honey & ollie

Honey&Ollie: The Blog

I created this blog so that I would have a place to write about the things that matter to me. Primarily this tends to be focused around creative projects I’ve got going on – both related to my business and for pure creative enjoyment. My hope is that in writing about these things: my art, my life, my family; that I’ll provide some helpful information or even just offer a little bit of entertainment, humor or fodder for thought on any given day. My journey is all about crafting my life from scratch. It is about saying NO to the idea that there is some cookie cutter trajectory that I am supposed to follow, and about saying YES to the possibility that I am meant to craft my own flight plan.

The blog is the place where I get to share that journey with all of you.

Honey&Ollie: The Business
In 2010, I experienced a series of profound shifts in just about every aspect of my life. I realized that I wanted to pick up the threads of the creative, juicy, unconventional life that I dropped years ago when my second child was born. For a number of years, a lot of my creative energy went into raising two thoughtful, aware young women who would think critically, follow their passions, and who would live BIG juicy creative lives of their own. Well supporting that is still a huge priority, but they’re moving into the portion of their lives where it is largely self-determined and my work is mostly done. What is left on this side of the mothering journey… to renew the bonds with the Self and move forward again on the path.

In early 2011, I took a class in making precious metal clay jewelry, and walked away with the conviction that this was the first class of the rest of my life. Within weeks, I had signed up for more classes, incorporated, opened an Etsy store, and was making jewelry.

I hope that my jewelry brings people joy in the wearing and in the viewing. I make the things that I would want to wear, things that I would delight in adorning myself with. I imbue my work with a little bit of whimsy, a little bit of the sacred, and a whole lot of color and beauty, because those are the things that matter to me.

Then I send it out into the world and hope that the seeds of delight, of the sacred, of YES, start to grow for other people, in whatever way that manifests for them.

I am an agent of inspiration and courage. Of hope. Of change.

And here we are. This is just the beginning.