Sweet Necklace Made of Some Bits

My friend Aimee came over today wearing this wonderful necklace she created from my scrap mobile pieces. How great is that! I think the pendant looks like little buddies, and I love it, the little curlie of twist around the black cord... its precious. I am inspired by her creative use of these pieces.

And yes, Aimee came over wearing this necklace and I took it off her neck and put it in my photo setup so I could capture a few shots and share about it in the Garden of Leah. :) Isn't it beautiful!

Images on Glass IV

More colors!

From left to right these little plates show a progression of our color possibilities - Jan and I have been doing a lot of experimenting. I'm loving the green on the right (the ginko leaves).

By the way - these plates are available for sale in Jan's booth at the Portland Saturday Market, and I'm setting up an Etsy shop for our collaborations as well (I'll announce that when its available). The little duck is $9 and the robot and ginko plates are $14/ea.

The small plates are perfect soy sauce size - in fact we could make you a beautiful sushi set (completely dishwasher and food safe) with ginko leaves printed in the glass. yummy.

The little long plate is the perfect functional size (if you ask my opinion) - adorn your favorite spot with a plate to put your keys, rings, change, etc... look how perfectly it holds my glasses (I have this size plate in my bathroom as well as on my bedside table)

Customer Feedback

I love getting pictures of my mobiles in their new homes! Today I received this picture and kind words from Beate:

Wonderful seller, very friendly communication! Opening this package made my day, I LOVE my Mobi! Superfast shipping and great packaging! Thank you so much for the gifts too, and for making my first Etsy purchase such a lovely experience! :)

Comments like this really perk up my day, thanks for the heart warming feedback!

Mobile Earrings

Here are a some new mobile earrings that hit my Etsy shop today.
I've been making more and more mobile earrings - I love them!
My own little earlobes have been adoring them, and I get comments everywhere I go. People seem to really like them. I notice they are smile-makers, and that is a good sign!

Mobile Swap

Oh my goodness I received such wonderful mail today!!!

I am participating in a Mobile Swap organized online by Elsie Marley.

Today I received a mobile from the UK that is made of felt and absolutely scrumptious!

I took a bunch of pictures so I could share with you.

Little felted envelopes with script that say:
To Spring
Dear Summer
For Autumn
Winter

...and the envelopes have little fabric stamps and embroidered date marks... oh and the leaves are two sided.

This yumminess is now hanging above my kitchen table.


Its made by Amy of LucyKateCrafts and she really out-did herself!

Late Night Cookies

Late last night I made the best chocolate chip cookies ever! The recipe is from the most recent Cooks Illustrated Issue - I swear this magazine is my ultimate favorite magazine. I've had a subscription since the mid 90's. I love the hand illustrated black and white drawings and the geeky overly thorough investigations into all their different recipes. Its awesome.

Okay - so I made their "Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies". Late night cookies are not good for my belly, but hey, sometimes sh*t happens and this is the kind of stuff that makes me giggle!

They turned out spectacular. The recipe claims the following:

"We set out to perfect the back-of-the-bag classic with a cookie that was crisp at the edges, chewy in the middle, and full of rich toffee flavor."

Give-Away: FREE Mobile Frame

This frame could be yours!

I am not sure who might want this, but here it is! You could make your own mobile using this wire frame. Its completely assembled, all you would have to do is make things to hang off the ends of the wire (the frame holds 9 things and is approx. 24inches in length).

You could hang photographs or felted things, or pieces of paper or glass things, or bottle caps, wine corks, beads, buttons... who knows! Your imagination is the limit!

If you are curious about the explanation of this wire frame:

Making empty frames for other artists to create mobiles out of is not something I normally do (only a few persuasive individuals have coaxed them out of me) but I have a couple of lonely confused wire frames in my studio for some reason... they once held creations of mine and I must have removed all the little glass pieces and made something else out of the glass and then the empty frame went lonely and ignored.

Post a comment here on the blog and it could be yours. It certainly wants to make friends with someone, and I'll be intrigued to know what it becomes! Spread the word too - this give-away will run thru April 1st 2009 - anyone can win! Its totally free and simply fun.