Small Town Girl

What does a Small Town Girl do?  Lots!!  

Small Town Girls learn how to make plain stuff into beautiful items.  In this case it's Earrings for every kind of ear.   I've been busy learning new techniques, new wire colors (I'm the only one I know that uses color copper wire so far) and finding very interesting semi precious stones.  I've grown as a business, I have a tent and can now do outside shows around Central and Western NY.

The pictures in the next pages show just a small sampling of what I have.  I've gone bead crazy and have thousands of earrings ready for purchase. I use copper color wire, non tarnish silver and gold plate in the  french loop  style. You'll find pictures of a variety of different types of earrings I make based on the beads I can find. I also use a variety of semi precious stones like purple amethyst, hematite, picture agate, jasper, aquamarine, and snowflake agate to name a few.  I've divided the earrings up by the color families that I find interesting. If you are aware of crystal values they also have healing and spiritual qualities.

If you have something special you'd like made to order, let me know and I'll make them for you.  I'm venturing out into pendants, pins and whatever else I can get my fingers into.

I want to send a shout out to all my friends from Cayuga and to Rochester Artisans (rochesterartisans.com)!  You can reach me by email at pjp@frontiernet.net.

 Here's my schedule for this coming season:

North Winton Neighborhood Association  N. Winton Neighborhood                                 10/1 Sat 10 - 5

CP of Rochester                                    3399 Winton Rd                                              11/5 Sat 10 - 5

Bethel Christian Fellowship                     321 East Ave                                                 11/12 Sat 10-4

American Red Cross in Geneseo           Geneseo Armory                                             11/26 Sat 9:30 - 3 

Cayuga Cty Comm College                    Auburn NY                                                     12/3-4 Sat/Sun 10 -5

First Unitarian Church                            220 Winton Rd S                         12/10-11 Sat  3:00 - 5   Sun 9:00 - 1

More to come....

                              Check out the next pages for samples of my earrings and my newest - pins.  

BUFFALO ROCKET ISSUE 24 THURSDAY, June 17, 2010  

Ode to Allentown

Stories and Photographs by Franklin Aquilina

I have to admit that sometimes I take the Allentown Art Festival for granted. After all, it’s been around for fifty-three years. “I’ll catch it next time,” I’ve said one too many times. Last year I suppose I was too busy to look at art. The year before that I think I was out of town. This past Sunday, however, reminded me why I love it so much. The inspiration was reignited when my eighteen year old nephew, Daniel, called me to see “what was up.” I asked him if he and his friends were going to the Art Festival. “What’s that?” he asked. “I’ve never been.”  See the whole article "A Story" below for my debut.