Out of the Pink Sky

Saved By the Potty Fairy

I had a very strange, spooky experience yesterday that had me a little shaken.  Yesterday, at work, I knew that I needed to go by Walmart in the evening to pick up a prescription. At one point during the day, out of the blue, I had this vision of me walking toward the east entrance and getting hit by a car that then sped off. I thought "that was a weird thing to think" and put it out of my head. Later, at about 8pm, my husband and I were about to leave for Walmart. As we were walking out the door, my husband said that he needed to use the bathroom.  He went to do that, and I watched a few minutes of TV. When we got to the Walmart parking lot, there were police everywhere. Someone, walking to the east entrance, had just gotten hit by a hit-and-run driver. That was weird enough. However, when I got home, I called my mom to tell her about it and she was astounded. She said that, earlier in the day, she had a vision of my husband calling her to tell her that I'd gotten injured by a car. She said that she never has thoughts that specific about something bad happening to me or my sister.  In addition, my closest friend emailed me this morning to tell me that she had a dream about me last night in which I had moved away. 

We never have that sort of "premonition" thing happen! This is just really bizarre!

The photo used above is "Haunted" by Jude McConkey.  It can be purchased at her Etsy shop.

Labor Day Sale

 

Starting today and extending through Labor Day weekend, FREE shipping on all items in my store.

           

How About Some Breakfast?

My treasury made the front page of Etsy (while I was asleep)

Welcome Back, Library

When I was a graduate student, at Ohio State, my visits to Thompson Library, the campus' main library, brought about a sense of unease.  I kinda like creepy places, but not when I honestly feel like being in said creepy place could put me in real danger.  As a social science student, often the books I needed were up in the library's tower.  The floor where the sociology book were was without windows so it was dark, dank, and often I was the only person around.  When you looked down the rows of books, you could see the sides lined with darkened cages, like the one pictured above.  I never saw a single person using one.  It was like being in someone's huge basement where a predator could be lurking in the shadows.  Fortunately, I never ran into the bogeyman.  OSU's library was in stark contrast to the well-lit, clean, more updated library from my undergraduate institution, University of Louisville.

However, now (that I'm no longer a student who needs to use the library), Thompson library reopens after a 3 year, $100 million renovation.  I still work on campus though, but on the medical center side.  I think I'll take an evening and go sit in the new library to make up for all the time I spent getting to know the spiders and shadows of the old library's stacks.

   

Nesting

 

The Nesting Earrings are my most recent addition to my Etsy shop.  I based these on a tutorial I saw and adapted them to create these stunning birds nest earrings.  The "eggs" are steel blue freshwater pearls.  The "nest" is made out of thin sterling silver wire.  The frame and hook are sterling silver also.  These were quite a bit of work, but also fun to create!  This is what I do to keep my hands busy while watching TV.

Very Vintage

My recent trips to the antique mall have paid off in some really interesting vintage and antique items.  The above tambourine earrings Ifound especially cool since they still had their original earring card with them. 

In the particularly cheesy "so kitschy it's cool" category, I found the brass belt buckle you see below.  I'm rather astounded at the detail on that van!  You can see the passenger side window through the front window.  Pretty elaborate!  This particular piece is stamped 1978 on the back...which would have made me 4 years old when that buckle was produced.  Ahhh, the van-centric 1970s!

Last, is the piece I had to do the most research on.  Below, you'll see a modernist Swedish pendant on a silver-toned chain.  The pendant is pewter.  The back is stamped with "Tenn" and an underscored "R."  The "Tenn" seems to refer to Tennesmed, a Swedish company that has been in business for many years, making pewter baubles.  However, I'm unsure what the underscored "R" stands for.  There are a couple of Tennesmed designers I've seen, Rune Tennesmed and R Landerholm; there may be more.  I can't figure out which one used an underscored "R" as their mark.  I've seen lots of Tennesmed pendants with flowers, horses, viking ships, and cats, but I'm not seeing any others like this!

Orange Blossom

New Blood

In preparation for Comfest, I made a lot of new piece that I did not list on Etsy.  Why pay the listing fee if the piece is going to sell at Comfest very soon after I made it?  Several pieces did sell there, however, I'm not listing the items that did not sell at Comfest.  My next craft show isn't until August, at the Ohio State Fair, so I think it's worth the listing fee to put them "out there" now.  I've remade my Cherish Earrings with bigger pink amethysts.  I have some charoite nestled in a herringbone weave.  I've also embraced the open hoop style.  You can see several of the new items, listed in my Etsy shop, below.  More items to come soon!

        

    

Xander, Snoozy Pug

Come See Me at Comfest

I'll be selling my jewelry at Comfest, Columbus Ohio's biggest festival, this weekend.  My friends and I were lucky enough to get a booth this year.  My boothmates include Kristin Ellis, Heather Wirth, and Meghan Willis.  The festival runs all day from June 26 - 28.  Whew, that's going to be a lot of time selling for us!  I'll have most of the jewelry offered in my shop as well as some new pieces that I don't plan on listing unless they do not sell this weekend.