Love in the mist....

I am in love with these gorgeous hand made dresses by Joan Shum. Vintage fabulous....

Bella Tea







Love in the Mist

(I would have it just for the name.)






White Dalia

Joan sells her dresses on etsy . Where all the stylish girls go.....

Dazzled

Today, in the hope of finding something just right, we went to Dazzle, a contemporary jewellery and metal smithing exhibition that has come to town for a few weeks. There was nothing that got us any further in our quest for The Ring, but there were some gorgeous bits and pieces. I especially love Ruth Tomlinsons's porcelain and gold jewellery, so unusual and delicate....

Ruth Tomlinson

Porcelain, gold and silver jewellery.

Miranda Meilleur



Silver Bowl on Steel Saucer



Natalie Jane Harris


Stack of three faceted rhodolite
garnet and silver rings.



Oh so pretty.



(images from Dazzle)

I Got A Story to Tell...

I Got A Story To Tell (Part 1)
60" x 60"

Two years ago I walked off the street into the Joyce Gordon Gallery in Oakland. I saw this painting and I have dreamt of it ever since. Amanda William's exhibit days. paint. years made my heart race, made my soul yearn. Layers of colour, layers of strength and exuberance protecting and revealing small fragments of words and ideas. Enormous canvases, covering whole walls, tiny blocks of wood so small that they felt my breath on them as I pulled in close to read the words, to savour the colours, all with a power and a strength that was tangible.

Oh how I want it. One day, one day I will buy one of her paintings and I will treasure it.

A super sweet wedding...

This is one of my favourite weddings. From the bride with her birdcage veil to the handmade tissue pompoms it's just so adorable.

I love DIY weddings and this is so relaxed, so fun, so young. Exactly what we hope our wedding will be.

Most of the pictures I picked from Academy Bedlam's Knot page are portraits, which I think is a good sign! When it's the pictures of the people rather than the centrepieces that make you wish you were at a wedding you know they've done something right...

All images from here

Sundance...

I'm really not into the old 'pile as many diamonds as I can onto my left hand' approach to engagement and wedding rings. Aside from the dubious ethics involved in buying diamonds, it's just a bit, well, boring.

Any of these rings from Sundance Catalog would make gorgeous alternatives for couples looking for something more unusual....

Around The Pearl





Wafer Thin




Storm at Sea




Take Wing




Ocean




Good Things




Unpredictable




Courage and Hope
(because I love the name!)

Trying to find a wedding ring is driving me mad. First I fell for a gorgeous ribbon of a ring, a band that twisted twice round the finger before joining up again. I liked the symbolism - a continuous band symbolising the unending commitment, but with a twist in the middle. but the woman who made them was seriously unfriendly by email and I can't bring myself to give my money to people whose customer service sucks.


Then I decided that I wanted a plain white band, but super thin. But it turns out that unless you hammer them, à la Wafer Thin (above) they bend. I don't like hammered metal and I don't want my wedding ring to bend.


So I'm stuck. Going quickly mad in a world of sparkly stones and precious metals.....

petticoats....

Images by Aaron Delesie and via enjoy {the blog}