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July Shop Drop

purple dragonfly barrette

A small collection of new work will go live on the website tonight at 6 pm PST (or 9 pm for those of you on the east coast).

It will include a smattering of mixed media jewelry pieces:

beaded leather luna moth necklace with boulder opal and gemstones

Those little  dragonfly hair accessories that I previewed last week:

beaded leather dragonfly barrettes

As well as a small selection of leather peacock feather hair slides and French clip barrettes:

leather hair accessories

I sincerely hope you’ll love these offerings!

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Leaf Piles

There are little piles of leather leaves all over my studio right now. Oak leaves, maple leaves, sycamore and even a few fairy and elf leaves … all in a riot of autumn color.

Eventually they’ll be fashioned into hair accessories, such as hair slides, barrettes, clips and pins. Most likely, I won’t be able to work on these too much until November. “Mask season” is going full tilt right now, so (almost) all of my energy is going toward mask and costume design.

In truth, I probably should not have been working on leaves at all. If I were a more disciplined artisan, I would focus exclusively on masks this time of year … but I do love these little leaves, and it’s hard to resist making them when there’s so much inspiration around me!