Sale Time!!

Season-End Sale starts today and runs through Valentine's Day, February 14! 

Everything in the Etsy shop is  

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A Party For Your Wrist

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The Fiesta Bracelet

This bracelet in vivid hot pink, orange, yellow and blue is created from hand-linked gemstones and decorated with an antique enameled button medallion.

"In the heat of the night we are having a fiesta
We dance until siesta when the sun comes alive"
- lyrics, “Heat of the Night” – Aqua

photo: flickr; llllll1

Planning a Fiesta!

photo: jbEbert

It is time for more color now that its summer. I remember on our last cruise in the Caribbean we stopped along the Mexican coast at Costa Maya. It was a vendor settlement just for the cruise ships, I'm sure, but the one highlight was the colorful Ballet Folklorico group that provided free entertainment. I'm sure they put on their show several times a day, but they truly seemed to enjoy it! Their dancing was full of joy, and energy and color, and it was delightful. I've pulled a collection of gemstones in fiesta colors, and an antique enameled button from England to create this festive new bracelet. I'll finish it tomorrow and post it in my Etsy shop before the weekend.

photo: flickr; Al_HikesAZ

1000 Shop Hearts on Etsy!!! Yayyyy!!

jbEbert hit 1000 shop hearts at 7:31pm Thursday evening in the Etsy shop!! Hurray!! In celebration all purchases will be 15% off for the next 24 hours!! At checkout use Coupon Code 1KHEARTS to receive the discount. And Thank You everyone for all your support. I love you all!!

The Climbing Rose

photo: jbEbert

Tumbled garnets the color of American Beauty roses are set on pins and hand-linked into a bracelet chain sectioned like parterre between walls of mystic pink quartz on which vermeil roses bloom. The vermeil hook clasp is set with two 19th century enameled blouse buttons that set the theme. Available now in my Etsy shop.

The inspiration for this bracelet was all romance:

“The rose is a flower of love. The world has acclaimed it for centuries. Pink roses are for love hopeful and expectant. White roses are for love dead or forsaken, but the red roses, ah the red roses are for love triumphant.” – anonymous

photo: smilla4

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As I was searching for the romantic quote I had remembered I ran across two not-so-romantic quotes that made me laugh, and I just have to share:

“I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall. – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Why is it no one ever sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get one perfect rose.” – Dorothy Parker


Ha ha!!

News Flash!

As of this morning I have 988 shop hearts on my Etsy shop. That is amazing! I am so grateful and thrilled that my work is appreciated by so many people that I have decided to have a 24-hour sale on Etsy when the total reaches 1000 (which might be soon!). Everything in the shop will be 15% off for one day. Keep watching, and don't let the celebration pass you by!

Now I need to get back to work. I sold two pieces yesterday, locally, and my shop is getting awfully bare. The bracelet from the last post is nearly finished. I'll post it shortly.

A Romantic Mood

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Well, those who know me, know I am always in a romantic mood. I have dipped into my stash of antique buttons and found these two rose themed little buttons that reached out to me, and each other. Among several strings of deep red garnets, just this one matched this particular heart-red enamel. The teeny roses led me to rose quartz, rhodocrusite, and teeny pink and green seed pearls. Pink, hearts, roses ... all common in the romantic theme, but I think this will make an uncommon bracelet. Check back this weekend to see what happens!

The influence of a Fable

"A Fox and a Raven" by Aesop, as told by Sir Roger L'Estrange in 1692

A certain Fox spy’d out a Raven, upon a Tree with a Morsel in his Mouth, that set his Chops a watering: but how to come at it was the Question. Oh thou blessed Bird! (says he) the Delight of the Gods and of Men! and so he lays himself forth upon the Gracefulness of the Raven’s Person, and the Beauty of his Plumes: his admirable Gift of Augury, &c. and now, says the Fox, if thou hast but a Voice answerable to the rest of thy excellent Qualities, the Sun in the Firmament could not shew the World such another Creature. This nauseous Flattery sets the Raven immediately a gaping as wide as he ever could stretch, to give the Fox a taste of his Pipe; but upon the opening of his Mouth, he drops his Breakfast, which the Fox presently chopt up, and then bad him remember, that whatever he had said of his Beauty, he had spoken nothing yet out of his Brains.

This whimsical necklace begins with a large black onyx carved as a bunch of grapes and used as the focal pendant. Alternating between matte finished onyx cubes are plump bunches of peridot and pearls, nearly ripe.

On one collarbone rests the cinnabar sterling box clasp carved with the images of two haughty ravens,

and on the other is an antique 19th century waistcoat button embossed with the head of the sly Reynard. The back is a double chain of hand linked polished onyx rondels. It is intended to be worn with the fox gazing enviously at the ravens perched among the fruit-laden vines.

Leon Rousseau's painted panel of "The Fox and the Crow", 19th century French

I'm ready for my close-up

Introducing Tinkerbelle, our mannequin. We are out of the photo booth and working in the dining alcove to get shots of the necklaces. She's all a-twitter since I bought her some pretty clothes!

Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4GLTE smartphone

And this is the photo

The influence of a Hummingbird

With a string of rare lavender opals, several very clean and sparkly amethysts (both lilac and green), and the most divine Brazilian stalactite, this bracelet/necklace combination seemed to design itself. Including nearly one hundred 24k gold vermeil Bali headpins, I hand linked the components together into two related bracelets that clasp together to make one opulent necklace.







I developed a flower bract design ... like a lilac, or butterfly bush ... full blown gem blossoms at the bottom and unopened golden buds at the top. The green and purple combination reminded me of the Anna's Hummingbird with it's green and purple iridescence, and the flower shape seemed to whisper to them as well.

photo: iStockphoto

The hummingbird in flight is a water-spark,
an incandescent drip of American fire,
the jungle's flaming resume,
a heavenly, precise rainbow:
the hummingbird is an arc,
a golden thread,
a green bonfire!

Oh
tiny
living
lightning,
when you hover in the air,
you are a body of pollen,
a feather or hot coal,
I ask you:
What is your substance?

- excerpt, Ode to the Hummingbird, Pablo Neruda

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