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Wellness Words Jewelry Challenge

Welcome to my little corner of the Inspire Change: Wellness Words Jewelry Challenge hosted by Tracy Statler! A month ago, Tracy issued a jewelry-making challenge and blog hop – one with a great twist, a positive twist. In Tracy’s words, “It involves choosing a powerful word or phrase that is meaningful to you and […]

Have you heard?

Today I have a few special endeavors that I just have to share with you. Several friends have recently announced some wonderful news, and I’m posting them here just in case you haven’t seen them yet. First up, Kerry Bogert of KABS Concepts is launching her first eCourse – SNAPTASTIC: Clicking Your Way To Beautiful […]

With One Finding {a jewelry collaboration}

The beautiful Summer 2011 issue of Belle Armoire Jewelry has been on the newstands for a few weeks, have you seen it? I’m excited to share with you a little about one of the articles you’ll find inside. Late last year my friend Diane Cook, of Rosa and Josies, kindly asked if I would like […]

How did you name your blog?

I was asked recently by an online friend, how did I name my blog? And by the way, I would link to this friend IF she had a blog! This sweet lady is someone who shows many of us such support by her thoughtful blog comments. She just might start a blog soon. I’m hoping […]

Welcome to the Button Swap Blog Hop!

Welcome to a blog hop hosted by Michelle Mach of Beads and Books. Michelle had the great idea to host her first blog hop all in the name of buttons. She’s been crafting with them since she was a child and collecting them for years. As much as we love beads, I think many jewelry […]

A little pink, pretty please.

I {heart} pink these days. When I think of Spring, pink certainly comes to mind. The National Cherry Blossom Festival opened this weekend in DC and the blossoms are blooming everywhere. This event is so timely as our hearts go out to the people of Japan. I hope we are able to attend while the blooms […]

Color Palette Blog Walk Round 2

Well hello! Have you been enjoying the big Bead Soup blog party?! Thank you to everyone who has stopped by to say hello and and left a comment on my Bead Soup post. I am still making my way around to many blogs, still blog hop, hop, hopping (after all, 200+ blogs is a […]

I heart Mother of pearl

Hello! If you’ve stopped by in the past, you already know that making jewelry is not my only obsession interest. I’m an antiquing die-hard and bring my camera with me as a rule. So I had the idea recently, why not share a little about the things that I like to search for….those special little […]

Tarnished Treasures

How about a little Show and Tell? I read a blog recently in which the writer noted, “if the children have Show and Tell at school, why don’t we do the same here on our blogs?” I think this is a big part of what our blogs are about. And for non-writers like me, it’s […]