At Last……and a Winner

You know when you find someone really talented,

……and you just love everything they make?

You just can’t decide what you want to buy?

Well Tanya is that talented someone.

        

Tanya is bead woman extraordinaire. I am in awe of her work.

Who wouldn’t be?

     

A few months ago she was getting ready for a show in her area.

She had the tin types picked out for the necklaces 

but they weren’t completed yet.

Before they were made and brought to the show she

asked me which one I had my eye on.

It was a hard decision but I zeroed in on one.

        

I wanted her to invoice me but Tanya said we would 

talk about that later.

Well you guessed it …..

she gifted it to me.

Isn’t that so sweet and generous of her.

I tell ya the love out there in blogland is BIG!!!

It came enclosed in a beautiful black box with her gorgeous card.

Even her cards are exquisite…….lovely 19th century ladies spending time together

working on their needlepoint.

Enjoying each others company……

just like we do virtually now.

                       

She added one of her friend Heather’s beads made with a unique

firing technique that brings out different colors.

I wish I could have you see it in person.

             

Embellished with antique buttons and beads.

I wore it a lot during the Christmas season in the shop and I got so

many compliments on it.

They all wanted to know more about it.

Tanya just added some lovely pieces to her Etsy shop recently

HERE

If I were you I would run right over.

Now in the same spirit of giving.

The winner of the Jeanne d”Arc Living Magazine

is

Lynn of Cottage and Creek

I want to thank everyone who entered. I know many of you had trouble leaving comments ( me too)

so I appreciate your efforts to get through.

Happy weekend to you all,

I play this song for you

Etta James

Rest in Peace

we’ll miss you.

Succulents and a little something for me

I don’t know how you feel about succulents but in the last couple of years I

have really gotten to love them.

(These were from a vendor at the Old Saybrook Art and Craft Fair last week)

 

Maybe it’s the ease in growing them?

and of course they don’t require as much watering….

and that’s always a good thing.

Oh except these are ferns.

They may lack flowers but the colors make up for it.

Ferns make a nice addition to these troughs too.

                                              

                                                      

                                                                                       

I spent most of my time photographing things that

I didn’t leave a lot of time for shopping

but I did manage to find this little necklace.

The top is from a real acorn attached  to a handmade bead.

While I was retrieving the website of the vendor I bought

this from I noticed the links weren’t  working right,

so I went back and fixed them.

Just incase you wanted to visit

The price was reasonable at $15.

I thought.

The necklace looks petite next to the hydrangea flower but it’s a variety

called “ The Swan”  which gets the biggest blooms I've ever seen.

It gets it’s name from the way it grows.

Starts off like an ugly duckling and

matures into a.......yes you guessed it

 beautiful Swan.

It had just rained a few minutes before and with it came a cool breeze.

Ahh so nice after all this heat we’ve been getting.

While I’m on the subject I thought I  would show you a print I bought on one of my

other trips to the craft fair.

It’s a Giclee Art Print. From the word “squirt” in french.

If you’re interesting in how it’s done you can read about it and the artist below.

I just know that it spoke to me the moment I saw it

…..and isn’t that what Art is supposed to do?

I’m a little behind on framing it but I’ve been painting a lot of frames as of late…..

so I should be able to get to that soon.

Waiting for the rain to come…….

skies are getting dark and rumbling in the distance.

Hopefully this will cool things off a bit.

How’s the weather your way???

A Gathering for Vintage Bling

Do you remember when I told you about the Vintage Jewelry event at

Gather in the center of Ivoryton Ct.?

Well I’m finally going to show you what you missed.

I know that’s not very fair

but I know you’ll love seeing it at least.

The event went on from 1-8pm

I was there at 2 and left hubby at work alone.

Nice hubby right?.

You can see from this picture that there was hours of

exploring to do. This was going to take time.

I wasted no time shopping.

The cases were very organized by necklaces, rings,bracelets, charms,

silver, precious stones colors and themes.

I did my shopping first and took pictures later.

I’m no dummy

I focused on the rhinestone pieces and the silver but don’t worry I took

pictures of more then that.

I thought I was done shopping but I decided to pick up this cute pinky ring.

Normally I don’t like to draw attention to my hands……there NOT my

best asset! usually dry and cracked from working in the dirt

but on my pinky it looked cute.

Does that give the impression that my rings don’t fit anymore??

I don’t know?

These would be great for a black tie event.

I go to those a lot!

No!!!

but I’d like to.

It was fun grouping the different colors together.

The blues and aqua blues were striking.

cobalt blue

How about that IKE pin???

and that crown pin?

The one on the bottom left is really gorgeous.

Why did I let that one go?

I couldn’t resist this bird pin so that one came home with me.

Animal theme pins.

I also bought this lovely bracelet!

see the more I photographed them the more I bought.

My little basket was filling right up.

I kept finding other customers picking my jewelry out of my basket.

Had to Slap their hand!

Kidding……. sort of.

What can I say I picked good stuff.

This was about the time that the hors de oeuvres were

coming out and the rum cider!

151 proof I might add.
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This is our lovely hostess Deanna modeling this piece.

It looked great on her. Now she can pull off a colorful jewelry piece 

and I just can’t for some reason.

I look like I’m wearing my mothers jewelry…

and not to give the impression that I look that young either.

Hey maybe I should wear colorful jewelry!

NOW here is the BIG BLING BLING

though it is not vintage. They told me that this is made

by the same designer that made the jewelry for Sex and the City.

I can picture Carrie Bradshaw wearing this.

Isn’t this wild??

Not that anyone would wear that many pieces of jewelry at one time

but how cool is that?

The event was a great success and I know

the girls of Dawns Vintage Jewelry will be back again.

I left that night at 7…yep I was there that long….

As people were getting out of work

more were walking thru Gathers doors….

Some trying on jewelry, some shopping her vast and wondrous

inventory of the rest of the shop ,

some drinking coffee from Ashlawn Farms, some

sitting in her wonderful and comfy new used books section

 and catching up with friends and neighbors. 

The place was abuzz with people.

It was exciting to see.

The name of the store really fits this place.

It truly is a place for the towns people

to “Gather” which was the vision Deanna

had when she opened the store 3 years ago. 

When I walked out thru the doors the sound of laughter fading in the background.

The memory of a great day with

 friends was

now

mine!

and a few lovely pieces to add to my collection too.

Thanks Deanna!