fun with lobsters

i may have neglected to mention that i got to go on a wonderful trip to Maine this summer with my good buddy Hannah and her son Jasper to visit some of their family. Aunt Jane and Uncle Steve made us special Lobster Dinner. we had a loooot of fun eating it. i took this photo and just this week printed up some copies of it.. i think i will make some friendship/thinking of you cards out of it for the shop! yes!

Featured Artist at the Arts Incubator in Siler City!

This week I was asked to be a Featured Artist down at the Siler city Arts Incubator! Very exciting! I worked so hard getting some silversmithed pieces together.. Between two days of that and tying pirate plug rigs for my father my thumbs were unbelievably sore! Last night was the lovely 3rd Friday Art Walk~ shops and galleries open, live music out in a wonderful courtyard, and a beautiful night on top of everything!

Fabulous Flame Smoothed Upcycled Glasses

I was so thrilled to look out my door last First Sunday and see Leslie Fesperman with a table of these glasses set up across the street! I was even more thrilled when she brought them in yesterday for me to stock my Sellers cabinet with wonderful sets of tumblers from Corona, Boylan, olive green, and lovely brown bottles (among others).

Leslie cuts them and then moves them through her glassworking flame to make the rim of the glasses smooth and wonderful to drink from.

They are truly recycled and earth friendly and I can't wait to go to the recycling center!

Sad Passing

Thinking of Rosie the Goat~ Hannah's lovely milk goat (whose milk and love are in each bar of Anole Nook Soaps) died suddenly on Wednesday. Wonderful that animals can become such a part of our lives, how great to have that opportunity, and how greatly Rosie will be missed.

Kid's Toys at Angelina's Kitchen

This is one of my favorite commissions: handmade kid's toys for Pittsboro's newest place to get awesome food, Angelina's Kitchen. I have been making buttons that say "my FALAFEL is bigger than your falafel" (Angelina came up with that!) and little origami goldfish on strings and a pole. How totally summery. I also made origami cranes on a pole, but the fish seem to be more popular!

Perhaps best of all though, is that when I drop these off around say, lunchtime, Angelina trades me for amazing food: today I had greek-style green beans, falafel, and baklava frozen yogurt.......mmmmm.

resting on laurels

i have been admiring this amazing chain for some time... i finally bought some (plus two other neat ones by the same designer) and when i put it together with the grey opaline crystals... it was so lovely i started drooling.

available in a single as a pendant on blackened chain too~ very cool.

they make a great muted swishy sound because the metal is matte.. wonderful!

fortune cookie mirrors

I have a nearly lifelong collection of fortunes from fortune cookies that i kept in a neat little box for the longest time. i'm bringing some of them out and immortalizing them in pocket mirrors and fridge magnets. too fun! these are some of my favorites~