Gayle Bird Designs

MOVED.

gaylebird — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:44:11 +0000

I finally got onto my new server and was able to port this journal onto my own domain. I love wordpress but I really wanted to be self-contained. Wish granted!

New Jewellery Journal »

Shows

gaylebird — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 01:24:40 +0000

My first show went pretty well! It was tiring, and my knee was pretty much destroyed for about a week, but I’m feeling much better now. I had a lot of crazy interest in my work but relatively few people bought anything; it just wasn’t my market. But that’s ok! LOTS of people were excited to know that I’d be at the Marconi show. I was given my location as well – in an alcove under the stairs, at the end facing the main hallway – and I think with my sparkly display, it’s going to be pretty great.

Oh! And this is what it looked like!

futureplans

gaylebird — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 01:19:31 +0000

I’ve got all sorts of plans for new necklaces and serieseses, and feeling just creative enough and energized enough to try some of them tomorrow. Here’s a sneak peek:

A set of rune pendants;

A sea serpent necklace;

Polymer clay starfish;

Half-finished necklaces that can be strung on chains;

Black + copper wire.

I’ll let you know what I come up with!

Display Ideas

gaylebird — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 02:32:52 +0000

Just sketching out the ideas in my head! Click the picture to go to Flickr, where you can hover over the image to see notes on various areas.

Fall Shows

gaylebird — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 22:02:02 +0000

Here’s where you can buy my work this fall!

October 12, 13, 14
St. Theresa’s Hall, St. Peter’s Road, Sydney, Nova Scotia

November 9, 10, 11
NSCC Marconi Campus, Sydney, Nova Scotia

November 23, 24, 25
Victoria Park at the Armories, Sydney, Nova Scotia

Also, some previews!

And the completed Phoenix:

Show Posters

gaylebird — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 22:01:16 +0000

How smart do I feel?

I printed off the gemstones on a small postcard-sized piece of photo paper(and might get actual postcards done up); the beach glass is printed on letter-sized photo paper. I’m feeling pretty pleased with myself, because these are all photos of my actual stock, and the beach glass is all stuff I found myself (or my family found on a trip with me).

The beach glass one is all finished, but I think I’ll continue with my original plan and create a template to print out for the gemstones, and glue the actual stones to cardstock – I also really want to write a sentence or so for each, although that may be too ambitious right now.

Off to the dollar store for some cheap frames!

More Betterer Photos

gaylebird — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 00:40:38 +0000

Here are those sets un-jumbled and laid out (click for larger):

And a couple of my favourites:

Busy!

gaylebird — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 19:05:48 +0000

I made more money from my jewellery in galleries in August than I took home from my day job. And I get paid pretty damn good at my job. I was told that September is about 3/4 of the volume of August – and then comes Celtic Colours, which is an internationally renowned, island-wide fiddle/folk music concert in October.

Since somewhere around Wednesday, I’ve made 71 pairs of earrings, 17 earring/pendant sets, one necklace/earring set and 18 single pendants, while still managing to feel idiotically lazy in front of the TV, watching House and Friends and MASH while making the earrings. I just spent two hours or so with my TV table out on the front verandah drinking in the beautiful fall air (I know, it’s technically summer, but this is Cape Breton) and building some of those sets and pendants.

I was going to say I don’t have pictures of all of this, but screw it, they’re here, the camera’s here, so I snapped a couple.

What I just did outside:

What a jumble of 70 pairs of earrings looks like (don’t worry, they’re all on cards, tangling should be minimal):

A messy, messy photo of some of the sets (there’s pendants underneath the gray cloth, I got lazy though):

Phoenix

gaylebird — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 01:07:09 +0000

I asked Laird to go through my encyclopedia of mythical creatures and choose one for inspiration to make a necklace. He chose the Phoenix (he started listing a few others but the phoenix caught me immediately). I actually sketched this out and went through a lot of angst to get it finished, and in fact the tail might need reconstructing because it’s made with beading thread not wire, but… here it is!

Freeform Rings

gaylebird — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 14:05:56 +0000

How adorable are these? I made a bunch one night last week, wore two to work, and sold about eight of them by taking orders, making more that evening, and delivering the next day. I still managed to have three dozen for my inventory! Which is really good because I’ve got THREE shows coming up this fall, within six weeks of each other. Oi.