Making Wearable Art

Spirit Flower Blanket Pin Rattle

The Spirit Flower, is influenced by the camas flower with five petals. While I was designing this, I was really thinking about how my dad carves, and I wanted to create something that anyone would be proud to wear.

Printing Design on Material

I have been learning about how to print Coast Salish Designs on Material. Here I have a poppy in memory of my great uncle Bob. I’ve also tried the trillium design that I created on a chiffon material.

Earrings with Colour

I made these rainbow coloured earrings.

Tiny Frontlet

Cedar Headband Roses and Rope

My mama came to visit yesterday. Every year, when the cedar bark is ready to be gathered, I make her a new headband with the first piece I pull. Each year they are a little bit different with one rose and progressing up to this little beauty.

Tiny Cedar Rope Earrings

Cedar bark is used for multiple things but here I’ve made some tiny two strand rope for earrings.

Cedar Rose Broach For a Matriarch

Using the inner bark of the Western Red Cedar I created this broach for a young woman. This broach has sliver beads from her great grandmother from her grandmothers, a glass bead from her great grandmother from her grandfathers side, and beads from her great aunty.

Moms Trillium Vest

I learned how to sew from my mother. I remember sitting on her knee when I was just little watching how her hands skillfully guided the material as it feed through the sewing machine foot.

She is now 80 soon to be 81 and I am making her a vest for ceremony. She did of course watch as I made every cut and laid down the pattern being sure I was doing it correctly.

Tiny Hand Carved Pendant

Using old growth yellow cedar I created this little pendant. Playing with contemporary abstract design and inlaying abalone creating a copper clasp these pieces are more experimental and for fun.

Beaded Earrings with Dentalium Shells

I learned how to bead earrings when I was about 10 when I stayed overnight with my great aunty Irene. She taught me to make my first pair and then said “now you have to give them away” and I tried to argue for a second then gave them to her.

Treasures to be Made Into Something Unique

This is a little container of different beads, shells, copper, pearls, that I have collected over the last 20 years. I still have to make them into something but here they are taunting my creative mind.

TINY ORIGINAL PENDANT PAINTING

This piece is inspired by being open to extraordinary relationships. A Loon and a Flicker live in two very different environments and would likely never come across each others paths.

LEARNING REPOUSSE

This takes a lot of patience and a lot of time. I haven’t been able to set up a station where I can keep all my jewelry tools so I don’t get to so this kind of work often. I also learned how to set stones and make settings and one day would love to focus on this medium.

GRANDMOTHERS CEDAR BARK HAT

I wanted to use very fine pieces to weave with and try all the techniques I’ve been taught over the years. a new technique to create a design. I also wanted to learn a new designing method and threw in different mediums.

Tiny Carved and Woven Pendant

I was learning how to weave with Maiden Hair Fern and created this little piece to practice with.

BUTTERFLY PENDANT

Every now and then someone will order a pendant and I will get to create something like this. With tiny cedar rope and a copper clasp this pendant is carved out of old growth yellow cedar.