INTERVIEW with jewelry designer CATHERINE ABSTON!!!

You might remember the trunk show we had a few weeks ago for 

Catherine Abston or seen some of her amazing leather and 

bone breastplates around the store.

She is a very talented designer and we've decided it's about time 

we learned a little bit more about our fabulous jewelry designers!!

Picture from Catherine's in-store trunk show.

1. How long have you been designing? How did you get started?

I have been designing since I was about 21. Silly as it sounds I started with 

friendship bracelets...then beading...sewing bags and hats....I would do 

festivals in Houston. Those were pretty fun days!

2. What inspires your designs?

I really like blending things that are from different cultures or just different 

organic materials. For example, I love to put faceted stones with snake 

vertebrae or bones. Two worlds collide type thing.

Hand Crafted Buckskin Leather Bag SOLD, Macaw Feather Fringe Necklace $140

3. Where do you see yourself in five years?

Well I just sort of quit my day job...so I plan to be a full time artist. I hope 

that I will be having help manufacturing my wares...For example, the leather 

work takes a toll on me physically. Help with that would be a god send, that 

way I can spend more time on my trend setting-fabulous ideas.

 Close up of Catherine's leather bags. The Black Fringe Rabbit Leather Bag is $498, rest have sold.

4. What are you wearing right now and where did you get it?

Today I am wearing a vintage silk black slip that I have had forever. A blue 

jean vest that I have hand sewn a grateful dead steal your face patch on. It 

also has a giant black crow on the side of it. Ermine tail earrings (of her own 

design) and flip flops. Nothing glamorous, but I find it is my summer uniform.

 Beaded Bone Breastplate $148, Detail Shot from the Trunk Show

5. If you were stranded on an island what 5 things could you not live without?

  This is the hardest question of them all....

1.SUNGLASSES!!!
2. Karite lip balm
3. My dog
4.iPod
5.Canvases and oil paints. 

I could finally have time to work on my paintings.
 

Yup, those things could make me happy!!

And, here is the lady of the hour, Catherine Abston!!!
She made her dress and she's rocking the Jeffrey Campbell Kelsey's!


Thank you so much for being awesome Catherine. Keep up the good work!

Love,
Feathers!