When we last met, I was telling you about the wonderful man who commissioned a box in which to display his custom ebony and gold inlayed chopsticks and various other accoutrements.

As I said in my last post, I didn’t have any great pictures of the box (and still don’t) but Bouke Hollinga, my client did send me some photos of the finished product. I think they tell enough of the tale.  Aren’t his ebony pieces superb?

They can be viewed at Robin Woolard’s fine jewelry shop located in the famous Fairmont Hotel.

Heron and Blue Moon

The Work of a Master Jeweler

 

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I’m new to Pinterest and I was chatting with a buddy of mine and she does a lot of Pinning. I’ve spent the morning trying to unravel the intricacies of the Pinterest world. I added a Pinterest button to both of my websites Dream Mountain Studio and Ready to Build. Very cute.

But I was on the actual Pinterest website on a page that says Goodiesand it says this:”Add a Pin It button to invite your readers to pin your work onto Pinterest.

The Pin It button is made to look and feel like the Facebook and Twitter buttons your readers already use. For best results, place the Pin It button near your other social sharing tools.”

 

It gives me the option to designate a particular picture and add some description which I like.

I’m not sure where I’m supposed to copy and paste the code they gave me so I thought I’d try it in a relatively innocuous place before I totally screw up my home page, so here goes:

<a href=”http://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dreammountainstudio.com%2F&media=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dreammountainstudio.com%2FDMS%2Fwp-content%2Fgallery%2Fcache%2F171__300x422_homepageengravings_1.jpg&description=All%20of%20our%20custom%20made%20jewelry%20boxes%20and%20cabinets%20have%20a%20unique%2C%20artisan%20designed%20engraving.” count-layout=”horizontal”><img border=”0″ src=”//assets.pinterest.com/images/PinExt.png” title=”Pin It” /></a>

 

In addition I’m supposed to add this to the page:<script type=”text/javascript” src=”//assets.pinterest.com/js/pinit.js”></script>

 

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The Artist Currently Known as Bouke Hollinga

April 29, 2012

Sometimes I forget to post good news. Several weeks ago I received a wonderful note from a client I had made a custom box for. It’s copied below. It was such an unusual commission because it was a box to house an exquisite chopstick set which was made of ebony and decorated with beautiful gold [...]

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