Welcome to the Silver Cholla Blog
This is a place to collect all of my creative directions, from ideas to finished product. You will find all of my handmade jewelry here, both lines, Silver Cholla Jewelry and The Vintage Jewelry Box. Enter the shops by clicking on the links or the photos. Then you can see the entire line of each. Each shop has from 30 to 70 pieces displayed. Also, you have access to my vintage and jewelry supply shop, The Automat.
Silver Cholla also sells it's line on Artfire.com, Silvercholla.artfire.com.
Not in the mood to shop?
Stay right here and peruse about to find inspiration, read my skeletal ramblings or simply use it as a tool to find out more about what and who inspires me...I do expect my visitors to respect its content and handle it with gentle kindness.
My creative process is a lot like a mentor that I honor and continually learn from. My blog, my shops, my studio and this place are an on going integral part of this process.
It's rather exciting to pull it all together in one place;
the end product, the visual and verbal ramblings, the inspirations that go on in my head while creating and living.
So let your guard down and join me. Let's be creative together. I'm on a continual creative road trip to someplace nice. A place where all creative mediums meet..
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Friday, November 27, 2009
The Casita Collective’s 2nd Annual Holiday Art and Craft Boutique
The Casita Collective’s 2nd Annual Holiday Art and Craft Boutique featuring the handcrafted and original work of more than a dozen local artisans.
Saturday, December 5th, 2009
Noon – 5:00 p.m.
4189 Jackson Avenue (click address for directions)
Culver City CA
310-845-9118
My jewelry will be there along with a dozen other local artisans. It’s the perfect chance to do your holiday shopping and find unusual gifts for those special people in your life.
This is a private event, and not advertised as “open to the public,” so it would be great if you could help get the word out by sharing this with your friends and family.
More than a dozen artisans are selling their work -- some beautiful, one-of-a-kind jewelry, ceramic pieces, photography, tote bags made from sari fabrics – just a few of the things you’ll find when you come on December 5th.
Saturday, December 5th, 2009
Noon – 5:00 p.m.
4189 Jackson Avenue (click address for directions)
Culver City CA
310-845-9118
My jewelry will be there along with a dozen other local artisans. It’s the perfect chance to do your holiday shopping and find unusual gifts for those special people in your life.
This is a private event, and not advertised as “open to the public,” so it would be great if you could help get the word out by sharing this with your friends and family.
More than a dozen artisans are selling their work -- some beautiful, one-of-a-kind jewelry, ceramic pieces, photography, tote bags made from sari fabrics – just a few of the things you’ll find when you come on December 5th.
becoming minimalist
Just fasinating to read.
Becoming Minimalist
a family of four in the suburbs becomes minimalist and so can you.
http://www.becomingminimalist.com/
Becoming Minimalist
a family of four in the suburbs becomes minimalist and so can you.
http://www.becomingminimalist.com/
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Facebook Fan Page
Where to become a facebook fan.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Culver-City-CA/Silver-Cholla-and-The-Vintage-Jewelry-Box/96832319285#
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Culver-City-CA/Silver-Cholla-and-The-Vintage-Jewelry-Box/96832319285#
http://www.thefind.com/
Silver Cholla, The Vintage Jewelry Box and The Automat are now registered with
TheFind.
TheFind is the vertical search engine for shopping that puts every product, every store, every sale, coupon and discount, right at your fingertips. Thier mission is to help every shopper find exactly what they want to buy, and to help every merchant, large and small, to reach those shoppers.
TheFind.
TheFind is the vertical search engine for shopping that puts every product, every store, every sale, coupon and discount, right at your fingertips. Thier mission is to help every shopper find exactly what they want to buy, and to help every merchant, large and small, to reach those shoppers.
Friday, July 17, 2009
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Etsy Lounge: Little Fish in Etsy's Big Pond
Thank you to Andria of Etsylounge.blogspot.com for featuring The Vintage Jewelry Box's Swimming Fish Bracelet in Etsy Lounge, an independent blog. This is an wonderfully written, thoughtful blog that is well worth a visit. Think of it as a personal shopping guide.Andria, runs several websites KatsaraYarns , Piacere. , and Katsarayarns.com . In addition to Etsy Lounge, she writes the blog, Katsarastudio.blogspot.com .
This image is of one of her felted silk and merino Nasturtium Scarves. Beautiful!
It might be time to write about fiber arts!
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Silver Cholla Now on Art Fire
New to this site, Silver Cholla Jewelry has created a online store with ArtFire.com.
Today I managed to get a couple of listings up and a profile built. Click on the Art Fire logo or the link to get there silvercholla.artfire.com .
ArtFire.com is a place to buy and sell handmade items designed by artisans from around the globe. Their free community is designed to let artisans promote their handmade products and crafts while celebrating unique handmade items and designs.
(adapted from Art Fires home page)
Watch for more listings to come.
Watch for more listings to come.
Who knows, maybe it will become a home
for The Automat and The Vintage Jewelry Box too.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Thank You to Laura Lanz-Frolio, a NY Bargain Shopping Examiner, for this thoughtful review of The Vintage Jewelry Box.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Some Front Page Etsy Exposure
Exciting news for The Vintage Jewelry Box this past week and month. First, this item was chosen to be in the Etsy Summer Gift Guide. It was then featured in this awesome Treasury made by GetReadySetGo and made it to the front page. Thank you GetReadySetGo.
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Silver Cholla is my New Etsy Store.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Paint like Jackson Pollock
Jackson Pollock
Click on the name Jackson Pollock, you should have a white page on your screen.
Drag and click you mouse around the page.
Have great fun!
..........................
Here is a bonus video too!
Click on the name Jackson Pollock, you should have a white page on your screen.
Drag and click you mouse around the page.
Have great fun!
..........................
Here is a bonus video too!
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Just make them think!
You can't continually stand next to your art and explain
your intentions, so use your creative talents to make people think.
Create your work with a visual message.
They might not understand exactly what you are trying to say,
but they will walk away pondering something.
This is what keeps the wheel of inspiration rolling.
This does mean that YOU will need to think while creating.
your intentions, so use your creative talents to make people think.
Create your work with a visual message.
They might not understand exactly what you are trying to say,
but they will walk away pondering something.
This is what keeps the wheel of inspiration rolling.
This does mean that YOU will need to think while creating.
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Un Chien Andalou - This classic Surrealist film is not for the squeamish.
Un Chien Andalou - An Andalusian Dog is a 1928 -1929 short surrealist film produced in France by two Spanish auteurs: the Aragonian director Luis Buñuel and the Catalonian artist Salvador Dalí -
Warning: some grotesque footage. Here is the film I refer to in the post below...Film - This is Unedited and Spilled Out. This classic Surrealist film is 15:34 minutes.
"Un Chien Andalou remains a startling artifact suggesting ways in which film can express the subconscious. The result of Luis Bunuel's collaboration with Salvador Dali, the 17-minute, 1929 film was designed expressly to shock and provoke. Opening with the canonical eyeball-slashing sequence and divided into baffling 'chapters', this is a work of art obsessed with religion, lust, decay, violence, and death. Un Chien Andalou isn't simply one of the great works of the surrealist movement, but a segment of cinematic DNA that irrevocably altered the aesthetics of film." -amazon.com (Ryan Boudinot)
Warning: some grotesque footage. Here is the film I refer to in the post below...Film - This is Unedited and Spilled Out. This classic Surrealist film is 15:34 minutes.
"Un Chien Andalou remains a startling artifact suggesting ways in which film can express the subconscious. The result of Luis Bunuel's collaboration with Salvador Dali, the 17-minute, 1929 film was designed expressly to shock and provoke. Opening with the canonical eyeball-slashing sequence and divided into baffling 'chapters', this is a work of art obsessed with religion, lust, decay, violence, and death. Un Chien Andalou isn't simply one of the great works of the surrealist movement, but a segment of cinematic DNA that irrevocably altered the aesthetics of film." -amazon.com (Ryan Boudinot)
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Film - This is unedited and spilled out ....
I found myself at the book store yesterday, in the film section of all places. This is a first.
I am looking for something on film that is rather raw and enjoyable for a friend that seems inspired by film and drama at the moment. I slowly passed by every book on every shelf. So many choices, but most such serious reads. I came across a book called "The Age of Gold" Dali, Bunuel, Artaud: Surrealist Cinema. The cover is a still shot of the infamous scene in the film "Un Chien Andalou" just before the straight razor slices through the eye of a woman. Ah hah! That is the film I was looking for on You Tube last week. The film we were required to watch in Art School's, History of Graphic Design class. Unnerving then as it is now, I still find myself so curious about the making of Surrealist art and that includes a very brief history of film making done during at that time. It took a minute to realize, this book was coming home with me.
In the intro there is mentioned of two artists/poets of that time, who found themselves taken with the new art of film. They would roam from cinema to cinema, entering and leaving each film at random places in the production. Creating a visual poetry of their own, in doing so.
Imagine that today, an extravagant spilling out of cash to roam from film to film at your leisure.
Can't be done quite as easily today as it was when each film cost a penny or so.
Got me to thinking though. I have grown less and less interested in television with every year of my life. Growing up in the TV era, I have just had my fill. What I do now is read or crossword puzzle or sleep while my husband controls the clicker, often randomly flipping from scene to scene, from station to station. I have experienced this poetry myself, the same as the artist mentioned above. A random assortment of scenes collaged together, creating its own art form, story, poem or audio visual. In those days, though, it was a silent film, so it was all up to the eyes. Hence the beginning of the film, "Un Chien Andalou" where the movie starts out with a razor slash to the eye, like a reflection of yourself and your own eye being slashed.
So how does the random flipping of television programs, or movies, become a rather personal reflection of who you are? Perhaps, it is the turning on and off the scenes you find most and least stimulating. Controlling what can enter your vision and now your ears, can create quite a poetic escape from reality. Not as romantic as the cinema of silent films, but the amount of viewing pleasure seem endless. I still think I'd like to roam in and out of theaters though.
I am looking for something on film that is rather raw and enjoyable for a friend that seems inspired by film and drama at the moment. I slowly passed by every book on every shelf. So many choices, but most such serious reads. I came across a book called "The Age of Gold" Dali, Bunuel, Artaud: Surrealist Cinema. The cover is a still shot of the infamous scene in the film "Un Chien Andalou" just before the straight razor slices through the eye of a woman. Ah hah! That is the film I was looking for on You Tube last week. The film we were required to watch in Art School's, History of Graphic Design class. Unnerving then as it is now, I still find myself so curious about the making of Surrealist art and that includes a very brief history of film making done during at that time. It took a minute to realize, this book was coming home with me.
In the intro there is mentioned of two artists/poets of that time, who found themselves taken with the new art of film. They would roam from cinema to cinema, entering and leaving each film at random places in the production. Creating a visual poetry of their own, in doing so.
Imagine that today, an extravagant spilling out of cash to roam from film to film at your leisure.
Can't be done quite as easily today as it was when each film cost a penny or so.
Got me to thinking though. I have grown less and less interested in television with every year of my life. Growing up in the TV era, I have just had my fill. What I do now is read or crossword puzzle or sleep while my husband controls the clicker, often randomly flipping from scene to scene, from station to station. I have experienced this poetry myself, the same as the artist mentioned above. A random assortment of scenes collaged together, creating its own art form, story, poem or audio visual. In those days, though, it was a silent film, so it was all up to the eyes. Hence the beginning of the film, "Un Chien Andalou" where the movie starts out with a razor slash to the eye, like a reflection of yourself and your own eye being slashed.
So how does the random flipping of television programs, or movies, become a rather personal reflection of who you are? Perhaps, it is the turning on and off the scenes you find most and least stimulating. Controlling what can enter your vision and now your ears, can create quite a poetic escape from reality. Not as romantic as the cinema of silent films, but the amount of viewing pleasure seem endless. I still think I'd like to roam in and out of theaters though.
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