Loam.

Loam...the name of the new store in washington connecticut that will be selling my jewelry...

the owner, Beth Fowler, describes the venue as "...a fertile marketplace for local/emerging artists, recycling(vintage furniture and art) and fair trade textiles from primarily (woman- based micro-loan businesses) foreign cultures to create commerce for them."

i am so excited to be a part of it. i can hardly wait for it to officially open on October 1st!

more info on Loam as it emerges...rumor has it there will be an online branch...stay tuned!

blocks.

it's my new favorite form for my 2-d work to take. blocks. they can be stacked or hung on the wall...and well...no words are really necessary. check out the set of nocturnal nasturtium...they can be done in any size up to 24x24 with gold leaf edges...the whole idea is one which thrills me.

you can check this set out on my standingflower etsy page...and convo me if you're interested in it...say you saw it on my blog and you'll save 10%! even on custom ordered sizes!

Picnic in the Rain

the Picnic Music and Arts Festival came and went. and it was soo much fun, albeit really wet.

the first few hours looked like it would be a dry, mildly cloudy day. i had many sales, a lot of positive activity and met bunches of people that were interested in my work. it felt great. so much good energy. the whole fair was brimming with creative people. i was so happy to be a part of it.

and then a few hours in, the rain hit...and my tent was just not big enough for what i was storing underneath. we kept pushing things in towards the center of the tent to no avail...

the available dry sales space had shrunk to the point of our space being inhospitable. the faces of people began to look a little downtrodden and the energy kind of changed...and then things got wet, prints, despite our moving them...

so my 9 year old son who was helping me and i packed up and left a couple hours early.

but it was great...and if things had kept up the way they had started it would have been a perfect day. at least packing up early gave us the chance to look around. great wrk happening in southern maine, folks. i'm so proud to live around here and be a part of it.

there will be another fair on december 13th...so stay tuned!!!

xo

sea foam...or jade.

i love the foam the waves leaves behind after they bravely crash onto the beach and wash back to the safe mass of the ocean.

ahhhh....sea foam.

beautiful pale jade nuggets and golden glass beads create a subtly hued halo around the wrist with the perfect swish and wash of color of seafoam...hung on antiqued brass chain with a secure brass latch closure and a weighted handmade brass finding to boot.

find it at my etsy shop.

delivered

the creation of this necklace felt like an epiphany of sorts. the design came to me in a dream and continued manifesting as i created it. there is something sacred about the frankincense beads i am working with. they are just so worthy of adoration. they remind me of raw diamonds and i have been treating them as such...and the bone bead is so pure, but carries with it an assymetric weight of observation...

in this piece the birdie messanger flies through the free-moving loop of hand hammered brass to deliver nuggets of frankincense resin, witnessed by a pearly bead of bone...hung on a long delicate antiqued brass chain 24 inches in length. closes with a brass lobster clasp.

<3 find it here on etsy.

Barnacles are the Mushrooms of the Sea

or at least they resemble cute chubby fungus when i attempt to create them. my barnacles...they seem to have had a life previous to the one i am giving them in my design. and what with their material composition, perhaps they have.

dug out bone nestles nuggets of frankincense resin...strung on brass that only gets more and more lovely with age. these designs are timeless, but the aesthetic in me needs to add that they look absolutely amazing on sunsoaked skin. perfect to take you from the end of summer into autumn.

find them on etsy.