In the shop today, around 11AM (MST), there will be a small forest!
August 25, 2016 by
August 21, 2016 by
Cast jackrabbit vertebra, fabricated ferns, carved turquoise cross, a bazillion tiny pearls & sterling silver…
I had a welling up.
NOW CLOSED :: Nine Sweet Years :: GIVEAWAY
August 16, 2016 by
Thank you all for celebrating with me and for the kind sentiments you left in the comment section on this post. You’re the best.
The winner is comment #86 — randomly generated, of course.
I’ve never had a man win a giveaway before but there’s a first time for everything! Mister Andrew Bell, you’ve won this Caesura Necklace for your beautiful bride. I hope she loves it.
Again, thank you all!
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Way back yonder in July (which seems so long ago now), The Noisy Plume turned 9 years old which means I’ve been messing around with metal for a full decade now. Some of you have been with me from the very beginning and some of you found me only moments ago but I want to tell you thanks, with all my heart, for being a part of my little world. I couldn’t have built my tiny empire if it wasn’t for your tender loving care, your appreciation for handcrafted jewelry, your craving for images of wild spaces and the words to go with them. I’ve grown, learned and changed so much, so has this little business of mine, so have you…and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
The bottom line is, I love to create for you. I’m not going to stop. Here’s to many years more of you and I — of us.
As always, simply leave a comment on this blog post to enter your name in the drawing for this Caesura Necklace. I wish I had 100 to give away. If the spirit leads you, I am giving away a second (and different) necklace over on my Instagram account and I’d love to see you drop your name in the hat there, too. Men, enter your names for you wives, daughters, nieces — all are welcome and I am happy to ship internationally. I’ll leave this giveaway open until commenting tapers off and I feel like closing it, regardless, don’t delay entering!
I cherish you.
Roll on, you beauts.
X
July 8, 2016 by
Oh drat. I meant to get a preview up for you much earlier than this but life happened. Trips to acupuncture, the vet, a grocery run to the city, cooking food for myself to eat, galloping to and from the post office, another trip to the city for printer cartridges…yadda yadda. Anyway, there are duplicates of pretty much everything you see here. Lots of turquoise crosses, labradorite, wapiti…I had so much fun making this stuff for you and coming home to a few series I thought I was finished that I’ll never be truly finished with.
It will be live in the shop tonight at 5PM MST.
See you there, bumblebees.
XX
Jackrabbit Juju (if you believe in that juju mumbo jumbo)
July 3, 2016 by
I go outside a lot and when I am out there, I find a lot of cool things. I used to bring it all home with me but now I try to practice a little self-control and I bring home only the best specimens. In point of fact, I’m starting to leave antlers behind if they are less than perfect, according to my personal sense of perfection. Anyway, I found a full jackrabbit spine scattered about in pieces while hunting quail in some sand dunes in New Mexico this winter past. I set my shotgun against a yucca, bent low, collected all the tiny vertebrae and put them in my trusty zip-lock bag which I carry for just such purposes while I’m in the field.
I loved the shape of this particular bone and it cast up beautifully in sterling.
I added it to a little vignette that also features a cut of OLDoldOLD rough top turquoise I procured while on a desert trip to Utah two winters ago. The pendant is flanked on one side by one of those ridiculously beautiful carved turquoise crosses that I’m admittedly besotted with (and I’ve been little panicky lately
because my stock in those beads is growing a little low…).
Anyway, I love how this piece turned out and I’ve been making plenty of other interesting things so look for a shop update late next week.