We made it thorough Thanksgiving. The pies were pretty good. I think I will substitute the fresh cranberries for dried next time in the Thanksgiving pie and make a graham cracker crust for the chocolate silk pie, because you serve it frozen or very chilled, and the regular pie crust was a bit too hard. But this has nothing to do with this beautiful jewelry I am showing. . .
These pieces are made by a good friend Kelly Johnston, who now has a lovely shop and website. I worked with Kelly up in Seattle when we lived there and she has a special place in my heart-the way people do when you go to work everyday and someone there gets you and makes you laugh and is just someone who want to hang out with, that can be so uncommon at work, but I got lucky. Kelly is a wonderful artist and has this zany ballsy sense of color, which is so fresh and nice to look at.
Her jewelry has always reminded me of candy. Candy from outer space. I love it. So, check out her new digs here.
And we got the Sufjan Stevens songs for Christmas album yesterday that I have read so much about and the box set, with 5 Cd's and the book, stickers, poster, all that, is pretty dang cool. It's getting hard to find I guess. We tried 2 shops but finally found it here in town at music millennium on Burnside. The music is for the most part really good. A bit hit and miss, but the misses aren't annoying or anything, just some of it is stronger then the rest, which makes sense since it spans 5 years of recordings. It's all mellow and very sweet, a really nice addition to our Christmas music collection and the girls love it. I still love the Low Christmas album too and we need to dig that one out now that Christmas music is fair game in the house.
