Cherry Blossoms

Not Cherry Blossoms but Magnolias are beautiful too!

Just got back home from 12 days in Washington D.C. It's actually spring there. Flowers are blooming. I came back to very gusty wind and sideways rain. I hope it will be spring here soon, but for now, we can all enjoy these pictures I took of the cherry blossoms :) Congratulations to Jacqueline who won the Spring Blossom earrings!

On the lawn in front of the capitol

3Pearls Feature on Adore by Nat

I'm very excited that 3Pearls is being featured as the Saturday Artisan on the Adore by Nat blog. Go have a look :) And enter the giveaway to win these earrings. Good luck!

Here's #3

I'm having so much fun with this series :) I named this one Flutter By My Window

Through my Window Series

This is the second in my series of through the window pieces. The first one is pictured below. Stay tuned for more :)

Portrait of a Bumble Bee

 

 

Bird in the Window

Singin' The Blues

I seem to be in a blue mood. I keep being drawn to the blue parts of my stash. Maybe it's because the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival was just in town . Maybe it's because winter has drug on for soooo long. Maybe I just like blue :) In any case I just placed an order from http://www.etsy.com/shop/mermaidglass for some beautiful handmade lampwork glass beads that I can't wait to start playing with. So get ready for even more blue!!

Manic Monday

3Pearls is the Manic Monday feature at Wilde Designs. She has a wonderful blog and she picks an artist every Monday to feature with a little interview and some pictures. What fun! I'm honored to have been chosen. Go check out Beth's lovely blog -
http://wildedesigns.blogspot.com/    (Click on the Manic Monday at the top of this post to be magically transported to her blog )

What comes of Dreams

My little Swedish grandmother was the queen of baking in our family. She was always making cookies, and cinnamon rolls and made the best jelly roll ever! Her freezer was full of tins of baked goods and if there wasn't something fresh from the oven there would for sure be something pulled from her stash in the freezer. For Christmas one year she made me an entire nativity set of beautifully iced sugar cookies all neatly packed in a shoe box. So one time she had a dream that she used jello instead of sugar in her cookies and she woke up and made the most delicious pink cookies we called  "Gramma's Dream Cookies". When I was small I thought that was a very weird thing to dream about. The other night I dreamed that my grandmother was crocheting roses and handing them to me and I was stringing them into chains. In the dream they were changing into real flowers as I strung them. I woke up inspired to make this line of jewelery. Some of the best things come from dreams :)

Flower Girls

Image borrowed from http://www.f8studio.com/blog/2008/08/19/naomi-mike-savannah-ga/

My mother used to make me and my three sisters all new dresses for Easter. Between my mom and my gram we always had new dresses, gloves, hats, jewelry and new spring shoes. I designed this bracelet after one I had when I was very small. It was the first one I made for my Little Girl Sparkles Section in my shop. I recently got an order for 3 bracelets for the flower girls in one wedding. Doesn't that sound adorable. I don't think I've ever seen a wedding with more than one. I kind of wanted to ask for a picture but I didn't know if that was creepy. What do you think?

Hootenanny!

Anyone that enjoyed the owl calendar should really check out the wallpaper!

 You can download it for free over at My Owl Barn. Click on my link above.

New Shop Section

I've had a couple requests for clip on earrings. It took a while to find clips that I was happy with. I don't put anything in my shop that I wouldn't wear. I had to look for a while to find any that were  of good enough quality not to be rough and to look good. Then I wore some around the house for a while to make sure that they stayed on and that they were comfortable. I finally ended up with some in both silver and gold tone that I'm quite happy with. Then the fun part began as I started to actually make the earrings. Clip on styles are not readily available everywhere and I'm hoping there will be a market for mine. I spent some time this morning creating the new section and getting them posted. If you click the post title  -"New Shop Section" - it will take you there :)

I Love a Nice Sunset

We've been having the most glorious sunsets lately.

My "Workbench"

There has been a request for a picture of my workspace, so now that I have one, I thought I'd share it here too. (To be honest, this is after I had tidied up). See that orchid? I  am finally able to get them to re-bloom. I'm pretty good at growing things but up until about a year ago I was not in tune with the orchids. I have one little spot in my house that has the right light and doesn't have drafts and they are very happy there. When one starts to bloom, I can move it where I want until it is finished, and then it goes back to its happy place to get ready to flower again. Now that I have finally made them happy, I have a hard time not buying them when I see a new color or form that I love.

About a week ago I decided to create an Etsy "circle". When they first came out I couldn't see why I would want one, but ever since I added some people to mine, I've been amazed by the things that show up in my activity feed. It is endlessly fascinating. Every time one of the people in my circle hearts a shop or an item it shows up. It's sort of like having friends show you something they found that they are excited about. There is so much on Etsy that I don't think I could possibly find all the best items by myself. It's kind of neat to have some help digging up the good stuff. When the inspiration item for this week's nonteam challenge was announced, I noticed that most of the stuff currently in my activity feed looked like it just belonged in the treasury.

 

'Finds From My Activity Feed' by 3pearls

GrowersDaughte... $12.00	RELMoriginals $20.00	ImagineStudio $24.00	mudstuff $22.00
JenniferArndt $26.00	PocketFullOfHe... $38.99	ChristineMarie... $35.00	SurrenderDorot... $46.89
theothermagdal... $17.08	ChristineMarie... $45.00	fleamarkettrix... $9.00	ArtRoe $199.00
amethystsoap $7.50	KarmaRox $99.00	Adornyourself $10.00	freespiritheid... $275.00

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We're Having Some Weather!

 It is snowing and blowing. We got 10" over the night and it's still coming down. I guess this will be a good day to sit tight and make some jewelry. I made this one last night :)

 I'm working on getting some hearts and flowers and pink and red valentine goodness into the shop before Valentine's Day. This one is kind of subtly valentiney. I think it would be good all year round. I really love these fire polished faceted glass beads. They have so much depth and of course the Fallen Angels Brass heart charm is perfection.

Giveaway Blogdom

3Pearls is being featured in an interview, a product review, and a giveaway at Giveaway Blogdom. I sent her one of the Winter White and Frosty Blue bracelets to review. She seemed favorably impressed :) Now someone will win one in a drawing on January 8th. If you'd like to enter, just click the link above the picture to get to my interview.

I Smell Christmas Cookies

Aren't Christmas cookies the best? I don't think I've ever met one I didn't like :)


The Christmasaurus cookie pictured below has become a tradition at our house.