the marketplace

So yesterday was my first market at stardust!
I was so excited, I wanted everything to go perfect and I think it went better than perfect.
We took a trip to the thrift store to get the things for my table and my display came out beautiful. Everyone was complementing my set up and the sea glass I placed on the table more than my jewelry! I made a few sales, too. (mostly from my friends and family but it still counts!)
There was veg foods, hippie art, acoustic music, and hipsters everywhere. The vendors next to us were selling these disgusting but oh-so-cute zombie head earrings and fleshy wound bracelets. Chris and I had a great time there. I can't wait for my next market. Next time we'll bring the vespa (cus there was like no parking!)

and as i promised days ago, here are a few of the earrings I made before the market. (can you tell I'm a huge procrastinator.)

Full Circle.
pretty purple crystals. clear glass beads. mother of pearl O's. sterling silver ear wires. beautiful.
$12

GrapeVine.
These earrings are just adorable. It's an arrangement of green glass leaves, a white pearl and a single bunch of grapes. All components are sterling silver and have been oxidized and polished.

$12

A Silent Flower.
Black and white Czech glass bell flowers on oxidized silver have a vintage feel. Like a silent film.
$14

Triplet.
In music a triplet is a set of three notes, played together. In these earrings, a set of three tulips hang together on a black chain. Oxidized sterling silver, yellow swarovski crystals and yellow vintage tulips make up this triplet.
$14

fruit baskets and flowers in the spring time

so much has happened since my last post! Lately I've been designing a spring collection with vintage Lucite flower beads. So far, there are a few earrings done, planning some bracelets and small chain necklaces timing goes well.

I have been keeping myself busy making ear wires; I have a couple very cute styles now. Sterling sliver is pesky to form but oh-so pretty in the end, I'm oxidizing select pairs for the blackened look too. I've just been getting completely lost in crafting lately, trying all kinds of different things. I think Chris is getting a little annoyed with all my experiments around the house.

The intergalactic bead show came through my town this month too. It was a weekend event and luckily I caught the listing in the paper on sunday, the last day. I found some amazing beads, like these glass fruit beads I made this bracelet out of!
( iv'e also changed the sizes of my photos so that your computer doesn't explode while loading them :] )

$20




Beads Beads Beads!

Chris and I went to the bead show together, or rather he took me to the bead show. They even made him pay admission just to accompany me while I rummaged through beads, hahaha. You really have to go to those things with lots of cash; my $80 only purchased me a portion of all the beautiful beads I wanted to take home. All the people there, selling and shopping, were really odd and interesting, we fit right in! I was probably the youngest person there, I wonder why more young folk didn't go to this thing...

The first stand we stopped by belonged to this couple who had been together, making lampwork beads, since the 1970's! There was an old photo hanging on the stand with the two of them with hippie tresses, it made me think about how me and Chris would look 30 years from now, and wether I'd still be making jewelry.