Boxes, boxes

I made these.

Well, the stickers – not the boxes. Kateri from Leaves Of Glass needed hundreds of jewellery-box stickers for a big and fabulous gallery project she's involved in, and here they are in all their glory...

If you want to see Kateri's jewellery in all its glory, look here.

Urban Vintage

I kind of wanted to keep these... but since my business name isn't Leaves of Glass and since Kateri (whose business name is Leaves of Glass) had paid me to make them, I didn't.

I love custom design because I get inspired in completely unexpected directions. This project was so absorbing — coming up with a notecard design to reflect the "urban vintage" look of Leaves of Glass. (Kateri's jewellery is lovely, by the way — and when the earrings have names like "Invitation to the Dance", "Spring in my Step" and "I Call My Sugar Candy" — I want to run out and get my ears pierced.)

Still pretty

I love my engagement ring.

I've had it for almost four years now, so I should be over the novelty. But every time I go get it polished by the jeweler, I feel like it's brand new all over again and I go around doing ridiculous things like turning it back and forth in the sunlight to make it all sparkly.

Yesterday was one of those days.