An Artist with Heart(s)!!

Valentines Day is just around the corner, time to get your heart-themed bling on!!

SALE - now through Valentines Day (2/14/15).
  $5 off Earrings containing Hearts or Heart-Leaves (now $10 & up)
  $5 off Girl's Necklaces containing Hearts (now at $40)
  $5-$25 off Lady's Necklaces containing Hearts or Heart-Leaves (now $70 & up)

Items listed with Original prices here: Items Available for Purchase.

Email inquiries to the artist are always welcome: Gavotian@gmail.com -OR- simply add a Comment anywhere on this blog & it will automatically get emailed to the artist.

Examples (way too many to show them all here):
 

 

Nothing like a Challenge to get me going again....

Yep, I am participating with a group of fellow artistically minded folks to do a monthly Art Challenge!!  January has had me doing my books & paying my taxes (yuck!)... trying to get things cleaned and reorganized in my studio (double-yuck!!)... but while at those tasks also putting together a piece for an Art Challenge...

The challenge was to do a Numbers Collage, and of course I decided to do it with Jewelry...

My friend Jill took a picture of me holding my piece (at the Art Challenge meeting)... as you can see it is an Art Piece, a bit too wide to wear...

This (oops a bit blurry) picture shows some of the details... Top Row: gears, pi, clock face, infinite.  Bottom Row: postmark w/address, parallelogram, gears, music, ammonite (Fibonacci), 8 cent postage stamp w/Einstein's face, triangle, measuring tape....

Numbers in all kinds of uses...

This is already being deconstructed & the pieces will be re-purposed...

Phew! Done with my re-organizing chore!!

I've just finished reorganizing my page that has Items Available for Purchase.... Prices are now included in the listings, I hope you like the updated look/feel.

A few little things I've made despite being busy with shows...

Because a girl's just gotta have bling :)

Uh-Oh... I'm out-of-date!!

Eeeek!!

I've been crazy busy with a couple shows and have not updated this blog... Naughty ME!!

So... I'm going to re-organize a bit, and I'm toying with investing in an online store, but before I do that I'm going to do some serious updating & some re-organizing of my current pages displaying items for sale... they're mostly ok, a few things have sold & and a few others need to be added... but I want to add pricing information and organize things a bit more differently... so hold on folks, I can only work so fast...

Hang in there with me... this is a time-consuming process!!

I've been Quiet in order to make some Noise!!

Hi there!
    Did you wonder if I was gone for good???
        Why have I been so quiet???

Well... there have been lots of reasons... but the biggest one is this: I was getting my displays ready for a commercial show - yep, full public access at this one (EEK!!)...  All I've done previously are a couple home-based boutiques & a couple private showings, so I'm breaking new ground.

Here's the show info, it's this Saturday...  and I've got another one coming in about a month... both reasonably close to home (the one next month is closer than this one)...

I needed desperately to update my displays to make them more secure... some of this might not look all that different, but it is very different in how it's put together... here's some shots of my current setup (don't mind my messy basement):

The "multi-picture frames" went through major renovations... and I've now got 3 of them (previously only had 2).

The little Dressform earring display is new, something I found at Hobby Lobby & adapted to hold earrings... I made custom hangers for the little earring cards out of black paper clips.  The mirror is new, got it on the cheap, I really needed a mirror.  The large boxes look like books (picture doesn't show them well) that reflect an "old world traveler" feel - each has gold edges that match my little gold boxes for my jewelry.  You can see a bit of my Thanksgiving themed display items...

More of my Thanksgiving themed display items shown here - I do plan on putting some pretty bows on the displays once at the show - I have a roll of deep orange (think pumpkin) netted ribbon that sparkles.  In this picture you can see (under the multi-picture frame on the right) another new smaller earring holder - this was one of my bargain finds & rotates...

So... I'm not finishing any jewelry recently (several items in the works), but you can tell by the picture I'm fully stocked (and then some) for a show... so I'm focusing on getting some of this stuff sold before I start building my inventory again.

Looking forward to Saturday!!  Hope to see you there!!

Slow in Summer...

Yep, once the snow melts here in the northern U.S. I get busy outside... so I've been out in the gardens rather than in my studio... but in the mean time there have been a few new things.  I disassembled & reworked a couple pieces, up-cycled an old earring to make a necklace, and this is the results.

A new necklace made from parts from one of my previous necklace creations, this wears much easier than the original.

"Nautical" - Sterling Silver with Sodalite, Red Coral & an unknown white stone.

Another new necklace made from parts of a previous piece, this also wears much easier than the original.

"Fiesta" - Sterling Silver & Red Coral

A sampling of the earrings made from the leftover bits from the two necklaces that had been deconstructed... I try not to waste anything!!

Sterling Silver & Red Coral Loop & Swirl earrings on posts.

Sterling Silver & Red Coral triple dangle earrings.

Sterling Silver, Red Coral, & unknown white stone.  Loop & Swirl on posts.

Something old with something new...  The center "drop" on this piece is not my work, it is an old earring (sterling silver with an unknown stone) that I worked into a necklace.

"Chocolate Drop" - Sterling Silver with an unknown brown/black stone.

I'm always busy... and though I'm itching to get more time in the studio my studio time is limited for a while... so be patient, there's more to come!