Newness....

    New beauties in enamel, copper and silver.
    Dusted in two shades of blue with a delicate line pattern.
    The backside, enameled yellow-green.
    Sterling silver earwires.

    Working on some new jewelry displays.
    Carving wood.
    Painting sticks.
    And sewing up little linen display pieces.
    All for the new Catskill Mountain Artisans Guild in Delhi, NY which I recently became a part of.

  
     .....and yes, I am sitting on the kitchen floor in our new apartment.
  
     Here are a few other photos of the place:

   Feels like home already. 

Here's a little peek at a custom necklace I made for a friend last week....love the way it came out.

Beautiful weekend on the home turf.

Often it's the objects that have been discarded & left behind that catch my interest.
A beauty that has only been achieved through the weathering of time,
the rusting of metal or the frayed edges of life.

On our walk today down a mossy creek bed in Cherry Valley we just happened upon this beauty:

For real life?

{as my 7 year old niece would put it}

Yep, for real life.
A rusty old record player!

How incredibly rad is that?

The making of things...

Getting ready for this weekend's City of the Hills Art Festival in Oneonta: