Not a whole lotta earrings

But lots of necklaces :)
And some rings for good measure..............

Twin necklaces: salt & pepper finishes

And can't forget the bracelet!

Listing new work is always such a looooong process. I've been trying to get it done in one day, but it almost never happens even though I am determined that time around to accomplish that goal. The problem is that I am still finishing work that morning.....setting stones, applying finishes, etc. So here I am the next day....AGAIN ;)

Okay, I'm off to list!

p.s. I'm listening to this beautiful song right now...love it.

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Trunk Show

I can't believe I forgot to mention this here......

I am having a trunk show tomorrow in prAna on Pearl St. from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
We are working, working, working like little elves in our workshop in preparation :) It has actually been like this since June....we've been very busy most of the summer, which is why I have been a bit of a ghost in these parts.

Sunday I plan on having a veeerrrry relaxing day!

Have a great weekend :)

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Inspiration

I had to share this......

It's so beautiful.
Calming and serene.....the music fits perfectly. It makes my skin tingle.
I would love to take a class with Elena Brower.........someday.

Happy September :)

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Giveaway winner

The winner of my giveaway is................TRICIANA BURKE!!  Congratulations :)

A big thanks again to all of my wonderful followers and new arrivals!

We are incredibly appreciative of all of your support :)

We've also had the pleasure of adding two more locations that carry my jewelry this month. The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts houses a 3000 sq ft retail space full of local and national artists work for sale. I am incredibly excited to join this prestigious group!!

I will also have my work displayed at the Ghost Gallery in Seattle. :)

They are located on Capitol Hill and display works from many artists around the U.S.

I am thrilled to add both the gallery and museum to our growing list of sales partners!!!

One other bit of news.....I am the featured sponsor for Purl Bee this month and along with that I am giving away 8 pairs of earrings to their readers. If you'd like to enter their drawing click here. You have until tomorrow to enter.

I've been otherwise just tucked in my studio working away and getting our boys ready for school

can you believe that summer vacation is already gone!!!??

We've also managed to get out of town for a few short trips that always helps invigorate us. We love to travel like I've mentioned a gazillion times ;) and visiting local areas is no exception. It's also getting easier and easier for us to travel now with the boys getting older. We definitely don't have to pack, anymore, like we're moving each time we leave the house for a night. ha!

Okay I'm off..................back to work :)

Have a great day!

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Giveaway

I mentioned in my last post that I had an announcement......

I am having a giveaway for this Sonoran Sunrise and sterling silver necklace for all of my newsletter recipients, facebook fans and blog followers. :)

The newsletter and facebook followers are automatically entered, but if you are neither, I need for you to leave a comment below to be included.

Next week we'll announce the winner in our August newsletter as well as here.

This is big thank-you to all of you who are following and supporting us!

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU :)

Have a wonderful weekend!

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More.....

Thank you, thank you to all of you who snatched up many of my new pieces!

The response has been WONDERFUL.

The ring above is the last one that I have and I put that puppy in my website shop and can be found here.

I really like to make cocktail rings and I keep telling myself to make more because they never, ever last long in my shops.

The 'company of circles' necklace above is a new version of my old design that I love a little bit more. I have had so many people ask me to bring that design back....

It's bib-like in its design, which for any of you who follow fashion know, is a popular trend. However, this one is very unique in that it is all sterling (most bib necklaces have many embellishments, textures and materials) and very streamlined.

This pair of earrings is a bit dark and edgy....which I like :)

I am often asked to create pendants out of my earring designs that I decided, this time around, to have the necklace already in my shop. I have a pendant of the same design as the earrings above.

A new cuff!

I've been playing with a new textured matte that I am incredibly fond of....it's a bit of a cross between a sandblasted and brushed finish and you can kind of see it above.

So the earrings above and below, I have to say, are my favorites.

As much as I love the others......these two, I adore just a bit more.

So I'll be back within the next few days to give an announcement that I'm sure you will like :)

My newsletter recipients were already given the heads up in July.

Have a great day!

I'm off to work on a ginormous order for a gallery in Virginia.

(I've been practically living in my studio and will continue to for several more days ;)

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Lots of updates...

Hello :)

I've been gone awhile.........from here anyway.

I've been spending lots and lots of time in my studio, interlaced with visiting family that have been in and out of our house for just over a month. It's been a wonderful yet hectic time.

So much is happening on the business front, not least of which is the wonderful onslaught of shop and wholesale orders. I have had several more galleries come on board in the last month. Summer is supposed to be slow (knock on wood) so this means that Norbert and I are gearing up for a busy Christmas season since now!

Yesterday, I spent the entire day finishing up pieces, then photographing and editing them.

It also happened to be our anniversary so at the spur of the moment we decided to ditch the listings and head out and celebrate. What were we thinking anyway?? Ridiculous to ignore this important day!

So here I am, yet again, finishing up listings the following day.

Oh well. I have a good excuse ;)

To be honest, I've decided to stop sweating the small stuff.

As long as I know that I am working hard and moving forward then that's really all I can ask of myself.

I used to get upset about quite a lot until everything kind of came to a standstill back in February when I had my health scare. A lot of it was a result of stress. That was about the time I decided that it's up to me in how I view and react to my work (this applies to every area of my life, actually). It just made no sense to me that I would be so stressed and unhappy when I was doing exactly what I wanted to do in the world.

That's when the shift happened. And now I breathe deeper.....and appreciate so much more.

I don't want to stop what I am doing.

Owning our own business is not easy.

I knew it wouldn't be.....but it's incredibly, incredibly gratifying.

And I have continuous moments of excitement.

And now, I am thrilled to be so busy.

So here is some of my new work.

There are about 27 pieces in total.

And now it's time to list.

I'm going to try very hard to get it all done today....

Along with giving the boys a snack, talking on the 'phone' (block of wood :) with all of their friends and family, reading books, playing with tinkertoys and making dinner......

My fingers are crossed ;)

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Golden Days....

Life has definitely been moving at a fast pace.

We have really, really been enjoying vanaema's (Estonian grandma) visit and we are trying to show her as much of our area as possible.

This past weekend we headed to Golden for their Buffalo Bill Days parade and fair.

We were treated to dancing ponies, mariachis, a shoot-out, Native American dancing and the coolest gun-swinging chick I've ever seen! ;) She threw around a couple of 2 1/2 pound guns like they were feathers. There was som whip action too.......

She is still with us for another 8 days and we are also expecting some of my family this weekend for my oldest monkey's 5th birthday. We are going to be busting at the seams in our house.....but I'm anxious for the chaos to get here :)

I've actually been working a lot more than usual this past month and I will be so relieved to finally get a shop update up this week. It has been a loooooong time.

My goal is to start this Wednesday and finish on Thursday.

So, Norbert and I also decided to start a weekly sale where we will have one piece of jewelry at a reduced price in our shops for one week.

This week the 'What Sarah Said' earrings are on sale.

You can find it on our website and Etsy shops.

In the future, I will announce here and on the Facebook page which design it will be.

 

Okay, off to give two dirty monkeys a bath.......

(we just can't seem to get our little boys to bed earlier than 9:30 this summer! We're too busy enjoying the long warm days :)

 

 

Goodnight!

Travels, a giveaway and a thank-you

As I mentioned in my last blogpost, my Estonian mother-in-law is visiting for the month so we are taking several mini trips to show her this gorgeous state. This last weekend we headed down to Salida to meet up with a friend at a beer festival.

Norbert's in red and our friend Rudy is in green

Since we were heading that way we decided to stay for a few days and drive around Leadville, Aspen, Vail and Silverthorne.

Between Leadville and Aspen is a gorgeous highway that takes you over Independence Pass which is above the treeline.....which basically means we are pretty freaking high ;) 12,095 ft. to be exact.

Some of my absolute favorite hikes have been in this area.

The road is on the side of a cliff for a good portion of it and it has incredible views.

I love mountains.

 I mean, REALLY love mountains.

That is one of the main reasons we moved out here. We live really close to the base of the Rockies and to get to all of these aforementioned areas takes only a couple of hours. That doesn't even include all of the gorgeous areas around the flatirons, which is half an hour away from where we live.

My oldest monkey playing in the water in Aspen.

We did conduct a bit of business while out here though, so it wasn't all pleasure :)

We just believe in mixing it up. Always!

Aspens on the way to Aspen ;)

I did want to mention two things before I head out to the farmer's market:

1. A big THANK-YOU to Irene from Bloesem for such a sweet mention to our shop.

 She definitely put smiles on our faces!

2. Also, Cassandra from Coco + Kelley is sponsoring a giveaway with $40 towards

any item in our shop. Head over here to enter!!

Oh! And also the newsletter was sent out this afternoon.

There's some good stuff in there ;)

Have a great evening!

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Extras and update

These are some of my older designs that I brought back into my Etsy shop as well as our website.

There were quite a few actually.....

Even more than I have here. I have had lots of requests for some of my older designs and I finally got around to making more. I am trying to keep these in stock. I pride myself on getting packages sent out as quickly as possible and having these made helps with that a ton.

These two rings are in my online shop as well.

One other quick update.....Norbert added paypal capability to our website along with our credit card processing. So now there are both options when checking out.

I will be working hard this week to finish prAna's order, plus my mother in law is coming in late tonight from Estonia to stay with us for a month, so we are going to be having a busy week. We're super excited to see her though!! It's been a year now.....since we are so far away we try to visit one another at least once ever 12 to 18 months. The boys are excited to see their vanaema :)

I'm thinking that granola and yogurt is what's for dinner......bad I know, but I still have a whole house to clean! ;)

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It's that time again....

Time for some listings.

I took a 2 - 3 hour break this evening to go and light fireworks.....so it's going to be a late night. We were supposed to light them last night, but we got rained out. It's no problem though because it feels like we celebrated twice :) The boys are having two late nights in a row. This morning they did not even wake up until after 8! Generally they are up like roosters at 6:30. I'm hoping that tomorrow morning they'll have a repeat! I'm definitely going to want to sleep in.............

So along with new work I am also reintroducing some old favorites to my Etsy shop.

These leaf earrings are making a reappearance.

AND these earrings are my new favorites! I LOVE, love, love how they came out. I've had this sketch sitting for awhile in my notebook.

So this pair started out as another old design I had made a long time ago, but once I started working on them they took on a completely different life. I am really happy with these, too.

I haven't had a turquoise necklace in my shop for quite awhile. I am  really digging the chain.

I have lots more and I am going to work as long as I can tonight and then I'll finish tomorrow.

THIS one, however, is mine :)

As soon as I saw this cut of citrine I knew exactly what I wanted to do with it. Half-way through working on it I realized that I was going to keep this one. It's been waaaay too long since I've made myself a necklace.

I loved this one too much.

 I will make this design again though.........when I find another stone shaped like a petal. It was a really fun (and time consuming) piece to work on.

Okay, I've got to get moving.....back to work.

bye :)

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