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

It calls my name...

The bed is beckoning me this morning. 

I'm not usually ready to go back to go back to bed by 9:30 but something about this morning... 

Single parenting again this week. And a boatload of homework piling up (turned in a paper last night though! One down...). Not sure how much studio time I'll get in, but we'll see. I tend to come apart at the seams when I spend too long away from my work. 

For now, I'm off to run a few errands before it's time to pick up the munchkin.

Happy Tuesday, sleepy heads!

xo

The Making and The Being

Some days in the studio, when things go just the way I will them to, when my saw makes my silver sing, when metal responds to fire without melting (except when I want it to), when solder flows and parts align... some days in the studio are really, really good.

Yesterday was one of those days.

It's hard to describe the feeling of seeing something I imagined, and then sketched, coming to... be. And some days it all happens so effortlessly.

Yesterday, I finished this ring. 

It's hard to say which part feels better: the act of creating a thing, or holding it in your hands afterwards and basking in "I made this..."

Sterling and New Mexico Apache Rhyolite. 

Size 8.5 (wears best on a middle finger) and available in the shop now.