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AND
NOW for THE POST
WELL THE ORIGINAL BLOG POST'S FIRST LINE DIDN'T WEATHER WELL
(I changed it ... you can only good-guess what it said)
because
Today is no longer March 4th 2022
what can I say
because
now
it's today
A Warm Welcome
I chose to open oneseedwonder's door today because the date cops a strong directive
a little like May 4th
[May the Fourth Force Be With You]
but
MARCH FORTH
*(cue music) with sounds of a heaving, splintered, weather-worn, wooden door on rusty iron hinges creaking ... sending the tiniest dust puff fluffs flying off ... sparking joy as they float in cumulus cloud formations ... landing lit on webs within the ethereally soupy cavernous bowl of my studio ... in the middle of the night ...
(the mood is powerful yet surprisingly light and airy)* That is all ... for now.
The Chain Gang I Signature Collection has launched. I have ideas for Chain Gang II so stay tuned.
More will be rolled out on OneSeedWonders' bench in the heart of west downtown Toronto as collections are completed. It's a one-person operation ... so whatever whims of fancy strike at the moment will be what's at play and on display. I hope you enjoy seeing and reading about them. I'll be venturing forward with a Granny Vlog so you can see my hands working away and hear my latest thoughts as I show you how I do the things I do.
If you have any questions, please feel free to message me on the Signal App at 6478215307 or e-mail. AND you can also DM me on Instagram here.
I want to take this moment to thank, Gary, my brother, for encouraging me to set up shop and for saying I can never have enough tools.
At this moment, he is the only one on my e-mail list ... so do please sign up, too. Join the family and keep us company.
When I was first learning how to make jewellery (and while he was living at sea on one of his sailboats, prior to the day the pandemic swooped in and stranded me at home and him off the coast of the Bahamas), he commissioned my first piece.
A single anchor earring.
I accepted the challenge (not knowing how I would ever be able to fulfil the request, but with necessity as my mother of invention, and an assurance this one contract could serve to help me corner the entire pirate market, I dove down deep to see if I could do it
AND I did
Thank you Gary!
it was similar to what you see in this pic
where we are
post storm ... rainbows ruling
photo taken by Dad who is in heaven with Mom and our younger brother, Wayne
I gave it to him on his birthday
along with a hand-painted and custom-lettered shirt I got from Tania who is an artist living in Greece and is now my super supportive friend on Tizzit, (she edits the newsletters before they land in your mail slots)
we met on an TIZZit, an amazing Membership of Makers, based out of Australia led by Deb
Here's Tania's Etsy shop
with the pirate shirt
(so cool my comment is at the top - everyone loves her work and working with her)
One of the reasons I like the shirt so much is that it will just keep getting better and better the more worse for wear - stained & ripped - he can wear it forever.
Go Tania!
Thanks for making this day more special for us.
Here he is in a sailboat shirt just before opening up his new pirate t-shirt ... but first showing his earring off, for posterity, in a clink at the click of a pic.
Some of that Anchor-Making Process
