Come see me here on December 2nd @hocoarts !
Find unique gifts for everyone on your holiday list – including yourself – at our annual Holiday Maker-Mart! Choose from a wide selection of handcrafted items by talented local artisans, including jewelry, pottery, paintings, greeting cards, photography, fiber art, and more.
New this year: following the kick-off event on December 2 from 5:30-8:30pm, we’ve added a Juried Holiday Market from December 3-12 featuring gift items by a select group of artists and artisans. The Holiday Market will be open Tuesday-Friday 4-8pm and Saturday-Sunday 12-4pm.
Shop local this holiday season and support the artists in our community!
Admission is free.
New Jeni-made earring displays complete!!! Finally feel less cluttered in my presentation. It’s something I’ve been struggling with and I feel like this is a great solution. Plus I don’t have to disassemble anything. It packs flat and stores just fine.
I am feeling more and more put together now. Wait till you see my finished earring displays!
Box frame + coat hanger wire = my own customized earring display! Cost: $0 because I already had the stuff lying around doing nothing useful. I feel so professional now!
And just like that, these old toy stacking/nesting blocks are now new display stands that pack up nice since they nest inside each other! I love up cycling!
Getting my table ready for the @hocoarts Holiday Maker-Mart! I think I’m going to make my own earring racks. Finally getting to use my pop up banners!!
Getty back to my roots!
Looking forward to sharing a few Jeni classic cicada pieces at the @hocoarts Makers Mart!
Yay to the mystery bidder who bought/won my Art Deco wings at this years @vesaliustrust auction!!
Excited to share that I was accepted into a juried art market for the holidays!! Come see me at the @hocoarts Holiday Maker-Mart! The kick off event will be December 2 from 5:30-8:30 pm. Then I’ll be juried Pop-up Artisan Market will run December 3-12. My work will be there the whole time but I’ll be there in person on Dec 2 for the opening as well as Dec 4 from noon to 4pm and again on Dec 12 from 2-4pm. Come by and see me! Pick something for you or someone special and get your holiday shopping done!
100 cicadas might need to be my holiday card this year 😆 2021 was pretty amazing!
Getting inventory ready for the @hocoarts Holiday Market! So many new cicadas from this summer
Signature @jenijewelry cicadas. Getting ready to bake for the @hocoarts Holiday Market in December! A throwback to where I started my line in 2016. Still a classic 😊
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Getting back to making items for the holidays
Dang… we have a lot of leaves here
This precious little face is my mom. She looks just like my daughter 🥰
Visiting family today and I was reminded of this piece. My mom on a swing. Been thinking of her a lot lately. Her birthday is coming up.. perhaps my brain just knows she’s still around somehow.
Having a little fun with my little girl, origami time!
Happy Halloween from “the Frizz”
Channeling Mrs. Frizzle for next week. Saturn earrings are coming soon!
This is Jordan, a very special pup. I made a very special gift box to memorialize one of my BFFS past fur babies. Etched copper, brass rivets and brushed aluminum.
#jewelrytoolhack alert: My professional and amazing enameling friends will laugh at me, but I discovered a very interesting hack while experimenting with a reusable K cup filter basket. Yes, these are those little cups you can use to save the environment by using your own coffee grounds to make a cup of coffee and not have to buy the disposable ones. It’s made with a very fine mesh that is stainless steel. I looked at it under my ocular loupe and realized that it’s the EXACT same mesh material used on enameling sifters. I have two #40 and one #150 sifter. I’d say, judging from the speed and size of my enamels sifting from a K cup, the mesh is probably #80 or 100 in size. I liked using this because now my enamel comes out nice and even and doesn’t just dump out onto my piece. Also it holds a lot and has a snap cover so no accidental spills! Crazy hack, but it works!And you can buy these online. I bought a 4-pack for $8.99. Yeah. $2.25 for a really fancy sifter! Don’t worry. This one stays in the studio and not in the kitchen. No thanks, I don’t need glass in my coffee 🤣
And we are back! Just a reminder to stop and smell the flowers!
My favorite hair clip. In high school, my BFF was cleaning her things out when she and family needed to move and she asked me if I wanted this. I still can’t imagine how she could part with such a beautiful barrette, but being best friends, I suppose we never part from treasures do we? Hoping we see each other in a few weeks!
Very experimental pieces but wow this really opened up my eyes to new ideas in enameling!
Sketching and “inking” on enamel; process shots…
It’s #inktober so instead of inking on paper, I’m taking a weekend workshop @baltimorejewelrycenter with @mlleguillaume called “Sketchbook to Enamel”. I’ve always wanted to learn how to draw inklings on my enameled pieces. I am so excited!
I came home today and made earrings after finding these random bell shaped beads in one of my stash boxes. I have no idea where they came from. Just a touch of blue glass and voila: little bobbles for my ears. Totally want to up-cycle old jewelry from high school into new versions of bling!
I was cleaning out one of my jewelry drawers and found this gem- my Women’s March pin. Here’s what is represented:
1) Pin = safety
2) purple and green ribbon = women’s right to vote
3) Heart = sisterhood
4) Date = Women’s March after 45ths Inauguration Day
5) Cat = infamous “pussy” hats
Here’s what’s on my bench pin today
Happy 16th wedding anniversary to us!
Trying out more botanical designs
Chag Sukkot Sameach!
My faux Plique-à-jour Art Deco cicada necklace is still not finished as I have been too busy with illustrations. But at least the pendant portion is done. I figured may as well try it alone for now so I attached it to this paper clip chain. Going to take it for a test drive tomorrow.
I never get sick of my prototypes. These go with everything.
Only one Art Deco cicada in brass left in my stock! Yikes, I need to get back to the bench and make more 😳
Thank youuuuuuuu for following me all the way to this point! 💕
And with coffee plus spoon rest, I am ready for Friday…
My cell phone case was nasty and needed a face lift. I should have taken a picture of the back with all the tacky stickers plastered to it. Oh well. I peeled them off, wiped the glue off with acetone, sanded, added my logo as a decal/frisket and spray painted it. You might ask why not just buy a new cover? Well, for one, it’s a charging case (it’s built with wireless technology inside for my iPhone 6). Also, why make more waste? Now it has a new life, like a cicada out of its old dirty shell! Plus, if I leave it somewhere, everyone will know whose this belongs to 🤣
How did I forget about this piece? I finished it 2 years ago.Gee wiz! Now I must wear this to work tomorrow. What outfit?! Oh boy…
It’s been too long since I last posted and that’s because I’ve been busy which I suppose is a very good thing. Getting back to working in person and revamping my work clothes. Here comes the new normal.How’s it going?
New bling, sculpted in ZBrush! Time to get a plastic test print! #zbrushjewelry
Having some sculpting fun I making #zbrushjewelry. I am creating an orchid bud cocktail ring that will wrap around my finger, later to be cast in silver. @baltimorejewelrycenter @hashtagedgy
Flex shaft rack hack!. Here’s a miniature tour of my bench with my latest hack: using a simple, freestanding clothing rack from IKEA (MULIG Clothes rack, white; 39x59 7/8 "; $9.99), I have the perfect place to hang my Foredom flex shaft. No need to drill holes, ruin furniture or walls, engineer a complicated pipe/pole or spend a ton of money on a professional setup. It’s the perfect height, snaps together and takes hooks to hang other frequently used tools (@greenlionstudios sawframe, Joyce Chen shears, mask etc.) #jewelrytools #jewelrytoolhacks
Shout out to Amy Iverson @1500degreesstudio whose lovely oil painting of lavender hydrangeas has a new home next to my dresser😍
One of my all time favorite secure and portable organizing containers: the pocket fisherman! I love these super secure tackle cases that are small and fit in your pocket or the palm of your hand. Keeps my easy, medium and hard solder separate, keeps scraps separated by metal type, keeps tiny stones and findings too!
#jewelrytoolhack #jewelrytoolhacks #solder #scrapmetal #tinyjewels #tacklebox #pocketfisherman #soldering #solderingjewelry #pillcase #jewelrytools
Simple dapping block hack. What happens when you have half of a tool? It’s not useless. Find an alternative with this little tool hack!
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#dappingblock
#jewelrytools
#domingjewellery
#copperdome #wooddappingblock #wooddappingset