New designs just in at In the Mix Boutique

 Valentines is coming soon,  and these are just a few of the new designs just in.............

New wrapped necklace/bracelets, hand tied  coordinating bracelet. Handcrafted wire wrapped cobalt glass hoops. Soon In the Mix will carry these earrings in several sizes and spring colors.

Hand Crafted Art Bead Jewelry.... this porcelain heart focal is gorgeous!!

 Beautiful red and purple for Valentines. Wear these 3 x wrap bracelets, or one or two as short necklaces for a stacked look or layer with other necklaces.  One other option is to connect the two necklaces with the easy snap clasp for one long necklace. This would be pretty year round with a white top, casual or romantic.

Handcrafted Paris heart with the affirmation circle "Believe" in soft pastels. 

Coordinate with a wrapped beaded bracelet. 

This is just a teaser sample of new designs at In the Mix Boutique in downtown at 11 Town Square, Vacaville, CA.

New spring designs in lots of great colors coming soon from Mike and Cherrie of Designs in the Light

Blue Ranunculas for Spring

New in the Designs in the Light Studio this week.......

Mike and I have been busy designing. He has some new wire wrapped hoop earrings in lots of spring colors. His earrings are so comfortable, I love them.

 I am designing a few new art bead necklaces with coordinating wrap necklace bracelets. Love this look.

We are working behind the scenes on preparing to bring our two Etsy shops together. We will have a new name and we are working on the logo for "Designs in the Light". Along with the changes all new branding and website. We are excited to bring a boho chic collection to you with lots of coordinating jewelry designs all handcrafted by us in our home studio. Please stop by if you have the chance as we list new items. En La Lumiere and WaterSouls Studios

Thanks for stopping by, see you soon.

Hearts are sprouting up on my bead table

 With Valentines coming before we know it and so little time at my design table lately when I woke up in the middle of the night a couple night ago and this is what I was inspired to start designing.........

Love this teal one. It sold immediatly upon listing. 

 This green butterfly is hand tied with Irish waxed linen and would be cute with one of my wrap bracelets. Pretty colors for spring.

This purple heart is a ceramic heart in a pretty lavender color.

This green bracelet features the heart as a large charm. It can be worn with the sari silk ribbon or without your choice.

Several of these necklaces sold almost as quickly as I listed them so if you one you are interested in one be sure to get your name on it. I would love to make up some coordinating earrings or a wrap bracelet/ necklace to match upon request.

I have lots of art beads to design with and plans to start loading my shop with spring designs.

Be sure to check out my todays specials section. I periodically add past seasons jewelry in this section and if it doesn't sell it will come out of my shop eventially. This section is marked down 25-50% or more so be sure to check it out.

Thanks for stopping by. You can see more at En La Lumie're

As always I love to hear from you in the comments section. Here's wishing you a great start to the new year.

December Sneak Peak

Sneak Peak..... 

These new designs and more will be available at our December shows coming up beginning this Monday Dec 2nd............. 

Thanksgiving is over and we had a wonderful day. Our Son Tim and Daughter in law Bree entertained us this year with a delicious meal and allowed us more time to work on the new designs for our next four shows. The best of both worlds, time with family and more designs.

We are working to coordinate our lines and Michael has a gorgeous assortment of handcrafted earrings and necklaces to show. As we go into the new year we will continue working on our website, a huge undertaking and you will see more and more boho chic designs from our studio.

If you live in the Northern CA area we will be in Vacaville this week with three shows and Benicia will wrap it up for this show season. Hope to see you there. Our last sale of the year in our Etsy shops will end on Cyber Monday. En La Lumie're and WaterSouls Studios

This holiday season we will be out and about in the community. We would love for you to drop by and say hi! Beads on Main  Tues - Sat 11-6 313 Main St, Vacaville  Our jewelry designs will be available all through the holidays Linda Held’s Holiday Holiday Craft Fair and Trunk Show Dec 2nd 5:30-8:30  7324 Dove Creek Trail, Vacaville, off Cantelow Rd. Call Linda for directions at 707 249 6429   In the Mix Trunk Show Dec 5th 4:00-8:00  11 Town Square Vacaville   Vacaville Christian Schools Christmas Faire Dec 7th 10-5  1117 Davis St. VacavilleLots of artisan vendors, food and activites for kids   Benicia Holiday Fair  Dec 14th 10-4 Downtown Benicia First St    Looking forward to meeting you! Mike of WaterSouls Studios & Cherrie of En La Lumie're

By the Pond Treasury

My Falling Maple Leaves Necklace is featured in this great treasury. 

My shop is on SALE this week to beat the craziness next week. Code: THANKFUL20 go to
En La Lumie're and save and it includes already marked down items.

Beautiful New Designs and a SALE

New designs and a sale going on now at WaterSouls Studios this week........

Mike and I have very been very busy preparing for our December shows coming soon.  We re-opened and listed some new designs in his shop in the past couple days.

Brass Filigree and Black and Blue Spinel Gemstones

Wire wrapped glass pearls

Bronze PMC

Bronze and Black Spinel Gemstones

This design can be ordered in many stone or glass choices, and bronze, rose bronze and .999 silver. 

Brass Filigree and AB Mystic Hessonite Gemstones

Wire Wrapped with Czech Glass

This design can be ordered in many glass or stone choices. 

Go to WaterSouls Studios and find wearable art jewelry. Support Handmade!!

You can also find a beautiful selection of Mike's designs in downtown Vacaville at "In the Mix"

We will be in person at our trunk show at In the Mix December 5th. See details and our calendar for upcoming shows on our website at:
Designs in the Light

We love to hear your comments and look forward to working with you this holiday season.

New Listings at WaterSouls Studios

Mike and I run two handmade jewelry shops on Etsy.  My husbands shop WaterSouls Studios has lots of new listings this week. Mike's designs are handmade by him with precious metal clay bronze, silver and copper. He includes glass, gemstones, and art glass. He also designs hand-forged earrings and jewelry components.  He loves to spend hours working from an original design in many cases always paying complete attention to details. Each piece becomes wearable art jewelry.

This week we are offering free shipping and gift packaging. For a gift you will love check out this shop. WaterSouls Studios

Our website is Designs in the Light
My Shop En La Lumie're
You can get a Buy 2 get 10% off code for coordinating jewelry in my shop. Also a great bargin section called closeouts and several sets at great price offerings. Free gift wrap and quick ship.

Thanks for stopping by we always love to hear from you in comments.

A busy week and lots of news

These are a few new designs just delivered to In the Mix in Vacaville today. 

You can find my necklaces, bracelet and earrings throughout the shop. Also Mike's gorgeous handcrafted earrings and necklace designs in the lighted black case.

My Etsy shop is full with over 200 items to choose from....... En La Lumie're

It's been a busy week photographing and listing lots of inventory remaining from my summer and fall shows in my Etsy shop. You can find, new handcrafted earrings, embossed and patina necklaces, and a few art bead designs.

I listed  some of my new bracelet/necklace wrap designs. Lots of choices including a few listed as sets with really great package discounts. I also posted a discount code for coordinating designs. BUY2TAKE10 and receive 10% savings on 2 coordinating pieces. Click on the pictures in each listing for ideas.

SALE.....My closeout section features over 50 designs from the past couple seasons. Prices are greatly reduced in this section for a great shopping opportunity.

You can expect more listings this week and new designs spinning in my head as I continue preparing for the holiday shopping season.

Mike and I will be working close to home the rest of the year. If you live near our hometown you can meet us and purchase our new designs all ready for your gift giving in a pretty little box.

The Held's Holiday Art and Trunk Show Dec 2nd  email for information and directions cfick1@me.com

Trunk Show at In the Mix 11 Town Square Downtown Vacaville Dec 5th 4:30-8 p.m.
Refreshments and Drawing

Vacaville Christian School Holiday Village and Artisan Market  December 7th 10 a.m -5 p.m.
Food, holiday photo booth, musicians, games for the kids.
1117 Davis St. Vacaville

Remember to support handmade this holiday season. As always I love hearing your comments and questions. Thanks for stopping by. 

Happy October and Custom Designs

Pumpkin spiced Chai, Pumpkin pie and Custom orders filled my day. 

This week I completed several custom orders and thought I would share this one with you.

I was super busy preparing for shows with design time in August and September included designing a new line of wrap necklace/bracelets to coordinate with my patina metals, embossed  copper necklaces, art bead necklace, and Mike's line of bronze clay necklaces and earrings and copper bangles.

We are designing our lines for our shows, new website and retail shops. We are excited about all the possibilities and the ideas just keep rolling.

This was a custom request for a festive color combo set with lavenders, pinks and yellows. This is the design that came from that color inspiration. In designing this the past two days I came up with the idea to offer my line with sets like this. This set can be worn as a long and short necklace, long necklace and patina wing necklace together and wrap the short necklace 3 times for a wrap. I designed a fun pair of earrings to coordinate. It gives you lots of options and I think we always enjoy that.

In the coming weeks I will be introducing more of these types of sets and necklaces wraps in my shop.

I love this time of year. I always enjoy the changes in the crisp air. Love the colors of autumn and find myself dreaming that we had the beautiful colors here in CA. If we time it each year we try to head to the Napa Valley and catch the vineyards in color. It is magnificent. 

This week we finished our 2 day shows cycle with 5 months of shows under our belt. Pumpkin lattes, pumpkin spiced chai, pumpkin pancakes, and pumpkin pie to begin with always gets us in the mood. 

I always love to hear your thoughts please leave me a message and let me know what you think of my new collection ideas.

Our new website is in progress and we are slowly adding new designs, and features as we find time.
Designs in the Light
En La Lumie're

More Beady Goodness Fall Collection

This week I have been busy dreaming of fall and listening to beautiful music!!

I moved tons of beads and findings to my living room as my studio was feeling a wee bit crowded for this project. Our whole house has become a working studio. My inspiration comes from our favorite season, autumn adding lots of colors textures and beady goodness to my Boho Chic fall collection. This is a new look for my line with a layered look. These pieces will coordinate with my art bead pieces and Michael's Bronze Clay pieces from his fall collection. 

You can see these in person at the Lafayette Art and Wine festival next weekend September 20-21 in Lafayette CA and then again in Pleasant Hill Oct 5-6 Pleasant Hill Art Jazz and Wine. 

Get all the details on our website Designs in the Light We will be adding more designs to this sight but for now we are in creating mode. Thanks for your interest. Please stop by my Etsy shop as well at 

En La Lumie're

Thanks for stopping by, back to designing. I will try to list some of these soon. If you see something you are interested in please send me an email. 

So excited to share what is coming to Designs in the Light

  Designs in the Light Fall Collections Coming Soon!!

Mike of WaterSouls Studios and Cherrie of En La Lumie're

2013 has been a busy year for us as we are evolving in our jewelry business. We made the decision to build a website with both of our lines together. We are a husband/wife jewelry artist design team. We each have our own collections, styles and my Etsy shop at En La Lumie're. This year we wanted to provide a central place to share our bio's, collections, and schedules of  upcoming shows including other news.

You can visit our new website which is a work in progress at this point at Designs in the Light
We will be adding lots of news, new designs and more to share in the coming weeks.

We're in the middle of show season

Mike and I have been super busy designing new fall collections. We are designing parts of our lines to coordinate with each other. For several years we have shown at the same art and wine shows. The natural progression of mingling our lines seems logical.

Mike has been building hand-forged, wire wrapped gemstone earrings, bronze and rose bronze clay earrings and filigree wire wrapped earrings.  This week he will be making more bronze clay necklaces.

I am in the middle of a new fall collection of beaded bracelet/necklace designs. You can wear these pieces in a layered look with Mike's necklaces, my art bead necklaces or my embossed and patina metal necklaces. You can wear several beaded necklaces together or wrap them on your wrist with my art bead bracelets. It is a great bohemian look and I love the textures and colors together. So many choices and the possibilities seem to grow as we build our collections.

You can meet us in person 

Lafayette Art and Wine Festival, Lafayette CA 10-6  September 21-22

Pleasant Hill Art, Jazz and Wine Festival 10-6 October 5-6

Ladies Night at In the Mix 11 Town Square, Vacaville 5-8

We both sell our lines at a fantastic ladies boutique in downtown Vacaville called "In the Mix"  at 11 Town Square. If you live in Northern CA you have to check out this shop. The owner Darci Chadwick is amazing at helping you find just the right outfit. Love her style. Lots of new boho fall and winter clothing coming in. 

Thank you for stopping by. We always love to hear your comments.