here.

Very pink and very windy.

I’m about to flip my wig!

The chickens are getting cranky — they hate it when their plumage bends the wrong way. Vanity. Darling vanity.

I woke up this morning and found I had settled into calm while sleeping in the night. I also shut my alarm off in my sleep and I threw my phone under the bed sometime in the early morning hours but I can’t recall doing either of these things. Sometimes sleep is such a blurrrrrrrrr…I’m curious about what you get up to when REMming?

Anyway, I woke up and I knew it was a day for Glitz. So two poured out of my hands, lickity-un-split in the studio. Sometimes my brain is bigger than the ability of my hands or the hours in a day because before I knew what hit me, seven hours had passed in the studio and all I have to show for it is two really big, really lovely, really pink rings. Glitzy they are! Built of sterling and druzy. All that glitters isn’t gold and thank God for that! The world could use a little more pink — in the cheeks and on the finger tips.

These pretty babies wear comfortably on a US ring size 7.75 and a size 8 finger and the design sits best on a middle finger which makes flipping the bird for you feisty ones very decadent and glittery looking. PARDON ME? No. I refuse to think that I’d catch any of you ladies exhibiting such crass behavior!

Thank you all for your consideration!

Etsy shop ahoy!

PS Do you ever find yourself thinking:
I sure wish so-and-so would visit me now instead of having visited me then because my house is so much prettier, so much cooler and my gardens aren’t locked in the icy grips of winter and I’ve got my bird nest collection nailed up all over the walls everywhere and things are getting very nesty indeed. Indeed!

:::EDIT:::
Thank you so much to the ladies who snaggled these rings up!
I appreciate you very much.
xx

Filed Under: New Jewelry

Solo Rings

June 10, 2010 by The Noisy Plume

I found these little green agate cabochons while crossing the lumberjacky state of Oregon the other week. They were nestled, unassumingly, in a box with a bunch of mediocre cabochons in a random rock shop, in a small town, somewhere in the mountains of that state. I’m glad my bladder beckoned me to stop at that rock shop, I’m even gladder that I had the good sense to pick these little stones up and bring them home. The green of these agates is peaceful, warm and soothing. Perfect for a country girl who is living in the city…perfect for the city girl who has a little country in her soul.