Eye Candy

Hi! Remember the photoshoot the other day?

I had just received a package from my friend Lisa. And in it was a selection of her amazing hand wrapped copper and found-bead necklaces and earrings.

I am thrilled to be featuring Lisa's jewelry in my etsy shop. Her designs mesh wonderfully with mine...

...so if you take a look, you are in for a treat .

[LOL, how apropos for Halloween, yummy and No Calories!]

Here's what I wrote for my shop copy:

Lisa D. is from Arizona. She is a talented writer , a metaphysical thinker, a healer, teacher, and artist who incorporates her many interests to her handmade jewelry. Lisa mixes found, treasured beads with finely twisted copper wire to form intricately fascinating chain necklaces and other talisman jewelry. Each bead is selected with care then wired and attached by hand. The copper will age gracefully, as well as impart healing aspects...and creates an amazing urban desert, found object appeal.


Lisa's collectible chain necklaces are stunning worn as a single focal point, even better layered and worn en masse....see lpicture shown with added keys*, and/ or layered with a few of my own ''in work'' items.



Authentic antique skeleton keys are available for an additional $5.00 each: brass [gold tone], silver-tone metal, patinaed metal, rusty metal.....or let me choose.

Mention my blog..or Lisa's  here and you'll get free shipping on any of my etsy or eBay items.

enjoy....


love

                  lizzy

gone to the beach.....

The Textures of Autumn

October....

Texture...shadow, silence, emptiness. These are the ''colors'' of autumn at the beach....

We have few trees to ''show color''....just the brilliant red Virginia creeper and poison ivy.

Yellow goldenrod.

 Blue, blue sky.

In search of new photo shoot locales, I went today to this deserted cabana club near my home. The small spaces are rented to locals only,  by lottery, and are expensive, considering the size! [thousands of dollars]. You can see how well kept they are.

The rows of little huts have showers and maybe a toilet, I'm not sure, and room for a family's beach junk; the grill and the cooler, beach chairs, a place to change clothes. Electricity so dad can watch the game on TV.

On a summer afternoon these cabanas teem with activity...

Now they stand in lonely rows.

Waiting for next summer...

The dunes were as empty as the cabanas...just me and the tiny migrant birds....

Deep shadows, brilliant October sun...

wild mushrooms...quite large!

Mature, protected dunes with dense growth of stunted black pine, juniper, bayberry, spruce..mounds of dusty miller and heather, red creeper vines and bittersweet berries...

It's a subtle autumn, but oh so beautiful. At least to me.

love

           lizzy

..............gone to the beach....

PS They got a LOT of rules....

No kites? I never knew...
seems they scare the plovers?



I used a long lens. Really!



I'd hate to get arrested for *this*! LOL

Fall Flea Market

Hi! Remember I was all excited that the first fall flea market was happening this past Sunday>
Well, the flea market was fun, but junky! The new venue has attracted the garage sale sellers but the antiques dealers with  ''real'' stuff (primitives , Americana, linens, quilts, sepia photos, Staffordshire transferware] were nowhere to be found.

Hardly worth the drive for a hot dog and a five dollar chrysanthemum. Lucky for me the thrift shop is just one highway exit south...really just two or three very long blocks ---quarter mile?---and I stopped there on my way home. A handful of fun things!

This adorable woodland mushrooms embroidery.

I will take it out of the frame, carefully wash it, and incorporate the small designs into fall lavender sachets. Natural linen hearts or little bags, maybe?

See the tiny ladybug!? How cute is that, I loved it.

Then my first bee hive, or bee skep.

It's a jam server. (Or honey server, I suppose?)

I knew it would go great with my yelloware bowls...

And is inspired by the bee skep on my Porch quilt:

LOL, yeah that's a bee skep!

Also, yes, another mixing bowl.

Perhaps LuRay? 1940-50s, anyway.

I tried to resist! But it is wonderfully crackled and is the soft grey lavender-blue of dried hydrangeas...

This is the color I am trying to use this fall, instead of orange....

A tiny German bottlebrush Christmas tree [2nd from top photo]---99 cents!--- which I needed for my annual Santa doll's sack of  goodies.
From an earlier buy, a nice brown transferware pitcher/ jug. I was happy to find it. I thought it was an older piece [Meakin/ England] and a smaller version of the pitcher I already owned.

 But no. They are identical except the thrift shop jug is a paler printing of the transfer design...

One of them can go on etsy, maybe?

And last, I filled my wire heart shaped basket with my collection of carpet 'bowls'..balls.

These are pottery, also Staffordshire. Often very expensive! hereI love them because they look like enormous marbles...and also like double pink [or blue or black] calico or pinafore gingham. They are the size of baseballs, up to softball size.  [a couple are repros.]

So it was a good day. Can't argue with a sunny fall day, a brisk wind, and a hot dog or two!

love

       lizzy

.............gone to the beach