Moving Down the Road

 Down the driveway and on our way from St. Martins.

 outside Saint John

    

Driving through Fredericton

Arrived  and unloading into the shed

Happy we had our 4 cds. of  fire wood stacked and dry for the winter

 Here's John with  another couple loads in our "Beverly Hillbillies" moving trailer

Well. here we are. At our little old house.  Hope we don't have to do that again, ever. Huge, Huge job.

I am ready to stay in one place for the rest of my life!!!!!!

It has taken a while to sort through things and it is still an ongoing task.. and it will be for a while. trust me. 

I did manage to carve out a little niche to carry on making jewelry and sending it out. It was a almost a pleasure to hide away in the studio and not look at the stacks of boxes and belongings piled up to the ceiling around the little house.  still lots of sorting to do, but a lot has been purged and given away in the last month. Whew!  

Still, because we chose a house that has been and will be, a project, for a while yet, we have more things to finish up before the winter.  so carry on, we will, till we're done.

John is hankering to get his woodworking tools out of his future painting studio.  

But to finish off for now.... Here's a few designs we did this summer.

 Carved bone skull and textured steel... Handmade at Desideratum, $25

Peridot and Sterling Silver. Lots of movement.  $30. ...
Handmade at Desideratum.

"Earth Mother Totem" earrings. Handmade by John Ackerson in Silver and Copper.  

...displayed on a sculpted dragon cup by my son Zachary Gypsy Cunningham, who works as a fab food creator at The Lunar Rogue Pub, Fredericton.

These "Book and Mug" earrings are part of an order, on their way westward to beautiful Banff, AB. Thank you, Richard Norton at "About Canada" Gallery. 
...background mug was created by the talented Helen Stanley, New Brunswick Potter.

  Sterling Silver Domed Squares...

... large ones are approx.1/2" sq.  $25

...Small ones are approx. 3/8" sq. $18

...background is a pattern from my sketchbook in gouache... really love the combination of those colours together

Opaque soft green glass with sterling wrapped Amethyst (matched as close as possible as all are unique in size). handmade, one-of. $35.

Mama and Baby  $25.pr

"Sigma - Pi" with Sterling Silver and Carnelian . Fused, handmade at Desideratum. $40. one of a kind, 2" long top of earwire to bottom of earring, sterling disc is 5/8" across.

...displayed on the neck of John's guitar that he hopes to spend more time on, one of these days.

Cheers everyone!!!

The Busy-ness of Summer

 A field near the house where the Globe Thistles grow. Love these blooms and so do the Bees.

 Our friends grew a ton of Hardneck Garlic  and we were very lucky to be the recipients of these organic beauties!!I am tying them up in bundles here. 

 4 cds of  firewood was delivered cut and split... smelled so good. We stacked it behind the house for now. It is a pleasure to look at the textural variety of the pile.

The newest dry stone wall that John created.  This was a full time 3 week project, starting with the major pick and shovel work to dig them out of the ground to shaping the earth to a finished wall...  it was a major project. I have to tell more about this later.

And not to forget working on our jewelry. Here we are selecting Fresh Water Pearls to match up in pairs and making the sterling Silver ear wires to go with them. 

It has been a tremendously busy summer... have much more to tell in a while.

Till then... Happy September!!!

When Rose Season Hits... It's All Surrounding

Roses... beauty on a prickly stem... fragrance... delicacy... petals drifting in the breeze.

Roses have their way here.

Up on the bluff, St. Martins, NB

Whimsical Art Jewelry Designs from the Studio

 Fishbones

 Scissors and Thread

 Flower and Leaf

 Lighthouse and Boat... Making' Music... 18th Hole... Wound Copper Twists... Book and Mug. 

 Ball of Yarn and Kitten

 silver fishbones

"...and the Dish ran away with the Spoon"

All earrings are handmade by John and me,  with Sterling Silver and Copper at our workbenches... All background drawings are from my sketchbook.

 Desideratum Art Jewelry, New Brunswick Canada

Sunrises, Sunsets, Beach Walks and Beachcombing

 The early morning crew enjoying the view from the oak in front of the house.

 Love watching these ravens every day.  

The purple blue background is the Bay of Fundy and on the far horizon is our neighbouring province, Nova Scotia.

 St. Martins beach ... tide's mostly in.

Tide's out.  A close up of the Flowerpot Rock seen in the previous picture. 

That's my son running below on the seaweed covered rocks. 

 The day after a storm, the beachcombing is always an adventure. 

In a few days this may all be gone ... gathered up and dispersed by the Fundy tides.

Another glorious morning sunrise. Beauty greets me everyday over  that vast expanse of water.

 The bonfire we had while watching the sun go down, as the sunset moved across the western sky .

 A glorious sunrise behind the Isle of Haute, 24 miles out into the Bay of Fundy. 

 Spellbinding display of natures offerings.

 Yes that's one of the two covered bridges at the harbour, almost lost in the fog.

Then the next morning everything changes again. 

St. Martins, New Brunswick, Canada