Foxy Goes to Washington

She just left this morning and already the house is a mess, the cats are restless, and I'm exhausted. In fact, I just now, at 10:30, got back from the grocery store (which was only possible thanks to our wonderful Cynthia). I always find grocery shopping at night a kind of surreal experience. The too-bright lights, the shoppers contemplating their cookie options while clad in pajama pants and slippers (or maybe that's just in Lawrence?)... I don't know, something about it is always slightly disturbing to me. But not as disturbing as brining two tired and hungry children to the grocery store during the 6:00 rush. So instead, I wait until they're in bed and our wonderful Cynthia is busy doing her homework and not going anywhere anyway (as far as I know) and I sneak away.

But, yes, Stephanie is in DC this week for work. I don't know how single parents do it. And I even have a Cynthia!

Foxy, come home! We miss you!

Lilah is so distraught that she's fallen into a coma:

One more for the weekend...

It's been such a fantastic long weekend! Yesterday we spent a good amount of time visiting with our friend Aimee at the Bizarre Bazaar (and did some shopping too!) and then I got to spend some quality time with Alice while the foxy one went off to work in the screen printing studio for a while (I'll post pictures of her work this week!). After dinner I had a little time in my own studio and finished this:

It's already in the shop and my 15% off coupon code (BLACKFRIDAY) works through tomorrow, Cyber Monday.

I have more to share with you from the weekend but I'll save it for another post.

Love to all!

xo 

Black Friday ~ Cyber Monday Offerings

Taking a quick break from visiting with family and stuffing myself full of turkey and cranberry leftovers (I'm not sure there are many things I love more than cranberry... good thing we had THREE different varieties of cranberry sides!) to let you, my faithful blog readers, know about my Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale:

Enter coupon code BLACKFRIDAY at checkout to receive 15% everything in my shop.

(Yes, that includes gift certificates! Keep it on the DL ;)

Freshly listed this evening is this little (and I do mean little, this one's for a small boned girl much like myself) heart-charmed bangle:

Hand rusticated sterling silver, turquoise, and rhodochrosite. Each sterling component completely fabricated by hand. In the shop now!

Stay tuned... I might have a couple of more items to add before the weekend (and the sale) is over.

For now, back to the visiting and the eating... I think I heard dessert come out!

List it Tuesday - Canadian Edition

With American Thanksgiving coming up (and the fact that our young American housemate asked me yesterday "who's Tim Hortons?"), I've been thinking a lot about my beloved homeland and its fabulous idiosyncrasies. I've been in Kansas now for 13 years  (13? Oh my gosh!) and I'm still discovering words and other things that I didn't even realize were strictly Canadian. So here's my list for this List it Tuesday:

(bonus points to Americans who can identify any of these things without the help of Google)

We're hosting Thanksgiving this year, and Foxy's family is due to arrive on our doorstep tomorrow afternoon, so I may not get a chance to post again before the end of the weekend. But you never know. I am working on a few more items that I hope to add to the shop before the end of the week so if I get those done, I'll try to post them here.

Happy Thanksgiving to all of my American friends and family! And happy 4th week of November to my Canucks!

xo

New Jewelry!

Well!

I've had quite a productive week so far! Three new pieces for you:

First, one of my favorite stones ever, Tiffany stone (also known as Bertrandite), simply set in rusticated sterling silver:

I knew as soon as I got this stone that I would set it like this. The stone speaks for itself.

And this one came from an idea I tried to execute way back in March, but I was so new to smithing that I made a million and one mistakes and despite my attempts to make something of it (all the way up until late this summer!), I finally decided to scrap it. Here's the same idea in it's new (and properly executed) form:

Yellow jasper and sterling. Sits pleasingly and comfortably asymetrically:

And finally, a necklace similar to the custom order I completed a couple of weeks ago:

Resin (I did not make the resin cabachon), amethyst, turquoise and sterling

Hoping to get these in the shop a little later tonight (gotta get the kiddies in bed first!). Oh! And if you haven't already, join my email list (link to the form in the sidebar on the right) because I'm going to be sending out a discount code to email list members in the very near future.

PS. I know I missed list it Tuesday. Next week!

PPS. It's almost Friday! :)

PPPS. A note about pricing: the price of silver has almost doubled since I bought my first piece of silver sheet less than 1 year ago. The prices of handmade sterling silver jewelry items may seem like a lot (especially if you're not used to buying handmade), but I use expensive, quality materials and each piece takes many hours to complete. I use a formula based on the cost of the materials and the time put into the piece to arrive at a price. Feel free to send me a note if you have any questions about prices (or anything else!).