What a week!

Well!

It's been a pretty great week, although I haven't gotten nearly as much done in the studio as I'd hoped.
But I did finish a couple of these necklaces, which are in the shop now:

But in other news, a number of pretty great things that have happened to me this week:


1) I got my grades back for the semester and got straight As!

2) I hit 99 sales on etsy. A feat that seemed impossible when I first opened my shop and watched those first few sales slowly trickle in. Will I make it to 100 before the end of the year?!

And, most exciting of all...

3) My FIRST EVER INTERVIEW was published in the winter issue of the 

Kansas Creative Quarterly!! Go check it out; I'm pretty proud of it!

I had hoped to get a few more things listed in the shop before the end of this week but I'm not sure that's going to happen. I've been busy on custom orders, Christmas shopping, and other holiday prep so the sweet little necklaces above might be it for now. 

If I don't get a chance to post again before the big day, Merry Christmas!!

(oh she tries to look pretty, but the poor girl is never going to win any beauty contests).

xoxoxoxo

Hooray for Holidays!

"Uhh... has anyone noticed there's a tree in the living room?"

Things are feeling Christmas-y around here!

I'm finally finished with school for the semester and after a short break from the studio in order to finish some end-of-semester assignments, it feels good to be back at the bench.

I hope to have at least a couple of new pieces to share with you by the end of the week.

And just a quick PSA: Please place orders by this Friday, December 16th if you need them by Christmas. I might be able to get orders placed at the beginning of next week to their recipients on time but won't be able to guarantee it, so better safe than sorry!

(US orders only, unfortunately I can no longer guarantee Christmas delivery for international orders).

Holy Cow!

It's December!! 

I have a lot (and I mean a LOT, I'm kind of freaking out a little bit) of school work to do in the next week and a half so you probably won't see much in the way of new metal work until mid-month. 

But I promise it will be worth the wait. 

Until then, my head will be buried in books and research papers.

And my mouth will probably be full of these gingerbread cookies that I made yesterday.

Thankful

It's been a beautiful weekend.

I hope all of my American friends out there had a happy Thanksgiving! We certainly did.

I'm having a Black Friday sale today in my shop. Use code BLACKBUFFALO for 20% off anything in the shop all day. I'm also offering free shipping all weekend long. 

Support small businesses this season!

xo

That time of year...

We left the comfort of our warm home yesterday afternoon to do some shopping for our Thanksgiving feast, but on the way there we passed the park where Alice likes to play. She knew where we were and got quite upset that we weren't stopping. We decided to stop and let her play for a minute, thinking the cold would be too much for her and she wouldn't be all that interested once we got out. We were wrong. She wasn't bothered a bit. As you can see, the mamas were.

It's supposed to be in the 60s again on Thursday... 

I added a couple of pairs of earrings to the shop this morning, but not sure I'll get much else in there in the next little while. We have family coming for Thanksgiving, and then I have two major papers due in the following weeks. Of course, I said I wouldn't be in the studio at all last week either and that turned out to be a big fat lie.

Copper and sterling. Find them here. 

And now for a bitter sweet burst of color:

Vintage yellow glass, garnet, and sterling. Here. 

Have a lovely week, my friends!

xo