Making an Appearance at InTouch Weekly

I have been keeping this hush hush for a few weeks now, but I'm ready to unveil my big news.

Remember the Mad Hatter Army? Well..... I made all those for a marvelous PR company who was planning a party for the release of the Alice in Wonderland DVD. The party was the idea of one of the exec producers of the movie. How cool is that?!

So, those lovely people have passed on one of their swag bags to InTouch Weekly who is hosting a giveaway. Besides the Mad Hatter Ring, you could win a Sony Bloggie, Opi makeup, the Alice DVD, and lots of other things. The big thing is you could win a Mad Hatter Ring which we all know really is the coolest thing in the bag. *wink, wink* See it right there in the front in the cute little red heart box?



You can go here to enter to win the whole kit and kaboodle. I'm so excited to just to see the biz name on such a big venue.

Mad Hatter Fashion

Bet you thought I was slacking this week with all those giveaways, didn't you? Well, I sort of did, but I got some work done.

Remember this post where I asked for help with Alice in Wonderland and State flowers? Today is the debut of a couple of the items I came up. First, is Mad Hatter Fashion as I call this ring. A copper hat with a sterling hat tag on a copper band ring. I formed each of the three pieces of the hat separately then soldered them together. The hat tag is stamped with 10/6 just like the Mad Hatter's. This is a formidable ring. Not a single person would miss this if you were wearing it. What do you think?



A little help as I'm debating on backgrounds. Do you like the black background or the grey better?



Now for the state flowers. I chose to do the Sego Lily which is the state flower of Utah first, but there will be more forthcoming. I love lilies, and I particularly loved the lines and shape of this flower. This is also a mixed metal ring, but I'm planning to do earrings as well. There are 3 individual pieces- the triangle shaped petals, the large petals, and the stamen. Each of these was formed then soldered together. The band, again, is copper. I'm thinking of doing this in reverse as well with the flower being sterling and the stamen being copper. This one is not quite completed but will be by the end of the day. I still have some sanding and polishing to do. Just thought you might be interested in seeing an inbetween stage.




The Mad Hatter ring is currently in my shop and the Sego Lily ring will be in the next couple of days. Give a shout and let me know what you think of these. What would you have done differently?

Clearing the Cobwebs

Well, who knew "I'm not going to take it anymore day" was just what we needed?! Perhaps we should do that once a month whether it's the holiday or not. The blog was more than happy to be a punching bag for a day.

Oh, one thing before I get to my real post for today. If you have all of a sudden been getting my feed when you were getting them before, I apologize. It appears Blogger hates me sometimes and decided to switch my feed links. I have remedied the situation and so far so good. I'll keep an eye on it to make sure it doesn't happen again.

Onto Thursday's post.... As I've said, I plan my bloggy month in advance. It just helps to get my thought processes down, and I'm not scrambling for ideas. I do leave days open for ideas that just come up or whatever. Today happens to be one of those days so I thought I would rather the method behind the madness.

Inspiration for my pieces comes easy enough. I find inspiration in nature, architecture, even headlights on cars. I love when the big car show rolls around, and I can get a glimpse of the prototype cars. Not kidding. I even carry a little notebook around with me for such moments when an idea walks up and slaps me on the back of the head. Even my customers give me inspiration with their custom pieces.

Then we move onto the times when I have the inspiration, but I'm not really sure how I want to use it. I am a member of the artist site, Ebsq. Each month they have shows based on different things. This month one of the shows is Alice in Wonderland/Through the looking glass. You make things based on one or both of these books. I'm loving this, but the problem is I'm so inspired I'm not sure what I want to do. I'm thinking a tea and crumpets ring, but is there anything else? There are just so many images floating around in this mushy brain of mine. What would you do? or What's your favorite part of the book? Maybe my lovely blog readers can help with my dilemma.


They are also having another show which corresponds with a line of jewelry I've been toying around with wanting to do. Their show is State Flowers, and I've been wanting to do a whole line designed just around flowers. There are so many beautiful flowers. I could seriously do a line like this my whole life and not do every flower. I had such fun with my magnolia earrings, and they were such a big hit. I know I'm asking for a lot of help, but what is your favorite flower and/or your state flower?

Well, I suppose that's enough rambling for one day. I must be off and filling the world with copper jewelry.