Woof woof!
Perfect gift for a lover of Boston Terriers (or even French Bulldogs)...
Vintage glass in a handmade sterling setting.... A splash of aqua blue (and tiny white/clear crystal eyes)...
See you over at my Etsy.com shop! (these are an extremely limited edition- I will only have a couple of these gorgeous canines available this holiday season.)
xo
Bek
Boo! Eye see you!
I love Halloween. But I love Halloween from behind the scenes. I like the planning and creating and the troubleshooting. For me, it is like a treasure hunt to warm me up for the upcoming holidays. I have to find just the right thing, I can plan all year for it, and I have to have a backup plan
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BUT I do not like getting dressed up and people in masks and people who are barely recognizable freak me out. Seriously. I have trouble understanding spoken language unless I can see the person's mouth and I have made an ass out of myself (there would be a costume!) more than once by enthusiastically approaching folks I think I know and then I realize oops- not them. It is my hope, that these oopses become clear to me before I hug the person, kiss them on the cheek, or sassily pinch their behind (happened to me, ClubMed age 10. I thought the skinny blond was my mom. It wasn't. It was a shocked dude. My mother thought it was hilarious. I didn't tell her about the part where the person was a Mick Jagger-ly skinny dude.).
I do relish indulging in some of the lower key camp of the holiday. I have a pair of the eyeball hairpins for my own use (the ones offered are unworn) and it really reitterates the eyes in the back of my head thing with the kiddo (and appeals, I think, to his very visual learning style.
The earrings were inspired by the shower scene in Psycho, and the necklace is just a gorgeous, matte eye. All of them are set in handmade, from scratch, sterling silver settings and are heirloom quality. Which, of course, is as important as design and style when eyeing a signature piece.
Anyway, Happy Trick or Treating! Now go shopping! xo Bek
Well, then this will probably not help you for 2009, but perhaps for 2010?
You can also vote on this gnome costume at HuffingtonPost.com's Cutest/Funniest costume contest! Just find the gnome!
Originally uploaded by CleverIndie
A flurry of kisses, just for you....
Limited availability, available now in my Etsy shop...
xo
A modern shape is actually quite vintage. Bakelite scottie (40+ years old) in a fine silver frame. Finished with a sterling silver chain collar and blank sterling silver tag.
A perfect pin/brooch for that favorite sweater or scarf.
Coming soon to my Etsy.com shop!
xo
Bek
Pumpkin Festival
Originally uploaded by CleverIndie
We use rolls of carnival tickets as a visual, tangible "token" instead of monetary allowance. This helps him stay on track, helps reduce stress for our whole family, and teaches him the concept of money and hard work.
The tickets accumulating in his bear shaped plastic jar "ticket bank" are another visual and we also track his daily and weekly ticket progress on a task sheet. He earns tickets for everyday chores but we also give him tickets for choosing to play with a toy from his "sensory bucket" (more on that soon, I promise!) and I give him an extra ticket here and there for doing little projects or favors for me. For the special project tickets, I usually write the date and task on the back, so we can reinforce with praise when reviewing the day or week.
Anyway, I was looking at the big bag of tickets he earned over the summer and didn't want to put them in curbside recycling and I couldn't reuse them with Alex (he's very rigid in his thinking- we are working on it but at this time "re-earning" the tickets would totally throw off his game)... So I asked Alex if he could think of a project to do with them.
These necklaces are what we came up with and we make them together(he's the very enthusiastic glitter department).
$5 of each necklace purchased goes towards Alex's virtual school fund (he gets tickets/points toward his goal). He is saving up to take language lessons online, through K12.com.
To learn more about Asperger's please visit NIH's info sheet
To buy a necklace please visit my Etsy shop.
xo
Bek
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