Just a little note to say that I have put even more jewelry up in the shop.  By the way, if you ever can’t remember what my Etsy shop is called, I now have a badge on The Looksee homepage that will take you straight there.  I am trying to hustle on making jewelry, since I start a new job next week (woohoo!).  Here are some sneak previews.

I hand-painted these vintage pendants which were plain brass to begin with:

And made them into these:

And also put up some vintage Bakelite stickpins and a few other things:

© Christina Beaulac-Ferris 2009

My husband was sweet enough to make this rad (and hilarious) collage for the invitation my upcoming 30th birthday party.  Yes, the big 3-0.  Now you know.   I thought it’d be fun to dress up and have a cocktail party (still working out the details).  So “fancy” is the loose theme, however people choose to interpret that…

© Seth Ferris 2009

Hi everyone,

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Christie

I found yards of this vintage trim at an antique store a few years ago for something like $5, and bought it with the intent of making tie-backs for my linen curtains.  It has such a wonderful woven pattern… deer, birds, dogs, trees, and a countryman with a horse!

Now I’m thinking that it would be better used as a trim to spice up the bottom of these curtains (it’s the same height as that bottom hem, and pretty close to the same colour of beige).

I’d love to hear what you think!

Just wanted to post that I’ve started making jewelry again! Some of you know I used to have a jewelry line called “Small Thunder” which sold at Ron Herman, but I had stopped making jewelry for a while (aside from the occasional gift or personal project). I recently found these great vintage brass triangles and have been making necklaces with new goldplated chain. Right now I have enough for three necklaces worth. I will contact my source for more if they do well! I will post photos as I add more new items.

© 2009 Christina Beaulac-Ferris

My husband’s brother-in-law is a pilot and he offered us stand-by tickets to come visit them in Boulder, Colorado. How could we say no? I’m a little worried because my cat of about 5 years, Milo, didn’t show up at all today (he normally doesn’t miss a meal, and just hangs out in the backyard). I hate feeling like something’s amiss when I’m about to take a trip, don’t you?

Anyway, just wanted to let you know posting will be a little spotty for next week or so.

Various images I’ve collected from Etsy and around the internet for my own inspiration.  Usually I link out from photos, but these are things I’ve just found around Etsy and haven’t kept track of.  Mostly vintage items- quilt patterns, crochet patterns, cool things and just funny things.  I hope you find them inspiring as well!

Snipped from my garden today…

So sometime last month, my husband and I were driving down our street and we saw two guys painting over this graffiti’d truck.  We could tell the murals were going to be good.  It was there today, finished and looking even better than I thought.

On all 3 sides!  I just had to take some snapshots before some cretin graffiti’d on it again.

Cut into the cucumber from the CSA I mentioned a few posts back and half of it was hollow!  It made me smile.