Nighttime Out My Window

I have been staring at Jupiter and Venus outside my window every evening, amazed that I can see anything shining in the night sky with these bright city lights.  Since reading Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot, I have been feeling VERY small and insignificant in an extraordinarily beautiful and comforting way.  Spotting my friends Jupiter and Venus while listening to the city traffic zoom below me and enjoying the warm night air on my balcony has been quite dreamy, indeed.

Sunset: March 21, 2012

Design for Mankind Feature!!

Last Friday Design for Mankind blogged about my Spring Jewelry line!!

39 weeks

One year ago today.  Waddling all over the city hoping to get things moving. 

Sunset: March 20, 2012

Yesterday

Shine and sun

Good evening

Sunset March 19th, 2012

Underlined: Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan

I'm knee deep in Dr. Sagan's Pale Blue Dot and it has pretty much been blowing my mind in every way.  It's even changing the art I have been working on.  So far this is my favorite line:

(Sagan is talking about the Voyager)

  Or perhaps the records will never be intercepted. Perhaps no one in five billion years will ever come upon them. Five billion years is a long time. In five billion years, all human beings will have become extinct or evolved into other beings, none of our artifacts will have survived on Earth, the continents will have become unrecognizably altered or destroyed, and the evolution of the Sun will have burned the Earth to a crisp or reduced it to a whirl of atoms.

Far from home, untouched by these remote events, the Voyagers, bearing the memories of a world that is no more, will fly on.

 - Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994)

*images from here and here

Star

Good day, beautiful star.  Felt like old times watching you set.

Joanne Greenbaum

I'm diggin' Joanne Greenbaum's work lately.

Easter Eggs

Since my Wooden Geode Ornaments were a big hit and sold out so fast last Christmas I decided to do an Easter version.  They are now available in my shop!
My intern Sam took all the photos.  Isn't she talented?

Hope

 We spent the weekend in Michigan and went for a couple of walks on the beach and enjoyed the beautiful warm weather.  Our bulbs are sprouting.  It looks like hope springing up from the ground. 

Good Morning

Friday Music Muse

This song makes me think of my husband and the first year we started dating.  Makes me smile every time I hear it.

M. Ward
I'll be Your Bird

I'm not the tiger, he never had,
I'm not the first hit when you got it bad.
I'm not your second, I'm not your third but
I'll be your bird.

I'm not your Chesnutt,
I'm not your Mould,
I'm not your DJ on late night radio,
I'll be the first one to ask where you were,
I'll be your bird.

Then when there's no one to care,
I could protect like I've always been there,
I'll become your bear.

I'll sing statistics, & hide the truth,
I'll tell your dad anything that you want me to,
I'll hide your locket under the dirt,
I'll be your bird.

*photo by one of my favorite photographers Simen Johan

Spring 2012 Inspiration

Here are a few images that inspired my Spring 2012 jewelry line.

Here, here, here, here, here , here, here and here

Process

Here are a few action shots of my making my Spring 2012 jewelry line.  Tomorrow I will post some of the inspiration behind this line.