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And a couple more druzys

July 20, 2011

I told you I was a little crazy over them. I blame Long Island! Long story… Anyway, here are some little adorable blue guys and an orange, all in oxidized sterling:

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A City Summer

July 11, 2011

Summer in the city. The smells, the sights, the sounds. *sigh* All of this really means, stinky garbage, stinky, sweaty and very. slow. walking. tourists, stinky, angry commuters and lots of yelling from all parties. Even the garbage. So, going with the hot theme, here is a hot red coral necklace with dalmatian jasper, one [...]

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Squires Jewelers

July 7, 2011

Hello!! You can find The Laughing Moon NY at Squires Jewelers located at 3051 Jericho Turnpike, East Northport, NY 11731. They carry lots of great designers. Go check them out!

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Ode to Druzy, part 2

July 7, 2011

As promised, more sparkly druzy pieces. (Depending on which time/space continuum you follow, this post may not appear to be posted during the “tomorrow” promised in the previous post. However, in my personal time/space continuum, it is. ) All are set in sterling silver by my small, man-ish hands and oxidized to show off the [...]

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Ode to a Druzy, part 1

June 27, 2011

Oh, Druzy. I used to think you were ugly. Now I see the sparkle and it makes me happy. e.e. cummings, I am not. But, man. I have fallen a bit in love with druzies as of late. They really ARE sparkly! You need to see them in person. Here are two recent pieces. Aqua [...]

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We built a workbench!

April 25, 2011

My totally awesome dAd and I built a New York City apartment friendly workbench last time I was home. It was mostly dAd, but I really did help. I swear! We used all recycled, reclaimed materials except for the pegboard hardware and drawer slides. Even the metal lining the drawers was recycled. The top one [...]

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Make it for Mom design contest!

April 25, 2011

Artbeads is having a ‘Make it for Mom’ design contest starting April 21, 2011. They are looking for inspiring designs of Mother’s Day themed jewelry and gifts. All you need to do to enter is upload a photo of your design. The winner will be chosen by a public vote that begins on Mother’s Day, May [...]

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Winter’s Memory

April 13, 2011

Yep. It’s Spring in New York City. Or at least, it was today. Which reminds me of poor Winter. It put up a good fight, ranted and raved with sleet, rain, snow, wind, snow/rain, snow/rain/hail. Now Spring is being a little weepy with the rain, but, hey, it’s April. Anyway, being from Syracuse, I believe [...]

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NY Japion!

January 11, 2011

I had the privilege of meeting with Tomoko from NY Japion, a weekly online and paper publication for the Japanese community in the tri-state area . Tomoko is an extremely interesting and super nice person that writes for NY Japion and loves music and comedy! What’s not to like? We chatted about our shared love [...]

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Technically, it is still Autumn.

December 12, 2010

Until December 21. So, I am actually early, in a sense, with my Colors of Fall Design for Artbeads. One of the inspirations that we could use was Pantone’s Color Report – Fall 2010. I chose lagoon, chocolate truffle and golden glow as a jumping off point. It’s called Autumn Sunset. Of course it is [...]

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