D.Star Design

The love continues…sourcing, polishing and working these beautiful wood hearts into new designs in preparation for a couple upcoming pop-ups. Most of the wood beads come from a small family farm in the Philippines. Mixing the wood with a variety of stone, shell and glass beads highlights their natural beauty. Each heart is unique in shape and texture which adds to the fun of pairing them with the right beads.

This Thursday at Charbellem, I’m setting up all day with lots of love, hearts and stars! Come say hello! 33 Witherspoon in Princeton

Hearts. I love making valentines mostly because I love cutting hearts out of pretty paper. I recently visited my mom and made a side trip to Michael’s to get paper and good scissors. For some reason the scissors are locked up in the craft section but not in the fabric and sewing aisle. I think they’re still working out the kinks of filling the void left by the Joann fabric store closings. Anyway, it was so relaxing just sitting with my mom cutting out heart after heart and filling her lap with them. She never asked why but carefully held them for me. Years ago we made chocolate heart shaped cookies and then dipped them halfway in a white glaze. I’ve got to try those again. I don’t usually use hearts in my pieces but thought I’d give it a go this year. More to come as pendants.