The Smart Bird

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Bangle Mania

I've been making a lot of bangles lately.  Some, like these, are for custom orders:

Others, like these, are new designs:





Sunburst hand-stamped charm & citrine gem:

I'm especially fond of the skull charm bangle.  I call her LuLu.  I had the charm cast in sterling silver, from a vintage (circa 1960) Hindu charm that I modified slightly.  I'm very proud of my little LuLu.  She looks just "skully" enough, without being creepy.  Let's have a big huzzah for the bangle: perfect in form, graceful when worn, lovely to behold.  HUZZAH!

Wanted

Do You Know Bohmo?

Well, you should!

 

 

Bird Crazy

Well, I guess watching the robins outside our window has made me a little bird crazy.  I'll admit it.  I'm obsessed.  I found this Etsy shop yesterday, and just had to share.  It's called Shere Design, out of Nottingham, England.  If you ever need bird jewelry, I would say this is the place to go.  Isn't it wonderful?

A Scent All Our Own?

Could this be the perfect scent for all us silver smiths out there? 

        "...a smooth, smoky, spicy blend of interlacing incense (a key scent of the '60s), wood resin, cedarwood, and syrupy, seductive amber.  But just to complicate things, we gave it a heart of jasmine, iris, and violet - a scent that Warhol was especially fond of.  These slightly dissonant florals combine to evoke a metallic effect - that of warmed-up, molten silver."

Molten silver?  Yum!  Well, at $230 a bottle, I doubt I'll be buying the perfume any time soon.  But, I might spring for the candle....

On Their Way...

...To me!  I've been a big fan of Hayden-Harnett ever since they burst on the scene a couple of years ago.  I love their style in just about everything - bags, clothes, belts, coin purses.  And I don't even carry a coin purse.  :-)  Well, I've been loving this bag from afar for months now:

And it finally went on sale.  Some kind of super-duper sample sale, which I only found out about because I was on their mailing list.  I even got the color I wanted, and it was the last one!  Boy did I get lucky.  And I just couldn't resist this little number.  I kind of have a thing for red wallets...

Can't UPS get here any faster?!