4/4/05 | Texas Haute Sauce
I had seen the website for these folks before through involvement with The Sampler, but came across them again while looking at different jewelry sites. I just remembered the unusual name for a diy craft biz! Sisters Erika and Kristina Buentello sisters team up with Mandi Demars-Muhic to to create a variety of handmade crafts including soap, necklaces, bracelets, paper, cosmetic bags, and purses.
A short blurb from their website:
Texas Haute Sauce is an online shop created by Erika Buentello. It features the work of Erika, her sister, Kristina Buentello and the uber-talented, Mandi Demars-Muhic. The goal of Texas Haute Sauce is to create fresh, beautiful, funky, strange, funny, edgy, unique creations that appeal those of us with discriminating and sometimes unusual tastes. We create high quality pieces that are limited edition or one-of-a-kind.
Jennafer Bryan and Michelle Fowler make up the jewelry design team behind The Scarlet Poppy. Many of their pieces are both elegant and airy in composition, though there are a few that are bolder in design as well. They make quite a good selection of necklaces, bracelets and earrings, and they also have a few items for “tots” as well. The focus seems to range from various standard precious stones like chalcedony, jade, turquoise, and quartz to an interesting greenish stone called Prehnite that I’m not familiar with. I believe that the majority of their pieces are unique.
For those who are currently avoiding sweets like cakes and cupcakes (for various individual reasons of course), you can live vicariously through these delicious looking dessert necklaces from Pancake Meow. Leslie from Pancake Meow site makes miniature cupcakes, cake slices, waffles, doughnuts and ice cream sandwiches and strings them on bead elastic to make delectable treats to wear around your neck.
