Where OTE Artisan Jewelry Can Be Found

This weekend is the beginning of a wonderful business relationship between Of the Earth Artisans and Dragonfly Books and Brew, a great shop for food or books…and now, jewelry!

Dragonfly Books and Brew, located at 2642 Packerland Drive 5, is a peaceful bookstore and cafe. There is a great selection of teas and coffees, some reading areas set aside, and plenty of room to gather for a gnosh. The display for Of the Earth Artisans blends in with the serene and colorful surroundings.

The shop will play host to several upcoming classes in wire-working by local artisan Kim Paluch.

Call Of the Earth Artisans or Dragonfly Books and Brew for class updates.

Of the Earth Artisans
920-592-9511

Dragonfly Books & Brew
920-499-7081 

Stop by and see our new display!

My latest piece

What I am working on now is quite an undertaking. One of my sisters-in-law/in-heart passed away This past month. She was a brilliant and creative woman…a writer and a woman who loved to live each moment as though she were taking it in to sustain her. She was funny, warm, loving, and rarely without a smile on her face.

To honor her, and the rest of the family, I began a piece called Love Medicine. It involves strawberries and is related to the Oneida people, in which half of my family is enrolled. The piece is a variable sort, with silver and copper, and I’ll be using some interesting techniques. I’ll be heating and shaping the leaves on a sandbag in heavy duty canvas, using some sweat soldering techniques for some of the leaf details, and add the strawberries…which are hammered argentium sterling silver.

This week I’m planning on taking the pictures I’ve proctrastinated on so everyone can see what’s available for sale as well as what I’ve been doing.

Kim

Quiet hammerings in the night…

Evenings are the perfect time for me to sit at my bench and work out some of my ideas and visions. As I do, I find myself reaching for tools I know will wake our children. Do I go to the basement and work or keep sketching? I keep sketching, but my visions of my work becomes more dimensional. I sketch the contours of human bodies and how the piece will lay, which part would lay best over which curve of the body, etc.

In the morning, when I head to the bench for a few hours work, I’ll be further along than I might have, but I feel like I’ve missed something. Time to play with the metals, watch them move and bend to my desire…maybe some nights I’ll choose to play.

I hope you’ve chosen to play some this week…or even this weekend. It’ll keep you young.

Kim