New Earrings!

Not much time to write tonight...I'm working on a custom piece that MUST go out in the mail tomorrow. But I thought I'd post some new earrings that I just finished. You can get more photos and details here: http://www.aquirkofart.com/earrings.htm. Have a great night!

New Website is LIVE!

It's official! My new website has gone live! Here's a snapshot:





See the real thing at www.AQuirkofArt.com.

I'm thrilled with the site. Karen Michel of Lucky 13 was able to capture to look and feel of my jewelry and translate it into an easy-to-use and, of course, completely quirky website. For any of you artists out there who are looking to have your website designed (or redesigned), I highly recommend Karen and Lucky 13.

Hope you all love the site too. And be sure to check back often...I have a lot of pieces I'll be posting soon.

NEW Brass Charm Bracelet

Somtimes cliches say it best--Thank god its Friday! I finished a new piece last night that will be auctioned off at a charity event in Altoona PA. A couple of similar bracelets will be available at www.AQuirkofArt.com within the week. Take a look:


This bracelet features 6 of my signature vintage tin heart charms and an array of hand-wrapped glass, resin and African brass beads. This is the first piece I've done using brass as the main metal component. Most of my other pieces use sterling with brass as an accent. Brass is really a beautiful metal, very affordable and often overlooked or underrated by. It can give a really warm, rich glow to a piece and I love the way this turned out. Hope the auction-goers agree!

My first official blog post! I'm soooo late with this blog thing. I think that means I'm getting old. I used to be right on top of all the tech trends. Now I feel like I can't keep up. RSS-huh? Bluetooth-what? And forget about texting. The generation gap has finally appeared for me and its a sad, sad day.

So what's good today? Well, my own website is almost done! Selling my pieces through Christine at www.urbanfabulous.com has been a great solution for me for a long time. And of course I can't say enough good things about Christine. But I'm very excited about having my own site too. The design is awesome and very "me" thanks to the incredibly talented Karen Michel. Keep watching www.AQuirkofArt.com...I'll be unveiling the new site soon!

Between taxes, inventory and my "real" job, finding time to work on new pieces has been hard to come by. But the art show season is quickly coming so I have to really get my a** in gear! One new piece I recently did is my favorite custom piece I've done so far. Its a book-type locket made from etched sterling and brass and of course vintage tin. Here are some photos--hope you love it!




I loved making this piece so much and was so happy with the results that I'm going to offer a line of lockets. They'll be available on my new website very soon (www.AQuirkofArt.com). And of course, I'm always happy to make a custom piece if you want something special.

Well, I'm off to catch the rest of the that guilty pleasure called American Idol. That beatboxing guy is totally going to win. If you don't count any of the girls that is.