BLINK! Summer is over. BLINK! It’s holiday time. Here’s an idea, let’s start the holiday season with a party – a Sailorgirl Jewelry party! YOU’RE INVITED! Join me for a special evening of sneak preview of all the new things…

more globetrotting for me! okay, so not exactly globe but country trotting. back from the Signatures Christmas craft show in our nations capital. i’d forgotten just how much french there is in Ottawa. my favourite comment? “oooohh, c’est sharp!” love…

here’s the vacation part, Vancouver as seen from Cypress Bowl. 12 days of spectacular weather. staring at mountains, walking in stanley park, sushi, afternoons in coffee shops, art galleries, sushi, more staring at mountains, drives up mountains, sushi, coffee shops…….

when was the last time you saw a phone booth? and one with pigs heading towards it? keep your eyes open and your camera handy you never know when you’ll find something that makes you stop and say, “wow, that’s…

September 19 is National Talk Like a Pirate Day! It’s always polite to learn a few words in the native tongue when visiting new places. In case you run into pirates here’s a few handy phrases to win you some…

hey everyone! what are you doing this weekend? you should come down to trinity bellwoods park and see me! I’m participating in the Queen West Art Crawl, it’s a fabulous show. I’m in booth A8, right along the walkway. the…

i’m feeling flowers and leaves. random doodling from one of my notebooks, the actual “sketchbook”. different from my design notebook, my to do notebook, my writing notebook and my travel notebook. boy do i love notebooks. it’s a bit of…

today i woke up in a bad tired mood. repeat after me, toay i will be happier than a bird with a french fry. so I went for a bike ride to do some errands. i saw nitrogen tanks being…

oh boy do i love dots! (thought i’d tell you that in case you hadn’t noticed). and apparently i’m not the only one! julie of on the dot creations loves dots so much she has an entire blog devoted to…

well this just made my day. is that not the best visual in your brain? i love it! of course with the little feral cat family in my backyard there are no longer birds with or without french fries anywhere…

oh heck. darn. crap. ick. sigh. big sigh. back to the drawing board. just when i thought all was perfect. darn. oh well, it’s just a case of one step forward, one step back. the cufflinks came out looking great….

ooooo, you should see what’s in the kiln!!!! i think they worked!!! i’m sure of it. darn, i want to see them now! right now! i can’t wait until morning! there’s a couple of ideas that have been floating around…

argh, another friday rolls around and i’m not at the showroom. oops. i’m in amherstburg ontario. it’s about a 10 minute drive from windsor. being a 4 hour drive from home i have to leave on friday and of course…

the ottawa folk fest, it’s an experience. i haven’t done a lot of folk festivals, let me tell you, they’re different from regular arts and craft shows. it was not an auspicious beginning: the skies opened up as I pulled…

i’m …. melting… hot… fire… humidity… flame… 1700 degrees … kiln 940 degrees … outside… 32 degrees (C of course) … leather apron … melting … sweat dripping … direct sunlight … must … make … beads…

Dear everyone who thought they might stop by my showroom today, umm… it’s sunny, blue sky and GORGEOUS outside! I know I promised to there every Friday but hey, this is the first spectacular spell of weather and I must…

how does my garden grow? with a can of paint, a brush and some friends. found while biking on a beautiful sunny day. what a fantastic day to create some flowers.

You can win this piece!I’ve been featured on a blog (the sort of publicity I’ve been meaning to start chasing) and as part of the feature there is a contest. Of course I put my signature ocean pendant up as…

i took a weekend off!!!!! a whole weekend, actually 4 days! a whole weekend i didn’t stand in my tent! and it didn’t rain (much). i also found a new appreciation for the colours of the georgian bay area. in…

Another show just booked for the fall! I’ll be exhibiting at the Queen West Art Crawl in Trinity Bellwoods park in the west end of Toronto on September 19 and 20, 11 – 5. This will be my last outdoor…

thank you! actually i should say takk deg. that’s thank you in norwegian. a lovely pair of sailorgirl jewelry earrings (the ocean earrings) is on it’s way to norway. this is why i think the internet is just so cool.

brilliant blue with just a wisp of cloud. a most perfect summer sky. not much work done today… this is why i am self-employed, so that on a day like this i can go down the road with a friend…

at first i thought of this as granite swirl. then it became sandstone. but now it’s furry. it is the colour of the sweet little feral kitty that’s living under my studio. it’s the same colour as last summers sweet…

just at the top of the picture you’ll notice 3 little green tomatoes, they’re just about the size of a large acorn. you will not notice the 2 beautiful orangy-red almost ripe tomatoes because the bloody racoons or squirrels ate…

once upon a time in a land far away… as a kid i was a voracious reader and especially loved fairy tales. i remember a story (i think it might be grimm) of a shoemaker who was a very good…

dear everyone who’s awaiting an email from me,sorry i haven’t responded, i tried, i really did. on wednesday afternoon i sent a whack of emails out and to my surprise they all bounced back with a “failure” notice. huh? apparently…

If you’re hanging out in the capital on August 21 – 23 check out the Ottawa Folk Fest in Britannia Park. I’ll be there selling jewelry! And so will a whole lot of fabulous musicians (they won’t be selling jewelry)…

when the alarm went off yesterday morning i lay there for a minute listening. i was listening for the pitter patter of rain drops yet there was silence. the weather channel forecast 60% chance of thunderstorms, some of them violent…

about 3 years ago a woman approached me and asked if i made pandora beads. i’d heard of pandora’s box however i was unaware of what beads she wore when she opened the box. the requests for pandora beads has…

while in goderich ontario for this weekends art show (back to back with niagara-on-the-lake, whew, am i tired but that’s another story) we stayed at the absolutely lovely Astoria B&B. and kevin whipped up a great breakfast with the best…