Monthly Archives: January 2010

…at the Lexington Market in Baltimore. Food… Art students drawing… Motown musicians… Dancing… More food… Hi Nora!

To visit our son Robin and his fiancée, Stephanie. Her parents, Tim and Cathy Austin will be driving in from Connecticut on Friday. Will we talk about wedding plans? With no date set yet? Will we talk about dates? Stay … Continue reading →

Those bags of silver scrap from the studio clean up 2 weeks ago?     $990 worth of credit at Rio Grande. I just spent it all on an order of fresh PMC, fine silver wire, Argentium sterling wire, fine … Continue reading →

…and another great sky upon my return.

I can’t help it. Island living is fine for buying jewelry supplies from a catalog, but when I actually get out of town I try to go through Freeport,  because it’s a blast to spend some time at the Beadin’ … Continue reading →

Don’t forget a stop at Nomads on Commercial Street. My sister-in-law Kelly Fernald is having a great sale right now and she’ll be getting in some great stuff for spring. (Woo hoo! Click on the Nomads link in this post. … Continue reading →

…if anyone else ever feels like they are in some weird application process to write copy for a J.Peterman Catalog, when they are trying to come up with descriptions for their Etsy page? Making just a bit more progress today … Continue reading →

Etsy has been hanging over me for a while now. I kept putting off taking the plunge, due to self doubt about my ability to get just the right photos and my ability to still be excited about the work … Continue reading →

One of the first things I did today was to finish sorting out and bagging up the scrap metal from my studio overhaul. It was like a treasure hunt going through bags like this: Really old designs I had put … Continue reading →

I finally have room to turn around in my creative space, and show you that it really was possible to find some order in all of the previous chaos. It took all week (minus two days when I had to … Continue reading →