Well, it's April 14 and I am still trying to catch up! My 1st month of making a 'NEW Flower of the Month' was exhilarating, exhausting and overwhelming. I sorta dropped living my life and focused totaling on creating the apple blossoms. Lampworking or Family? My family started griping there was no food to be [...]
I am so excited about sharing with you 2 really cool projects I have been working on. First, I Finished My LAMPWORKING BEAD TUTORIAL! Yea!!! I finally finished my tutorial and I am getting wonderful feedback about it! The tutorial ended up over 70 pages with lots of information and two bead demos. There was [...]
Well, so much for doing a blog every week. I've already slipped. But I've been doing a lot of thinking about your answers from the survey. I've come up with some ideas that I hope will please everyone. Everyone liked the Lampwork Bead Giveaway. So I thought I would challenge myself in the process and [...]
This week we are going to talk about my FAVORITE 2011 jewelry trend-Vintage & Retro. This trend seems to me to be a splitting off from the Steampunk trend. It has all the characteristics of Victorian era jewelry without the alternate futuristic reality theme of Steampunk. Continuing, though, is the era's steam engine influences, reflected [...]
Following on the heels of my last blog post on Spring Colors for 2011, I thought jewelry style trends would be the next must to visit. Now that I'm making jewelry, I'm trying to walk a fine line of staying true to myself as an artist and keeping step with what's going on in the [...]
Wishing everyone a very prosperous NEW YEAR!! Here's a glimpse of New Year's Eve at Times Square. To see New Year's Eve around the World click here.... New Years around the world Confetti is dropped on revelers at midnight during New Year celebrations in Times Square in New York city on January 1, 2011. [...]
Mini Vacation of Sun drenched Bliss... Sit back, relax & take a deep breathe...Now exhale slowly....AHHHH Exquisite, lush Tropics, here we come! "Imagine blissfully floating along as you snorkel in sparkling azure turquoise water. Looking down in this watery wonderland, you spy a magical scene of activity below you! You dive down to get a [...]
