Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Happy Thanksgiving!

Just want to wish my readers in the US a happy and safe Thanksgiving holiday!


I'm so thankful for everything I have especially my 2 daughters who are arriving shortly from Chicago!  I've been busy preparing the house and baking for the big feast.  This year I made fresh apple pie (apples from NC State Farmers Market) and cherry pie (my favorite) to go along with my signature sweet potato casserole (taters also from the farmers market).

Sweet Potato Casserole 1

Sweet Potato Casserole 2


And I also wanted to thank all those who came out to the recent Durham Art Walk Holiday Market.  You are very much appreciated when you help support your local artists and community!   My part to the community was in having a small door prize drawing - with one lucky person winning one of my beautiful lamp work glass bead pendant.  The bead is one of those that I made during my first lamp work class that I took recently at William Holland.


I hope the lucky winner, Amanda G. of Durham, truly loves it!

Lamp work Glass Bead and sterling silver

BTW, one of my favorite lamp work glass bead went to a fine home!  I created it during my last class at the NCSU Crafts Center.
Owl Eyes!

Saturday, October 15, 2011

JAR 2011

Jewelry Artist Retreat (JAR 2011) starts tomorrow!  See photos from JAR2010.


This will be my 2nd year and am looking forward to spending an exciting week with a group of wonderfully skilled artists!  We are from NY, PA, VA, MD, IL and NC.


We come together with a flow of ideas, encouraging words, sharing, and having fun doing what we all love - making jewelry!


The garage will be full of sounds - pounding hammers of all sizes and shapes, saws cutting through metal, rasps of files smoothing edges, hissing of hot metal dropped into water, continuous rumbling of steel shot in tumblers ... along with rock and roll background music. 


It's also about food galore, including chocolates and wine.  This year, my contribution is fresh apple pies made with fruit from the NC state farmers market.  I just hope they are as tasty as they look.



Stay tuned for tons of photos!

Sunday, September 25, 2011

* * * Birthday and End of Summer Sale * * *

This month is my milestone birthday month! 
To celebrate I am offering a
Birthday and End of Summer Coupon Code Sale 
on select items in my ArtFire shop.

Sale is good from Monday, September 26
through
Friday, September 30.
 
The items are located 
in the Birthday and End of Summer Sale section - http://bit.ly/qexuxz 

Use coupon code BDEOS20 and get 20% off the listed price.

Happy Shopping!