Always Spring

I found these lovely pearls at one of my local wholesale bead stores. There were only four strands remaining so I snapped them up. They are an exquiste color of yellow ... reminds me of our spring daffodils that brighten our Texas lawnscapes for an all-too-brief spring season. These pearls work surprisingly well with the oxidized sterling silver chain and the Bali-style extenders and S-clasp (not shown). This lovely piece is available at my Etsy shop here.

Being that we are in the dogged-days of summer --- our temperatures have been peaking at around 102F --- it's nice to remember more comfortable seasons. I should be working on the fall and winter line in order to be ready, but it's just too difficult to study the color palette and heavy fabric textures when the sun is blistering in its blaze.

I'm about to have a house full of kids ...