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Rachel Morris / Eclectic Nature Jewelry & Design
@eclecticnature.bsky.social
@EclecticNatureJewelry on FB, Insta, YouTube

Artist/Educator/Business analyst. Metalworker since childhood, teacher by genetic predisposition. Analyst by proclivity.

https://eclecticnaturejewelry.com #jewelrysky #jeweler #artsky #jewelryinstructor
Pinned
It's a Clasps-Clasps-Clasps kinda year! But that's not all - sure, you can take clasps online or in person with me, but I'm also hitting some classics - a stone settings workshop in CT and a hollowforms 3-day online. To learn more, head to eclecticnaturejewelry.com
Now would be a good time for WikiLeaks and Anonymous and y'know, anyone else with little black book info, to make it super public. Feelin' Pete a whole lot this week: www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9hi...
Waist Deep In The Big Muddy
YouTube video by Dick Gaughan - Topic
www.youtube.com
July 4, 2025 at 6:47 PM
June 14, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Troops - ask yourself if your orders are:
* Legal under US law
* Legal under the US constitution
* Legal under international law
June 8, 2025 at 7:10 PM
At the Royal Plaza Trade Center this weekend for the Paradise City Arts festival. Join me Friday from 10 - 5, Saturday 10 - 6, and Sunday 11 - 5. festivals.paradisecityarts.com/shows/marlbo...
March 21, 2025 at 12:10 AM
"Step by Step" by Pete Seeger as done by Sweet Honey in the Rock.

Step by step, the longest march
Can be won, can be won
Many stones can form an arch
Singly none, singly none
And by union what we will
Can be accomplished still
Drops of water turn a mill
Singly none, singly none
Step By Step
YouTube video by Sweet Honey in the Rock - Topic
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March 16, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Just a couple weeks til Paradise City Arts in Marlborough, MA. A fantastic show that's easy to walk and has incredible artists from all over the country! Join us at the Royal Plaza Trade Center March 21 - 23. For details head to festivals.paradisecityarts.com
March 9, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Still a few spots left in my in-person workshop at Brookfield Craft Center in CT. www.brookfieldcraft.org

Level up your basic step bezels and learn the basics of basket setting in "Cradled in Style" - this is a techniques-based workshop and is recommended for people with solid soldering skills.
March 2, 2025 at 3:46 AM
I'm thinkin' Dar Williams' "Flinty Kinda Woman" is a whole 2025 mood. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfB4...
Flinty Kind of Woman
YouTube video by Dar Williams - Topic
www.youtube.com
February 10, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Department of the Inferior: Much Wow. So criminal!
February 8, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Re-reading @clankorval.bsky.social's Liaden universe for the never-enough'th time as my happy place, and I feel the need to call out 47's Department of the Inferior to answer to acts of murder and mayhem and subordinate my claim to @altnps.bsky.social about now. Who's with me? #booksky #liaden
February 8, 2025 at 7:34 PM
When a landlord doesn’t fix things, we can put our rent in escrow until they do.

Asking for We the People...

Where do we escrow our taxes this year?

#IRSescrow #taxes #notMYlandlord

(This post is NOT about my landlord.)
February 6, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Reposted by Rachel Morris / Eclectic Nature Jewelry & Design
The Treasury Department right now. People are turning out against Musk and DOGE staging a takeover of the Treasury’s payment system. This crowd is big. The whole block is packed. “Lock him up,” everyone yells.
February 4, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Doing a little prototyping of a telescoping spring-based clasp. There'll be another sidebar connector in the larger of the inside tubes, but it's sitting in alum to get rid of a broken drill bit! #clasps #handmade #artjewelry #jewelryclasses
February 3, 2025 at 5:52 AM
It's a Clasps-Clasps-Clasps kinda year! But that's not all - sure, you can take clasps online or in person with me, but I'm also hitting some classics - a stone settings workshop in CT and a hollowforms 3-day online. To learn more, head to eclecticnaturejewelry.com
January 30, 2025 at 1:15 AM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSty... Apropos of, y'know, nothing these days...keep writing the poetry, keep singing the songs, keep dancing the dances...keep protecting your neighbors.
Neruda
YouTube video by Chris & Meredith Thompson - Topic
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January 29, 2025 at 4:07 PM
January 26, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Look at this gorgeous mountain range that I, and the rest of the known world, like to and will continue to call "Denali" because we don't live in Bizarro-World USA.

www.lonelyplanet.com/usa/alaska/d...
Denali National Park & Preserve travel
Explore Denali National Park & Preserve holidays and discover the best time and places to visit.
www.lonelyplanet.com
January 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Feelin' the Peter Gabriel today:

"We will walk on the land
We will breathe of the air
We will drink from the stream
We will live, hold the line
Hold the line, hold the line
We will live, hold the line
Hold the line, hold the line"

San Jacinto, Peter Gabriel IV www.youtube.com/watch?v=68U1...
San Jacinto
YouTube video by Peter Gabriel - Topic
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January 25, 2025 at 10:28 PM
January 24, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Reposted by Rachel Morris / Eclectic Nature Jewelry & Design
On that note:

Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day.

Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links.

Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo
Being a trans author is fucking weird right now. Hell is actively unfolding all around us but I still need to be like, "hey, everyone, wanna buy my silly little queer book? It won't make anything better, but it's kinda fun?"

So....hey, everyone, wanna buy my silly little queer book?
Looking for a supernatural queer read?

🏳️‍🌈 F/F friends to lovers
💀 Evil cult serving a fallen god
🦅 Weird birds
👼 Queers with wings and claws
🌲 Cursed forest
🌎 Lesbians vs god for the fate of reality

Ghost Flower by Jessica Conwell
Available here:

a.co/d/bufFU4f
February 22, 2024 at 4:15 PM
Still on Meta? Run, don't walk: Go to your Following section on Insta right now. Sort by Latest Added. Screenshot and remove anyone that may have been added w/o your consent in the last day or so. Because I know *I* didn't follow the sociopathic second-in-cheetoh-hood.
#metabullshit
January 21, 2025 at 11:17 PM
klep·toc·ra·cy
/ˌklepˈtäkrəsē/
noun: kleptocracy; plural noun: kleptocracies
A society or system ruled by people who use their power to steal their country's resources.
January 20, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Potato quality photo since my camera needs a tune-up, but here's a new piece with a knocker clasp - sterling and fine silver with three Chinese writing stones.

#artjewelry #chinesewritingstone #cabochon #sterlingsilver #pnwjeweler #oneofakind
January 20, 2025 at 8:00 AM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzSU... Where my heart hurts for humanity these days as the inauguration approaches.
Letter To Eve
YouTube video by Indigo Girls - Topic
www.youtube.com
January 19, 2025 at 9:53 PM