Purses with Purpose, etc.

The Portland, Maine Ronald McDonald will host the fourth annual "Purses with Purpose, etc" this coming June. Rather than a fundrasier, this event has been dubbed a fun-raiser! This brooch is my donation to the cause.

A vintage (of course!) mother of pearl button set in an ornate sterling silver bezel with a hand-forged heart sewn on with palladium wire, accented with ruby beads. I hope this brooch fetches a generous amount for a very worthy cause!

Pardon me as I crawl out from this messy pile of work to blog a bit. Wow! Busy week...good busy. Friday, my daughter and I drove to Maine's jewel of a coastal city, Portland, to stock up on some jewelry essentials. When in town, one must make a stop at JS Ritter Jewelers Supply. From mallets to mandrels, beads to burnishers, they have what this jeweler needed (which was medium flow silver solder, sandpaper, brooch findings, and round sterling wire). My firecracker of a 2 year old found what SHE needed while mama shopped: a well-stocked children's play area . What a bonus!

The cuffs from my earlier post are complete. And ~sighing a deep sigh of relief~ the customer loves them!!!! Thank goodness for the wonders of digital photography and the Internet.

This was another commission I just completed for an old RISD friend. She's happy, too!!! Happy customers are a very good thing.

10 Helpful Items from my week:

1. my space heater

2. warm socks

3. my little camera

4. my rusty washer collection (more on this later)

5. coffee, coffee, coffee

6. naps, for my girl, not me

7. my burnisher

8. steel wool

9. my fine 1/2 round file

10. my dishwasher (a Bosch if you would like to know)