smile, it's monday!

i'm so in love with good heavens' ties. i want to buy one (or four!) for g. i'm thinking of the hot air balloons. i want some for myself, too.

bracelets

my sweet friend jane, who i met when we were 16 and became friends with instantly, has been a friend for almost 20 years. she is also one of my very favorite people in the world. she's my go-to for book recommendations and one of the few people i love to talk to on the phone -- we can yap for hours.

jane worked in a bead store when we were younger. she taught me a ton about different beads and techniques. we spent many a night seed beading and wire working. 16-17 years later, i still have all of the beads i bought way back when. and i've added to the collection often over the years.

i got inspired this weekend and made some bracelets.






i put one on gabe last night but he took it off. send me an email with "bracelet" in the subject, to tmcolla at yahoo dot com and i'll send you a bracelet of my choice, at no cost.


read jane's excellent blog here.

jewels for schools

a special project by a special lady.

Jewels for schools is a project of contributing the proceeds of the "jewels" sold on our Etsy account to the benefit of the New York Fund for Public Schools and the San Francisco Education fund.

you can buy maegan's amazing jewelry here.

this one is my favorite

loving

available here.

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available here.

oooooooooh!

gorgeous:









made in oakland, available here.

one thing leads to another

the lovely shauna posted this on her blog a while back:

image and item available here.

while checking out the rockett st george site out, i also found this lovely bracelet:

pretty, yes? also available here.

extasia jewelry

i fell in love with these rings when i saw my aunt kathy wearing one after a trip to italy. then, while we were in austin, i wondered into the shop maya star and saw an entire case. i bought one.

available here

nervous system

love this bracelet from nervous system.

custom braille ring

so neat.




available at rare device.

rings

tiny apple blossom ring set from elizabeth scott designs:



i had a hard time narrowing down which item of patrick irla's to post:




and this one, from vaka designs, is so pretty:

what i bought in brooklyn

we went to the fantastic brooklyn flea during our trip.

we bought some good stuff. clothes for ollie, clothes for gabe and some jewelry for me. (and of course, food.)

i bought this elma blint bracelet:


here it is, in full:



i also bought one of these from here, except i bought a sterling silver letter o, for oliver, of course!



of course, ollie ripped the necklace off me not even 3 hours after i bought it. i was able to save the o, so now i just need to find a chain for it.

all images from elmablint dot com

love it

this bracelet from blue moss is so pretty.





from blue moss.

are all things named miette wonderful?

sure seems that way.

jewelry by miette. so pretty!









via thoughtful day via dear ada

gorgeous

from tivi.