Mountain Girl Silver - Hand-Stamped Customized Silver Jewelry - Portland, Oregon

As a stamper, there really is nothing better than getting a call from a customer wanting something totally far and away from my norm.  Granted,,, I love stamping the necklaces, and I love stamping the bracelets etc…. but when someone calls me or emails and says that they want this on that,,, and that on this,,, and “can you stamp on this vice that…..  the little lightbulb goes off in my head and brings to my face a smile. I would have a 1000 page website if I could, offering a zillion products that I’ve played with over the years. But it just gets to be too much.. ya know?  Pictured here to the right is a charm bracelet I made for some gal who thought it would look cool if I used the La Vintage pendants on a charm chain. I hadn’t even thought of it quite honestly until this gal called. Yah,, it was over $200 bucks for this woman,, but the finished product was so cool..  It sounded like one of those high-end wind chimes you buy at like a backyard bird store. Clinkity clankity…  But, she loved it, and I loved how it turned out.  I just hope that all my customers out there know that they can ALWAYS call me when they want something totally custom…… again….. it breaks me away from the norm, and I love that!!  Yah sure, I hym and haw over it at first, because I can’t ever commit to something I haven’t tried before, but it usually works out and turns out awesome. When people use their imagination………   I heart that!!  Daneen recently made an affirmation circle and hung a 1/2″ disk in the middle of it vice a bead, and it is awesome. I just made 8 of them for some volleyball team in Connecticut with their team name, their number, and BELIEVE stamped around the circle, and then a 1/2″ disk in the middle with my volleyball stamp on it. Such a cool look…. 

Had Heather and her family over for dinner last night. It had been wayyyyy too long. This past summer with moving and unpacking and moving and unpacking and moving and unpacking, it left little time for any social life for us. But they came over and we drank beers and ate a good meal, and hopefully we got them hooked on the new sitcom on ABC called “Modern Family”…  Now… I’m not a huge t.v. person. And I don’t know why… but I just don’t watch much of it except for the good shows. i.e. Survivor, Grays Anatomy, LOST, 60 mins, and now Modern Family.  Seriously,, if you haven’t watched the show, you really must start……   When I’m an advocate of a show…. I let the whole world know…..  it’s a MUST WATCHER!!!  The dynamics of the show are hard to explain, and like my friend, Betsy (after I bugged her for a month) about how she should be watching it, hopped onto hulu.com  and caught up on all the episodes in one evening. Let’s face it, all of us, and our families have skeletons in the closet. We struggle with issues we’re not comfortable with…twisted psychos perhaps….. homosexuality…… teenagers…… vanity……..greed…… cheaters…….  comedians……. addicts….. the list goes on and on..  This show pretty much captures it all. It’s not “funny ha ha” humor… like americas funniest home videos….   it’s like real humor. It’s like real-life humor.  Like, it hits on the things that happen to people on a day to day basis. The lessons we learn as humans, as parents, as kids, as grandparents. Just flat out reality t.v.,,, but not reality t.v.  It’s far more reality than any reality t.v. show. And I will be devastated if it doesn’t capture enough viewers and the ratings go down and gets kicked off ABC. I will be sorely disappointed in the American people if they let it happen……. SO WATCH IT!!  Do it for me… ;c)  

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