Anne More Jewelry Now Available at 1928

The gift and wine shop 1928 is located in the beautiful Marcus Whitman Hotel and carries a wide variety of local products, including my jewelry! I am so delighted to be a part of this shop. Pop in to warm up with an espresso and peruse their wine and locally made items.  1928 is on Rose Street, in the Marcus Whitman Hotel, Walla Walla, and they are open daily!

Visit their website for more info: http://www.marcuswhitmanhotel.com/upcoming_events/Giftshop.html

Pearls and Holiday Cheer

Happy Thanksgiving to all! May your belly be full and your heart be glad.  I adore Thanksgiving, as it serves as a good reminder to embrace, appreciate and share as we enter the winter holiday season. 

I've returned to my old muse, the pearl, for inspiration.  I want to create classic jewelry that a girl can reach for season after season.  I think pearls are the loveliest, most wondrous treasure from the natural world.  So many shapes and colors can be created. Thank you Mr. Oyster.

metal, flame, and hammers and files. or forays into handmade earwires.

I have a torch. I have the metal. I would really, really love to make my own earwires and findings. I feel it would add an extra dimension to my handmade pieces, and give my designs an even more unique identity. So, one studio-Sunday afternoon I begin to play. I'm balling wire. I'm dipping it in pickle. I'm forging shapes with an anvil and hammer. I'm polishing and filing and smoothing....I'm having so much fun! I should have been doing this ages ago. I've started with three pairs of classically simple earrings. Beautiful pearls and semiprecious stones dropping from my new handmade earwires. Be on the lookout for more!

Holiday Happenings!

Anne More Jewelry will be at the Altrusa Holiday Bazaar

Saturday November 21

Pendleton Convention Center, 1601 Westgate

from 9am until 4pm

This bazaar features over 80 vendors! What a fun way to embrace another handmade holiday. If you can't make it, remember you can always shop Anne More Jewelry online

http://www.annemorejewelry.com/

October Sky

A strangely warm evening lured me outside to breathe the almost-Halloween air and sky-gaze at dusk.

Celebrate Autumn Sale This Weekend

This weekend I'm having a sale in my Etsy shop and you're all invited! Save 25% on every item-even if it's already on sale! To receive your savings simply enter the code WEEKEND DEALS in the notes to seller at checkout. I will refund your 25 % savings through paypal.

What a lovely way to treat yourself to some lovingly handmade jewelry and also to celebrate the beginning of Autumn. Follow this link to my shop: http://www.annemorejewelry.etsy.com

DIY Inspiration

My latest botanical interests are leaning heavily towards succulents and ferns. Ferns, in particular, remind me of childhood years spent in Western Washington when camping in the forests of the Cascades transported me to a magical land of make believe.

Upon seeing the fronds of a fern uncurling and stretching out it's green new-ness, I get giddy with those memories and reminisce about the deep earth smells of bark and moss. This DIY idea from the geniuses at DesignSponge is a really beautiful way to preserve something you love, and decorate a lonely wall at the same time! Brilliant!

Full instructions found here:

http://www.designspongeonline.com/2009/08/made-with-love-pressed-botanical-specimens.html

Beach Inspired

A Walk in the Park

One of our favorite things to do is to go for an evening stroll. We are lucky enough to live near a wonderful park filled with old trees, owls and squirrely squirrels. Often after dinner, when the summer sun is setting, we meander through the trees and and fill our lungs with the bark-sweet summertime air.

Hope your summer is peaceful and full of the simple things that make life so magical!

Just Because, you are sweet!

A big huge THANK YOU to Misty at Just Because for blogging about our Simple Modern Wood Necklace! It's a real compliment to have a designer like what we do!

classic

Classic sterling hoops...what we reach for again and again. This larger style is made of heavy gauge sterling that we've hammered for strength and texture. Now available in our etsy shop!

walla walla farmers market

What a nice way for people to come together on a glorious weekend! The Walla Walla Farmers Market has grown into a happy, musical event. Here is a view from inside my booth looking out. It is so lovely to meet new friends who've come from far away as well as my local neighbors. Tapping our toes to the live music, we can chat away about their favorite gemstones, produce and anything else we like.

I look forward to a busy week in the studio. I've got oodles of sketches for new designs that are just waiting to be created. Hope you all have a really nice week!

farmers market season begins

The 2009 Farmers Market season in Walla Walla kicks off the first weekend in May. Market is open 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. on Saturdays and now Sundays, too! May is a great time to get fresh-from-the-farm spinache and onions, fresh baked breads from Hidden Valley Bakery, and loads of other great stuff all while listening to live music.

Visit our booth on most Saturdays for handmade jewelry goodness. You can even join our mailing list and enter to win a free pair of earrings!

more info on our market:

www.gowallawallafarmersmarket.com

Spring Sale!

Oh, Spring, in all it's fresh green budding new-ness it has arrived. To celebrate we are having a little SALE in our Etsy shop this weekend. All of our handmade jewelry pieces will be 20 percent off! Twenty percent off!! Sale prices are good Saturday and Sunday only. Hope you can drop by and find something fresh and fun.

oh, facebook, you ARE fun

Wether we're catching up with old friends or meeting new ones, facebook certainly is fun. We have a new page where we'd love to see you wearing your very own pieces of AMJ. Check it out here:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Anne-More-Jewelry/72022586345

Etsy Treasury

http://http//www.etsy.com/treasury_list.php?room_id=40642

We are so happy that our Sterling and Olive Quartz Double Link Earrings were included in this lovely treasury! Check out the rest of our new Color Pop Collection: vivid greens, bright fuschia and pretty blue stones pair with hand formed sterling silver shapes.

We Heart You

Happy Valentines Day, everybody!

We hope you have a sugary sweet day filled with all the things and people you love most.

Blog love: confessions of a psychotic housewife

We are so tickled to have been a featured shop on this great blog! Check it out here:
http://confessions-of-a-psychotic-housewife.blogspot.com/2009/01/fridays-featured-etsy-anne-more-jewelry.html
Thanks a bunch to our new friend, Storm for including us on her Fridays Feature!