A week of flowers..

 

 

 

The set is done! Today I had some time to finish some other custom orders and realized, that  there are flowers all around me..

At the fair..

This last week, I was sooo busy! I was preparing stock for a little fair we had on Wednesday..

Went with my friend Gabi which makes it waaaaaaaay more fun than going by myself, our styles are very different and this time just like others we can go ahead and sell side by side.

This is some of the stuff I had for sale..

 

It rained in the afternoon which didn’t help very much but then at night things got better, a little sangria and all..

I promise you I am not awfully serious, but this would be me doing my hypnotize attempt “ Yeeee want to buy pearls I tell yaaaaaa”

Wahaha ! well  more like the only photo I am not making faces and was awfully tired, the fair was from noon to 9 pm this is close to the end..

We both  did pretty well, had sales and 4 custom orders.. most importantly it was a lot of fun..

I’ve started listing some of the stock I had left from the fair in the shop and will be doing a Free Shipping Sunday, starting today at midnight!

Good night!

Nat.

UFO ?

 

 

 

    This is a custom order for a ring to match the famous earrings I wear every day .. Thing is that for about a month I’ve been wearing the same pair of earrings and refuse to ever take them off! EVER! well until I make some others that are like them, comfy,posts and go with everything..

I’ve sold 2 pairs just for wearing them, and then got the request to try to make the matching ring, so this is the result, doesn’t it look like a flying saucer?

I did it!

I survived today wow! It started early in the afternoon..

I opened the shop,changed the texts, answered some emails, and then a big big big cup of tea and listing it is, it takes me a while to do each one, description,photos etc.

But I am almost done.. my neck says I should leave the computer aside..

So before I go I wanted to show you these:

     

 

I did a bit of everything as you can see.. and also in the never ending fight between me and earrings, earrings won, now I am on a little post earrings frenzy..

 

 

Then I listed  just one of the “Bubble blower necklaces”.

 

   

 

 

The first one was very well received on Facebook, so this week I’m giving myself the task of making some more.. I will post them here when they are ready..have you seen how it works? look:

 

Yeeeeeeeee! I love them…

Ohhh well! I am off to rest and watch a movie.. a long week ahead, have lot’s of production work to do..

Good night!

Month of April

Been working so much this month, which really makes me happy but at the same time I miss  my online time…..

I have all my focus on one single thing, move to Spain and that will require a big effort on my side , which means now days I am waking up ar 6;30 am every day, believe me there is always something to do whether you sell or not, sketching ideas, making new items, listing,packing,taking,photos, writing emails, uploading photos to Flickr,keeping up with the  facebook page, etc

I think I’m slowly becoming into the person I want to be work wise, I am keeping an order for everything, I have a savings plan, and I am absolutely decided to charge what my work is worth and hopefully make my little business grow some more..

May promises learning a new technique and the making of a whole jewelry line which I hope to share with you here..

April has been a wonderful month and I am so happy to feel that things are back to normal after the first stormy months of the year after the surgery..

Now I am here on May first writing this extremely excited to see what this new month has to offer..

Everybody’s got a soft spot, even the porcupine

Waiting for the sun to come down..

Finally yesterday, while still in my forced hibernation..  I waited and waited until the sun went down to go for a walk in the afternoon.

It’s been a month of which every single minute of my time it’s been exclusively to rest and do nothing, since my body is not ready to go back to the crazy routine, I call life.. But since nothing lasts 100 years, it was about time to go out, I covered my wound and  yesterday I went out to search some fresh air, and I found it down the road from our house, by a river , where you can find giant trees responsible of filling me with the purest oxygen..

Green long empty roads that really made me forget this whole situation to give me back for a second that joy of discovering , pictures of  people working on the field (it’s the season to harvest the beans here), entire families outside in the corridor catching that little bit of wind in the afternoon,drinking coffee, looking at who’s passing by saying ” Höla” or “Buenas tardes” with a smile,and wondering who you are, here my introduction is my grandmas name and they immediately know where I come from, kids in their bicycles just running around,dogs so many dogs, having dogs is a must here, to take care of the house,of the cows, etc..

A 50yr old bridge which swings back and forth as you walk through it..

I stopped in the middle…

look down …

On one side,

Then the other..

Images that really make me happy and peaceful and that for some more  time will be the world I’m going to live in..

Hope to get some good news tomorrow..

 

The Apartment

 

 

Bud: Ya know, I used to live like Robinson Crusoe; I mean, shipwrecked among 8 million people. And then one day I saw a footprint in the sand, and there you were.

The story I almost didn’t tell you…

I’ve been meaning to write this for a whole month now, first I didn’t want to blog about it because it was a bit personal and there are certain topics that are best to keep private but then I started getting emails on Etsy, on my personal mail and comments and messages on Facebook

And I realized I’ve been gone for too long and the least I can do is explain what happened, just a note in my shop is not enough.

I was packing my workshop and getting ready to move back to Costa Rica, then all of a sudden something showed up, I had to go to the doctor and he said I needed surgery straight away, after freaking out a little, before it started it was done and I was recovering for just  a week,saying bye to my friends and enjoying Antigua for my last days..

Things got a bit complicated after I got to Costa Rica and to make a long long looooong story short that week turned into a month, and I still don’t have an exact date when I can work again and run around like I do, there is a bunch of things I am not allowed to do and this last month has been very boring , I really have never stopped for so long, even my nails are long!, I’ve watched all the movies I had pending and done a lot of reading…until the doctors said I could go to the farm to see my family..

Now I’m home..

And I live in this hammock..

The first day I fell asleep for a nap and I felt something poking my toes …

Ermm… her..

She and I now live  in harmony..

Here I’m more entertained, spending time with my mom and brothers in the farm, all my family gets together and we cook and eat, which is always so nice and I really missed all this.

I’m learning how to bake and new recipes  from the best…

(This one is a sweet cinnamon bread)

I play fetch with her…

 

Or at least try to because she likes playing with the stick more than fetching it 

It’s nice to be back home, and I can’t wait to get back to work and catch up with everyone, I was basically from the plane to the doctor and I still need to see my friends and to unpack, oh my stonesssssss how I miss them, I want to do so many things, so many pieces that  I think I am going to blow up of joy when I finally can use a hammer again..

I had things planned out differently, never thought about stopping for a whole month.. but sometimes life is like this and all we have to do is go with the flow and accept it and get healthy,then keep going.

For now I’m just going to be patient and wait as much as they tell me to, and enjoy this place as much as I can..

I’m late

I’m late, I’m late for
A very important date.
No time to say hello, good-bye,
I’m late, I’m late, I’m late

 

I’m late and when I wave,
…I lose the time I save.
My fuzzy ears and whiskers
Took me too much time to shave.

I run and then I hop, hop, hop,
I wish that I could fly.
There’s danger if I dare to
Stop and here’s a reason why:
I’m over-due, I’m in a rabbit stew.

Can’t even say good-bye,
hello, I’m late, I’m late, I’m late.

I started carving this ring in 2009 when I heard Tim Burton was making the Alice in wonderland movie I couldn’t sleep…. I have drawings of a line of characters and the rabbit is one of my favorites and the first.

Time passed and I watched the movie and didn’t like it but that’s another topic  and well that and I got entertained in 100 other things and he was just there in my bench.

This week he was born, I made him a hat and a watch from scratch and gave color to his suit

And it’s nice because it reminded me how excited I was about making him once, about how I do like working with wax, and how I will be able to do it soon, (can’t wait to try to do some more characters) and I remember when they told me I had to carve stuff, me thinking ” I can’t do that, I’ve never carved anything in my life”  and you know what, the first wax ring I made is still halfway done in my bench, I didn’t finish it, and ran away from carving wax for a long,long time, while everyone was loving it, I was there thinking I wasn’t good at it and here I sit exactly 3 years and 1month and 12 days later of my first jewelry class saying how in jewelry making everything you can think is possible if you just go ahead and try it and don’t block yourself or think you can’t.

Oh and one more thing before I go! because It’s almost 4pm here and I have 6 pieces to make…

Even though I didn’t like the movie  I still love Johnny Deep as a madhatter,pirate, anything he wants, I don’t hold it against him

Ciao!