Making It Personal

You know when you see those little kiosks that have everybody's names and you go to look for your name or someones name that you love and you just can't find it? Well that happens to me all the time. I have a nephew and a daughter and 3 of my 4 sisters that I can never find their names! (Dates are good for these too!) Everything is more special when its been customized.
I have some custom charms to make your wedding extra special as well. I talked about these in a previous post. During the wedding they can be tied onto your bouquet and then after your wedding you can use them as ornaments on your 1st holiday or Christmas tree.
So I think I might have solved the problem, at least a little. In my collection 'Make it Personal' I make everything to order so no names or dates are left out! That means that Jaxon and Bailey can have their names, or at least their Moms can have their names on something special. Now no one is left out.
How are you going to make it personal?




Have a wonderful week.

H

Where Are you Going?

Where are you going? Well I'll tell you some days (most days!) I have no idea, then other days I seem to have a clear vision in my mind where I'm going. When the days are unclear to me and the path doesn't seem to show itself I find myself looking to the past. But not in a bad way, not with regrets. I think you can help define your future by looking at where you've been.
This would have to be why I feel drawn to the ocean and why I put it into my art and daily reminders around me. If you haven't seen my collection 'Down By the Sea' you need to check it out. I'm sure you're asking why is someone who doesn't live by the ocean, is creating art about the ocean? I know you're asking because I've asked the same question of myself.
Well here is a little history of me: I was born on the most beautiful islands in the world! I was born in Hawaii. We didn't live there for a very long time but growing up between Hawaii and California the ocean was ever present in my life. I became a SCUBA diver and have a great respect for the ocean and all it's living creatures.
So I guess that brings me back to where are you going? For me I'm wanting to be back by the ocean. It grounds me. And I guess until I can live near it again, my art (and countless other wonderful artists that adorn my home!) will have be enough for me.
So where are you going?




Have a wonderful weekend.

H

Be Peaceful

A lovely sentiment for the times in which we live. A reversible pendant made of fine silver with a fern on one side and 'Be Peaceful' hand stamped with a custom font on the other side.

This pendant was made using hollow core techniques. I learned how to do this technique from J. Fred Woell. This is an amazing artist that I would love to just sit and learn anything there is to know about metal! I was also blessed to have him teach my PMC certification through Rio Grande.

I'm getting ready to go to San Francisco to take some classes from The Revere Academy on metalsmithing. I'll be there at the end of this month for 10 days. I hope to have wonderful new items to show you. I'm going to be working with gold so I will be adding that to my shop soon.

Thanks for looking today! I hope your week is going well.

H

Peaceful Alphabet?

Well the picture should say it all but just in case you don't know what it is I'll explain. Those are almost finished pendants and earrings going into the kiln to be fired. That's 2 wholesale orders and quite a few retail orders too.
The 1st wholesale order is the calligraphy pendants (with a few of the Cora Paige Project Letter Pendants in there too!) and the second is the 12 pairs of Peace Sign earrings. That makes for a very busy day!

Other things going on today too. Miss priss has sports day at school today, so this is how she dressed for the day. She seems to be having fun dressing up this week. Yesterday was crazy sock day. No I don't let her out of the house looking like that everyday! She has also been doing her breathing treatments again. (Sorry for the bad picture on that one!) So I've been trying to make them a little more fun, which isn't easy! Well I must get back to the orders because they need to go out tomorrow.

H