New Etsy Store

Yesterday I set up my new Etsy store. It can be found at AspenForestStudio.etsy.com. This is a new store that is shared with my good friend Kristal Wick. Kristal is the ultimate bling girl. And I mean ultimate! She makes fabulous jewelry, designs her own beads in silk, has written her own book, is on TV making jewelry for Beads, Baubles and Jewels, is an ambassador for Swarovski and on an on. I love to live vicariouly through her. Her life sounds so fun although I know that the truth is she has to work Really Really HARD to be where she is today. I love to hear all about her on-going projects, trips and ideas. So much fun. You can visit Kristal's web site at http://www.kristalwick.com.

Anyway, Kristal and I are cosmic sisters and share so many interests including, of course, jewelry making, dogs, chocolate and the Colorado mountains. We recently decided that making jewelry together is sinfully fun and addictive and we've kicked out so much fabulous stuff that it needs to be shared with the world of beading babes. So, we are setting up our Etsy store to showcase our designs. Everything is handmade using metal clay! Silver, copper, bronze. It is just incredible stuff. Then we add lots of little bling to go along with the metal, and voila! Treasures in metal and crystal.

Oh, and the Etsy Store is called Aspen Forest Studio due to the aspen trees all around the property. And after all, aspens are just soooo mountainy and Colorado.

Bronze bird house with amber and amethyst and ametrine crystals!

Handcast canadian cherry "floating" leaf in bronze on leather

Bronze leaves from the aspen tree next to my studio