Autumn Leaf Necklace

A simple silver chain necklace made with one of my handmade ceramic leafs. I'll be wearing this piece all Autumn long!
Happy Fall everyone!

Jewelry to Fall For: Designs by Lorelei

I'm featuring one of my favorite jewelry designers, Lorelei! Take a look at this collection of gorgeous designs featuring ceramic leaf pendants and charms made by yours truly!

A true master at her craft, Lorelei combines her love of nature, color and texture to create eclectic, eye-catching designs. I love her uses of semi-precious stones and other natural materials along with the finest artisan beads, pendants, charms and findings. I'm not the only one who's noticed this artistic talent. She's the buzz of the beading world, featured on sites, such as the Art Bead Scene. You can read the interview they did with her here. See what all this buzzing is about and check her out!


Shop: lorelei1141.etsy.com
Blog: lorelei1141.blogspot.com

I've been tagged!

I've been tagged twice! Once by Nancy and once by Lynn! Wow! Yay!
If you've been tagged by me just follow the rules below if you want to play along, you don't have to though.

1. Link to your tagger and list these rules on your blog.
2. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog - some random, some weird.
3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blog.
4. Let them know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

1. Hi, my name is Erin and I am a Craft-aholic. I even have a mug that says so.

2. I love sleeping. I think I would sleep my life away if I didn't love making things so much! Even when I am awake, I'm mostly day-dreaming anyway.

3. I talk to myself all the time. I mean like full on conversations. I've even caught myself talking out loud where someone else can hear me talking to myself, like a department store aisle! Embarrassing!

4. I have a formula equation for cuteness. Short + Fat = Cute. This formula works for just about everything except it doesn't seem to work very well for humans though.

5. I love to buy and collect jewelry-making books, even if I know I will never make a project out of them. I just love looking through them and having those ideas in my possession. I have about 30 titles in my collection and growing.

6. I currently do not have a car. I am lucky enough to live in a town where I can walk to every place I need to get to. Work, ceramic studio, bank, post office, and grocery store are all in walking distance from my apartment and anything else I need can be done online. When the walking thing starts to feel like a pain in the neck, I just tell myself that it's good exercise and I'm helping the environment.

7. I pretty much can find something I like in any music genre except for the type of punk music my husband likes to listen to, which makes my head want to explode!

Here are the lucky 7 I'm tagging! All great artists! Please check out their blogs!

Bridgman Pottery
Chinook Jewelry Designs
Elaine Ray
Jessica Sharrah
Lisa Peters Art
Marsha Neal Studio
Oh2122

Walk in the Woods

On Saturday, I took the day off from the bead shop and my hubby and I took a long walk at Maudslay State Park. This park is a town away from where we live. It's a beautiful, enchanting park. I took my camera to take some inspiration shots. I am always so amazed at how beautiful and awe-inspiring nature really is. I really want to start spending some more time there.

Here's one of the paths we walked down. It looks so inviting, doesn't it? We met some little friends along the way that came out to say hi.

Like, this little guy right here. Isn't he cute? He popped his head out just long enough for me to take his picture! I wonder how many nuts he has store in that tree?

Cute little mushrooms along the path.

This little toad leaped out from under the leaves as we walked by.
Thanks for looking! Hope you enjoyed these nature pics!

Harvest Moon Earrings

I made these earrings with a certain friend in mind. She is a beautiful earth goddess and she is my muse for a lot of the designs that I come up with. I started off with my own ceramic leaves and embellished them with a harvest bundle of seed pods, apple coral and wood beads tied together with strands of waxed linen cord from my bead shop.

I decided to submit these earring to this month's Art Bead Scene Challenge. October is A dark and Stormy Night. I imagined a beautiful maiden in a long flowing dress wearing these as she dances in the moonlight of the harvest moon!