sideshow!

glenn and i played last night at the fabulous sideshow emporium here in dolores. it's an awesome gallery/vintage clothing store and she was having an opening.

incidentally, i was one of the artists featured in the opening.

i think heather did a beautiful job displaying my work and i now have a local place carrying it. very exciting!

such a great show!

i do so love the show at the brewery.

it was a blast!

great people,

food, and music,

and shopping, of course. i did some great bartering; i got a handmade, felted-wool dog leash, 10 whole bars of the most fabulous soap, 20 lbs. of potatoes, and some great prints of my friend kat's photography.

and this was happening right outside the door...

these pieces were not snatched up, so i will be listing them in the etsy shop tomorrow:

a fantastic little grace ring

with a beautiful puffy chrysoprase

and this little peruvian opal ring

a grace necklace, with a gorgeous faceted chrysoprase

and a sister bracelet for the above ring

also, the fabulous rosie carter, who is the designer of my beautiful logo, has opened an etsy shop, the rural underground, with her amazing creations. please check it out here.

before

after

these are some of the new pieces that i made this week for the annual show at the dolores river brewery tomorrow. (kyanite, moonstone, peruvian opal, chrysoprase, dendritic opal. swoooon.) i LOVE doing this show. remember last year? it is always so much fun; i am really looking forward to it!

olive has been out in the shop with me all week, helping out. she is such a delight to have out there with me. molly never really liked to be out there with me, and and she was so big there wasn't really much room for her.

this guy was also out there today. aren't they supposed to be good luck?

we are enjoying the start of december around here. there's a tiny bit of snow falling outside. the advent calendar is stocked.

we started a new tradition this year, in honor of the girls having their own rooms. they each got their own (pink, of course) christmas trees and we are working on decorating them.

and hazel's been rocking out.

i made a new flapper bracelet

with the most gorgeous rainbow moonstone, labradorite, and prehnite

i really love making these, but they are very time consuming. this one in particular, as i have been making my own jump rings in an effort to cut down however i can on the amount of money i spend on silver these days. for this piece i constructed and soldered 30 jump rings. i made the toggle clasp as well. but these are my three very favorite stones (plus kyanite, of course) and i am swooning over the flow and the feel of this bracelet.

of course i couldn't truly capture the incredible blue flash of this moonstone. it is amazing.

you can find it here. i know it seems really expensive, but it truly was a labor of love. i know you understand, especially my fellow silversmiths. there is a 10% off sale in my shop right now, but, actually, i have been wanting to offer you, my dear readers, a 15% off coupon code, just in case. please use code BLOG15 until december 1st.

skiing! (with olive)

the girls got to go spend the night with patty tonight, so glenn and i went and had a wonderful date. we went for a beautiful sunset ski at the fabulous trout lake trail and then had dinner in telluride.

see olive there? that's where she goes when she gets tired.

and if it's especially cold and windy...

so beautiful

it turns out, olive loves skiing! i read that pomeranians have been bred down from icelandic sled dogs. olive is mostly pomeranian.

this trail was groomed at the start of november, the earliest on record.

this was actually olive's fourth time skiing.

she's been twice with the girls

where she had more options if she got tired.

i am delighted that ski season has begun. i am desperately in love with olive. i am looking forward to many more skis with her, and with glenn, and with the girls.

oh, and did i mention how glad i am to be back?