Art beads, jewelry-making and handcrafting a business.
My very dear friend Erin Prais-Hintz sent me the link to her blog today that featured this incredible necklace that she created. She titled it "The Only Bird in Town."
I love what I wrote for this listing: Hope hatches, twigs become a home, we learn to fly...that kind of sums up my life. Aren't these cuffs the bomb? Can I say that, da' bomb? I'm ridiculous, I know. (yep, the Queen of Dorkiness still reigns.) I will have to make more someday soon and work them into a design.
And finally these beads have been floating around, just waiting to bust out on the scene. They are a leafy, fall inspired series like my Spring and Winter branch beads. 
Who doesn't?
Sometimes when you are toiling away making jewelry for the magazines, it's a little like planting seeds. You know it will be months before you see the fruit of your labor and your work in print. 
Etched copper, branch beads, mixed with some sterling silver. Those leaf cuff bracelets rock my world. I love them and had to make one just for me! I did a little low heat treatment to change the color of the copper to look like fall leaves. Me and metal, we are getting tight.
And I wasn't planning to make earrings with a statement, but somehow they just happened. After I made the house with the xo, the ribbon just seemed like the right thing to add. I might call them, "Come Home" or "Bring them Home". I could see them for people with loved ones in the armed services or for a breast cancer survivor, although I would probably add pink cherry blossom beads to the bottom. Houses are one of my favorite symbols, more on that later. So many meanings into such a tiny pair of earrings. Back to the bead cave for me. Happy Creating!
My beads are feeling like a rolling stone, they have rambling ways, they have their bags packed and are leaving on a jet plane. Where the heck are they going? 
My early days were filled with selling my jewelry at shows and I seem to have come full circle because this weekend I am selling my jewelry at a small show. My friend Stella invited me to have a booth at a Jazz festival in Schertz, TX this weekend. There are only a few artists selling work: ceramics, photography, woodwork, wirework and jewelry. It's from 2 - 8pm.
Hello dear readers!
What the hey Heather? We've already seen these birds a million times, why you bloggin' on them today? Well my chickies, they are in fact new. Tiny and new, about 1/2 the size of a regular Humblebead bird. Pint size, you might say. And if you are small, there is safety in numbers, so they are sold in pairs. Bird earrings anyone?
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