The Week Is Here

The week many people wait for every year is finally upon us!  Not only do you get to see friends and family surrounded by delicious food BUT you also get GREAT deals shopping!!
Thanksgiving is the holiday dedicated to being thankful for all that you have, especially the food on the table.

Here are some of my great pinterest finds:

If you are hosting Thanksgiving and are trying to find the perfect decoration for the center of your table,  you can put three of these (possibly different sizes with the larger one in the middle and 2 that are  the same size on either side.)  You don't have to put the dried corn in it, you could have candy corn, acorns, different seeds...whatever you see fit for the holiday.  Then at Christmas time you could use the same glass votives and fill it with cranberries or ever green or even pinecones.

 These pilgrim hats are adorable!! For the bottom cookie you can use the E.L.Fudge chocolate strip cookies and put the Reese's peanut butter cup upside down over the hole in the center.

Now on the jewelry front!
I have made a few more pieces and even have stands for my earrings now!

It's so funny, my fiance and I will be out to eat and he's showing me the cuts on his hands from the sheet metal and different things he works with every day.  Then I show him all of my little cuts from constantly getting stabbed by wire while making jewelry.  His cuts are always worse and deeper than mine.  But I just find it funny how I tell him how much cuts stink when mine are tiny compared to his!
I have many more pieces to show you but I will leave some for next week :)

I hope everyone has a very Happy Thanksgiving!

Always,
Savannah

And So It Begins

All of the stores and malls already have Christmas music and decorations up and in full swing.  With Thanksgiving being next week (that came so fast!), Christmas decorations are now on the brain.

For the Fall Barn Sale at Mangiacotti I drew these two acorn drawings:

The same woman bought both of them and I was told that she was raving about them and had wanted more but I hadn't made any more.  This gave me an idea I am currently working on for the holidays.  I know Thanksgiving hasn't come yet and I haven't drawn any Thanksgiving pictures yet but...I started my Christmas ones.

I personally loved my acorn drawings and was kind of hoping that I could keep them myself haha.  Since I liked them and another person did as well since they sold, I decided to draw some Christmas pictures along the same idea.  I have only done two so far but it is a little preview of what is to come in the next few weeks.

 I decided to go along the same idea as the sitting acorns and draw sitting bulbs/ornaments.

 These are drawn with graphite pencils.

 I wanted to try and add a little color but not much.  I used red and green pastels.  I'm not overly thrilled yet with out they have come out so far with color.  I think I need to still work on them and then see how they look in frames with mats.

 Here's one with a set of three ornaments.  I may keep these with only graphite and will try drawing some others with different ornament designs.

I will keep you updated and show you these as finished products next time.  I have many plans on Christmas/ winter drawings and paintings.  This holiday season is my favorite!
I have a bunch of new jewelry that I have been working on as well and will post about that next week.

Always,
Savannah

Thankful November

Being thankful, grateful, and appreciative are concepts that should be recognized throughout the year, not just one month or one day out of the year.  Being thankful is the topic of the month with the upcoming holiday.

There are many things in this world I am thankful for, way more than I could list because it would take waaaaayyy too long!  Here are just a few:  I am extremely thankful for my loving fiance, my family and friends, having food, shelter, clothes to wear, and especially to be ALIVE!
Try and think of a different thing each day of the month that you are thankful for.  It may not seem like a lot but I bet by the end of the month you will have more than 30 things.  I find that the more I recognize and the more I am thankful for, the littler problems seem to be and I end up smiling more.  The more I smile, the more I have to be thankful for and the circle goes round from there. :)

I am also very thankful to have the opportunity to share my love of art and my work through my blog.  There has been increasing interest in my pieces on here, on Etsy, and through people I know.  A friend of mine at work, bought her boyfriend's mom a bracelet and a matching pair of earrings for her birthday and she loved them!!  She is a teacher in Vermont and she has been receiving many compliments on them from her colleagues!  When I heard that, it put the biggest smile on my face!  It makes me happy that something I have a passion for others are able to enjoy.

The winner of my Shades of Pink Flower painting sent me a picture of the painting hanging in her house and I was told how much she enjoys having it.

I'm so glad I got this picture so I could FINALLY show you the final piece!

Lately, a lot of my concentration has been on making jewelry because the holidays are coming and I am going to have a table at the URI Bazaar (Providence location) on Dec. 4th.  I have already sold a bunch of pieces so I have been trying to make lots of different ones!
Here are some of the newer pieces:

 I bought some gold wire, now I have gold, silver, and copper wire to twist with.

I hope you are enjoying these as much as I am!  Let me know if you have any questions or would like any of them:  savviedesigns@gmail.com.

Don't forget to be thankful!!

Always,
Savannah