Chico's Bizarre Bazaar was our last fair of 2023

We had a great fair in Chico on Dec. 2nd & 3rd. Lots of our regular customers came and bought new Mixed Metal Jewels and the weather was fairly pleasant. I had planned to do another selling event at the Makers & Bakers Holiday Fair on Sunday, Dec. 10th at the Caspar Community Center near where we live on the coast, but the intensity of the Chico Fair and all of the driving has kind of tired me out and I have broken one of my teeth & need to take care of that so I have decided not to sell at the Caspar fair. I'm not a 70 year old youngster any more, 81 coming up next month. I will continue helping to organize the Caspar fair though and it will be fun with some interesting vendors. It runs from 11am to 4pm on that Sunday. Lots of good food available too. Below are some of the new jewels that I took to the Chico fair. In the next couple of weeks I'll be adding a lot of jewels to my online store (link just below) and will continue to do that throughout the next year. https://www.eventeny.com/company/?c=11060

Link to our online Store

   Online Store

 We will be at the Los Altos Rotary Club's Fine Art in the Park Fair on the weekend of August 12th & 13th, hours 10am to 5:30pm. It takes place in Lincoln Park, along Foothill Expressway across from downtown Los Altos. We will have a good selection of our Mixed Metal Jewels. The fairs website for directions, details and a list of artists and links to their websites is http://rotaryartshow.com/ 

Some of our new work:

Circle Wave Pendants

I recently posted on my Face Book page a collage like this one with 16 different versions of what I call my circle wave pendants and got a lot of likes and comments from FB friends. Thought I would post this one here for my blog visitors. These are different ones than the Facebook posting. These are ones that I've made in the last 20 years and all  have found homes. I think that I first started this series back in the mid 1980's when I lived on some property we owned on the North San Juan Ridge north of Nevada City. At least the first drawings of them that I've found were in a journal from then. I would guess that by now I have made several hundred variations of them and the series continues, probably 8 to 12 a year or so. I make a fair number of jewels that are one of kind pieces but a lot of my jewel work is like the circle waves, starting with one and then continuing the series but each one changes, shifting size, gemstones, metal mixtures, details, bails and so forth. They are like cousins to each other. I'm working on a couple of new ones now. I enjoy them and they sell very well which is always a factor in continuing a series. Sometimes though I feel like I'm stuck in making circles (not just these) and I consciously make myself break out of that pattern and make forms that are triangles, squares, ovals, abstracts, free flowing forms or whatever. That's always good for me and leads to interesting jewels. Where will I go next?