happy halloween

halloween is my favorite holiday.  i’m not sure if it’s all the sweet little ones that dress up, the official fall like nature of the crispy cool evenings, the fun filled festive halloween parties or all the beautiful pumpkins that surround the holiday that i find so appealing….i guess it’s all of those things that i love about this orange and black holiday.  i hope you all enjoy halloween as much as i do.

dressing up as a rubix cube is probably my favorite halloween costume ever.  if i find the picture of me and my sister i will post it.  i think i was probably 5 0r 6.  my favorite house to visit on halloween was a corner house on 2nd street, just a block over from our house.  the little old women that lived there would have her house totally decked out in halloween goods and she would give out home-made popcorn balls….still a favorite of mine today.  the best things was after halloween she wouldn’t take many decorations down but would just add the christmas decorations in and it would stay that way most of the year.  :O)

don’t you love the carved squash above from martha’s site.

hope you have a candy filled ghost & goblin day.  happy halloween, i’m off to go get the remaining details of my costume for this evening.

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a cup of jo

visit this whimsical, fun loving blog that i visit often…..a cup of jo by joanna goddard, such a delightful daily read :O)

yellow shoe pic from here via smitten & ink

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pinkfpuffy.agave.seeds

beautiful little puff balls that are blooming on our fairy duster plant and our variegated agave with its pretentious sharp blades.

here is a picture of our front yard with our new bed of fresh dirt in the foreground.  we planted it full of lettuce and spinach seeds in hopes to share the bounty with our interested friends and neighbors.  we made a pattern out of the lettuce and spinach seeds…..i hope it turns out.

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garnet polyp ring

a commission ring i finished a few days ago…..

sterling silver

garnets

filament

i enjoy the mix of both the round and organic kernel shaped garnets in this ring…..it resembles the juicy bits of a pomegranate fruit or a bowl full of blackberries……

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gallery 50

i am excited to report that i am sending work to gallery 50 in traverse city, mi.  it should arrive sometime next week.  Hooray!!!

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wee little sproutlings

when my folks were visiting we planted winter veggies in our garden: a couple varieties of spinach, black seeded simpson (my favorite lettuce), red leaf lettuce, baby carrots, and a couple different varieties of beets.  it was great to have mom and dad helping out as i remember helping with a garden when i was growing up.  we planted them on a tuesday evening and by saturday morning i was giddy to see a few wee little sprouts had pushed their way thru the top surface of the soil.  oh, sweet little sprouts..work your magic!!!

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curious brinkley..

i think he’s ordering nachos at the concession stand…

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ursula hargens

i fell in love with this platter when chris, my folks, and i went up to georgetown to see the current ceramics show that chris and patrick veerkamp curated.  this piece is by ceramic artist ursula hargens

if you click her name to see more of her work scroll about half way down the page.

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32

today i turned 32…definitely wiser  :O)

all things super to celebrate my birthday…

….a crispy cool morning with the windows open

….a 10 am yoga class with my sweaty friends

….flowers

….a hot bath

….hanging out with girlfriends for lunch and leaving with a full belly of indian food

….a bottle of kombucha

….some digging and treasure hunting at the local “bluehanger goodwill”

….some down time with chris

….carrot cake

….a nap

….dinner at wholefoods with chris and his mom

….many birthday messages on my cell phone including a striking elvis impersonator

thank you to all of you who shared in some way in my birthday celebration….it was a lovely.wonderful day. xoxoxo

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new pieces…

i just posted the new pieces i have recently blogged about on the shop pages of the site.  i will post a couple new rings i plan to make in the near future as well…..thanks for looking at the new goodies, hope ya like what you see  ; )

a couple pieces i just substituted some better pics…so if a few look familiar, they are!!

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