Several new items and my jewelry is featured in a blog today!

I'm so honored by Laurie LeBlanc-Rickaby of MadeBySwirlyGirl, to be introduced today in her "Tuesday Meet and Greet" blog posting! Laurie makes incredibly beautiful photo art and notecards. Be sure to check out her websites: her etsy shop, her facebook fan page, her blog, her twitter site and her flickr site.

I was very busy creating last week and added many new items to my etsy shop. The necklace to the left is called Cosmos - I just love it!

My other new etsy shop listings include:

a cool textured copper cuff bracelet, called "Movement" a textured set of stacking rings ,

beautiful Pisco Blue Chrysocolla pendant called "Once in a Blue Moon" and a Candelaria Variscite pendant called "Sea Foam"

If I had a hammer

Do you ever get a song in your head that stays with you for days? If you're about (ummm) my age, you probably heard that Mary Travers, of the folk group Peter, Paul and Mary, passed away recently. Ever since then, I've had the song "If I Had a Hammer" playing over and over again in my head. What a great song, back then and today!

Well, I decided to pick up my favorite hammer, a piece of heavy copper wire, and start to sing and hammer away. No saws, no files, just a hammer and an anvil. This necklace set is the result of all that hammering. (OK, I admit I used a hole punch to make the holes in the tops so I could connect the pieces to chain and earwires.)

You can watch a video here of Peter, Paul and Mary singing the song. Enjoy!

IF I HAD A HAMMER (The Hammer Song) words and music by Lee Hays and Pete Seeger
If I had a hammer
I'd hammer in the morning
I'd hammer in the evening
All over this land
I'd hammer out danger
I'd hammer out a warning
I'd hammer out love between my brothers and my sisters
All over this land

If I had a bell
I'd ring it in the morning
I'd ring it in the evening
All over this land
I'd ring out danger
I'd ring out a warning
I'd ring out love between my brothers and my sisters
All over this land

If I had a song
I'd sing it in the morning
I'd sing it in the evening
All over this land
I'd sing out danger
I'd sing out a warning
I'd sing out love between my brothers and my sisters
All over this land

Well I've got a hammer
And I've got a bell
And I've got a song to sing
All over this land
It's the hammer of justice
It's the bell of freedom
It's the song about love between my brothers and my sisters
All over this land

©1958, 1962 (renewed), 1986 (renewed)
TRO-Ludlow Music, Inc. (BMI)