Oakland and Jewelry

Wednesday item of the week in my Etsy
Shop!

~hand-forged steel and brass pendant~

inspiration: the rough, imperfect beauty of my hometown, Oakland, Ca. The way the cold, industrial side interweaves with the persistent wildness - dandelions growing from cracks in the sidewalk, ivy vines climbing up the sides of deserted buildings, urban gardens over-flowing with delicious produce

Enter the coupon code "TangleweedsBlog" at checkout on Etsy to receive 30% off this steel and brass pendant. Discount applies to any of my "Oakland pendants", size small, medium, or large, from now until December 14th, 2010.

A Return

After a much-too-long hiatus, I'm back with my Wednesday Item of the Week.

I thought I'd feature one of my hand-cut animal pendants, this particular one being a bunny rabbit silhouette in hand-textured brass. Comes on a 16 inch length of antique style brass chain, available in my Etsy Shop now!


inspiration: my pet rabbits over the years, wild ones spotted on camping trips and hikes through hills

As usual, enter the code "tangleweeds blog" in the message section of your Etsy receipt to receive 30% off this adorable, hand-forged brass pendant. Discount applies to this item only, from now until September 14th, 2010.

Secret Garden

Wednesday item of the week in my Etsy Shop!

On my walk to the post office today I saw red crocuses, sour grass, periwinkle, ornamental plum, princess flowers, and daffodils all in bloom. It's been a wonderful, early spring day here in Berkeley. I thought I'd celebrate it by picking an appropriately spring-like piece of jewelry for this weeks "item-of-the-week."



inspiration: lush flowers sprouting between rocks and old rocking chairs. The sunlight dancing off of the dewdrops on wild grasses. An azure blue sky full of wispy white clouds. . .




Enter the code "tangleweeds blog" in the message section of your Etsy receipt to receive 30% off this hand-forged copper pendant. Discount applies to this item only, from now until February 23rd, 2010.

A Bit of Mystery

Wednesday item of the week in my Etsy Shop!

~hand-forged copper and silver pendant~

inspiration: early morings when the world is still drenched in fog and the day still holds a bit of mystery






Enter the code "tangleweeds blog" in the message section of your Etsy receipt to receive 30% off this rustic, hand-forged copper and silver pendant.

Brass Hummingbird

Wednesday item of the week in my NEW Etsy Shop!

Brass Hummingbird
~hand-forged pendant~

inspiration: buzzing around, flitting from flower to flower as quickly as ever, barely stopping to rest at all, one of my namesakes, the hummingbird.




Enter the code "tangleweeds blog" in the message section of your Etsy receipt to receive 30% off this hand-forged brass hummingbird pendant.

Early

Summer's lazy days are slowly going by, the days are getting shorter. There have been mellow days at the beach, hikes to see beautiful waterfalls, zucchini bread and tomato sauces made from garden grown produce.


But around the edges of my days come thoughts of the holidays. The yummy eggnog, the sparkling Christmas lights, the giant snowman wreath that I like to put on the front door.

I know some of you like to get your Christmas shopping started early, so in honor of all of you ambitious folks I'm offering free shipping on all domestic orders from my Etsy Shop for the rest of this month and all of September.



Simply proceed through checkout as you usually would and the discount will automatically be applied. Happy shopping!

Etsy Treasury Feature!

I've been featured in the lovely treasury, Enchanting: Rustic Treasure and Earthy Wonders, along with some other lovely artisans.

Copper and Silver O Pendant

Black Lichen Drip and Dry Utensils Stoneware Jar


Continuum Pantalette

Enjoy!

Wednesday Item of the Week

Item of the week in my Etsy Shop!

inspiration for this piece: July sunsets behind my graden brimming with tomatoes, sunflowers, and zuchini




Enter the code "tangleweeds" in the message section of your Etsy receipt to receive 30% off this rustic, hand-forged copper circle and African turquoise pendant.

My Birthday! And a Free Gift!

You ever have one of those days where you just feel out of sorts, like something is just slightly off kilter about either you, the universe or both? Well, today is one of those days for me.

And while it seems like it might be working a bit in reverse, I'm going to offer a special little gift with any purchases made in my Etsy shop, from now until the 12th, just because my birthday is this Saturday!

You'll get a free pair of these:
if you enter the code "Tangleweeds" in the message section of your Etsy order at checkout.

There's lots of new work going in my shop this month too, so you have lots to choose from. Like these:

and this:
and this:

And so many more! So stop by the Shop if these pieces fancy you!

Happy Accidents

This is one of those designs of mine that is sort of a “happy accident.” You see, my dad is always finding these random bits and pieces of things that he thinks would be useful in my jewelry making. It’s super sweet, and what exactly he’s going to drop in my hands in usually pretty unexpected.


A couple months back he dropped this in my hands:

Okay, not literally dropped it in my hands, cuz it’s pretty heavy!

My dad is a car mechanic for race cars (his hobby) and he has a machinist friend who does a lot of work for him. This heavy metal block was one of those things that served no practical use to my dad, but turned out to be perfect for texturing copper, brass, and sterling. Now I can’t stop using it!