My ever popular electric watermelon, here it is people in the squiggle style! Juicy, lucious, and totally yummy! Summer is almost here, celebrate with a slice of watermelon for your wrist. Available here.

New! In the store! Snow queen studs, perfect for every outfit, these lovely little beauties provide a royal shimmer that goes with every one of your bright happy spring outfits.

What says spring better than birdies flying? A silver sparrow soars towards the spring time in this new necklace. Available in the store.

The month of January was a clean up month and inventory taking. Oh boy was that ever a lot of work! One of the issues with jewelry is that it is small, so little bits of stuff that I don’t…

Happiest of Happy Valentines Days to you! It‘s Valentines Day. My sailboat needs a new head sail (also known as a genoa). So what do those 2 things have to do with each other? Here‘s a lovely treat for you…

Aren’t these just fabulous? I’m so happy with the way they turned out! I promised that I wouldn’t use her name yet as the wedding isn’t until next weekend but she did say that I could post the photos. This…

Score!!! My neighbours at Art by the River this weekend made chocolate covered fruit! And we traded!!! Chocolate covered blueberries would make a nice necklace. Perfectly round. I’d show you the chocolate covered cherries but the wasps seem to have…

I truly love the giant bushes of these that have exploded everywhere. Sunshine with petals. I am feeling the urge to make flower beads. And flower jewelry. Not sure what yet…

Last weekend there was a major street festival outside my studio front door. It’s called the Taste of the Danforth and it’s one of my FAVOURITE festivals. It’s about food people! Food everywhere! The street is closed to traffic and…

bright sunshine, bright sunflowers, mangoes, peaches, oranges, it’s everywhere. and it is spectacular. oh, and my current fave is a double cup of passionfruit and mango gelato. it’s research people! i’m studying the colour mix of yellow and orange!

Life is mighty good over here at Sailorgirl and I’m celebrating by sharing the love! At the beginning of every month I’ll announce a giveaway on my monthly newsletter (you’re a subscriber right?), on my facebook page (you’re a fan…

Life is mighty good over here at Sailorgirl and I’m celebrating by sharing the love! At the beginning of every month I’ll announce a giveaway on my monthly newsletter (you’re a subscriber right?), on my facebook page (you’re a fan…

Um… people… I hate to mention this… as of today… it’s only 3 months to Christmas!!!!!!! More importantly, it’s only 2 months until the One of a Kind starts!!!! 2 months today!!!! Deep breath… Okay, I am officially in make/panic…

Aye, let me tell you a tale, a tale of a ship, of a storm and of treasure. There be death and there be pirates in the tale so sit back and listen up. Many years ago the Spanish (not…

Yay! I’m super excited to announce a new feature – a monthly Giveaway! Life is mighty good over here at Sailorgirl and I’m celebrating by sharing the love! At the beginning of every month I’ll announce the giveaway on my…

Last weeks Creative Colour Challenge was raspberry red. After carefully studying several pints of raspberries (which had to be devoured quickly because boy do those go moldy fast!) I moved on to studying raspberries with yogurt, raspberries with cream and…

Bastille Day is the French national holiday which is celebrated on July 14. In France, it is formally called La Fete Nationale (National Celebration) and commonly le quatorze juillet (the 14th of July). It commemorates the 1790 Fete de la…

With all the flag waving World Cup fever around here and Canada Day approaching I thought I’d make some Canada Day earrings. Except I don’t want to make maple leaves… and I got kind of carried away. At least they’re…

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….

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…

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…

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…

my my, i blink and kaboom! i’m back to sailorgirl jewelry not just plain sailorgirl. although i don’t really know how it happened it appears to be june. and i appear to be not on my sailboat in the middle…