Blue Skies and Red Poppies

Has so much time really past since my last post?!

I am still here, embraced by early summers skies and warm breezes. This season has been really lovely so far-different, but lovely.  For the last ten years I have had a booth at our local Farmers Market where I sell my handmade jewelry.  This summer I felt I needed to regroup and take a breather.  So, instead of late Friday nights and waking at 5:30 a.m. on Saturdays to get to market, I am sleeping in, lounging in my favorite vintage velvet chair and taking the time to have that second cup of coffee while I listen to the birds. I have so many projects I wish to explore. I look forward to creating as the whim strikes. 

I do hope you are breathing the sweet blue air and getting to feel the summer grass tickle your toes.

I will leave you with a vibrant snapshot of my poppies. They were spectacular this year!

Happy New Year

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.