Our Newest Mixed Metal Jewels

 This is recent work, most of which we will have at the Mendocino Art Center's fair on the Friday and Saturday after Thanksgiving. A couple of these pieces were sold at the Sacramento Arts Festival.

I just finished taking pictures of all of the pieces to the right here a couple of hours ago. We will have all of these new pieces and more at the Mendocino fair. As you can see, we have been setting a lot of pieces of abalone, probably more than we ever have. It is such a special material. We are enjoying finding other stones that go with it in jewels. The multi colored iridescense in the abalone shell has a multitude of colors in it that blends with other stone colors.

After Day One of the Sacramento Arts Festival

We've just finished the first day of the Sacramento Arts Festival and had a successful and full day.
Lots of people who appreciate our work came to visit and a goodly number of them took new jewels home to enjoy. The show opened at 10am and by 10:04 we had a small crowd around our booth. A couple of fellow artists told me that there were more people there than in the rest of the show at that time. I can understand wanting to come early to see all of our new stuff because pieces start finding homes pretty fast. That is why at many of our shows the first day is often our best day. We're at our motel now, winding down, hoping to get a good night's sleep so we can be ready to do it again tomorrow.