among the thousands

There we are, second row down, eighth from left

Etsy did a call for sellers to come out for a photo shoot back in the Winter, and so the girl and I went out to the city for an adventure.  We had fun waiting our turn and having our picture taken in a light-filled loft in midtown, but then I forgot about it and it only just now occurred to me to look for the magazine. Turns out that we made the cut! And we (yes, Magnolia is there too....looks like the youngest Etsy seller of the bunch!) made our way into the April issue of Inc. magazine. Seeing as how I'm just one of 400,000 Etsy sellers, hundreds of whom were photographed that day, and dozens of whom ended up in a feature spread in the magazine, I'm not surprised that I never received official notification that I had made it to print. My Etsy jewelry shop has not received any spikes in sales (though on Halflight I did sell 7 paintings to one person the other day, what a lovely treat!), so I can't say that this form of press was effective for me personally, but the adventure in the loft was worth doing!  See pictures for evidence of one of NYC's hidden treasures, Gary's Loft.  And here's a link to the article itself.

Fall Handmade Cavalcade

I will be selling jewelry and handcrafted objects for baby at the Fall Handmade Cavalcade in this September 12, from 11 to 7, in the Beacon Bookmarks' Barn at the corner of Main St. and North Cedar in Beacon, NY. This is a {NewNew} event featuring over twenty Etsy sellers from NYC and the Hudson Valley. If you can't be there, perhaps you have a friend in the area who would like to come? It's going to be a great show!

process dictates outcome

I contributed this piece to the Benefit for Nicole Gagne, the jewelry artist who was injured when a staircase collapsed this past April at the Crane St. Studios in Long Island City. The show was this past Thursday at Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, and 100% of the money from art sales went to Nicole. While I know several artists who have worked in the building, from painter Hein Koh to tintype artist Keliy Anderson-Staley, I do not know Nicole, but I was intrigued to see on her jewelry website that our jewelry has some similarities. . . hammered metal shapes suspended on chains, inspiration from nature, incorporation of natural objects, and a philosophy of work, ‘Process dictates the outcome,' that resonates deeply with my own theories of making and teaching. I painted a watercolor representation of one of her metal shapes and attached seeds onto the FREE WILL entry of an old encyclopedia page. I hear she is doing much better, thankfully. I hope we can meet someday.

post-trunk show

Virginia Galvan (pictured below next to her work) and I had a wonderful trunk show.

I was honored to show my work at Cozbi's shop (images above, below and a nice blog about the shop at Allyn Howard's Blipadee), one of my most favorite spots in NYC, and blessed with lots of help from dear Sean (who took many of these pictures) and even little Magnoliagirl, who made friends left and right! The whole thing inspired me to make more pieces and do more jewelry shows . . .

Cozbi and Amanda

One of Cozbi's amazing dolls.

Beautiful bibs, quilts and pillows...and some lovely dresses, for little ones.

Cozbi's multitalented hands.

A Southern Magnolia pod.
Ladies wearing their Pixie Petals:

Roxanne (oval painted wood/silver lariat)

Maggie (silver/wood lariat)

Evelyn (gold and sea urchin earrings)

Maggie (double B/W Venetian glass bead lariat)

Marika (triple teardrop lariat with carnelion and chalcedony)

Cindy and her mom Charl (Silver circle earrings with smokey quartz + Blown glass and LED earrings)

Monique (Vintage bead with silver lariat)

kbe with a sleepy mme (Large brown felted wool bead with silver).
Damijan Saccio took many lovely photos as well, here are a few:

pre-trunk show

Here are some of the new pieces I am getting ready for tomorrow's Trunk Show at the wonderful Cozbi in Brooklyn:







Virginia Galvan will also be selling her amazing organic forms: silver and vermeil leaves and flowers on beautiful cords for necklaces, and as earrings. See flyer: