It is Garlic Time

 First, a big THANK YOU to  Bargetto Winery for hosting the Summer Fine Arts Festival. The live music was wonderful to listen to and the Gypsy Pizza Oven made great tasting pizza. Jerry and I ate way too much, but we couldn't help ourselves, best pizza that we have had.

  Again, our wonderful friends, (clients) made our weekend. We send a thank you to each one of you. Wear and enjoy your new jewelry.

Bargetto Winery - Summer Fine Arts Festival

 Had a great (short) "lay-over" in Bodega Bay @ Westside Park. Rested from our last show and even managed to sneak in a few hours work on my portable bench in our motor home. Early this morning we headed South and  arrived at the Pinto Lake RV Park in Watsonville, Ca. around 2pm.
 Thought I would make an advance look at some of the new work that Jerry and I have just finished for the Summer Fine Arts Festival @
the Bargetto Winery,
3535 Main St.. Soquel, Ca.
   Show is Sat. and Sun. 11am - 5pm
Everyone is welcome, free admission, and food and beverages will be available.
 

Owhee Jasper Pendant

Ocean Jasper, Moonstone, Pearl Earrings

 

 

Owhee matching earrings

Varicite Pendant, has matching earrings

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Metal Art Pendant (new style)

This is a new style for me
all metal art with Amethyst and Peridot


     On right is Varicity from Austrailia, Pearl and Mint L.G. Sapphire 






  There will be some wonderful artists present. Many of them good friends from the (former) Mt. Art Guild. Looking forward to having you come by, visit and shop at the show.
  This is a link to one of the artists: pattylakinsmith.blogspot.com
 See you this weekend!
If you need directions, call us on our cell: 530-604-3649

Patty Lakinsmith: Another Sneak Peek

Patty Lakinsmith: Another Sneak Peek

Mendocino Trip

Steele Wnes

Thursday, July 14th we headed out on our trip to Mendocino, Ca. for the MAC Summer Fine Arts Festival.  When we stopped in Corning for gas Jerry noted that a tire on the motor home looked "funny". So we headed over to the tire shop where we found we needed to replace 4 of the 6 tires on the rig....ouch that cost a buck or two!!

Steele Wines

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stopped over at the Steele Winery in Kelseyville, Ca. steelewines.com , off of Hwy. 29 for the night and a short visit. Naomi Key and Pam Shine are great hosts, even had hot coffee for us early Fri. morning.  
  We drove on around Clear Lake and over to Hwy. 1, headed North to Willits, Ca. There we turned west on Hwy. 20 and down, up, down, up and finally into Fort Bragg, Ca. Continued south on Hwy. 1 to Mendocino. Just a beautiful scenic drive.

MAC Art Center

Art pieces are put out all over the garden area

Fri. afternoon I wondered around the center snapping shots here and there. Then around 4pm we started setting up our booth for the show.
We enjoyed the show and visiting with our friends, however, financially we did not do well. So, even if we enjoyed ourselves not sure that we can come back again next year. :>(

Jerry in kayak

Sunday evening after the show we headed south again on Hwy. 1 around 7 miles to a small campground on the banks of the Albion river: Albion River Campground www.albionrivercampground.com We elected to camp there Sunday and Monday nights. This is a beautiful place to camp with lots of fun things to do. Like taking a kayak out.  

This is all for now. Will continue the "story" as we travel on to the next show: Summer Fine Arts Festival, Bargetto Winery, Soquel, Ca. bargettowinery.com
 Have a great evening, hope to see you soon. 

Getting Ready for lots of shows!

  Hope all of you had a safe enjoyable July 4th weekend. We were in Chester, Ca., (near Lake Almanor) for their annual one day festival hosted by the local Lyons Club. 

   Iam putting the finishing touches on our new work that we have just finished. As we will be heading out on Thurs. for the Mendocino show. Afterwards we have planed a slow drive down the coast hwy. 1 to Bodega. After a couple days there will drive on down and over to Watsonville, Ca. where we have reservations to stay at Pinto Lake RV Resort for a couple weeks. While we are doing the Bargetto Summer Arts show. Then finish off the month with the 3 day Gilroy Garlic Festival.

     The following are  highlights  of what I finished up  over the past few days.

Long designer cut cabochon of an interesting coco brown agate. This is thought to be a fossilized wood. I have bezel set the stone using 30 gauge sterling silver bezel wire. Extending the back 24 gauge sterling sheet on the left side and bottom so I could add texture and tooling. Also added an edge of 16 gauge round wire to this and in a free form design around the piece. The bail is tooled and is large enough for an omega or larger chain.

approx. size: 4 1/2 in. long by 1 1/4 in. wide set price: $375.

Matching earrings are below

Here are the matching earrings to the above pendant. As you can see I have added similar texture and tooling in the design around the bezeled cabochons..

 Size: 1 1/2 in. long by 1 in. wide. I have soldered heavy duty sterling silver posts to center back and have large adjustable backs included. 

  These two items are a set, and are priced together at $375.00

This is another pendant with matching earrings.....

Designer cut cabochon of Owhee Jasper. I have bezel set this piece, then extended the sheet silver partly up for design work to be added. Heavily textured and tooled design accents added to left side. Along with a pretty 5mm round London Blue Topaz facet.  Then I added hand made leaves and some copper wire textured for color to accent the colors in the stone. This piece has a large hand forged loop bail at the back that will fit most any Omega or larger chain.

Colors: soft gray blues with rust brown, and coco brown

                                                                                                                                           These are the matching earrings

  to the above pendant.        The "tongue" cut cabochons are a beautiful color match to the pendant stone. I have "cap" bezel set each and added design accents to top that compliment the pendant, including matching London Blue topaz.

Sterling Silver heavy duty french ear wires, with soft plastic backs.

Size: 2 in. long by 1/2 in wide

colors noted: soft gray blue; rust and coco browns 

Price: $275.00 for the set                                                                          

  These are just a few items that we will have at the Mendocino Show. There are many other items of interest. Some will be listed on our Etsy store: wearablemetalartjfh.etsy.com

I will be adding more over the next few days as time permits.

   Also, during the past month I have been working on our website again. This time I am re-vamping the entire site. As I am looking to promote custom work with our stones and yours. So, I have added a page to explain the process and will be adding several pages of some completed work over the past. With the hope that by viewing the photos you will be inspired to have something made just for you.

  The finished items that we have for sale with be listed in our Etsy Store only.

Well, looking forward to seeing you soon at one of our summer shows.

      Still cool...and have a great summer....