Rock, Paper, Scissors

Its time for another show! Im busy making jewelry and only have one week left. Rock, Paper, Scissors is new to the Troika Music Festival this year, and I am super excited to be a part of it. It happens next weekend Saturday, November 7th, 2009 from 12:00 to 4:00 p.m. in the Trotter Building.

The market will be filled with some really great vendors and three amazing local NC bands will be playing-Three Days in Vegas, Tin Star and Mt. Moriah. The whole festival takes place over three days (Friday, November 6th-Sunday, November 8th) and the music line up is a good one!

success!

originally uploaded by (mint).

I participated in The Rock and Shop Vintage Market last weekend. It was lots of fun and a huge success! The jewelry looked great on the new displays and with the business cards and packaging it really came together.

originally uploaded by(mint)

Since I was busy behind the booth, I didn't get time to go check out the other vendors or take pictures of my own booth--as a vendor, huge mistake not taking pictures! Luckily, other vendors have posted pictures of the show and even posted pictures of my booth. I follow the blog Mint, and was quite surprised to see my booth in the blog posting! Thanks Hello Tenfold and Bigwig&Silver for taking such great photos. They both have an amazing collection of photography, custom stationary, note cards and post cards.

Thanks for the pictures!

ta-da!

Its finally coming together...

Im going into the selling season with a whole new look! The new look is compliments of many, but the designers working on putting it together were Adrienne and Islam.

Adrienne took the photographs that were used for the business cards and had wonderful design input. You can see some of her photos on her blog Adrienneats.

Islam was the guy who made it all happen, made the whole look come to life. I now have amazing business cards, packaging, and marketing materials. Soooo sophisticated.

Thanks to everyone who helped!

tres excited

I love participating in The Rock & Shop Markets and I Just found out I was accepted into The Rock & Shop Vintage Market! This one is going to be super exciting, new location, all vintage and up-cycled items and live bands Lonnie Walker and Mount Weather.

"It is a one-of-a-kind shopping experience; vintage furniture, fashion, art & music flea market featuring independent local and national designers plus live music by local performers--all at the Triangle's hottest new all-inclusive venue, The Cotton Room at Golden Belt.

Because its the Vintage Market, all of the jewelry that I will be bringing to the show has elements of upcycled chain, vintage beads and parts of other jewelry that I have deconstructed--half the fun of making this jewelry was finding the chain and vintage beads. Cant wait to see what you think. So, make sure you mark your calendars for Oct. 17th to come check out the new Rock & Shop Vintage Market!

***This is one of the necklaces with vintage brass, faceted glass and pearl beads.

Organikx

I just came across some fantastic sterling silver jewelry on Etsy. Organikx is the name of the shop, and the pieces are made by Bridget Fauser. She has a very eclectic shop of hand forged silver, high polished silver, a mix of sterling and gold, and my absolute favorites are the large intricate natural stones she uses with the metal. Her stone choices are amazing!!!

I am a huge sucker for interesting large natural stones showcased in silver that has been a little distressed and oxidized. Seeing her work makes me want to get back into the studio behind a torch working with sterling silver again.

a day with out Jack

All day without mon petit pois (my little pea). Since Nana is in town, I no longer exist in my sons eyes. So, I have decided to take advantage of the help and buckle down.

I cant even begin to describe how much I got done! Those of you who know what its like to stay at home with a little one, 18 months to be exact, know that there isn't a lot of productivity taking place during the day. Well, today was filled with what felt like luxuries-- Making jewelry, taking pictures of new pieces, blogging, applying to craft shows, and more craft shows, reading all the great info on Etsy...it was fabulous.

This is one of many necklaces I was able to make. Its part of my collection where I incorperate upcycled items. The yellow brass rope chain is from a necklace that I cut apart and the beads are antique Japanese glass.

I will call it...mon petit pois.

a little upcycled update

Here's one of the pieces I made with the upcycled chain I got from last weekend. When I started out to make this necklace it wasnt my intention to make a piece of such contrast. But, somehow it evolved into that and it works. The chain is an upcycled heavy brass cable chain which compliments the thin, delicate oxidized brass chain. The smooth high polished round white quartz and metal grey beads set off the faceted smokey grey glass and milky white quartz. I think Ill try this style with some other types of chain and beads. Its a great length and goes with just about anything.