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Happy 1st Monday of 2010! Sharon of Livewire Jewelry made note that it’s the first MONDAY of the new year and is making sure it’s a good one by hosting a bracelet give away….so go take a peek if you’d like to enter! You do not need to have a blog to enter! If your goals […]

Designer Highlight: Livewire Jewelry!

Hello! It was a wonderful Christmas and it sure came and went too fast. I’ve been savoring the slower pace and just know getting back in to the routine will be difficult…but I won’t worry about that just yet! A few days before Christmas I received a square, white box. I wondered if it was […]

Color Challenge

See this bright bangle bracelet? Would you believe it was inspired by a caterpillar? I’m not sure what originally inspired the lampwork artist (Moon Stumpp) to make her beads, but I pulled out this set of beads and set out to create a bracelet all due to a colorful caterpillar……this one to be exact: Kelly […]

Dream, Soar….Fly – with blog friends!

Hello Friends! I thought I’d do a little show and tell today. I am the proud owner of this beautiful original piece of art by Julie King – a wonderful photographer and mixed media artist. There are a lot of swaps and trades that go on in this community of crafters and artists…and I was […]

Easy Wire 2009 – With a Give Away!

It’s here!!! Easy Wire 2009 is out (officially on Oct. 27th)…complete with 60 new designs! I am honored to say I have contributions to this wonderful publication….and you’ll find tutorials from my friends Jeanette and Sharon as well! It just feels so good to see this year’s issue in print after all of the designing […]

Around the world and back again

I’ve been involved in some serious fun behind the scenes. A little journey has begun with a group of my blogland friends….a necklace round robin!! What a wonderful concept…collaborating with friends who I email or whose blogs I visit daily. Even if I can’t meet these ladies in person, we will touch each other’s creations […]

My latest craze

I have a feeling many of you are just like me….there’s always something new calling your name. Etching? Enameling? Soldering? Okay, I know many of you can do all three. The thing that has caught my eye recently is the world of art journaling. Papercrafting is actually new to me…so I have a lot […]

Magic

Yesterday we had fun with Magic. Our oldest son is going to turn 9 in a week and we celebrated his birthday with many children from his new class. As guests arrived, they decorated fabric that I had precut and fringed for their Magic Carpet. They sat on their transformed carpets for the Magic Show. […]

In the Victorian dresser drawer…

Do you have an old dresser, maybe even an old Victorian dresser? How about back at Grandma’s house…did you ever get to peek inside that top drawer full of little trinkets and lacy handkerchiefs? If you could see all of the bits and baubles, maybe you would find some pretty old buttons, or a mother […]