I’ve mostly been building a fleet of beaded necklaces in the studio over the span of the month of July. It’s such a joy to work with color. Color makes me feel good. I’ve never been one for neutrals. I am a color maximalist. The pendants and charms I’ve paired with various beads range from horses to wolves to crosses and yucca pods to stars and simple gem settings. Something for everyone (hopefully). I’ll be listing these beautiful Red Dirt Road Necklaces along with the rest of my inventory (an additional 30 necklaces) in my shop on July 29th at 10AM MST. I hope to see you there!

+Of The West+

https://www.thenoisyplume.com/blog/2021/07/25/16079/

Where does inspiration come from? It comes on glass wings in the night, flapping and fluttering toward the light.
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This is another post-view instead of a preview. I made these pieces in June and they were all claimed through my online shop and sent to their new homes but I wanted to post some images of them here on my journal because I like a visual record of my work to exist in this space.

There’s not much of a story behind these designs.  I listened to a podcast about cicadas and then researched cicadas online and decided to saw out a sterling cicada wing.  A couple days later I woke up to LITERALLY hundreds of thousands of moths covering my house.  It was an Old Testament plague of moths…nightmarish.  Then I rode one of my horses in the high country and we were fluttered all over by swallowtails as we moved through clouds of wildflowers and sunshine.  It was beautiful.  I found myself really into bug wings for a bit.  This little series is the result. I began by sawing one wing and by the end I had sawed many wings and I turned them all into jewels.

This might be my favorite work to roll out of my studio this summer, so far, but summer is only half over! There was plenty of quiet magic and wisp and lightness to these pieces.

Thank you if you claimed a Glasswing from me in necklace or earring form. I hope they’re carrying you well.

https://www.thenoisyplume.com/blog/2021/07/18/16057/

That thing happened again in the studio wherein I thought I wasn’t getting anything finished and I thought I was spinning my wheels for days on end and one day I looked over at my jewelry racks and realized I had a huge inventory of work on hand! I am going to chip away at finishing a few more pieces and then I’ll begin the journey of photographing and listing new work in my shop. Maybe on Friday you’ll see these beautiful blues in my shop? I’ll try my best for Friday. I hope you are all working hard but not forgetting to take care of yourselves. I hope the same for myself.

https://www.thenoisyplume.com/blog/2021/06/08/15981/

I’m stuck on rose quartz lately. I like the color, the translucence, and I especially love these geometric cuts. These necklaces are in my shop today.