October Shop Update

October 4, 2021 by

[Alpha Necklaces: Prudent Man Agate, Dendritic Agate, Deschutes Jasper, Rocky Butte Jasper in all sterling settings — this will be the last of the wolf pack for a while though I’m sure they’ll circle back around!]

Howdy darlin’s! 

I am stocking my shop shelves on October 11th @ 11AM MST — I was hoping to do this update on the 7th but I am having to bump it back by a few days due to a rickety rural wifi issue I’m having here.  I’m also supposed to be on my October sabbatical but I’m having to bump that back by a few days too. Maybe I’ll get to have it in January.  Keep your fingers crossed for me!


This shop update will include a heavenly host of necklaces (I think I’m sitting at 40 necklaces at the moment) and some earrings.  I have a batch of rings I’m working on but I’m not going to be able to finish them in time.  I’m also working on a beautiful new series that I’m not quite ready to debut…but almost.


Please make note of the shop update day and time.  I hope to see you there!

+OF THE WEST+

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September 8, 2021 by

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September 7, 2021 by

[sterling silver, dendritic opal and fossilized walrus tusk — cut and polished by me]

Thinking aloud this morning:

There are infinite ways to employ creativity. Math is creative work. Gardening is creative work. Fly fishing is creative work. Stalking an elk is creative work. Sculpting is creative work. Building a livestock enclosure is creative work. All humans are creative. Not all humans are painters, jewelers, writers, engineers, architects, homemakers…and yet, everything we set our hands to offers us a chance to employ our creativity.

I am a silversmith, a writer, a photographer, a gardener, a farmer, and an extremely proud homemaker. All of my work encourages my creativity. All work is creative work. If you are not employing your creativity in your job, don’t treat your job like it’s not the right job for you when the real issue might be that you simply are not employing your creativity to your work. It’s easy to coast. It’s easy to be complacent. It’s easy to make macaroni and cheese from a box for dinner. It’s meaningful, creative work to look in the fridge, see what tailings of food are there, and to take those random ingredients and create a delicious, well crafted, wholesome meal.

We improve the world around us — our communities, our neighborhoods, our homes, our relationships — when we strive to apply our creative power to every problem that requires solving, when we challenge ourselves to create, to fix, to build, to craft, to leave beauty and remedy in our wakes instead of trash, brokenness and chaos. To live creatively, to live artfully, is to actively apply our creative energy to everything we touch.

Don’t sit back and let someone else deal with the problem. If you have time to complain about it, you have time to fix, build, or invent a solution. Why wait for someone else to employ their creativity while your own creativity festers, rusts and rots…and is begging to be used.

Grab the bull by the horns, use your mind, use your hands, use your heart, and live creatively.

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September 2, 2021 by

I find real reality incredibly satisfying (I mean, not the screens, the here and now, the pulse of what is alive and warm and connected and feeling). A cup of oolong tea brewed on my truck tailgate in a cold morning breeze. Eyes stinging and a throat tinged with soreness as a smoked-out sky bears down on the landscape. Tater Tot on a beautiful point in sagebrush along a transitioning string of timber. A blue grouse flushing and banking hard away from the eager muzzle of my shotgun. Reading a book by headlamp in the bed of my truck — fictional futuristic totalitarianism — which feels far away from the stars and the night sounds that drift up out of the panorama I am camped in…but maybe it’s right outside, floating around like a bad idea on a smoke-stained breeze. Tater hanging his head over my shoulder as we drive a little deeper in. Waking up to a bluebird sky, the smoke blown off in the night, the look of the lake in the sunshine, white capped and lovely and clean. The aspen! Two legs to walk with. Two eyes to see with. Two ears to hear with. Hands sliding over Douglas fir branches, smooth and soft. The scent of the lodgepoles. The clump of lupins, raggedy and sunburnt and late blooming, the last of the season. A cup of hot tomato soup I made in my kitchen last fall and froze to save for days like these when the evenings are cool — salty crackers crushed up on top, growing floppy in the steaming liquid. A sense of being brave hearted, strong minded, grounded and sure of hand.

I was here. It was real.

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Garlic For Sale

August 24, 2021 by

We did it! Not only did we manage grow a successful garlic crop this year and expand our garlic field to prepare for planting in October, we ALSO managed to get our farm website built, garlic cleaned, trimmed, sorted AND certified “white rot free” by the Idaho Department of Agriculture which means it is now legal for us to sell and ship seed grade garlics all over the USA.

Our farm website is up and running — somehow Robbie was able to build it during this fire season while sitting on the tarmac between fire calls. Pardon all his typos and grammatical errors and any glitchy photographs. I haven’t had time to comb the website for mistakes because I’m over here running the rest of our empire!

Please visit our farm website if you’d like to know more about our garlic or if you would like to make a purchase. We are selling seed grade and culinary grade garlics, soft neck and hardneck varieties, and we are shipping throughout the USA.

Let us be your garlic farmers!

If you have any questions, please email Robbie at sundriesfarm@gmail.com — he’ll be happy to answer any questions you might have. Thank you to everyone who has been cheering us on and rooting for us. Starting a little farm is a labor of love and we’ve reached this point because of our own grit and the grace of God.

+EAT GARLIC BE WELL+

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