Copper is Coming!

Have decided to branch out into the realm of copper. Lots of new supplies have been ordered from some Etsy sellers and I can't wait to use the creative juices that are flowing to design some new jewellery.

Spread the Love

The wonderful folks at the Handmade Artists Forum have been involved in a campaign called "Spread the Love." Basically we're trying to get attention for all the artists who are on the site by blogging and tweeting and anything else you can think of.

Today's artist is a fellow chainmailler! Monique is based in California and has some beautiful items in her shop: ToraJewelry You can check out her blog as well :)

Busy Before Holiday

Lots of things to get done before I head to Las Vegas on the 16th. Will be seeing Cheap Trick perform the Beatles Sgt Pepper album and am very much looking forward to it. Am seeing two performances! Yeah, I love Cheap Trick ;-)

More items added to Artfire and Etsy, several new earrings, Jens Pind and Byzantine combinations.

New business cards have been shipped and I'm looking forward to their arrival. Hopefully will arrive before I fly off to Vegas!

Busy Summer

Well, summer has been and gone, what little we had of it here in Toronto. It's now Labour Day weekend and wouldn't you know, the weather is gorgeous. Could have used this weather a lot more in the past two months!
Have been creating items for my two shops, Etsy and Artfire.
Have uploaded new items to Artfire and will upload to Etsy over the week.
My favourite new items are a pair of earrings made with the chainmaille pattern Jens Pind which have Lt Amethyst Swarovski crystals dangling on the end. I think they are just so pretty and might have to make them up with a few more Swarovski colours. The other item which is gorgeous is a sterling silver bracelet made with 19g wire and woven in the Full Persian pattern. It's full name is Full Persian 6 in 1 but it's also known as Foxtail because of the appearance of the weave.




More items are available in my shops!

It's the Way of the World

Someday you start out thinking you're going to make one thing and what you end up with is not quite what you imagine.
I thought I'd try the Rings of Saturn pattern but I didn't like how the rings were laying after I followed the instructions. So I started tinkering with it and ended up with looks like a combination of Rings of Saturn and Helm Weave, at least to my eyes.
I'm calling them Way of the World earrings as I was singing my favourite Cheap Trick song as I was creating them :)

New Items!

Been busy with learning some weaves. Finally had the right size rings to try the Double Spiral Weave, I love the feel of it. Can't wait to make a full bracelet as it's so supple and slinky. Earrings are done so bracelet will be next.

The other weave I've mastered is Barrels which I've done in both bracelet and necklace.

Etsy and Tags

Well it seems like there is a huge kerfuffle going on at the Etsy site right now as the admins at Etsy have decided to highjack the titles that we use to list our items and put their tags in front for Google searches. Which means people aren't finding our own stores on Etsy because Etsy tags Handmade by Etsy instead of my tags, ie. Sterling Silver Japanese Flower are coming up instead. People are outraged and rightly so. Artfire puts their tags at the end of our titles and Etsy should do the same.
Why should I bother to continue to list on Etsy if nobody is going to be able to find my items in Google searches? This issue is being talked about all over the web so hopefully Etsy will listen and fix the issue pronto!