Friday, October 28, 2011

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!

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

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

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

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...

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

New on the shop!





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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Friday, September 30, 2011

Weekend inspiration

Ideas by heart from annika bäckström on Vimeo.

Thanks so much Clémence for the link!!!!

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

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!

Monday, September 26, 2011

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

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

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!:

-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

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Bits of this and that

One of my favorite birthday gifts this year was an iphone my husband gave me (although it's hard to decide as this year he truly payed attention to my "hints" and wishlist! hehehe). I'm in love with the thing. It's so cool to be able to check out my facebook or twitter everywhere, but mostly, I love the cool photo aps!

As I haven't made many blog updates lately, I though I'd make a resume, with images, of what I've been up to in the last month.


Around the house


Places and spaces


Outside


Lots of beer and lots of sweets


Work...

Thanks for visiting, I hope you have a great day!

Monday, September 12, 2011

Ages later...




Oh my, my. It's been AGES! how are you?! I'm glad to be here and say hi to you :D
I missed my blog but I've been so crazy with work and stuff that I had to set it aside for calmer times.

I'm working very hard for Puces POP, which is a super cool craft fair (part of POP Montreal music festival), my favourite in Montreal because there are always so many awesome local designers selling their creations at puces. So proud to be part of it this time! That's the reason I've been like crazy :) I'm very excited!

I also wanted to tell you I have new vintage rings listed on my shop :) I hope you liked them! I even have a super cool set of four rings, if you like vintage rings, you don't want to miss it!

Thanks so much for visiting and I hope you have a great week!

Iveth

Monday, August 29, 2011

Back to business

This is my messy work space. It used to be a cute little office sometime ago but now it's full of tools, supplies and dust. Is OK though, but I definitely think it's due for some cleaning and that my wall needs me to make it pretty ASAP!

But well, in the mean time, I wanted to tell you my shop is open again! My so called vacations are over and even thought I have been working on local orders, new projects and upcoming plans, is now time to turn the production button mode on for real.

Which reminds me I haven't tell you something! I'm super excited as I'm going to sell at the Puces POP craft fair on September 24th and 25th!! This is such a big deal to me as is going to be my first major sale-to-public and Puces POP is one of my favorite things to do in Montreal! I neeeeever miss it, is full of awesome local artists/crafters that made wonderful stuff, and I feel very excited to be part of it this time around. So, as you can imagine, I'm working my ass off to prepare lovely jewelry for the fair and I'm also working on things and props for my booth.
So, if you happen to go to the shop and see I have few listings, that is the reason: I'm trying to build up a decent inventory, but this doesn't mean I can't work on your favorite pieces! If you want something from the shop that you can't see listed, just send me an etsy-message and I can list the item for you :)

And that's the news for the moment! Thanks a bunch for keeping up with me and I hope you have a great week :)

Iveth

Friday, August 26, 2011

Mile-End guide

Just found this awesome post-tour guide of the Mile-End here in Montreal, my favorite neighborhood in town :). We live in Outremont neighborhood, just some blocks away from the Mile-End but we go to shops, restaurants, bookstores, fruit shops and coffee shops over there on a daily basis so we consider it as our second neighborhood :)

This post was made by Amy Johnson and Marilis Cardinal of Puces POP for Poppytalk (and speaking of Puces POP, I have great news regarding it but I'll tell you soon!!) and it's very nice and helpful if you plan to visit Montreal any time soon (This is for you Chrystal!).

Check out the post here!

St-Viateur bagels (my favorites!)

Cafe Olimpico, yummy.

Genaral 54

Drawn & Quarterly

Phonopholis
(All images via Poppytalk by Amy Johnson and Marilis Cardinal)

I wish you have a great weekend!!

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Lots of mushrooms


Can you see a face in this rock?


I had to show you my favorite photos of the mushrooms we encounter while hiking in the woods the other day.

Aren't they perfect? :)

We don't know much about mushrooms and we wanted to call them something, so we invented names for them. Very easy names like, red mushroom, yellow mushroom, ghost mushroom, terrace mushroom, mini white mushroom or ball mushroom, among others :)

What name would you give them? which one is your favorite?

I hope you have a great week!

Iveth

Thursday, August 11, 2011

Wishlist


Gaaaah, like Amelia, I feel so crazy about dinosaurs lately. I don't know if it's because of her obsession for all things dinosaur, or just because there are such cool dinosaur related stuff out there...This card by PAWLING is just awesome, so simple but it screams GGGGRRRRRRRR! to me.

Brown and black camera strap by WanderWandering
Been drooling over leather camera straps and I can't decide which one to buy. I need to upgrade my ugly, normal camera straps asap!

Kitted cactus by Odds and Ends
I love, love, love plants but for some reason they don't love me back. It sounds horrible, but they all die when they end up with me. That's why I don't buy plants any more. Maybe I put so much water, maybe they need more sun, I don't know. This little garden of knitted cactus will be the perfect addition to my apartment, plus I'll be sure they will be green forever.

Retro leather camera strap by Magpie Accessories
Another of my favorites in the camera strap department. I love it.

I've been wanting the Quinn bag from the New Duds for such a long time now it's ridiculous. This bag will be mine one day and that day is not far from now, I say!

Oxfords by Golden Ponies
This shoes look so soft and comfy not to mention extremely lovely. Want them!

There's a lot of leather in my wishlist, gaaah, I just love leather accessories. Feel kind of bad now. I feel like the tyrannosaurus up there. Gggrrrr.

I hope this wishlist is useful for a certain someone *wink,wink* in case he needs to get a present for a certain person which birthday is coming up real fast! *wink, wink* (talking about me and my hubby ;) hehehehehe).

I hope you all have a great day :)
Iveth