New Additions to Our Shop!

Update! This piece sold on the first day! Many thanks, Diane!

Finally! All of our earthenware pendants are now located in our Good Dirt Jewelry Etsy shop! In addition to those that have been listed for a while, I have added some new pieces! Most of my new pieces are more organic in form and design.

The pendant that is featured in this post, is one of my favorite new designs that features a simple spiral. These are all done free form, so no two will be exactly alike. If you'd like to see a more detailed view, please click on the photo above.

Don't worry, there will be more Oghams in the future :)

Fresh from the Kiln!

Nothing is more exciting than opening the kiln door! You never know what you're going to find as the glazes never turn out the same way twice.

Our newest addition to our earthenware line, is our Old Irish Blessing Stone Pendants. These pendants were made to look like the Buckquoy spindle whorl, which was excavated in Buckquoy, Birsay, Orkney, Scotland in 1970. The old Irish Ogham inscription is believed to date back to the 8th century.

According to Wikipedia, the inscription was once used as positive proof that the Pictish language was not Indo-European, being variously read as

E(s/n)DDACTA(n/lv)IM(v/lb)
(e/)(s/n/)DDACTANIMV
(e/)TMIQAVSALL(e/q)

however, in 1995 historian Katherine Forsyth reading

ENDDACTANIM(f/lb)

claimed that it was a standard Old Irish ogham benedictory message, Benddact anim L. meaning "a blessing on the soul of L.". The stone from which the whorl was made, and on which the inscription was written, is native to Orkney.

We are still in the process of photographing these new pendants, so please keep checking our Good Dirt Jewelry Etsy shop for new additions. Our other earthenware pendants that are still located in our Grizzly Mountain Arts Etsy shop will soon find their new home at the Good Dirt Jewelry shop in the very near future.

Moving Day!

I've begun the process of moving my earthenware pendants from our Grizzly Mountain Arts Etsy shop to my Good Dirt Jewelry Etsy shop! If you have "hearted" our Earthenware Celtic Oghams, you'll now find them at Good Dirt Jewelry. There are still a few left in the GMA shop, but I will try to get them moved tomorrow.

Making a Change

Okay, I'm a woman so I'm allowed to change my mind!

I had been hearing how wonderful Big Cartel was, or was going to be I should say, but after having my ceramic pendants there for several months it's just not working out. I had planned on adding my new pieces to my BC shop after our upcoming show, but that's not going to happen because I've just opened a new shop on Etsy!

Good Dirt Jewelry will now be located on Etsy. You may know that we have another successful shop there already and we really like the site, so "Good Bye!" Big Cartel.

UPDATE I have just finished adding the pendants from our Big Cartel shop to my Good Dirt Jewelry shop on Etsy! Next week, I will move all of the earthenware Oghams to the new shop too!

Getting Ready for the Holidays!

There haven't been any new additions to our "Good Dirt Jewelry" Big Cartel shop recently, and the reason being, we have a huge show coming up!

Grizzly Mountain Arts will be participating in the Native American Festival in Sisters, Oregon the last weekend in August. This wonderful show is held each year in Creekside Park, which is a perfect venue. The sight, smell and sounds of tall Ponderosa pines mixed with Native American flute music is beyond description.

What does this have to do with the Big Cartel shop? The Native American Festival will be one of our last shows of the season, so I will be adding new "Good Dirt" pieces in time for some early holiday shopping. Please give us a bookmark and check back frequently to see what we may have added.