Text Charm Swap!

I mailed off my charms for this swap, but I gotta tell ya, this one is iffy!  Not real sure if I executed properly, so I have told Maureen if they don’t pass, don’t send them out.  So I will wait til I get her thoughts before posting a picture.  And were they ever hard [...]

Happy Mother’s Day!

I had vowed not to use my blog for anything but art.  But then today when I fired up the thunderbird, the first thing I saw on my yahoo home page is how much a mother would earn if she were paid.
First of all, motherhood is not a JOB.  It is a gift–just ask the [...]

Just for Aimslee!

One of the biggest craft storage dilemmas is how to store ribbon. I know it was for me. I had it in a huge box, and just kept adding ribbon to it, because I never looked at it because I had to drag the box out! So, needless to say, I had quite a collection.
I [...]

Just for Jade!

Well, Jade from the Charmsters group has asked to see what I have done on the Round Robin Necklace Swap, because she always sends to me.  So without further ado, here are some of the charms that I have made(in no particular order…)

Theme:  Who Are You?
I used a Barbie doll head to make the mask–we [...]

Art & Soul, Portland, ‘08

Art & Soul was amazing–again–and the first person I saw was Laurel!  We chatted for a bit and I headed for Collage to do a little shopping!  I know you think that that’s all that I do!  I stayed one night at the new ‘overflow’ hotel–I can’t think of the name of it right now.  [...]

Seattle!

When I got back from Valley Ridge, I started getting ready for Art & Soul in Portland in October.  But before that, I went to spend a few days with my friend, Laura.   One day she took me to Poulsbo, then to Port Townsend–we stamped our brains out one day–and then, you know the drill–we [...]

Valley Ridge Studio

I cannot begin to tell you how much I enjoyed this trip.  I love Wisconsin–not alot of traffic, really green, rolling hills, and quiet.  We met up with Kim and Julie, Kecia’s friends, and had the time of our lives at Nina’s workshop.  I wasn’t real sure about this little jaunt–I’m more a paper artist–and [...]

BFF Visit!!!!!

Then about a week later my BFF, Kecia from New Jersey came a few days before a workshop at Valley Ridge Studios with Nina Bagley.  You know the drill–we shopped–started out at Jackson Square Antique Mall–just an awesome store!  We did some art–well, Kecia did some art–on my wall in my studio!  Now I can’t [...]

Seattle visitor!

I was a bit under the weather for awhile before my friend, Laura from Seattle, came for a visit.  We shopped, bummed around the antique store, went to St. Louis to Red Lead for a Christmas Charm Workshop, and shopped all the way down there and back!  Don’t have any pictures, but, boy, did we [...]

I’m still here!

Yes, I’m still here!  And today and tomorrow are designated ‘Get Blog Updated Days’.  So without further ado, let me get you caught up on what I have been up to!