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!