I'll be taking part in a new outdoor market in Seattle's Pioneer Square, starting in August, 11-5 p.m. every Saturday. Well, the market is every Saturday starting July 17. I'll be there August 7, 21, September 4 and 25. Details, details! If you come, mention this blog post and get... Continue reading

I'll be selling my jewelry designs at the Sammamish Farmers' Market today from 4-8 p.m. Come by, tell me you saw this on Typepad, and I'll give you a discount on any piece you select! Continue reading

Frank & Dunya took all the pieces when I visited them a week ago! Continue reading

I'll be at Cafe Metropolitan on June 13 for a show! Continue reading

Pix from my latest two shows, EtsyRAIN and I Heart Indie/Kirkland. Continue reading

Sunday was my first arts/crafts show. How was it? Exhausting, a learning experience, and this particular show I don't feel too excited about doing again, at least in Kirkland. I sold five things, but two of them were to my father-in-law, so I'm not sure whether to count those or... Continue reading

That hyperventilating you heard on Monday? That was me, enduring one of a series of freakouts about the first I Heart Indie show I'm doing this Sunday in Kirkland, 12-4, at the Lake St. Bar & Grill. I've come back to a more even keel the past couple of days,... Continue reading

Which way is she turning? The answer depends on whether you are right brained or left brained according to this article in the Daily Telegraph. Can you change her direction? For me she was resolutely spinning clockwise (right-brained). But after several minutes of concentration I got her turning the other... Continue reading

This past weekend I took a two-day workshop at Pratt, "Creating Forms on the Hydraulic Press" with Virginia Causey. I've taken classes with Virginia in the past and she knows so much that it is sometimes difficult to keep her on track. Tidbits of highly useful info are interspersed with... Continue reading

EtsyRain is hosting a juried Spring Craft Show at the Intiman Theater in Seattle on May 8, the day before Mother's Day, and I was accepted into the show - whooooooohooooo! I'm rather excited, but once the astonishment was over with, I realized how very much I have to get... Continue reading

Blueberry Ring DescriptionBeautiful blueberry quartz rondelles are meticulously wrapped onto a .999 fine silver band that has been hand forged and fused. The band is polished and then hardened in the tumbler before the gemstones are attached. The ring in the pictures is a size 9. Each ring I create... Continue reading

So I was checking my Google Analytics account on Saturday, and noticed that page views for one of my Etsy items, a chalcedony ring, had skyrocketed. Went to Craftcult and, sure enough, it had been featured in the Storque blog. Sweet! Fame and fortune will be mine ... someday. In... Continue reading

Must admit, I totally stole this idea from the host of the EtsyRain Meetup yesterday in the Etsy Virtual Labs, but what a great one - thank you Sara of Girls Can Tell! If you know of a sweet little shop, in your town or anywhere you've visited recently, that... Continue reading

Today is the day I get my first non-Etsy-related check for jewelry. Am I excited? Sure. Am I concerned? Oh you betcha. Consignment is a two-edged sword for any artist (ha, I'm an artist now, am I?!). You get your work out there with no investment in brick and mortar,... Continue reading