In Bloom

It's morning, it's Monday, it's (nearly) Spring... all kinds of "fresh start" type things are happening right now.  Change is in the air.  Hope springs eternal, and all that.  My new life starts right now, and I could not be more excited!  I've been thinking about getting this bloggity blog going for a while now, and though it's just a baby at this point, I'm looking forward to experimenting with it and letting it grow into whatever it wants to be.  I'll be posting about new jewelry designs I'm working on, things I see that inspire me, amazing vintage pieces that I stumble upon, new things I'm excited to try, and hopefully I'll discover some things about my own creative process that weren't clear to me before.  I hope you find things here that you like, and you keep coming back to see what's going on in my world, my studio, and my shop!  (There will be lots of fun photos and giveaways along the way, too! :) 
I took the above photo in Savannah, GA a couple years ago in the Spring, and it's just one of a bazillion flower photos I took during the week that I was there.  What a beautiful, inspiring place.  The brilliant colors, the charming old mansions, the hauntingly gorgeous cemeteries, the peacefully creative feeling in the air... it was perfect.  I'm going to spend some time this morning flipping through my photos from that trip, and see what they inspire me to make today.  I can't wait to see what I come up with. :)