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Splish Splash (on the Beach and in Your Purse)

I was out of town on a hurry Thursday morning (to camp at Sandhill Park near Port Burwell*) so had no time to post these images, but I recently made a clutch for a friend – a scaled-down version of the Ocean Playground Purse I kept for myself last spring.

More leather [...]

Under the Sea

A custom order – an Orca necklace…

Hand-tooled and painted. Strung on Czech glass beads.

I love him.

Bonus? This has opened my mind to designs for the fish pieces I wanted to do when I got back from Ivvavik this summer. I have all manner of sub-par sketches of Arctic Grayling [...]

She Cried More, More, More

I feel like I’ve used this headline before…ahhh well. Writing is turned off this week. All power to leather centres.

First up, the Ocean Playground Necklace – featuring my favourite blue whale strung on vintage glass beads. Hand-carved, tooled and painted in the sweaty afternoon sunlight I cannot escape when sitting at the marble in [...]

The Murphy’s Law Bag

Name change to the Ocean Playground Purse – absolutely everything that could have gone wrong with this bag did go wrong. It is the world’s most disappointing daughter. I never want to see it again, but I’ll probably have to stare at it every day for the rest of my life because I’ll never be [...]

Une Baleine

Much to my furiousity, I had to start the Ocean Playground Purse over again.

I was waiting on leather paints to come in at Tundra and because I couldn’t (wait that is), I started staining and spraying. I knew this was a mistake the minute I did it, but they don’t not call me Amy [...]

Under the Sea

This may not look like much now, but give me a week or so.

I’m going to whip this into some serious shape – the Ocean Playground Purse. Inspired by that Radiolab story with the humpback whale, only featuring a blue whale because they are more conducive to tooling. The humpbacks just have so many [...]