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new studio flooring

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After waiting for what seemed like forever, the flooring for my new studio finally arrived. (In the ultimate Murphy’s law moment, the flooring arrived right in the middle of a webinar I was hosting.)

I chose a faux-wood vinyl floor (to hopefully be more durable) in a white-grey finish. I really love how light and bright the room is, and I didn’t want a dark floor to bring that lightness down. After working in a dark basement for the last six years, I’m trying to keep the new space as light and bright as possible.

Sadly, I’ll have to wait to install the floor until I get back from Europe, but then again, I’ll be in Europe, so I guess it’s not so sad after all.

design time!

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I can’t believe I leave for Europe in four days! I’ve got so many things to do, but where I really want to be is in the studio, designing new work!

I’ve come up with so many new statement necklace ideas while at shows over the last few months, and I can’t wait to see them come to life. But in the meantime, I will say that getting the iPad mini has made design time so much fun! I can sketch ideas, draw right on top of previous designs, and generally play around. For so long, I’ve been diving straight into wire, and it’s been fun to bring drawing back into my design process.

my booth at Buyers Market

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I could not have been happier with the way my booth looked at Buyers Market. From the colors to the fixtures to the displays to the way people flowed through the booth, everything came together in just the best way. I love it when that happens!

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home again, home again

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Doesn’t my jewelry look all lovely piled up at the end of the day? It’s such a lovely little vignette – a ring and two bracelets of mine and two bracelets I picked up at the show that I’m planning on wearing a lot!

I’m home from the Buyers Market of American Craft and I’m completely exhausted and completely satisfied!

I had so much fun connecting with customers and fellow exhibitors and I couldn’t have been happier with the way my booth looked. I’ll be sharing lots of photos tomorrow (believe me, I took plenty!) but today I’m going to rest (a little) and play catch up (a lot)!

new bracelet

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I’m not gonna lie, I really love this new bracelet.

What I don’t love are my winter-dry-skin, been-working-in-the-studio-for-days hands:

Metalsmiths do not make good hand models.

Thank goodness for fun photo apps:

images that stick

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I took the above images last summer in an Anthropologie in Chicago. I hadn’t though about them in a while, but I was laying in backgrounds for some new paintings, when this picture reminded me of them:

I love when the images that inspire me make their way back into my subconscious months later. It reminds me how much it’s worth it to constantly seek out new visual experiences.

Today I’m off to Philly for the Buyers Market of American Craft. The jewelry preview opens tomorrow night and the whole show opens on Saturday. Stop by and say hi if you’re there, I’ll be in booth 615.

droplet earrings

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One of the new designs I created before New York Gift were these droplet post earrings:

They are perfectly sweet with just enough edge and quite possible the perfect pair of post earrings. I gave a pair to my sister and another to my friend and they’ve been wearing them all the time. (So have I for that matter.)

But of course, I felt the need to go bigger. So I came home and played with larger size post earrings and hoops, plus a few statement necklaces that are still in the works.

The big hoops are my favorites:

I’m meeting my friend later today to take a few more pictures of the earrings, so hopefully they’ll be in the shop soon!

Note: I’ll be at the Buyers Market of American Craft in Philly this weekend, so if you’re a buyer and want to see the new earrings in person, stop by booth 615.