Hear's to a Happy Blue Full Moon Tonight

Happy New Year! What a wild year it has been. I can't imagine another year like this. This is the time of year I dread... shop is slow, chilly days, not many sales... but slowly but surely I start to love this time of year. It is beautiful out; snow topped houses and flower stocks poking through the snow. I slow down and take time to catch up. It's time to make plans to work on my website, get more product up on Etsy, get my book out farther afield in the world, tweeck my blog format, get a few more book events.... It's fun to search through design blogs around the world. Basically take it easy and catch up.

Here's a picture of my jewel tree. I recently told my son, when I'm not around don't you dare throw out this!!! I made it a few years ago. What a fun project. It weighs a ton and took hours to complete. I started with finding a big jar old junk jewelry at one of my antique stops. That was a big help and then started searching in my vintage button box, looking for beads and junk in bottoms of jars and baskets kicking around my bureau and shop.

I covered the Styrofoam cone with silk and started glue gunning and glue gunning and glue gunning. Below is a close up picture.
This is one of my favorite finds of the year. A mercury glass antique curtain pushpin. I epoxied it onto a finial base. I've never seen one, wicked handsome piece. A keeper.
Last picture of the year, vintage pushpin finial on a hanging drum lamp.