New Celtic Trinity Knot Aluminum Hair Pin , Shawl Pin

I had a customer ask if we could do something like this with the trinity knot design.

At first I thought it would be too hard to do. But I’ve been getting the hang of

remaking this design.Embarrassingly I lost her contact information so if you are

out there and see this,

Sorry I didn’t get back to you and thanks for the suggestion!

The Celtic Trinity Knot Aluminum Pin works great as a shawl pin…

and a hair pin.

New Bass Clef Shawl Pin

In keeping with the music theme, we added the Bass Clef Shawl Pin to our shop

this week. The bass clef has been requested by many and I never really felt too

good about the designs I came up with. Those two little dots on the side are tricky!

But this design works well I think. Hope the musicians agree!

New Treble Clef Hair Sticks or Shawl Pins

I had an epiphany a few weeks ago and realized that the treble clef lends itself

perfectly to a hair stick / shawl pin design.

This is the Copper Treble Clef Stick

The Brass Treble Clef Hair Stick/ Shawl Pin

And the Aluminum Treble Clef Hair Stick/ Shawl Pin

The perfect gift for the right musician and music lover.

New Celtic trinity knot hair fork or shawl pin

This is a fresh new Celtic trinity knot fork now available in our Etsy shop.

Based on the classic Trinity knot design this hammered aluminum fork would

work great as a shawl pin or hair fork. It is very soft and flexible because it is

aluminum so it might not work well for heavy, long hair. It’s always so hard to

tell if a hair accessory will work well for your hair with out trying it on so if it doesn’t

work well you can return it for an exchange or refund. The beauty of aluminum is

that it is so light weight so it won’t feel heavy in your hair or shawl. I love working

in aluminum.

New Snail Shawl Pin in our Etsy shop

Finally getting around to adding some new stuff like this customer requested

Aluminum Spiral Snail Shawl Pin.

 

Our Fleur De Lis Shawl Pin is featured in the October 2014 issue of Knit Style magazine!

There it is on page 12 of the October 2014 issue of Knit Style magazine! They contacted

us a few months ago and asked me to send some high res photos of our

Aluminum
Fleur De Lis Shawl Pin.

And today they sent us the issue. Stuff like this gets me so excited!

They like me. They really like me. Or at least my pin.

Lots of new jewelry in the shop!- Earrings,Pendants, Pins and more

I’ve been adding lots of new designs and stones and variations of designs into the

shop the past month. These earrings above are Celtic Teardrop Swirl Spirals Sterling

Silver Wire Earrings. They are a pretty little design I came up with a long time ago

and have just managed to get in there.

This Looping Celtic Crossed Knots Sterling Silver Pendant was a request from a

customer. It’s the pendant version of the earrings and shawl pin design.

I have to say I was pretty pleased with the way this picture came out of the new

Little Butterfly Sterling Silver Shawl Pin, Scarf Pin. It just sat perfectly on our daylily.

Ever since we sold out of our little lapis earrings and used up all the lapis beads

we had I’ve been wanting to add another lapis design - Small Lapis Lazuli and

Pearl Pendant .

Small Lapis Lazuli and Fresh Water Pearl Earrings

Long Copper Double Teardrop Spiral Hoop Earrings

Big Copper Double Hoop Earrings - Hammered Big Hoops

Owl Copper Shawl Pin, Sweater Brooch, Scarf Pin, Fastener

This was also a custom request for the

Norse Thor's Hammer Mjolnir Aluminum
Hair Stick, Shawl Pin, Scarf Pin

We thought it was a great idea!

Daffodils in wire

This spring I was inspired by the daffodils and came up with this design.

The Daffodil Flower Aluminum Shawl Pin

The Little Sterling Silver Daffodil Shawl Pin- perfect for light lacey shawls and scarfs.

The Sterling Silver Daffodil Flower Pendant. The earrings will be coming soon too.

The Little Aluminum Daffodil Shawl Pin – another little once for light weight

lace shawls and scarfs.

The Copper Daffodil Necklace

The Little Daffodil Flower Copper Shawl Pin.

New Freddie the Turtle shawl / scarf pin

My parents asked me to try and come up with a turtle design so they could give
it as a gift to their good friend Freddie. I had been wanting to come up with a
turtle design and was pleased to have Freddie for the inspiration. Freddie is a
fellow my Dad met on the Albuquerque bike trail that he rides every day.  I have
never met him but my parent’s describe him as an ex- surfer from California with a
shaved head, tattoos including one of a turtle on the back of his head and ear
gauge plugs. He is very kind and generous and volunteered to help take my Mom
to the hospital and back and spend time with them in the hospital while my father
was  there for a week this winter. I just love picturing my nice  non tattooed 
Jewish 76 year old mother from Brooklyn hanging out with Freddie.  I made him
a turtle pendant in this design in sterling silver. I haven’t been able to recreate it
consistently in silver but it came out well and easily in my trusty aluminum wire.

This is the  Aluminum Turtle Spiral Shawl Pin now in our shop. Thanks Freddie!

Our pin is featured in this months Simply Knitting UK!

It is sooo exciting to see our Aluminum Celtic Budding Spiral Shawl Pin featured

in this months Simply Knitting  UK magazine! It will also be in the US version

which will come out soon. Yay!

Shiny and new

Nick fly cut and lapped my anvil and polished up my hammers today! It’s so nice

to have a fresh shiny,smooth surface to work on again.

We’ve been getting lots of requests for larger sterling silver version of our designs.

So today I added the Big Celtic Heart Sterling Silver Wire Pendant to our shop.

It’s made in 12 gauge silver.

I also added the Celtic Open Eye Copper Shawl Pin, Hair Pin.

This young deer was comfortably sitting next to Nick’s target range the other day.

We have a new employee…

Meet our sexy new thermal printer Dymo. She is replacing our old sturdy “Buddy”
the Zebra. We purchased Buddy about a year ago and was a grand improvement
from the old inkjet but he was purchased “refurbished”. He never really made the
labels all that dark despite playing with every setting option. And he would take
a long time to warm up or something in the morning before he’d start printing.
Our new Dymo gal is eager to please the minute we click print. Her labels are nice
and dark  and she makes the cutest little computery sounds sort of like R2D2. I love
how Buddy looks nervous in this picture.


Moist clover.


Copper Clover Stick Pin