Autumn

Hello there, it's nice to be here after a long, long absence!

I've been meaning to write in here for so long but have been so busy with life and work and just couldn't, but I miss this space of my a lot and really want to came back here more often to enjoy my blog!

In case you wonder what I've been up to in these last many months, let me tell you I've been: traveling around Canada, moving to a new home, working in a new collection of my jewelry (available now at my shop!), taking good care of my family and enjoying Summer and now Autumn among other many things that would bore you to know!

The thing is that, more and more I realize I'm getting worse with multitasking and I just need to do one thing at a time. Of course it doesn't help that days are too short for the oh, so many things I always want to do! But regardless, I'm here and I hope to keep up with you, dear reader, and to keep you posted about the things around here!

Bellow you'll find some photos I've taken this Autumn, both in Montreal and in a beautiful area of mountains and forests close to Montreal called the Laurentians.

Thanks for reading this, i'm glad you are here!

Iveth

To grow

New: Thunderstorm Necklace in 14k rose gold.

Hi! I hope you are having a lovely day. It's beautiful and sunny in Montreal today and I'm sitting just beside my window enjoying the sun!

I'm also giving some serious thought to the fact that I need to make some price adjustments ASAP. This, to keep my business in the growing path and I'd like for this year to make lost of innovations to apply to my jewelry and make new designs that I have in my sketch book and in my head. I also would like to enter the world of retail as I've been approached by amazing shops that are interested in carrying my work and so far I haven't been able to say yes to them because of lack of time but most importantly because I have to make adjustments to make it worth for me and my business.

Most importantly, I'd like to keep offering this personal touch that I love so much about what I do and the way I do it: I like to take time in every piece I make, to finish it just the way I envision it and to deliver a beautiful piece of jewelry to every costumer. A piece that will not be forgotten in a drawer but will be enjoyed for a long time, not only for the beautiful and simplicity of its design but for the quality on its craftsmanship.

And to be able to maintain my mission, I have to adjust and raise some of my prices.

I'll be doing this in the next couple weeks, as I study each one of my pieces to see in detail where improvements need to be made and taking factors like time into real consideration for pricing.

At the end, I truly believe this changes will not only be beneficial to the growth of my business but to the person who buy my jewelry as well: I want my costumers to keep enjoying a special and unique piece of jewelry, made specially for them, with great craftsmanship and I also want for them to obtain a beautiful keepsake and not something disposable :)

I'd love to hear what you think about handmade & pricing! and as a costumer but also as a small business owner, what does handmade mean to you? thanks so much for your comments bellow ;)

Jewellers in action!

Two week ago (or was it three? hmmm...) I had the pleasure of being part of the Expo-Sale with Les Joailliers Du Dimanche as part of Montreal's famous Nuit Blanche. It was awesome as we were exposing at this gorgeous, gorgeous studio, making demonstrations, drinking wine all night (well, I was!), chatting, meeting costumers, meeting other jewellers and seeing old friends!

I took some pictures that I find really interesting, specially if you are not familiar with the process behind jewellery-making, as you'll see jewellers in action!

I hope you like them ;)

Isn't that studio amazing? I hope I'll have one like that one day! If you want to see a lot more of my photos, come to the joailliers's web site and enjoy!

Thanks so much for visiting and I hope you have a lovely day!

Iveth

Sale!

Hi there!

Just wanted to let you know that currently I have a sale in my Etsy shop! This is the first time I made a sale section in the shop, you can visit it here! The pieces on sale range from items I'll discontinue, to sample pieces never before seen and others that I have in stock and thought you may like to get them at discount price ;)

A part from this sale, I'm offering an extra 10%off on your entire purchase when using a discount code I shared with my newsletter subscribers and Facebook fans, You can become a Facebook fan now and get your extra discount! check for the code on my last entry on Facebook ;)

That's all for now :) I hope you are having a wonderful weekend!

What about some rain?

I'm pretty sure your answer will be no, but, what about some rain like this:

From Polkaros, a new favorite.

Cuddly cloud pillow

I love this look.

I love brooches, embroidery and rain, so this is just killing me! from Kittens with Mittens.

I wish I had pinatas like this in my childhood birthday parties. Lieschen Mueller.

Awesome pillow

Little green world. I adore this!

Ganache ivoire au sesame noir. Great to fill cloud shaped macaroons! check out the recipe :)

With this kind of rain, I'll beg for a storm everyday :) Have a lovely day!

Featured

Last week lovely Lauren from Balue/Co publish a lovely article about my work space! She is carrying a project on her blog called Work/Spaces an exploration of inspiration, I really love what she's doing with it and I feel honored to be part of it. Plus I love her blog!

This week: Sale with Les Joailliers du Dimanche!

I'll be selling again alongside the talented ladies from the collective Les Joailliers Du Dimanche next Saturday February 25th as part of the Nuit Blanche in Montreal! It's going to be a great night to be in Montreal as there will be activities, spectacles, free museum entrances and all kinds of fun stuff going on all night all around the city as part of the Montreal en Lumiere festival.

Apart from the beautiful, handmade jewellery by local designers you'll see in our expo-sale, you'll be able to attend demonstrations of different jewellery techniques by members of the collective. So if you want to know what's like the work of a jeweller, this is your change to come and see us live at work!

Please join us for a night of beautiful jewellery, learning and cocktails!

When:

Saturday, February 25th from 5pm to 2am.

Where:

2118 de Bleury (steps away from metro Place-des-Arts)

More info at Les Joailliers Du Dimanche website.

Don't miss it! I'll be presenting some new beautiful jewelry!

My new bag

I love so much my new bag from Snootsie on Etsy :) It's so incredibly well made and beautiful plus I don't need to carry anymore an extra tote bag for my shopping or Amelia's stuff: I can fit everything in it! yay!

Thanks for your wonderful work, Tesh!!

Black leather bag, handmade by Snootsie

Woods and Mountains

Here

Fine Little Day

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Found here. Via the Library of Congress

PUGNAT

Fine Little Day

Totokaelo

Forest and Mountains on my mind. All pins from my Pinterest boards.

A Monday morning in Montreal

A Monday Morning in Montréal from CloudRaker on Vimeo.

One of my friends shared this video on her Facebook page and I thought it was brilliant, as it TRULY reflects daily life in the kind of Montreal I been living in in the last stormy days. The beginning of the video, I'm pretty sure, was filmed around my neighborhood! so when watching the video, you can place my face on any of those persons as I probably walked around those areas, getting my feet stuck in the same messy snow and slipped on the same sidewalks ;D

This is what the realisateurs say about the video:

"This winter we were chatting casually with Bruno about how gorgeous Montreal looks under heavy snowfall. While this conversation may seem mundane to people who grew up here, it was enchanting to listen to a Parisian’s take on the phenomenon. So Bruno set out one morning, camera in hand, to capture the magic of our city being blanketed in the white stuff. What he came back with took our breath away, it wasn’t the snow he was watching, it was us. "

I hope you enjoy the angry weather of beautiful Montreal ;)

From my heart to you :)

The shop is open, yay!! I'm back to business!!

And look at these little cuties I just listed on the shop! They are super cute, tiny hearts for your ears ;) just a touch of loveliness.

I made them last December but with the holiday gift rush and the vacations, I didn't had time to photograph them until today :) Actually, I have a BUNCH of new things ready to be photograph, yay!! expect new things coming up soon ;)

As valentine's day is coming up, I decided to make the photography Valentine-day-ish and as I'm not very into valentine's day to tell you the truth (:s), I was afraid I wouldn't like it but no, I love it :) I think the color and mood goes pretty good with my tiny hearts :) I hope you like it too!

For more about my jewelry, please visit my shop, thanks!

All images taken by me for The Angry Weather jewelry.

Vivid images from a Lost Empire

Bellow, you'll find the work of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944), Russian photographer. In the early 1900's he began an ambitious project supported by Tsar Nicholas II where he traveled around Russian taking photographs and documenting the empire: from architecture, to landscape, advances in technology, to ethnicity, daily living and everything in between.

he was an amazing photographer, capturing the essence of the simplest moments. One of the things that makes his work most peculiar though, is that he was a pioneer in color photography and he developed a technique that consisted in taken three photographs in a rapid sequence using different filters for each image (red, green and blue) then layer the negatives to obtain a color photography. This technique allows us to enjoy his photographs of a Russia on the verge of revolution in full color.

I go head over heels for photography and nostalgia, so you can imagine my awe when I saw this images for the first time (got there thanks to Fine Little Day blog). I still spend time during the day just wandering on those images, I swear. These may be some of the most inspiring photos I've seen in my life and the fact that they are in color and were taken 100 years ago has a lot to do with me falling in love with them. There is something so nostalgic about looking into the technicolor life of someone who lived 100 years ago in a world that was about to change dramatically.

All images from The Empire That Was Russia a collection from the (US) Library of Congress.

There are a bunch of beautiful cropped images of this collection around the web, but when I got to the source in the library of congress web site, I fell in love with this un-cropped, original versions from the negative; the little defects and the way you can see the filters it's amazing. I amply recommend you to visit the entire collection and read the titles of the photos you like the most, the stories of the people/places in the photos are as compelling as the images themselves.