New Mini Mongos

in addition to the new line, i've been expanding the granulated lines too. these are a new twist on the mini mongos which sprang from the full granulated necklace (affectionately named the mongo :) i wanted to make some that had a more vertical feel and less horizontal action. the first one also has 3 disks featured within the chain. enjoy and have a great weekend!

Obsessed

i have become completely obsessed with this new line! in a good way. i hope :) two more pendants, some charms, earrings, cufflinks and another ring all waiting to be photographed! until then, here are a few more pendants....

New Pendants Pt. 2

here are three more of my new multi-layered pendants. each one uses sterling silver, anodized aluminum and recycled gift cards. i'm going to have a hard time letting some of these go!

by popular demand here are photos of the rings instead of more pendants. more pendants later! all three rings are layers of sterling silver, anodized aluminum and recycled gift cards. and each is one-of-a-kind. sorry these pix are a little darker than usual, but i was losing the light (i prefer natural sunlight as a rule). cheers!

full frontal view

these rings feel great on. nice thick band and a really comfortable weight due to the multiple layers of metal and plastic.

New, new, new!

i have been frantically getting ready for my spring show on may 1st. it may seem far away, but i'll be away for 2 weeks over spring break and am therefore panicking as usual. this is a new line that will debut at that show. each pendant is layered with recycled gift cards, anodized aluminum and sterling silver and then riveted together. i'm having a lot of fun with them and just finished some rings tonight that turned out great! may have to make some more of those :) more pix tomorrow. there are currently 10 pendants and 3 rings, all of which are one-of-a-kinds. have a great week!

Cupcakes!

my friend and fabulous local foodie, Julie Van Rosendaal, challenged me to come up with some food-related jewelry. since i have a notorious sweet tooth, it was either donuts or cupcakes. and even though donut sprinkles would have been an interesting challenge i went with a cupcake. this pendant measures 1.5" in diameter and is made with sterling silver, anodized aluminum (in chocolate brown even though it looks darker in the picture) and a recycled gift card. fun, colorful and fewer calories than the real thing!

Career & Job Search Advice

check out my dad's new blog!

www.wishdr.blogspot.com

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2010

its a little late, but hope your 2010 has started off great!

Fall Teaser

big fall show is tomorrow and miraculously, i am ready! here a few pix

of new items debutting at the show. have a great weekend!

fine silver earrings made to go with the antique button pendant i did last year

tree series cufflinks...can't leave out the men!

revival of the 2-tone anodized aluminum pendants

Fall Show 2009

It's time for the 2009 Fall Show & Sale!

Saturday, November 21

10am - 5pm

2007 Ramsay Street SE

Calgary, AB

New designs, holiday gifts, teacher gifts and more!

Light refreshments served.

Questions?

403.262.3795 or

maddocki@telus.net

Visa, Mastercard, cheques & cash gladly accepted.

www.smaddockdesigns.com

Beautiful Baldies

check out my amazing kids who shaved their heads on friday in support of kids with cancer!

Phoenix Baby!

i feel like i'm back in university, cramming for a studio art project! i really must learn to stop leaving things to the last minute (yea right!). these lovely bits are for an enameling class i'll be taking on saturday in phoenix. in mesa actually, but close. why am i flying all the way to phoenix for an art class that i could surely take in calgary? well, the class is being taught by my good friend jewel clark (yes, her name really is jewel!), a fellow university of texas metals graduate. we get to visit after many, many moons and i get to take a class that i've been interested in for almost as long. will have more pix on monday-ish, have a great week!

Extended Tree Series

these are an extension of the tree series. the color disks are anodized aluminum that have been riveted to the silver bit. contact me for purchase availability. cheers!

And Yet a Few More...

And More New Collage Pendants

you've seen this one before, but it was a crappy photo!

my all-time fave and of course its the one that sold :)

the tag on this one reads 'dance'

More Collage Pendants

just a couple of the collage pendants that made their debut at the group show. all the collage pendants are reversible (with painting on the backside) and are made with wood, acrylic paint, recycled gift cards and sterling silver.

couple more tomorrow.....

Successful Group Show

Veronica Stewart-Cameron, Nicole Schon, me and Linda Hickey right

before Group Show No. 2 began!

Veronica and her eager helper, Bronwyn, showing off all the lovely Japanese papers and albums.

Happy customer rocking her new bling.

Nicole with her beautiful teapots and AMAZING tea.

Linda talking quilts (you should see the one I got!) with a prospective client.

Group Show No. 2

a creative collective featuring:

Stacey Maddock Designs
jewelry
www.smaddockdesigns.com

Pebblestone Papery
handbound albums & books
www.pebblestonepapery.com

Linda Hickey
fibre art

tnik
premium teas & accessories
www.tnik.com

Saturday, September 26
10am – 5pm
2007 Ramsay Street SE
Calgary, AB


visa, mastercard, cheques & cash
gladly accepted

Pay It Forward Art

check out this new blog! this is such a great idea! i'm on the list and if you have even one creative bone in your body, you should too!! if you're interested contact amy weber, our pay it forward hostess :)

check it out! http://payitforwardart.blogspot.com/

Ballad

This is a teaser from Maggie Stiefvater's BALLAD, a novel involving homicidal faeries and kissing that's coming out October 1st.

He turned towards me. For a long moment, he stood facing me. I was held, anchored to the ground – not by his music, which still called and pushed against the music already in my head and said grow rise follow – but by his strangeness. By his fingers, spread over the ground, holding something into the earth, by his shoulders, squared in a way that spoke of strength and unknowability, and most of all, by the great, thorny antlers that grew from his head, spanning the sky like branches.

Then he was gone, and I missed his going in the instant that the sun fell off the edge of the hill, abandoning the world to twilight.

Buy it here. Enter the contest at Maggie's blog here.

Razzy Boy

Photo by Jessica Lee

They say the dog is man's best friend. That he is loyal, faithful, protective and never judges. He is the friend who is there for you when no one else is. He brings joy, laughter, and let's be honest, the odd moments of anger too. But above all of that, he brings many great memories to your life. Sometimes a dog will even bring you to tears...

Today the tears are tears of sorrow of a life past. The tears are for a friend who brought so much to our lives, yet never spoke a word. He didn't have to speak for you to get to know the kind of gentle soul he was. You just had to witness the way he pranced around with a prized stick in his mouth, or how he would get oh so close to new born baby without touching it, to realize how gentle he was. Always the gentleman, he would wait for you to walk down the stairs or out a door before he would follow. He was also the house exterminator - without hesitation, he would gulp up that scary looking spider or that pesky moth that had entered the house.

One of our fondest memories goes back to when he was a couple of years old. Stacey was walking Shiraz and the newly born Bronwyn at the dog park. A group of hornets surrounded the baby buggy and it looked certain that our precious baby would be stung. But the gentleman stepped in and wedged himself between the baby buggy and the hornets. He was stung three times. Bronwyn and Stacey were unharmed.

Today after a brief struggle with cancer Shiraz bid us farewell. No words can really express what he meant to our family. He was the dog you always dreamed of owning. He was gentle, kind and loved being around people.

When we picked his name over 11 and half years ago we could not have imagined that it would have suited him so perfectly:

In the words of Robert Parker of the Wine Advocate describing a Shiraz: full-bodied power, great definition and lovely elegance.

Please take a moment to view this incredible video that was made over 10 years ago by a very special friend.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DZEZMKC4dg

Ian, Stacey, Bronwyn, Fintan and of course Mouton

Collage Pendants #2

this is the backside. sorry for the photo glare, but the clearcoat doesn't like the camera.





i've been going crazy with these collage pendants! they are so fun and colorful. i've got 3 more works in progress, but not ready for their 15 minutes of fame. here are 2 that are completed. think i might have to keep the orange and red one! i also painted the backs. it covers the rivet evidence, but also makes the pendants reversible. crappy photos, won't be taking professional shots until closer to my show in september. have a great day!

Collage Pendants

after taking a wee bit of a break after my spring show, i am back into the swing of things! you don't realize how tired getting ready for a show makes you until you wake up from a 2 week nap. gee, guess i was a little worn out :)

school is almost out, spring is finally hitting calgary and i got the creativity bug again. i have so many cool and colorful gift cards, just begging to be recycled into something cool, that i thought i'd give using them in a new, fun way, a whirl. here's the first result. there are two more in various stages of progress on my desk, but i'll save those for next week :) as usual its not a great photo, just sitting on my centerpunch block with some sunlight, but it'll have to do. this one is painted wood with recycled gift card and sterling silver riveted to it. haven't decided what it'll hang from either...any suggestions?

have a great weekend everyone!

Success!

thank you to everyone who came out to the spring show this past saturday, it was great!

and congratulations to the gift certificate winners, gwen, heather and berri-lynn!