Making jewelry with my friends

My friend Jennifer of Textile Fetish came over yesterday with her girls, Chloe and Olivia and we made play jewelry! The girls picked out their beads and I strung them. Chloe strung one for her friend Nicole all by herself. Very talented!


Chloe and Olivia are cool little sisters! I had fun!

Moving Studio

Hey there! Not much happening in the studio right now. I am in the process of moving my studio to another room in my house. This week is being spent painting and preparing the room to be moved into. This is a picture of the room, mid-painting, still need to paint the ugly concrete floor. This room is actually a built-in garage! I will post some pictures when I get all moved in! Don't worry though - orders are still going out on time from the temporary studio in my dining room. ;) Hope everyone is well!

working in the studio

Getting lots done in the studio. Spent the last few days getting new necklaces ready for their unveiling!

Style Bakery

Ornamental Things is now on Style Bakery! Haven't heard of it? Well, get over there now and check it out ~ It is a pretty fun fashion website.

In other news, Ornamental Things also got mentioned as the website of the week in another blog called Far Too Cute. Pretty neat.

Wednesday I spent the entire day combing a huge flea market for lost vintage jewelry treasure. I came up with tons of great old pieces which will shortly be featured in new designs. Stay tuned! In the meantime, here is a little peak for you...

I also found some lovely antique estate jewelry that I hope to incorporate into some fancy future designs.

New necklaces are coming soon, hopefully by mid-week. Hope you all have nice relaxing weekends planned!

Silver Junky Charm Bracelets

I am putting some really fun silver charm bracelets up on the site. They are almost entirely made from recycled pieces of jewerly. All one-of-a-kind...

I was watching Capote while I made them so I guess they are kind of inspired by that movie in some way! They will be available starting Tuesday, April 4. Enjoy!

Hooray!

Hooray! This is the first post for the new Ornamental Things blog.

Now I can get back to making jewelry!

More to come...