Saturday, December 10th – 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Holiday Extravaganza – 724 Ericksen Avenue (Eagle Harbor Building) The office of Lydia Harrison, Island Educational Services.
There will be about 8 vendors with many hand made items for sale. Bring a canned good to benefit Helpline House, or enter a raffle to win a basket of items – proceeds benefit Helpline House.

Sunday, December 11th – 1p.m. to 5 p.m.
The Home of Amy Weber, Designer, Wanton Willow Designs, fine hand painted textiles for the home.
6268 Lariat Loop – coming from the north: just before Lynwood Center central, go right up Baker Hill Road to the top of that long hill, then go right onto Lariat Loop.
Amy is opening her home for a showing and sale of Wanton Willow’s exquisite creations. Come by for a warm drink and nibbles. I’ll have my pottery there and a small selection of earrings.

Please pass this information on to friends who might be interested in coming. Thanks!

You are invited to attend my third annual Holiday Open Studio at my home and pottery studio on
Saturday December 3rd and Sunday December 4th from from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
with special guest artist and friend, Wendy Armstrong.

At the Open Studio event I’ll be offering earrings in sets of three (and pairs too), and new pottery creations. My good friend Wendy Armstrong will be offering her exquisite rocks – beautiful, detailed paintings of beetles and other things – like those shown above. She will have a good selection at great prices!

Please stop by for a visit and refreshments. You’ll be entered in a door prize drawing just for showing up!

If you can’t make it that weekend but want to come and have a look, call me to arrange a convenient time. OR call and make an appointment to stop by on the Sunday after Thanksgiving if you’d like to get a head start on shopping. Check my earcandyarts web site for updates on what’s available.

I accept VISA, Mastercard, and American Express  and cash or check for all of your purchases. You can also make earring purchases from my Etsy shop where I accept Paypal, OR use your PayPal account at my shop during the event.

If you’re on Facebook, you can “like” my earcandyarts Facebook page and participate in future earring giveaways. I hope to hear from you soon! Forward this on to friends who might be interested.

Sending love,
Linn
Drop me an email to get directions.

Last fall I purchased beautiful silver from Rio Grande, a supplier in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The quality of their silver is the very best I’ve seen. I switched to “argentium” silver which will not tarnish! Many summer weekends outside at the market quickly tarnished my shiny bright silver earring parts, forcing me to face polishing with less than perfect results. According to Wikipedia, here is a description of Argentium silver: “Argentium sterling silver is a modern sterling silveralloy which modifies the traditional alloy (92.5% silver + 7.5% copper) by replacing some of the copper with the metalloid germanium. As it retains the 92.5% silver content of the traditional alloy, it is still referred to as sterling silver.”

The slide gallery on my welcome page shows my new earrings using Argentium silver components. Check my Etsy page too!

The deer are on the prowl for fresh and tasty spring greens and have nibbled away on the not-open buds of my daffodils, the tender day lilies, and of course, the quickly growing grass of which they can eat all they want. I find myself in high spirits when the sun shines, more quiet and pensive when it is gray. But gray it is much of the time so I need to bring those high spirits into play when there is no sunshine to bring it on. Friends, spin class, and beads of lovely colors do that for me.

I’ve been looking at my beads lately, trying to create, but at the moment no creations are emerging. That’s ok, though, because my hands will wake up, my creative curiosity will become insatiable, and I will make in abundance again.

Meanwhile, I need to ask a question: Asymmetrical, not quite matching earrings in threes…is it an interesting concept that is worthy of continuing, or are matching twos more practical/desirable?

Send me your honest comment and get entered in a drawing for a set of three!

You are invited to attend a Holiday Open Studio at my home and pottery studio in Kingston, Washington, on Saturday and Sunday, December 4th and 5th from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. both days. If you’re local or nearly local to Kingston, Washington, contact me through this site and I will send directions. There will be strategically placed signage to guide you here.

At the Open Studio event I’ll be offering earrings in sets of three, my line of PAIRS called simplesweets, and pottery from my hands (when they were both working – see Update below). News! Wanton Willow Design’s Amy Weber (also my good pal) is featuring her beautiful hand-dyed and painted scarves this weekend! Another great reason to come by.

Please stop by for a visit and refreshments. You’ll be entered in a door prize drawing just for showing up! Also with the pottery, I’m offering a “Buy One, Take One” deal, where if you buy one of my “firsts” you can choose a free pot from my “seconds” shelf. If you can’t make it that weekend but want to come and have a look, send me an email to set a convenient time.

I now accept VISA, Mastercard, and American Express  and good old cash or check. Earrings come in gift packaging and I can mail them to anyone, anywhere in the US for free if you like! Bring your address list and I will provide gift notes to include with your gift which you can fill out yourself. You can also make earring purchases from my Etsy shop where I accept Paypal.

Remember to check here for updates, and if you’re on Facebook, you can “like” my earcandyarts on Facebook page and participate in regular earring giveaways. I hope to hear from you soon! Let your friends know. Special note: If you’ve read this far, mention this blog post when you come by and get 15% off your purchase! Indulge yourself silly.

Sending love,
Linn

I'm somewhat fuzzy and so is my scarf.

And every single one of them were put into the basket.

Three names were chosen. Coincidentally, they all know each other.

Congratulations to the winners, Terri, Susan and Lila! I’ll choose the earrings and send them to you.

Here is the evidence:

The Impartial Accounting Firm

The IAF chooses the winner!

And the winner is Diane Quitslund!!! Two additional names were chosen to be automatically included in the NEXT Giveaway: Tiffany Lin and Tami Mathisen.

Two very handsome pirates.

Ready for Lady Gaga's performance

Next, there’s Amber and her Mom, Vicki. They come by every single week and are my most frequent visitors (and avid eca fans!!). Amber loves LONG earrings though She decided to make off with this entire array of deep purple/blue cubes. The middle set I made first. Within minutes of finishing them and hanging them on my display, Amber came along for the first time and asked if she could get them one bead longer. I said, “come back in 1/2 hour.” She came back and claimed the long set, then several weeks later bought the original set. The single bead set I made because these were my very LAST three beads of this kind. I don’t know if I will ever find them again! But that’s what makes these special…they are definitely one of a kind. Thank you Amber and Vicki!!

Shortest to longest on this side. I love that Amber thinks like I do.

Three in one, longest to shortest.