Online Writing Workshop – Just Write

Posted by Brooke | Sep 22, 2016 | Good Reads, Uncategorized | 0 |

Online Writing Workshop – Just Write

I am offering my first ever online creative non-fiction writing workshop, starting Tuesday September 29th 2015.

8-Week online creative non-fiction workshop designed to get you writing from start to submit.

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I'm a silver and wordsmith: smashing metal by the light of day and editing other people's work on the side. I write lots of stuff and I unschool my lots of children.

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"Stop worry about what can go wrong, and get excit

"Stop worry about what can go wrong, and get excited about what can go right."

Have we ever worried more than these days? The right things that happened in between:
We made beloved friends.
We discovered amazing things.
We witnessed miracles.
We felt proud of our actions.
We achieved great things, even in smallness.
We made beautiful things with beautiful people.

Thank you @anothergramgirl 👸🏻
and @dopeamiine 📸
You both amaze me with your talent, kindness, generosity and dorkiness. 😘

#mavericks

I'm perplexed and fascinated by men and jewelry. W

I'm perplexed and fascinated by men and jewelry. Well no. Men IN jewelry.
I love jewelry. So of course I love sharing this passion with people. But some people... men, generally, are so rigid about how they will wear jewelry, if at all. They are usually unwilling to "just try" new styles they way women will.
So of course now I'm obsessed with creating jewelry men will wear. 🤦🏻‍♀️

📸 #1 @tawfiqbirouaine
#ootdmen #mensbracelet #mensjewelry #mensfashion

Do you own any vintage jewelry? Bought or handed d

Do you own any vintage jewelry? Bought or handed down? You can imagine I have well, a healthy collection of vintage jewelry. Best excuse: I have a lot of kids I need to leave it to!

My mom has started giving me pieces of her collection. 😍 I adore ever millimeter of it! Will have to do a post of it sometime.

#vintagejewelry #heirloomjewelry #antiquejewelry #coinnecklace #sustainablefashion #ethicalfashion

This is a very special good bye for me. These piec

This is a very special good bye for me. These pieces illustrate some of the leaps in my jewelry making process and business practice growth. Allow me to explain. 😁

Firstly, I hoarded those silver Moroccan wrap beads for years. They are just so beautiful, excellent quality silversmithing and I haven't seen anymore like them. Then I finally created an assemblage with them. Something old, something new, something blue - lapis. The wiring is all recycled sterling.

So the lapis pair are about half reused, a bit recycled and some new.

The blue and red are a big progression. The blue inlay fans are vintage Afghan Kuchi turquoise. The red is from a long strand of glass beads popularly sold along the ocean store fronts in Essaouira.

The glass bead split in half and I set it myself in mostly recycled sterling silver. The wire is all recycled. So...almost entirely recycled and reused materials.

And look how beautiful everything is! This is such a bittersweet bye bye. 💌
*sorry for the blurring pic. My eyes may have been watery.
#vintagejewels
#sustainablefashion #sustainableliving

"Aways remember that you are absolutely unique. J

"Aways remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.”

That's the kind of math I most enjoy.

#freshwaterpearls #pearlnecklace #layeringnecklaces #youareapearl
#brookolie

If I could just make presents all day - that would

If I could just make presents all day - that would be so nice. Right now I'm at up to four days a week on my bench. Close enough. 😇

#spreadlove #turquoise #turquoiseearrings #sterlingsilver

I am delighted, like seriously over the moon, to h

I am delighted, like seriously over the moon, to have made a huge leap bringing my creations slower and slower to finally be what I can consider slow fashion.

✔ rehoming, selling vintage jewelry for a decade
✔ using recycled silver for as long
✔ now incorporating recycled glass elements...
✔ and using gently found, unmined stones

This feels GOOD. And wears beautifully. 😊

#slowfashion #slowjewelry #conciousliving #comingsoon

85%! Our new collection is about 85% ready to laun

85%! Our new collection is about 85% ready to launch. Years, many people, influences, help, training, goals, fire, hope and history all coming together for 'just' a pair of earrings.
I couldn't be happier about it.

#newcollection #sustainablefashion #ecofashion #heirloomquality #integrity #recycled

"The biggest breakthroughs in consciousness occur

"The biggest breakthroughs in consciousness occur when things are difficult; when we have a choice to fall to the worst of ourselves or rise to the best of ourselves."

I'm pretty sure I've had a break through. Feeling really good about it after being so low yesterday. Excited to see how things will progress. In the meantime...

just keeping making things from the heart.

#brookolie

Sometimes you're making something and then you get

Sometimes you're making something and then you get it onto a model and think 'What the hell was I thinking!?'
But most of the time I'm more like, 'Yeah, that even looks beautiful on a cat.'

#gemstonenecklace #gemstones #handmade #handmadejewelry #smallbusiness #mamaowned

Recycled silver on the bench! This is one of my fa

Recycled silver on the bench! This is one of my favorite things about precious metals: recycle, reuse, upcycle and they stay beautiful and precious.

Also reworking a couple of abandoned vintage pieces. It's a big play day over here.

#preciousmetals #925silver #recycledmaterials #recycle #upcycle #kuchijewelry #afghanjewellery #turquoiseinlay

Sunny with a chance of a trip to the beach. Wanted

Sunny with a chance of a trip to the beach.
Wanted to drop these here on our way to stare at the greatness of the ocean. Yes, it sucks that we can't play in the water, awe at sea creatures and collect loads of pebbles.
But.
It's an opportunity for gratefulness and reflection on how we "have" the ocean in so many ways.
Maybe a seafood pizza will be consumed too...

#sunray #sunjewelry #amber #amberjewelry #brassearrings #BeachInspired #beachjewelry #roadclosed

A very long awaited trip. A thoughtful gift. The a

A very long awaited trip.
A thoughtful gift.
The acknowledgment of surviving many decades.
The respect of craftmanship.
A treat.

#privatecollection #silverjewelry #heirloom #selfcare #stacks

Sun kissed seas. Mermaid. #amazonite #turquoise #

Sun kissed seas. Mermaid.

#amazonite #turquoise #brass #mermaid

Do you feel it? I'm missing creating beauty with o

Do you feel it? I'm missing creating beauty with others.

#alicewalker #creator #artistslife #sickinbed #whiner

"Can I do something like ... this?" "Yes, of cour

"Can I do something like ... this?"

"Yes, of course."

I miss my ustas so much. After many decades at the bench, they have zero lack of confidence. And they've got skills to back it up.

Anything they can't do, they know a guy who can get it done. 🤣😍

I met some great guys this week. Gonna get some new things done.

*my Usta swifting through sunshine, whipping up citrine fabulousness.

#citrine #mastersilversmith #silver925 #sterlingsilver

Chrsyoprase is such a uniquely vibrant color. And

Chrsyoprase is such a uniquely vibrant color. And all natural. Amazing nature. We use it in countless ways. #adornment

And I love what my kid, I mean my product photographer, did here. He played it well 😊

#chrysoprase #chrysoprasejewelry #productphotography #gemstonejewelry #artisanjewelry

Too much? No way. I wore loads of bracelets as a k

Too much? No way.
I wore loads of bracelets as a kid. Bangles, those 80s Madonna rubber ones, friendship bracelets - everything, both arms, all the time! Then in college I stopped.

Poor art student and working as a baker, I just stopped wearing bracelets. Next came kids and weight gain... funny enough, not only was I making and selling jewelry, but bracelets are my favorite thing to make.

The wearer can look at and enjoy bracelets all day, unlike earrings or a short necklace they can't see.
Well. Midlife crisis or whatnot, the stacks are back.

#gemstonebracelet #amazonitejewelry #carnelianjewelry #bracelet #silverbracelet #braceletstacks

Traditional Moroccan niello work makes me a little

Traditional Moroccan niello work makes me a little hoardy. I've had these two complimenting diamonds for several years. Finally ready to release them.

Each piece has been so carefully hand etched then the design is subtly brought out with a niello coloring process. It's a joy and honor to get to rework these masterpieces.

And milky vintage "vaseline" glass - yum. I have only found brighter colors than these special minty two.

#berberjewelry #niello #repurposed
#repurposedjewelry #silverearrings #sustainablejewelry #vaselineglass #vintagejewelry #mintgreen

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