New Styles for Purr

I made these last week before I left for Edmonton. I had just dropped off 16 pairs to the Purr in Kens so I was very surprised to hear they already needed more! These styles are all found at either of the Purrs in Calgary.

inspiration

I think I would like to look at this in my bedroom....





Im in Edmonton now for the holidays, feel free to email me for special orders!

Parlour Photo spread

Shelly sent me the photo from the Parlour Shoot! Check it out!




Photo by Clayton Didier

earrings: Millicent
tassel necklace: Millicent
seal necklaces: Pyrrha, from Nokomis

And the snow days begin....

It snowed here... a lot. Calgary is covered in a thick blanket of the cold white stuff. All my boots are wet and my feet are always cold. However, the snow blanket seems to be the only way the city goes quiet and I like that. Calgary is full of loud mouths and wannabe cowboys and only a thick snow covering can shut them up.

Snow days mean I have no choice but to slave away with feathers, so here's a few newbies I have whipped up.







Also, the new Parlour Magazine has hit coffee shops and boutiques here in Calgary and there in dear old Edmonton and WHAT DO YOU KNOW- Millicent earrings are featured in the main fashion spread. I got to tag along with Shelly and help find all the good stores here in Calgary for some clothing for the shoot. It was great fun, and even better when I got to wake up "early" and drive to the outskirts of Calgary for the amazing photo shoot of the prairie landscape (although my excitement and joy was tested when I got pulled over for speeding on the highway)

We used a pair of super duper long grey earrings I had made earlier in the summer that just screamed DRAMA. Sadly, the earrings got blown behind the models ear and look much less long and spectacular but, what can you do?

here's the link to the online version of the magazine. Look for the photo Clayton did in the fairytale perfect birch trees.

http://parlourlife.com/issu3.html

(that silver tassel is off my neck, and is something I am excitedly working towards for the January Millicent collection - EXPANDING TO NECKLACES and BRACELETS! Yip! Yip!)

here's my photo of what said earring actually look like;




This Friday I get to go to Edmonton for the holiday season, I will be working at my dear old Nokomis on Sunday up until xmas - come by a visit!

More, More, More!

Here's some more pictures of what I have made in the past couple weeks. I am now out of the "polka dot" woodpecker feathers from a few post's back, sorry folks - however, the polka dot owl feathers featured in this post I still do have. Ta Da! So Resourceful!

Funny story, actually ... my friend Trina's mum has a farm and a poor woodpecker landed on an electrical fence and those feathers were the remainders of Mr. Woody. A little depressing, yes, but he has now come full circle and is looking great on your ears. I have a lot of great feathers from T's farm; a Blue Jay that had a bad run in with something which are featured on a few earrings and of course many chicken and rooster feathers. Isn't that just the thing about being from Alberta, everything has something to do with farming or the landscape. Beauty.

Puppies and Birds

Today I played puppy mum as I watched over our friends Marlis & Arian's new dog, Huck. He is a wee 2 month old Lab retriever Australian Shepherd cross with a hell of a lot more energy than my dog did. Stella is now almost 2 years and seemed to be giving me these pleading looks after Huck repeatedly tried to hump her and ripe chunks of her fur out - he is cute though, and we both know it. The kids wrestled most of the day away and I managed to fill some christmas orders for my very supportive friends (thank you, by the way - it's really great to know Im making something people actually like.)

The good thing about puppy rearing is how much easier it is when there are two of them. I just let them go crazy all day and actually got some work done. Huck peed inside about 4 times and pooped once, which is frankly disrespectful. I cleaned more pee than I care to do at 10 am but despite that I think it was a very productive day all things considering.

To Purr I say!

A couple of days ago I set up the ultimate sweatshop to bust out as many pairs of earrings I could muster for both the Purr stores here in Calgary. Christmas is a busy time, and I guess feather earrings make some rather cheap and fun pressies. Sweet for me! I am working on a goal to see some random girl walking, looking rad, wearing a pair of my earrings. So far, I have seen none... however, I do hibernate in my apartment all day and only go out to walk my dog, Stella at the park so I guess Im not helping my cause any.

A sample of what the purrs got... now go buy a pair and wear them to the Sandy Beach offleash park please.

Blogging Makes Me Self Conscious

I realized the other day that I had no other choice than the start a blog - by "day" I obviously mean month. I realized maybe 6 months ago I needed to start a blog but have been avoiding it like a plague. The idea of blogging my thoughts and adventures makes me feel uncomfortable to say the least. Anyway, here I am months later starting the damn thing and I still don't feel good about it.

Onward and Upward!

Here's a sampling of earrings at Naked, a little store on 17th Ave and 14th St SW Calgary. They have about 15 pairs that I brought over last week, so the selection is much wider than this.