Ruth makes some of the most wonderfully cute silver jewelry designs. Each piece has a store and you can’t help but smile when you see one. Well enough of my rambling now on to the interview!
What is your name? Ruth Baillie

What do you make? Fine silver (.999) jewellery designed to make you smile :=D

What is your favorite color? Lime green. Just makes me happy!

What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow? Zero - we have swallows sat on their nest right next to my workspace - Barn swallows. Each year they nest in our porch (and make lots of mess!) and mummy is sat that now as I type - keeping some eggs cozy - so her speed for a week or so has definitely been zero!!!

What is your main influence? All things that make me smile. I like to make jewelry that depicts things people don’t usually associate with jewellery…for example, the piece I am currently working on is claw-foot bathtub necklace with rubber ducky earrings - all in silver…..or else it’s nursery rhymes like Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep…..or things I see around me - like the California Quails that run so fast around the garden - so I’ve just made Quentin Quail, with running shoes on…….It seems that just about everything I see or do inspires a piece of jewellery! I can be sitting in the dentist’s chair and something comes to me….or looking out the window….or a childhood memory/song/story comes into my head….. I love a quirky or whimsical sense to the pieces….a little surprise or something unexpected.

Where is your shop? http://birdlandcreations.dawanda.com and my own site is www.birdlandcreations.com I am British but live in the US in northern California in a little town called Glen Ellen.