Materials: Stones

 oooh!  Look at the new stones Lock got us!  I believe this a not so subtle hint that I need to learn how to solder properly and make bezels?  I am so in love with the iron pyrite cabochons...and the stone up top is an opal!!!

Fused Copper Ring

We have another new ring style in the shop (I know...they just keep adding up!)  This time it's copper wire fused with a silver nugget.  I like this one a lot, and it looks great stacked with our other rings.  It's made with a slightly thicker wire (16 ga instead of 18 ga--we're testing out some new materials) but, of course we could make it to match the smaller wire of the other rings.  I really like these ones!

Three Treasuries

We've been lucky enough lately to be included in some incredibly beautiful collections on etsy's treasuries.   I'm so in love with some of these pieces (and I'm not talking about ours!)

I love this necklace, this painting, and these earrings

Origami porcelain figurines! and chalkboard silver trays!

But this treasury is really my favorite.  I like this ring, and this necklace, and this print, and these insulators (I have a collection myself), but I really would have to say that I'm completely drooling over this collection.   I may just go and buy it myself. . .

Of course, you can click on the image to view the actual treasury on etsy.

assemblage, part 2

 Some of the items I was working on last week.  I'm very excited about the watch band bracelets (like the one above)

Now that I have photos, I'll be working on a shop update!

Some New Items in the Shop

New in the shop

Our oak branch necklace:

Our horizontal mesquite necklace:

Vertical mesquite necklace:

And new teeny tiny stud earrings!

You can click on the photo or the link to view the listing.  I'm so excited about the wooden pendant necklaces. Mesquite is such a beautiful wood to begin with, and we made some homemade beeswax polish to finish them--it makes the wood look so beautiful.  I went on a furniture polishing rampage throughout the house after I made it!

Handmade Metal Buttons

look at all our buttons!  I'm really happy with our cards; they are just simple business card size pieces of chipboard with L&S stamped on the bottom.  This has been the system for a while and I like it.

New Crochet Bottles

In case you haven't noticed, the shop is out of crochet bottles.  So I've made some more, and they looked so colorful together, I wanted to get some pictures while I still had them all.  Enjoy!

They are so colorful; I love the blue jar with the worn rim. . . It reminds me of the beach.

Crochet Necklaces

Some new necklaces we've been working on. . . These will be in the shop shortly!

They are all crocheted onto the chain; some of the motifs were made separately and then attached to the chains, and others were directly crocheted into the chain and worked from there. I'm very excited about these new necklaces!

Just in case you were wondering:

One of our twig necklaces was the feature photo in an etsy blog post yesterday!  It's been on the front page nearly all day! how cool is that? (Of course, it doesn't hurt that the photos in the body of the post are pretty phenomenal!)

On an unrelated note:
Last week was spent in Portland and Seattle, and while we didn't spend as much time in nature as I would have liked, it was very fun--and we did get to feed the seagulls:

Photoshoot!

We're putting together a catalog and a lookbook to take on wholesale orders.  Here's a sneak peek at what we did over the weekend!

Everyone is Wonderful

OK, so that may be a tad too saccharine a title, however, you should keep reading the amazing things below that would make me type it!

First off, our bottles are not in one, but two lovely treasuries right now:
Not your granny's square and Lovely Bunny.  Is it bad that I want every item in the crochet treasury?  And also all of the items in the bunny treasury (particularly this ring, but mostly so I can give it to Lock)?

And our customers are fabulous.  Look at this wonderful review by Dunnellev.

And then, we have another amazing write up in the blog: ponder and stitch.

It feels very good for people to notice your work.  Thank you, both of you!