fire and glass

Last month I was invited to join Potomac's influencer program. This means that every so often Potomac Bead company sends participants out a box of supplies for them to play with. We make 3 or 4 pieces of jewelry and tag them on social media. Yep, you can count me in.  Stay tuned to see what I've made..I should be able to create at least 3 pieces or more with what I've been sent. Will post here when I have anything to show! 

My husband and I have moved around a lot in the span of our 13 years together. We now find ourselves in western Washington and hope it will be a sit for a bit spot. I am Canadian and as you can see I am now as snuggled up to Canada as you can get and still have a home with my American man.  Western Washington on the coast is very much like my early growing up years on Vancouver Island, so it feels very familiar and homey to me.  It's a far cry from the deserts of Israel and Qatar.  I'd forgotten how much it likes to rain here in the winter, but how else can you expect to have the lush green ness. View this post on Instagram A post shared by 𝕀’𝕞 𝔻𝕖𝕓𝕠𝕣𝕒𝕙 (@djlambson) Enjoy your Sunday people! I think the sky might be brightening up this morning..fingers crossed. 

Looking back post I discovered the art of lamp work beads in early 2005 and fell head over heels in love. Ask anyone who melts glass, it's an addiction that becomes an integral part of your life. I began to sell loose beads to jewelry designers online and named my little business 'SweetWater' Designs as a tribute to my childhood roots . The year I turned 14 my father did something some people just think about doing. He left a secure 9-5 job and a home that he and my mother had built with their own sweat on the very lovely Vancouver Island to follow his dream of owning his own ranch. Promising us adventure and lots of 'crunchy' snow, (Icy, cold snow is much different than the slush that falls on Vancouver Island) he packed up his family of eight and moved us from our home to 2400 acres of pristine land on a remote northern corner of British Columbia, ~a land known for its Prairie, the Boreal Forest the Rocky Mountains and the mighty Pe

Many years ago when I first began to create flame worked glass beads and jewelry I worried that as a new artist I didn't have a 'style'. I didn't have a body of work that someone might say 'oh, I know that artist!'  I did not yet have a collection of pieces with an identity or a discernible similarity in each piece. A cohesiveness.  I've since learned that acquiring a style of your own as an artist is a natural and certain evolution. I spent some of my growing up years on a ranch in the Upper Halfway area of the Peace country in British Columbia, Canada. We moved there while in my teens so I wasn't really crazy about being there at the time, yet there were things about it that I grew to love.  We lived on 2400 acres of pristine land that sat next to the long and winding Halfway River.  There was a natural spring of water that bubbled ..happily, it seemed to me,  up out the ground on a hill above our house, even in the dead of winter! Like some gre

Personally, I love to layer bracelets..I like jangle. I don't know why it never occurred to me to offer this little layer of texture before but they're available now! Organic leather wrist wrap s in distressed grey/brown and at 22" these are long enough to wrap your wrist 3 times or just wear accompanying any pendant. Buy singly at 18.00 US or for 9 with any other purchase. Shown with my favorite bracelet and with new listing..you can find it here 'Jetsam' was created with pieces left over from other work. Still, there is a cohesiveness. Lots of organic brass and sterling silver. A knotted leather loop drawing them to a close. One little square swarovski to bounce the light around. The brass & stone charm comes from the Bazaar in Istanbul.  Uniquely feminine with lots of colorful energy ~❤︎  ~Available bracelets and pendants~