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First Handmade Item, Second Page - Wonderful Handmade Wednesday on Indiemade
I just got back from a week stay in Dallas yesterday afternoon, a long 10 hour drive with my four-footed copilot, Seamus. As you can probably imagine, the city is still reeling due to the sniper who shot and killed five policemen during a peaceful rally. Residents of Dallas kept apologizing to me for what happened. Many are truly grieving at the insult. I told most of them that there was no need to apologize - that with the crazy world we live in now, the shooting could have taken place anywhere . . . unfortunately. My heart and soul goes out to the families that are left behind and to the policemen and other people who are left dealing with the horrible aftermath. And my heart and soul goes out to the families of Philando Castile, Alton Sterling and the many others around the nation who have been unjustly shot and killed by the very men who are supposed to be there to protect us.
Handmade Jewelry - New at Shadow Dog Designs
The past few weeks have been very busy creating handmade jewelry, mostly earrings and necklaces. I'm trying get my Shadow Dog Designs online store stocked up well before the show season starts again on Labor Day and the start of the Christmas buying season. Shared below are six new pairs of earrings and two new necklaces. Two "oldies but goodies" round out everything to make an even ten. If something catches your eye, be sure to click on the link below the photo to be taken to the listing for more information. I hope you enjoy these one of a kind handmade beauties!
First Class - Wonderful Handmade Wednesday on Indiemade
If you want first class handmade beauties, look no father than this post! Each of the items featured below is the first listing in the online stores of Indiemade artist friends. But don't stop at the first . . . browse all the items in each store, many of which are one of a kind pieces. Each handmade selection has more than a bit of the heart and soul of the artist who created the piece. So be sure to click the link below each photo for more handmade delights.
Handmade Necklaces and Earrings - New Jewelry from Shadow Dog Designs
The weeks have been very busy since my last post of handmade jewelry. My last outside Arts Festival was two weekends ago. It feels extremely good to finish the last one for the season - hauling tents, weights and tables (and then taking them down again) gets very tiring. But things will get VERY busy again once Labor Day rolls around. Check out my "UpComing Shows" tab to see what I have posted so far for the fall show season.
Fiery Red and Orange - Wonderful Handmade Wednesday on Indiemade - May 18, 2016
The temperatures are beginning to heat up here in the Desert Borderlands (although I can’t complain since this has been an unusually cool spring). With the higher temperatures, it seems the sunsets become more fiery in all their blazing yellows red, and oranges. A sunset a couple of nights ago gave me the inspiration for this blog post: Fiery Red and Orange. I browsed through the studios of Indiemade handmade artists and featured a fiery red or orange (or both) creation from each. I hope you enjoy these richly colored selections.
New Handmade Earrings and Necklaces by Shadow Dog Designs
It has been a month since I've shared new handmade jewelry from my Shadow Dog Designs shop. Busy, busy, busy! I've had two large two day shows in three weeks. Getting ready for the shows and then trying to organize after them always takes such a huge amount of time. The show Last weekend at La Vina Winery was a fabulous show with LOTS of sales. The next show is Art in the Park at Memorial Park Reserve. I still need to create quite a few new necklaces, especially chunky ones, and pairs of earrings for that show. But, I decided to sneak in here and share the six newest necklaces and earrings, most with a boho style, listed in my Indiemade shop - along with four oldies but goodies to make an even ten.
A Bounty of Blues - Wonderful Handmade Wednesday on Indiemade
The history of blue is very interesting. If you stop and think about it, there is not a lot of natural blue in nature. Most people worldwide do not have blue eyes, blue flowers do not occur without human tinkering, and blue animals are rare -- birds that are blue only live in certain areas. The sky is blue . . . or is it? One interesting theory suggests that before humans had words for the color blue, they actually saw the sky as another color! This theory is supported by the fact that if you never name the color of the sky to a child, and then ask what color it is, he/she will struggle to describe it. Some describe the sky as colorless and some describe it as white. It seems that only after being told that the sky is blue, and after seeing other blue objects over a period of time, does the sky look blue in their eyes. I wonder now, when I was very young, if I saw the sky as "blue" before or after it was given a color name. Something to ponder over!
The Wearing of the Green - Wonderful Handmade Wednesday on Indiemade
Since my family has a LOT of Scots Irish in them, I grew up listening to Irish ballads and bagpipe music. St. Patrick's Day has always been a favorite celebration (although no watered down green beer for us - had to do it right with Guinness Stout!). St. Patrick's Day was also celebrated as the start of the spring planting season for gardens and flower beds. Since Ireland is supposed to have forty shades of green, the start of planting season always seemed very appropriate.
Unique New Handmade Jewelry from Shadow Dog Designs
Lots of new handmade jewelry designs went into my Shadow Dog Designs Indiemade shop the last two weeks. I have been busy, busy, busy creating new necklaces and earrings. Arts Festivals are coming up so the shop needs to be well stocked because the shows will (hopefully) draw from the design that are there and the ones that will not be listed. The designs continue to be a combination of boho, of elegance and everything in between - wherever the Muses take me. I hope you enjoy looking at the new beauties. Two oldies but goodies have been added to make an even 10 jewelry designs. To see more photos and information of each, please click the link below each photo:
The First - Wonderful Handmade Wednesday (on Tuesday)
Since I will be winging my way east for a couple of days of R & R in The Big Easy the day I usually post the "Wonerful Handmade Wednesday" blog, the newest edition is posted today, Tuesday, March 1. Already March!!! Yikes! The theme is simple: the first item posted in each shop. I hope you enjoy the wide variety of handmade beauties created by the talented artists shared below:
