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  • Jun. 21st, 2009 at 9:39 PM


I have been incredibly busy, working more on the house and studio with my new roomie. The basement studio is really coming along, and I am really excited about having a much more efficient work space to share down there. Some of the home improvement efforts have even inspired me with ideas for new work. I am going to let those ideas germinate for a bit and I hope to tell you about them this week! Until then, I will continue with production for a couple of large wholesale orders, and I will leave you with this week's Extra Extra links!

Oh! And I listed a bunch of Openwork Escutcheon pendants in the Etsy shop! I have some new ones to show you soon, in the Toolbox Treasure designs! Stop back and check them out later this week.
About.com Jewelry Making
Summer time is affecting Tammy's jewelry designs. How about yours? Check out her summer jewelry plans so far.

Art Bead Scene
Kandinsky inspires this month's challenge. The ABS editors suggest a selection of their handmade art beads for a Kandinsky inspired jewelry piece.

Barbe Saint John
Barbe reviews Ancient Modern Polymer Clay book

Carmi's Art/Life World
A vintage comic book becomes the inspiration for a necklace.

Jewelry & Beading
Auntie's Beads provided wonderful copper beads and findings so Cyndi could create this necklace!

Katie's Beading Blog
In need of a speedy bead? Check out this quick and easy jewelry idea!

Snap out of it,Jean! There's beading to be done!
Pink, gold,and cream! Jean creates a lovely necklace and earring set featuring a beautiful Russian hand painted focal from Artbeads.com

Strands of Beads
Melissa shows off her work in progress - an eerie lock and key design

The Writing and Art of Andrew Thornton
Andrew shares a new necklace design. Check it out!

Iron Inspiration

  • Feb. 2nd, 2009 at 11:56 PM


Tonight, a very quick post. I don't have many words to share right now. I have returned from a wonderful weekend, full of amazing sights and even more amazing friends.


I was in Chicago for a day, and got a rare treat of spending an hour or so at the Art Institute of Chicago. Sadly, most of the contemporary wing museum was closed, so I didn't get to see any Surrealism that I was seeking, but I did get so see some wonderful Chicago history and art.

I fell a little in love with this piece, I think its a piece of the Chicago Stock Exchange, designed by Louis Sullivan. I have blogged about him before. The detail was amazing, I got lost in the metal a bit. Quite moving.
Even though I was only at the museum for a short time, I was left feeling very inspired and dreamy and hazy for the rest of the day. I am reminded that I need to spend more time in places of beauty such as this.

Ornamentation and Extra Extra Links

  • May. 18th, 2008 at 9:32 AM
big nut!

 

 

Today is Extra Extra links day, so that will follow below, but it is also extra imagery day. In my studies last week looking at Art Nouveau and Arts and Crafts, I remembered these beautiful objects I saw in Chicago. After much googling and finally needing to ask my Chicago friend, I found the things that were rattling around in my brain. The items in this post are various decorative hardware elements designed by Louis Sullivan for the old Chicago Stock Exchange building, I believe.

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