december jewelry of the month

i am incredibly excited about this month’s jewelry of the month - the twig & flower necklaces - because i finally got to collaborate with one of my favorite artists, jill bliss. jill and i have been talking about collaborating ever since we first discovered each others’ work a few years ago. for our collaboration we made necklaces of oxidized sterling silver twigs and fabric flowers and leaves. the necklaces are all unique and measure about 2-3 inches long. the leaves and flowers are made from cotton fabric and are hand stitched to the twigs. there are four different necklaces - no. 1 is pictured above, no. 2, no. 3, and no. 4 are listed below consecutively.

the necklaces are $112 a piece and each comes with a numbered and signed card…signed by both me and jill.

no. 4 is sold. one of my jewelry of the month mailing list members snatched it up immediately. if you would like to be on this list and receive advance notice too, you can sign up here.

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jill bliss collaboration

i am super excited about december's jewelry of the month - a collaboration with one of my favorite artists, jill bliss. the piece will be available starting monday, december 1. if you want to see it sooner, please send me an email request to be added to my jewelry of the month mailing list or sign up at my website. i send out jewelry of the month advance notices a few days before the first of each month.

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portland scrapbook

my visit to portland at the end of last week, although short, was very sweet. i spent hung out with old friends, ate at favorite restaurants, spent some time with jill bliss in her studio, and had a great trunk show at seaplane.

i went to jill's on friday. her studio is really great - light-filled and loaded with cute stuff and interesting things to look at. i also picked up the jewelry of the month pieces we collaborated on for december. they look just amazing! (and that's all i can say about the work until december...)
my trunk show was good, not as well attended as i would have liked, but i did enjoy myself as i sipped champagne with customers.
seaplane made t-shirts with my logo for the event. so funny to see my name in this way!next up...seattle and velouria.

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p.s. the top picture is of my favorite pdx bridges - the steel bridge.

more popping...

after my last post on pop-up/out jewelry, i remembered this clever blissen creation - "the necklace notecard"

ps. i love all the blissen goods.

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