Another treasury! Yay!

Sobby has included my Day of the Dead charm bracelet in a treasury! I'm so honored. Thank you so much, Sobby!



You can find the treasury here.

Don't forget, my blog is moving! I'm posting at both places for now, but eventually it will be located solely here. Thanks!

Hooray for the sugar skulls!

An Etsy seller named Giggles used my Day of the Dead bracelet in a treasury on Etsy!

Check it out!



The awesome ceramic sugar skulls are by Melanie from Earthenwood. I love her work!

More Day of the Dead jewelry!

I've just listed the new earrings I made with Melanie from Earthenwood's awesome sugar skulls!



Super simple, I know, but the skulls are just so fun and pretty that I didn't want to embellish them too much.

You can find them here.

New Etsy shop, new jewelry

I've set up my new jewelry shop on Etsy, and I'm working on stocking it with jewelry, such as this set:



I love the Day of the Dead skull design. It's from Gaea and it's such a beautiful pendant.

I have my mini photography studio set up, and I'm experimenting right now with different options on the camera, trying to get things to look nice on the computer screen. It's a challenge!

I'm so excited about making new jewelry. I have a wonderful bead collection, honestly, and I just need to find the time to craft some new things.

Spookyheads for me to play with

I have just received my special order from Melanie of Earthenwood Studio! These adorable little handcrafted ceramic sugar skulls are awesome and I can't wait to make new jewelry with them.

And another Day of the Dead necklace...

...this one featuring a lovely pendant by Gaea (website).

Which brings me to a small story. I originally ordered the pendant in March, and read her emailed instructions, which stated that the order would be custom-made and the next firing would be in April. For some reason, I don't think I really understood that I'd receive it April; I thought I would receive it in May. I didn't need the pendant until late August, so I wasn't concerned.

Well, May (and June) are crazy months for me because of Bead & Button, and I didn't even think about the pendant. It wasn't until July that I remembered it.

I contacted Gaea, who was extraordinarily nice, and she researched it and said that the pendant had been shipped in April.

I was flummoxed, until I realized that my home Paypal address was incorrect--it was still listed as the apartment address. The business address was correct, and I'd assumed it would be shipped there.

Since Gaea never received it back, and we never received it, I believe that it was either lost in the mail, or stolen by the apartment's new tenant, which makes me very unhappy indeed, considering that an entire set of checks was sent there by mistake and they still haven't resurfaced.

But I digress. I purchased a new pendant from Gaea, who very kindly looked through her inventory to find something similar, because there wasn't enough time to have a new one made.

My picture doesn't do the pendant justice, but here it is:



Frosted black onyx, faceted pearls, antiqued sterling silver chain.

Making jewelry

I haven't made much jewelry recently, but I did make a piece for a dear friend of mine:



It's very simple, meant to be a casual piece.

The skull pendant is from Andrew Thornton of Green Girl Studios and is made of bronze clay, and the beads are fossilized wood.

I've always loved skulls and memento mori, and it's wonderful to be able to design with such a fun piece!

Talented friends

I just listed two bracelets on Etsy that I made with Melanie from Earthenwood Studio's beads.

I adore her work. So many of her creations are colorful and fanciful, earthy, steampunky... I love her imagination, and how she continually finds new symbols and creates new pieces of art.

I made this bracelet for a friend of mine, and I ended up making a second one, just because I liked the first one so much.



It's awesome to have talented friends. It's great to watch them grow as artists. And it's even more awesome when they make beads that you can play with as well!