The countdown has truly begun, your mom’s day of celebration for having you, wonderful you, is this Sunday the 8th of May. For this last week of mother’s day postings we wanted to share some of our favorites. Jewelry, jewelry, jewelry, we love gems like crows love sparkles. You can imagine our little store as a crow’s nest with all of the hidden goodies from some of the best local jewelers in Portland. We are lucky to live in an area that has so many incredible artists.

Polly Linn from Affixment has created a seperate line of jewelry called Silver Tilia using her metal smithing background, and her penchant for science and compounds. Polly has created a cool line of sterling silver chemical structures of your favorite vices from caffeine to wine to your favorite naturally produced chemicals or hormone like adrenaline and estrogene. Give your mom a little testosterone to wear around her neck! It would be funny! No? Okay, chocolate it is.

We love Tasi. A sister team raised by their mother who owns a bead store in Ohio. These two ladies grew up around rare beads and metals, and have combined their talents to bring us, and you beautiful, classic, and sophisticated necklaces and earrings.

Using rare stones and shells Tasi’s peices are unique and individual making them a perfect gift.

We have featured Minoux in many of our posts, like this post on the history of mother’s day.

Minoux’s pieces are delicate and refined with a daring edge. They are a lovely accent to a nice dress for a night out or an added pop to an otherwise casual outfit.

Minoux works with silver and gold pieces, but we also carry many of her stone works. Bright colorful earrings and necklaces that accentuate any skin tone. If your mom is a cross between funky and savvy Minoux is a good way to go.

 

Frenworks is not a local line, but we support independent artist from all over, and she hails from North Carolina. When we first started carrying this line Faryn was living in our Northern sister city Seattle, where you can find her resin work in the G. Gibson Gallery. She has recently packed up her family and headed to the South. We will miss the proximity.

Fernworks jewelry is like having the museum of natural history at your fingertips and around your neck. She has organic and found pieces carefully layered in resin and nestled in a casing to wear on your finger or hang from your ears. When she is not collecting natural pieces from her surrounding world she is capturing them with her drawings that she also layers under resin.

Affixment is another of our favorite resin artists. Using a similar technique to create a completely unique art piece for your mom. Incorporating both found images and artist Jen Smith’s drawings each pendant is a one of a kind gift.

For more information on Affixment check out this interview with Jen Smith.

Molly M Designs creates laser cut wood pendants and earrings. They are light and cosmopolitan. Molly McGrath the creator and designer, uses her education as an architect to bring us these amazing works of art.

Locket 2 You is a husband and wife team that sacrificed all their creature comforts to do their art and bring us these fun and heartwarming lockets. Look to future posts to read more about this team.

What would we do with out Rubygirl? Seriously, Shannon Conrad is the most proliferate and eclectic jeweler around, and we always have an outfit that is just screaming to be accentuated by a Rubygirl necklace or set of earrings. Check out a future post where you can meet Shannon Conrad designer and creator behind Rubygirl.

 

Do you remember Shrinky Dinks®? Well some of our jewelers do, and they have brought the Shrinky Dink® magic to our store. Passion Flower by Heidi Cain creates hand drawn, hand painted pieces, and bakes them on shrinkable plastic just like you use to do as a kid.

Another Shrinky Dink® artist is Lady Made. The bright and colorful pendants are also hand drawn, painted, and baked, although truth be told, sometimes her mom helps her.

You may have read our blog interview with Rachel from Plume. Her vintage inspired pieces are adornments for hair and fingers, ears, and as necklaces. They are sweet and pretty with that soft femininity that we all can love.

 

We have barely scrapped the surface with this post, truly you need to come into the store and see for yourself to understand the amazing collection of jewelry that we carry. If your mom likes jewelry you will find something here that she will love.

If you can not make it into our store before mother’s day be sure to check out our website where you can find the artists featured here and so many more wonderful artist.

Happy Mother’s day and don’t forget we have the best selection of cards in town. Go get your mom a card, better not forget or ooohhh you’re in trouble.