A Little Ho Ho Ho-ing

 I promised you, in an earlier post, that I'd give you a sneak peek at what's on my art board. I'm hoping to have some fabric made for a holiday project that I'm working on. How cool is it that you can make your own fabric? Check out Spoonflower for amazing ideas and inspiration.

 

I have some big plans for gift wrap sheets and (hopefully) some gift tags which will be available at www.JBReinhardt.etsy.com, but not tooooooo soon!

I don't like it that stores start to sneak holiday sparkle in so early. Back-to-School immediately morphs into Halloween and Christmas Season nips at Halloween's heels--- basically snubbing its nose at poor, overlooked Thanksgiving. Usually by mid-November I am forced into a brain-washed-panic that I don't have all my shopping completed, wrapped, and shipped. Catalogs are delivered to my door over a month before Christmas, trying to consol me by stating that, "It's not too late to still recieve your order in time!". 

I guess I'm really not much better, am I? Well, I can promise you that none of this will be in my shop that soon!

Autumnal Hues

When the sunlight shifts, the days shorten, and the evenings cool, there is a change in my palette as well.

From the colors I pick to wear, to the colors I make into jewelry. Subconsciously,  my choices turn to the hues of autumn.

The golden sunflowers bow and brown.

 

And I reach for beads of the same glowing ochres.

 

A lovely rosehip = an antique vegetable ivory bead.

 It's the textures and patterns in nature...

 

...reflected in vintage heirlloms.

Autumn, I always feel that it's God showing us all the glory of his magnificent palette.

I hope you're enjoying this beautiful time of year!

New jewelry soon, at Age Before Beauty.