My dear sultry seals,

It's evening. The wood burning stove is cooking up an ember pie.  It is cozier than a marmot hug up in here, and I can hear the ocean roaring through the walls.  We’ve just had a storm and the King Tides. Those are the high-as-a-kite tides, that happen three times each winter. Winter hosts the highest highs, and summer hosts the lowest lows. It is tradition to get your bod to a safe but exhilarating precipice, and squeal as these monsters stampede toward you, collapsing in on themselves with an echoing crack like a velvet gunshot.

To see colossal waves, high tide, AND SUN simultaneously is an Oregon coast miracle. King Tides also creep a little higher each year, gobbling up earth and the knuckleheaded things we’ve constructed near the coast, such as trails, houses, and the road that leads to my neighborhood which appears ready to heave itself into the sea.

Enough about big waves. I brought you here for the tiny ones! I finally have some minis available!

A small collection of seascape necklaces. I found these pendants a few years ago at a vintage stock dealer, and bought them all. I love how they look like tiny gilded museum frames.

There are also three new enamel-painted compasses. The first one shown had an unfortunate accident while viewing the king tides. It went too far out on the rocks, slipped, and conked its needle! She’s still pretty to look out, but inept at finding direction, and has been priced accordingly. Available in the shop.

On the larger side of things, there are two diptychs and my Little Free Libraries series of prints freshly planted in the shop.

"Holding On" and "Letting Go" were all made in a relieved-weepy state of mind when my youngest started school. 
They are nostalgic, dreamlike, and a bit old-fashioned feeling.

Lastly, and most fun-ly, I have two in-person events!

I am teaching an ornament gilding class at the Visual Arts Center on December 5th, from 5-8. It will be glitzy and silly and festive. Then I will be at the elegant holiday bazaar at the Pacific Heritage Maritime Center on Saturday, December 7th from 10-3.

I’ll be overdressed, flush-faced and selling cards with sultry harbor seals. Hope to see some of your merry faces.

xo, Kh