Hiatus

So, our apparent and unannounced hiatus has ended. Our son has been born, beautiful Axel. He's almost 15 months old and is quite a handful!

Both he and Karla just returned from spending seven months in Mexico with her family. It was a wonderful time for them. Axel loves his grandpa and Mexican food. I've got to say, though, it's good to have them back!

Karla is getting all her jewelry stuff organized and cleaned up so we can start listing again. She's also decided to list some other crafts in the store, so expect new and exciting stuff! She's excited to get back to work and start selling some pretty little things.

So, if any of our prior readers are still around, give us a shout! We'd love to hear from you. Stay tuned for more!

Miskalaynee...

If you didn't get it... the title is Miscellany...

Anyway. So, some small updates. I recently purchased some new backdrops for photos for the jewelry. The standard white and black. I also got a yellow and a blue. I like it. I think it's really helped the photos. The latest ones are wonderful.

I've gotten caught up in the photography aspect of the jewelry again. I decided to break out and design something. I found some gorgeous Pink Jasper stones that I want to make into a necklace. I just can't seem to figure out what I want to use them with. So far, I'm thinking some white/pink freshwater pearls... but that might be too mono. The focal stone is really beautiful, one side is almost entirely stained with gray. Our medium of choice is sterling silver... but I just can't see including that much shiny with this stone! I wanted to wrap some wire, but that will pull the eye away from the star of the show...

Sigh. What am I going to do with you?