Winter is continuing its slow decline and spring is making itself known more and more with each passing day. From my second floor apartment patio, I can see an hear the birds starting their seasonal rituals. Their songs are getting more melodic, flights are a bit more showy, everything they’re…
It’s finally starting to feel like winter is coming to an end in my part of California. This winter has been an odd one for me. Normally I’m most physically active during the cold, rainy months. This winter, not so much. I’ve been feeling a bit, shall we say under…
Just a few weeks ago I was helping to release four gophers in to their new homes after they had been washed from their burrows by a winter rain storm. Monday found myself and my Hubby having a walk on the earthen damn at Uvas Reservoir. Just a couple of…
In my current state of Gopher, I’m trying to slowly bring my brain and heart back in to a creative mode. It’s hard. In the current chaos that is my brain, I want to swirl and swim. But that starts to feel like circling the bowl and I’m not quite…
We live in uneasy times. This political cycle has left many of us felling like a raw, exposed nerve left flailing in the wind. Every brush of a breeze feels like an assault. It’s enough to break even the strongest of souls. It’s enough to make others stand up and…
One year ago today this was my completed project. Water Goddess. Cultured stick pearls with flame patina’d copper.
Something else that is an important part of my life is my volunteer work at the Wildlife Education and Rehabilitation Center, aka WERC. I started there 6 years ago as an animal care volunteer, helping with injured and orphaned wildlife, and helping to take care of the permanent residents who…
Another piece completed during the Muffin Tin Challenge. This one, a simple talisman of the element Earth. When I started making jewelry all those years ago, one of the first stones I fell in love with was Botswana Agate. With its translucent bands and swirls of cream, browns, and peach…
I walked in to a little bead store in San Juan Bautista and met the most effervescent soul I’ve ever come across. The store was called Charmed. It was filled with fairies, dragons, suncatchers, and beads. The owner was a young lady who had started the store with her mom…
I’m starting a new collection that I’m calling ‘Remnants and Relics’. Inspired by the leftover pieces of past projects, put together in my own rustic style. This entry is a Talisman inspires by the element of fire. Three stones, Sunstone, Harlequin Quartz, and Amber are combined to echo the warmth…
