rollercoaster

I took a couple of quick snapshots while I was forming bezels today.

I had a ridiculous amount of fun designing this afternoon.

I am working on a million different things again. Starting one and then starting another, and then another, and so on. It's hard to temper the rush when it comes. To be honest, though, I don't really like to. I know myself now, and that's just how I let the imagination flow. Giddiness is the best way to describe my mood in the studio today.

This morning, however, was a different story.

I was riding a bit of an emotional rollercoaster.........just ask Norbert.

You see, my oldest monkey started kindergarten today, and although I thought I was completely fine, after I dropped him off this morning I was hit with sadness.

It passed, but for a few hours my mind had to absorb the fact that my son is soooo growing up (and truthfully, the absorbing involved some tears).

I am truly happy for this phase we have entered. I guess I just needed a moment to register it all.....

And by the way.....my monkey loved it.

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the merry month of May...

....completely got swept away out from under me.

It went by so incredibly fast.

I spent a large amount of time in the studio creating and making due to the high volume of orders we got as a result of our fantabulous article in Etsy.....but also, we sent A LOT of work to three additional stores in May.

They are located in San Francisco, Portland and here in good ol' Denver.  

Norbert is working on adding a page to our website with all the locations that carry our work. It should hopefully be up this week.

Besides, making this custom order necklace...

...I spent May keeping up with all of that wonderful busy-ness.

For the past week, however, I have been designing!!!

As always, I get super excited to share my new work so please keep an eye here and the fb page for the drop.
We are working hard to get my new work listed as soon as possible.

Otherwise, we've also been spending a lot of time with my parents who have been living in our house for the past month. We have LOVED having them here, but they will soon be gone because they are moving to a sweet townhome 8 minutes away.

So all in all I feel like the last 6 weeks have been a bit of a whirlwind. I did, though, spend a good week in that timeframe celebrating my birthday.....because apparently the older you get, the more days you get to tack on to the celebration ;)

See you soon...

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Three Gentlemen, a Silversmith and a 1/2 marathon

It seems that is my life these days!

My world revolves around those boys, the business and training for a half marathon (in no particular order!).

It's good though...I am hitting a new stride with my work and I am really loving that my lungs and legs are getting stronger! I honestly had not run more than a mile, until about a month or so ago, in my WHOLE life. So the fact that I am trying to do this leaves me with such a great sense of joy that I am stepping out of my comfort zone. I feeeel the stretching :) (mental stretching that is)

So here is my new work for the week:

There are a few more things, but all in all there really isn't as big of a shop update like normal. The reason is that I have had a really wonderful week of sales (Etsy AND website!!)....this left me with very little time to create new work because I was so busy filling orders.

I think it was a fairly good balance in the studio though :)

If you haven't noticed I am quite fond of sculptural shapes. I tend to create in those terms....yes, I look to nature for inspiration, but I am also really drawn to forms. I see them in my mind and it sort of moves into different shapes and sizes and then I sketch what I see. That's how I work....most of the time.  Norbert cracks up at me a lot because I tend to stare off into space, designing in my head, and he knows where my mind is.

Now these earrings:

I am excited about them.

I see it becoming a launching pad for future earring designs.

I could not for the life of me decide between the above design or the one below until it hit me to just make them both!!

So voila! I did :)

And finally another stone.....

I don't have very many pieces with stones this week, but this ocean jasper makes up for at least a couple, right?! It is huuuuge.

Okay, off to list. I'll post on Etsy first and then my website. There are a few more than listed here.

It shouldn't be too late of a night......I hope ;)

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