Drawing a BlanketJewelry designer Ray Tracey’s latest...
Drawing a Blanket
Jewelry designer Ray Tracey’s latest gem is a limited-edition Pendleton blanket.
The blanket, his first, features the sacred-heart-line bear, one of his most popular designs. Tracey, a Navajo, is known for his contemporary approach to Indian jewelry. The blanket is another avenue for Tracey to extend his creativity.
The bear is in the center of the blanket ($250), with Southwestern colors and patterns surrounding it.
“The heart line represents the saying ‘You are what you eat,’ only in a higher spiritual realm,” Tracey says. “Man is a product of his environment. If you take into your mind or heart those things that are good, you will become a good person and be able to give back what is good to the world.”
The reversible wool-and-cotton blanket measures 64-by-80-inches and is signed by Tracey, who will be appearing Oct. 19 at Zia Jewelry in San Juan Capistrano to debut the blanket and his latest jewelry pieces.
The blanket will be available by special order and will arrive in time for the December holidays.
For information or to order, call Zia Jewelry, 31761 Camino Capistrano, (714) 493-1322.
Clips Art
Give your soda can new pop with Clips, an accessory kit that transforms aluminum beverage cans into fun, funky table lamps.
The Clips kit (about $20) comes with a white opaque plastic lampshade, an adjustable stainless steel clamp and an electrical cord with lightbulb socket and switch.
To make the lamp, simply clip the clamp and shade to the top of the can, plug it in and turn on the light.
Kits with red, green and blue shades are available for an additional $10.
The shades are 6 1/4-inches-by-4 1/2-inches, and the lamp uses a 40-watt bulb.
Clips is available at Zero Minus Plus, 500 Broadway, Santa Monica, (310) 395-5718; or at the Museum of Contemporary Art store, 250 S. Grand, Los Angeles, (213) 621-2766.
Kitchen Help
Put your recipes online with Kitchen Assistant, an interactive cookbook that collects, stores and organizes your instructions for preparing favorite foods.
It has a built-in typewriter-style keyboard and comes with Recipes & More software, a cookbook that has a glossary of more than 200 cooking terms, a selection of scaled recipes with measures and instructions for halving and doubling and nutritional analysis.
The Kitchen Assistant (about $400) can also create menus for one evening, an entire day or week. Once your plan is ready, a shopping list of the necessary ingredients can be printed out on the built-in printer.
The Kitchen Assistant is available through the Speigel, Hammacher Schlemmer and Service Merchandise catalogs. For more information, call (800) 284-1739.
