Thursday, November 20, 2008

Grand Central is upon us!!!

We have been very, very busy lately, making more jewelry than I can believe. The Grand Central Terminal Holiday Gift Fair opened on Saturday, and it is the most intense, exciting show of the year. It includes a month (December) of living in the city, which is a different world for us. Our sublet will begin at the end of November, so logistics this month are a bit tricky. Our friend Barbara is very kind to us, offering her company and apartment on the upper West side whenever we need a place to stay. She even feeds us! :)

I have tons of pictures for you now (not all good quality, but good enough for our purposes here). Click on any picture to enlarge it. Here I am in our GCT booth:



We have prepared some special pieces for this show and I do hope you will come visit us if you can make it to the NYC sometime before the end of December. If you see something that interests you here, feel free to contact me about it. Let's begin...

A whole bunch of cufflinks and rings:





Here they are in the booth. Notice those loaded charm bracelets.



This one has 19 different American coins, going back to the 19th century. I LOVE this bracelet.





Here, you can see the front, and then the back, of a heart dot dime ring (I made the ring band from a quarter). You can click on the pictures to make them bigger.





Here's a very special bracelet, one of a kind. It's solid 18k gold. I made the original pieces from 6 half dollars. You can see the different half dollar images in the pictures of the back. It's 7 3/4" long.













Here's a one-of-a-kind necklace, made with handspun wool yarn. There are five of my designs on this one.



And the back:



An Indian Pushout Dollar Pendant:



A one of a kind oxidized silver bracelet with a $5 gold piece (the coin is on the inside of the dome, and the other side is a circle):



A Half Dollar and Quarters Sampler Bracelet in which each piece is different:



I am very excited to have entered this time of year and I hope to see you soon!!!