A Short Break in Service

I may disappear for a few days

I'm packing up my supplies

and my inventory

Locking up

Closing up

Getting ready to travel

Over water

by road

Going to fly away

looking forward to getting back to my northern studio

where I can make bangles

and plant a garden

Oh, and I got a haircut today

With a new stylist.

See you all soon!

XOXO Kim

Just Doors and Entryways in India

Indian Graphics

 One of the things I loved about India was the richness of graphics in signs and decorations.

I passed by this sign in Munnar one day in a taxi and spent the next two days trying to locate it so i could take her picture

The gleaming smile in the jewelry store

The Bollywood posters

The Raja's portrait in the City Palace in Jaipur

In tile

handpainted signs on vehicles

Hand painted signs at the deer park in Sarnath

Enigmatic works of art

Gandhi graffiti

Not graphics but wonderfully kitschy 

I love the primitive perspective on this one

On just about any surface

Don't ask me what the meaning of this is

Found on the banks of the Ganges in Varanasi

I adore the richness of colors and decoration of almost every available surface in India. So much of it is still hand painted giving a richness and simplicity that evokes the soul of India for me.

I think about how many skilled sign painters that must still exist there and it surely must be a dying breed here in the west. Affordable advertising and art brilliantly executed. 

Influenced by India... my latest work

Pink City earrings

Components I'm making for future earrings from a tea tin 

and metal tile that I found at an abandoned shack in the desert

Perhaps inspired by my India trip and made with new gem show beads.

Paddle headpins made by me.

Rajasthan earrings

Jade pieces from the gem show.

I'm selling these for $3.50 each...just ask me!

From a vendor at the ghat in Varanasi by the banks of the Ganges.

"Very old" he said, hundreds of years old...well maybe 20 years according to a more reputable antiques dealer. I promise you I didn't pay too much for these! 

This is the same guy that guessed my age at 65 so maybe I shouldn't feel so bad.

He thought so by looking at my hands...one reason I'm not anxious to do any online video tutorials for you guys!

Newest necklace made yesterday with components from mala prayer beads, Thai amulet, Roman glass beads, labradorite and raw sapphire.

Tribalosity

outdoor photo

light box with no lights photo