Here’s my latest dangly bracelet. Here are some of the flip flops – new and older ones – used in bracelets. Here are a few earrings from the last few days.
There’s one of the necklaces that I strung on a combo of suede and beading cord. I always like the mix of casual cords and pretty, fancy beads. Here’s another, with swirlies, pearls and little lumps of turquoise.
I love how much stuff actually gets DONE with tight deadlines on my horizon.
I haven’t really disappeared. I’m just trying to finish up what I can before the end of the month – and the monstrously huge show in Calgary, the Lilac Festival, pray for dry weather! – and have been a little lax in taking pictures of what I’m making.
Here’s a few of what got baked this weekend shortly before they get turned into bracelets and earrings:
This little guy – a yellow warbler Google says – is a recurring theme around here. He got stuck in the Explorer last summer. This year he’s back and looking for company or letting the world know he’s found it.
We woke us up at 5:30 this morning to the click, click, click, flutter sound of him bouncing off our bedroom window, beak first, over and over. Then he followed me to the kitchen window where I took pictures and little videos of him thumping against the glass.
He had our cat’s undivided attention until the rainstorm moved him out of sight. I can still hear him singing merrily out there somewhere though.
And I have a tray of beads just that shade of yellow in progress…
Yes. Necklaces grow on trees. Or at least they hang on them.
I am always on the lookout for stands for my shows. Current obsession has been a stand that I can hang my masses of pendant on a cord pieces. There are lots of them. Next show is outdoors so I want something with some weight to it, too. Lots of googling and Etsying and mixing various ideas resulted in the above tree prototype. The prototype is made from 1/4″ ish inch trashed plywood backing to a broken mirror. I scroll sawed the shape. Next one will be from less ugly plywood.
These are the rough shapes. Next ones will have changes made. These would pack flat for a show which is AWESOME. You just slot the two parts together and away you go.
I am a firm believer that putting things in writing gives them a much better chance of coming true, being successful. Putting them in writing out where people can see them even more so. So with that in mind here’s what’s up in the next few months:
The last few are not all fleshed out yet so I’ll save the links and details until a little later. Feel free to ask me as the summer goes on how it’s all going or how it all went!
* the introductory picture has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the post. He’s just cute.