Les Joailliers du Dimanche

Oh, what a weekend! both in the nice and not-so-nice ends. For one, I was so fortunate to be part once again of an exhibition/sale organized by Les Joailliers du Dimanche collective and got to meet new local costumers and fellow jewellers. For the other part, I spend the whole weekend so sick, with cough and aches everywhere, so it was exhausting! But totally worth it :)

I took some photos of the event and of my fellow jewellers, they are all so talented! be sure to visit their websites to see more of their work :)

Meeeee and my little helper!

Andree Anne Vien

Think and Metal en Bouche

Mariana Galan

Louise Koo

Emilie Trudel, Cynthia Girard and Quenyne

Anne-Sophie Vallee, Collectif en Devenir and Lidia R.

Sang-Hee de Mailly Nesle and Pilar Agueci

C'est pas moi, c'est ma soeur

And the view from my table :)

I want to thank Andree Anne for inviting me and for always being so supportive! Also thanks to all the organizers, it was such a great event and everything was lovely!

That's all for today! Thanks so much for stopping by :)

Iveth

New vintage rings and more!

All images by me, via The Angry Weather Jewelry

New vintage items on my shop! come see them all, they're gorgeous!

Also, I made some photo cards and they're now available to purchase on my shop!! just in case you need a little extra for your gift giving ;D

I have a problem, though, I don't know which photo to choose as the main one? Come see the listing and let me know which one you like better, please! you are so nice, thank you!!!!

I hope you have a great day :)

Iveth

Things I love today

What a great surprise to see Seventy Tree Etsy shop open again! Although Kerry from Seventy Tree had her Big Cartel shop open all this time, as I spend so much time on Etsy, it's great to be just "around the corner" from Kerry's wonderful, quirky, cute illustrations!

All images via Kerry's Seventy Tree shop

Other thing my eyes are happy about is that Erin Dollar has a new line of hand printed pillow covers and tea towels and they are extremely cool. Check them out:

All images via Erin Dollar shop

That's all for today! I hope you are having a great week, thanks for stopping by!

Bits from the studio after a very productive weekend

A month ago I was complaining about how slow sales were; now I'm so scared with the amount of work I have! particularly because I have two upcoming craft fairs (exciting!): one at the end of this month and the other on December.

Last weekend I was extremely productive and managed to make lots of pretty jewels :) As you can see on the photos, I made my thunder necklace in 14k gold, it looks so lovely. And my favorite is the desert rock stacked rings in gold and oxidized silver, they look gorgeous!

Now what I need to do is to photograph them and post them on my Etsy shop :) Oh, and the lovely rainbow bracelet above, I made it as a special order for a lovely costumer, I'm really happy with the results!

Last but not least, the lovely postcard you see on the first image (from Audrey Jeanne) is a gift from my sweet friend Clemece, I love it! thanks Clemence!!!

I hope you have a great week :D

Iveth

Wonderful world

Just wanted to share with you this wonderful photo I saw today on Ana Vega's Pinterest board because I'm completely in love with it! I see it and is like I'm travelling to a distant world, beautiful, fantastic and mysterious.

Gahhh I so want to make something like that... Well, I kind of did, din't I? with the paper forest I made for my new line photo shoot? Kind of ;) Now I know what to do with the little forest, instead of having it stuck inside a box, I'll make a display like that! Oh, I feel so inspired!

The photo is from Jenny Edwards' Flickr photostream, she doesn't have much info about her work (I so want to know more!) but you'll find really inspiring images there :)

Have a great day!

Have a happy weekend!

Wonderful photograph Via A Well Traveled Woman

Want to make this beautiful accordion paper flowers. Via Oh! Craft

Love. Via I Heart Chivalry

Loving this Clustered charm necklace from Anthropologie.

Depeapa print found via That's Happy

All this finds from my Pinterest boards :) Oh how cool is Pinterest!

I wish you a happy weekend!

Run wild my child

Naturally, I'm always looking around for cool stuff for kids. This are my favorite things right now (well, I have to admit: I want Royal Mint's bear figurine for myself!):

-Run wild my child print by The Wallaroo -T rex shadow puppet by Owly Shadow Puppets -Clan bear bravelette figurine by Royal Mint -World map pillow by Atelier Pompadour

Really nice things

Today's finds (psst, psst, I want them all!):

The zigzag bracelet I love the shape and construction of this wonderful piece by NomoiKoru -Dress Navajo and Shirt Diamond by ThingsLikeDiamonds I fell in love with this shop, speciall with their awesome t-shirts! - Pineapple brass ring by Marie from Markhed Designs, fantastic and so touchable!

Tribal angles necklace by Guisela from Under A New Light, she makes the most wonderful jewelry with recycled materials - La bolsita from Scout and Catalogue, gosh, I just want everything from that shop! - Mountain notebook from little Alexander, I'm soooo into mountains (can you tell?) and this notebooks are so cool! - Alps photography by Fotoforest. My mind wanders...

New on the shop!

Rocks and Mountains

Tea Party

I have so many new pretty jewels on my shop, yay!! I spend August and September making new things that were lingering on my mind (and my sketch notebook!) for so long! All was worth it as it feels like I have a whole new collection! After a couple weeks of photo shoots (Oh, it was hard to get the right light and quiet moments with the little one to coincide, it took me so long to finish the photography!), editing and listing, you can now see the results of all that work. I'm in love with my new things and I hope you love them, too :)

I can divide the new stuff in two collections: The Rocks and Mountains and The Tea Party :)

The Rock and Mountain collection was stuck in my mind during my last trip to Mexico (almost a year ago). We went to the north of Mexico to a city located in the desert and surrounded by mountains. On a day trip while in there, we drove a couple hours by unpaved roads to this tiny village, in the middle of the desert and mountains where the locals extract herkimer diamonds from the near mountains. I love rocks and minerals (have you noticed?) and this was like a magic trip for me: finding all those treasures, meeting those persons, being in the austerity of the desert (which I'm completely in love with) and in the company of people I love. So I came back with so many images in my mind ready to pass on to metal.

At the moment of making all that into metal, I was also very influenced by simple geometric shapes and patterns, photography of mountains and also by our ski adventures here in Canada. It may be a eclectic mix of inspiration, but I think it translates so cool in the objects!

And the Tea Party collection is just part of my "refuge" thing going on: comfort, the search for serenity, relaxation, the childhood memories, nostalgia and so on. And this collection was also influenced by Alice in Wonderland :) and that can count as a childhood memory, too :)

And there's more to come! I'm still working on some pieces for both collections, some in 14k gold. And if you want to see new weather related things, well, I have some awesome little new pieces that I'll be listing in the next days, so check back often!

Well, thank you so much if you read all that! pheew! I just think the inspiration and ideas behind the things I make are so much part of the pieces, that I feel I need to write them down :)

Thank so much for supporting The Angry Weather and for visiting my blog!

Big hugs!

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Weekend inspiration

Ideas by heart from annika bäckström on Vimeo.

Thanks so much Clémence for the link!!!!

Puces POP favourites!

This dolls by Cara Carmina were my ultimate favourites from the craft fair!

Adorable Norma, aka Cara Carmina.

Awesome Bookhou. Want it all!

La Raffinerie , so cool!

Always fantastic, The Pin Pals.

I adore Nanoukiko.

I need that Supayana dress in my life!

Puces POP!

It was a long month of preparation and hard work but at the end all was worth it!

Last weekend I was one of the many local vendors of my favouirte craft show -Puces POP- for the first time ever.

It was awesome: the other vendors, the visitors, the sales, the energy, the company, the gained experience, the new discoveries, the change to get to know the people who likes and wears my jewelry, the insight of the direct feedback, opinions and potential market and so on. I'm extremely happy to have been part of it this time around!

So thanks so much Marilis and Tessa from Puces POP for giving me the chance to be part of it and being so nice!

Thanks to all who visited my table, specially to Norma from Cara Carmina (my table-neighbour), my friend M. for the help and company, Karlita, John, Sophia, Guisela, Anrea, Penelope, Jean-Yves, Marlenne, Shannon and Andrea!

And specially, thanks to my adored husband and daughter for all the help and patience!

Happy, happy, yay!

Photos below, I hope you like them :)

With Norma from Cara Carmina

What do you think of my little fans? ;D

Photos from my favourite vendors coming up soon ;D

More vintage rings!

New vintage rings on my shop! They are pretty cool :D come check them out before they are gone!

Puces POP!

Do you live in Montreal? do you plan to visit next weekend? then you shouldn't miss Puces POP! This Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th come and see a great sample of the arts and crafts from local artists. I never miss it, I always come out of there with at least a couple of awesome purchases, and this time I'm super excited as it's the first time I'll be spending my puces pop weekend as a vendor! Yay!

So, please come, stop by The Angry Weather booth to say hi and see all my jewelry live! I'll have all the old favourites plus a whole bunch of new items you'll see first at Puces POP :) So exciting!!!

And here, some of what I am excited to see at Puces POP!:

-Bookhou

-Atelier b.

-Nea

-Cara Carmina

-Jack Dylan

-Nanoukiko

-The Pin Pals

-Tyson Bodnarchuk

-Broundoor And a whole lot more!

Unexpected

How cool is to receive an unexpected note, gift or visit from a dear friend? noting beats the feeling of knowing someone special thinks of you and appreciate you.

I felt that way the other day when I received a wonderful package all the way from Mexico from my friend RosaMaria :D I was so excited I couldn't resist to take a bunch of photos of her lovely gift, so beautifully packed and full of adorable things made by her!

RosaMaria is an incredible talented girl, with a passion for fabric and sewing, an eye for beautiful things and most important of all, with the kindest heart.

Isn't lovely?! she send me a tissue holder and the fabric has a cloud pattern, a super cute tape with illustrated apples, a card with illustration of cute houses (!!), a super cute fabric bag and one of my favorite mexican candy, chiclosos! and all lovely packed and labeled with tags of her own making. Isn't she sweet? Mil gracias RosaMaria!!!

And if you want to check out the gorgeous things RosaMaria makes, please visit her shop, 464 Handmade on Etsy! or go to her blog where you'll find beautiful photos and lost of inspiration :)

Goodies from 464 Handmade