Along with the BIG BIRD (teehee) not really going to call it that! I am also going for a love theme necklace!

Actually there will be 2 originals this year, “The Dozen”. Not your typical dozen roses the cool thing about this dozen is that you don’t  have to pour out that gross water at the end of the week!  This pendadnt can be made in silver, gold and copper. and any coor pearl you can dream of! Here is a sample of one I made for me…um cough cough I mean a friend!

The next is something I am still playing with! I have never been much on heart jewelry , don’t throw things at me!!! It is just a personal preference I don’t know what it is…it just has to be done right and I think that the box jewelry stores abuse the privilege of being able to make things in bulk! I men the every Kiss begins with…you get the point I don’t need to get on that soap box! So after all that I can say that I am working on an artisan heart! Here are few snaps of what I have so far! Let me know what you think!

FINALLY! The thought that maybe there is a need for a little heat with all this frigid weather we have been having! “Fire” is on the way! I bet you want to know what that is…Here is a peak of just about everything I have going on…I will exclude the laundry piles, moving boxes and baby shower paraphernalia!

So once again stepping up to the plate with a great design!  I went back to my little etsy shop and got new store decor’!

In my current phase of nesting, I want to decorate and organize everything…with moving and kids and pregnancy and, and, and, and some more! I don’t get around to very much instant gratification, but this is one thing that helps! SIGH!

Here they are my new little cuties!

Really I should look up what that term actually derived from, but I’ll borrow it for now!

The Christmas season is in full swing and will be gone before we know it, as sad as it seems! I think I have gotten most of my shopping done, but still find small things that I need to take care of here and there…isn’t it always the small stuff that drives you batty!

This week I am completing my first wholesale order with a local store here in Homewood, Swaddle! Such a great store filled with the best baby gear around! If you get a chance check them out and if you need to see the nest they will have them there! SO EXCITING!!!

I have a confession…I crave vintage things…the amazing quality of the pieces, the colors the textures the heart that was put into the delicate features…things you don’t see a lot of anymore.

With that being said I love to find pieces that need a little TLC and make something wonderful out of it. I remember playing with my grandmothers old jewelry as a kid and the pieces falling apart and the for the most part I kept every little piece that I still to this day have if I haven’t made something out of it already. My mother in law had her moms “costume” jewelry that had been sitting around for a while and it was headed to a donation box near you…but I couldn’t do it, no matter what kind of hoarder I must have looked like I ask it I could have it all…some broken, some earrings with no matches, some brooches with no pin…sigh! I felt shameful asking at the time, but since then things like that have become my biggest passion…you just don’t know where those pieces have been and if only they could talk and tell you what it was like to walk into the theater and sit next to Johnny , or the wedding that it went to, or the shoes they were pinned too…there is nothing like a little history, history reshaped!

If you are interested in taking your heirlooms and making something you can wear today rather than it sitting in that bin(come on you know what bin I am talking about) send me and email to larkin.chrissie@gmail.com or visit my etsy site and check out the listings for custom 1,2,3 and up statement jewelry!