More Make&Takes for Mondays...

As our classes scale back for the holiday season, we are putting in place more Make&Takes specifically designed for gift giving and making. We are adding four more designs and will continue adding more as we move through November and into early December. Another change...Make&Take Mondays will take place every Monday, in hopes that we can accommodate our busy schedules at this time of year, and all kits and designs will be available every session as supplies last...

Pictured above is our "Snow Globe Necklace." It incorporates tiny glass vials, silver plated ball chain, twisted silver ring, vintage rhinestone drop, plus mica and holiday thoughts to include. This is a great kits for young ones to make under supervision for teachers, friends, and relatives. This kit will be available as long as supplies last at $6.50.

Pictured above is the "Immaculate Bracelet," a companion to our Immaculate Earrings. This piece includes limited stock items from my own kit including faceted mother of pearl beads and bead caps, paired with vintage religious medals, chain and clasp. Kit price $16.00.

Shown above is the lovely "Petit Trianon Necklace." This piece is compose of engraved chain and clasp, a beautiful crown stamping and brass filigree teardrop, paired with two beautiful and limited Miriam Haksell baroque pearls and a hand faceted semi precious stone. Kit price, $18.00.

I couldn't resist! After bringing out these vintage Japanese foil leaves with the frosted snow edges, they were begging to become a "Vintage Christmas Corsage." This kit includes vintage foil leaf, tiny pine cones and berries, a silver glass ball on stem, pinback, and two lengths of vintage French wired ribbon from our stock. Kit price, $10.00

Hope your Thanksgiving week is lovely!

Back on track...

...after two and half colds and numerous other interventions of life...

Make&Take Mondays are back....plus!

As our classes scale back for the holiday season, we are putting in place more Make&Takes specifically designed for gift giving and making. We are starting with four designs and will continue adding more as we move through November and into early December. Another change...Make&Take Mondays will take place every Monday, in hopes that we can accommodate our busy schedules at this time of year, and all kits and designs will be available every session...

Pictured above are our Immaculate Earrings, featuring vintage brass medals, old mother of pearl beads, and lovely bead caps and findings. This kit will be available as long as supplies last at $14.00.

Pictured above is the "Snowdrop Pendant," a more contemporary design incorporating a silver plated ball chain, figured ring, stacked crystal rondelles, and a vintage filigree bead pendant. Kit price $14.00

Check out these little dumplings! These feature the vintage rhinestone heart pendants we recently received from our new source back east, paired with vintage patina bails, old stock Miriam Haskell faceted beads and either french earwires or lever backs, your choice. Kit price, $16.00.

"Czech" this out! A 1920s vintage inspired Czechoslovakian necklace featuring a vintage chandelier drop, filigree bead cap, vintage Weiss rhinestone drop, Miriam Haskell faceted bead, vintage filigree bead caps, and vintage chaining...all for $18.50.

We will be developing new kits throughout the season, and they will all be available for under $20. Every Monday night throughout the season, from 6:00~8:00, feel free to come and create, and Nathalie and I will be on hand to demonstrate techniques. Multiple kit purchases will receive a 10% discount!

Let's get cooking for Christmas, girls!

Our flock comes home...

Each season we hear a familiar sound...a rushing of wings, ungodly screams and a thunderous flapping as our flock of Amazon parrots comes home to roost in the big trees in our neighborhood. The flock has grown each year, and there appears to be around a hundred parrots in it this year.

They like the big specimen pine in Tim and Ernie's yard next door, as well as the big Dutch elm. They came circling in from the north of us, flying over the house and swooping in amongst the jacarandas, screaming all the while. The noise is sometimes deafening, and I always have to laugh at how hard they work at flying. Their wings flap madly, set dead center on their stout green bodies, and the screeching goes on the entire time, as if to say, "I know if I stop flapping like this, I'll fall right out of the sky..."

Alain managed to snap a few pictures with his big Canon, capturing this one coming in a few feet off our deck...

Getting ready to land in the big elm next door. He and another parrot lingered there for a few minutes, resting and preening until time for their next mad flight...

Time to go! He's off for another flight around the neighborhood, roosting in some large fruit trees at the top of the hill, I think...