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Looking Forward to a "Partly Cloudy" Day!
I just had a nice surprise from Joanne of Nelson Jewelry & Gemstones. She emailed me and said that my "Partly Cloudy" necklace is featured on her blog today: Sodalite Teardrop and Pearl...
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Countdown to Mother's Day Gift Ideas - Week 6
Mother's Day is fast approaching, Sunday, May 12! And here we are at week 6 of Julie and Blu's "Mother's Day Gift Ideas Countdown". The Countdown will run for another 6 weeks, which will make 12...
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Earth and Sky
Pablo Picasso once said, "The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web"....
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Countdown to Mother's Day Gift Ideas - Week 7
Wow! Can you believe that we are a bit over 1/2 way through the Mother's Day Countdown? It's April 1st today! Where does the days go? Hmmmm . . . a good part of the day is sent right here in front...
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Countdown to Mother's Day Gift Ideas - Week 8
Wow! Can you believe that as of this week, we are 2/3 of the way through the Mother's Day Countdown? Am sure you will agree with me that the Countdown has been fun, with LOTS of wonderful items...
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Girls Gotta Have Pearls!
Before Mikimoto in the early 1900's perfected the process of culturing pearls, natural pearls were so rare and expensive that only the nobility and the very wealthy could afford to wear them....
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Welcome to ArtFire!
ArtFire has great forums - you can learn so many new things and make such good friends! Every couple of weeks, I check the the threads where artists of newly opened ArtFire studios introduce...
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Countdown to Mother's Day Gift Ideas - Week 9
The Countdown gift collection for week 9 is closed. Week 9 - Wow! Can you believe that there are only 3 weeks left of the Mother's Day Countdown? I'm sure you will agree with me that the Countdown...
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Countdown to Mother's Day Gift Ideas - Week 10
It's week 10 of the Mother's Day Countdown, hosted by Julie and Blu of BlueMorningExpressions! Remember when we started and Mother's Day seemed such a loooong way off?!? LOL! Only two more weeks...
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Countdown to Mother's Day - Week 11
Oh my gosh, can you believe we are on week 11 of the Mother's Day Countdown hosted by Julie and Blu of BlueMorningExpressions!?! Eleven weeks of handmade and vintage items - where did the time go?...
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Countdown to Mother's Day - Week 12
It is with somewhat of a heavy heart that this is week 12 of the Mother's Day Countdown hosted by Julie and Blu of BlueMorningExpressions! Week 12 - the last week of shared handmade and vintage items...
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New ArtFire Bloggers Guild
A new ArtFire guild has just formed to help promote members' blogs, whether the blog is on ArtFire or on another platform. Share a new post in the ArtFire Bloggers Guild thread and then comment on...
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Natural Turquoise vs. All Others
I love using turquoise in my designs since, even as a small child, it has always been a favorite gemstone. Unfortunately there is quite a bit of misconceptions out there about turquoise. And, due to...
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Deep Purple
I am of the age . . . ahem . . . where the music I grew up with is now called "Classic Rock". And while my musical interests are very eclectic - from Ladysmith Black Mombazo to Coldplay; from the...
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Circles of Our Lives
Sometimes the most mundane of things in life suddenly captures my imagination. The other day, when I was outside with Seamus, the very handsome Shadow Dog, I started thinking about circles (yes, my...
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The Trees in My Forest
John Muir, in the "Mountains of California", once said, "We travel the Milky Way together, trees and men". Maybe because of this spiritual quote, I decided to re-read a favorite book called "The...
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Some of My Newest Handmade Jewelry
Carol Alt, supermodel, actress and jewelry designer once said, "I hope that women everywhere will wear this jewelry and and feel the passion and love, that is, to me, the real spirit of true harmony"....
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Bodaciously Beautiful Bracelets!
Bracelets, along with earrings, are my favorite pieces of jewelry. I especially love sterling and gemstone cuffs and will often wear them stacked on my left arm (I live in the Southwest, after all!)....
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A Short History of Beautiful Pewter
Lately, I have missed working with large sterling silver pendants. Now, if you are a jewelry designer, you know that the price of sterling silver skyrocketed through the roof several years ago and...
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An Alphabet of Gems - Acrostic Jewelry
Recently, I just finished re-reading (for the 4th time) a book that intrigues me, called "Jewels: A Secret History" by Victoria Finlay. In it she highlights one gemstone for each of the "steps" in...
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