2 new shawl pins

I had gotten a couple of requests for a Fle ur-De Lis design and I finally got around to coming up with a good one. It was tricky. This one has some more hammering involved. I also thought I needed to add more color to our photos so I have been playing around with different colored books to use as backgrounds in my pictures.

Spiraling Full Circle Aluminum Shawl Pin/ Hair Pin

This is another new shawl pin although it is a take off on a simple design I have used for pendants and earrings. It suddenly dawned on me that it would make a good shawl pin too.

I have a couple of other new additons to our shop that I'll show y'all later.

Things have been busy here. We had our Chanukah Menorah Ornament mentioned in the Etsy Finds mass email on October 19th that brought tons of visitors to our shop. I discovered that that ornament is a pain to make and is underpriced. But I made about 25 of them in 24 hours and we are still getting orders for them.

I am no longer selling outdoors at the Eugene Saturday Market but we are gearing up to start selling at the indoor Holiday Market in Eugene starting November 21st. It's going to be hectic!

Happy Halloween!

Henry,Aidan Lauren and Max

More fun with wire

I had a customer contact us with a picure of a design she loved and wanted to know if I could make it into a hair fork.
I loved the design and became obsessed with it over that weekend.
Here's what I came up with. It's now a regular item in our shop .
Celtic Double Entwined Heart Aluminum Double Hair Sticks/Hair Fork Pin


























I also made it into a shawl pin.
Entwined Hearts Celtic Knot Aluminum Shawl Pin/ Hair Pin
I'm planning to work it into a pendant design too and see what I can come up with in Sterling Silver. I'm also toying around with the idea of making all of our shawl pins in Sterling Silver
but the cost of silver is quite high now and I'm not sure I can get away with selling a more expensive pin.
But it's a thought...

















Here's another design recently added to the shop-Celtic Looping Crossed Knots Light Weight Aluminum Earrings

















And after numerous requests we now have the Groovy Flower Power Big Light Weight Aluminum Earrings in our shop too.
So that's what's new and exciting here. I have to admit that I find it easier to add new items and info on our facebook fanpage than on the blog. So come on over and be a fan if you aren't already http://www.facebook.com/NicholasandFelice
But I intend to keep up with the blog and realize there is a whole lot of people who don't waste their precious time on facebook. Hard to imagine :)

Good times....

My parents came to visit two weeks ago. The weather was typically terrible and my Dad caught a cold on the plane (theoretically) and it got passed along to Nick.We still had a good time.

My Mom (Fran) Max and me.

Henry and Grandma Fran enjoying some cookies

It was an opportunity to get a rare family portrait taken at an odd angle so that Nick looks like he is a giant and his head is touching the ceiling.

My crazy kids pulled out the ironing board the other day and started giving each other massages.I don't wear they got that from. I'm assuming it was on some cartoon previously .

Good times....

Getting ornamental

I've been adding new ornametns to our shop in the past couple of weeks. I had a custoemr request a Chanukah Menorah Ornament. I thought it was a great idea and it was quite a challenge. here's what i came up with . She loved it and so do I. Either for your Chanukah Bush or on your Christmas tree if you celebrate both holidays like we do. Or just hanging around.
















Yin Yang Harmony Ornament
















Celtic Unfurling Tulip Ornament

Celtic Infinity Cross Ornament

I have a few more on their way just in time for the holidays.

Henry's First Day of First Grade

Today was Henry's first day of First Grade.

He is relaxed and said "this is so cool!"

Showing off his new lunch box filled with his usual fare of Ramen in a thermos and salami and a juice box. He hardly ate anything. He rarely does.

In front of the school before we go in with Nick and Max hiding behind them.

The excitement of using his new pencil case.

The excitement wears off.

Here is some of our summer fun. The boys both took swimming classess all summer long. Max got to acheive his dream of catching fish at our friend's creek in Harlan in the coast range.

New from the mind of Nick

Stating the Obvious Sterling Silver Arrow Earrings

State the obvious with these arrows pointing to your ear earrings.Uh-This is my ear.Here.

They are made from 24 gauge sterling silver sheet and measure about 1/4"(.6cm) wide at the bottom and 7/16"(1.1cm)wide at the widest part of the arrow and about 12/16"(2.5cm) tall. They measure a total length of 1 7/16" (3.7cm) from the top of the earwire to the bottom of the earring.

$20