Spring is Coming

Greetings and Blessings:

Just popping in for another short visit tonight. Cluster migraines and insomnia so do not go together or lend themselves to my making myself very useful or productive.

However, I have been able to put a few spring themed pieces together and wanted to stay on top of at least one thing. I haven't been able to do my blog-a-day as I had planned this year, but I have been able to stay on top of or be ahead of my 365-a-year goal, which is one new creation per day:

Spring will soon be upon us all and not a minute too soon can this cold, wet known as rain, slushy and white stuff called snow go away:

Think spring and stay as warm and toasty as you can while riding out the harsh winter:

Blessed Be.

Hang on to the Joyride Known as Life

Greetings and Blessings:

While it is still fairly early where I live (9:30 p.m.), I still haven't been able to sleep well and decided to just write some stuff down.

Some say (well a lot say) that life is a journey.. let me tell ya.. life is more of a joyride... it goes super super fast, sometimes so fast you don't have time to breathe and take everything in, and then BAM it's over and the joyride/journey you took ends badly, usually with someone getting hurt, or no one is hurt and people move on as if nothing has happened.

But, I am a believer that our lives should be good joyrides where we can choose our destinations. If one door closes, open another.. if you travel on a road that twists and turns and you think there will be a fork in the road, but it turns out to be a dead end.. turn around and go back the other way and then turn another direction. Apply the same thought to everything you do. If things are not going the way you want them to, don't simply give up.. keep searching for and working towards the next best thing.

Right now, I am searching for the next and best night's sleep I can have and to see the sales of my jewelry pick up. I keep working towards the next best design or combination of things that will just be a delightful piece and put a smile on someone else's face. I want my kids and my husband to stay healthy and more importantly happy. I wish the same for all my friends.

Make each day a new journey.. a new beginning. Sit down, enjoy the ride, drive it hard, but always be safe!

Blessed Be.

Nature's Colorful Experiments Work Sometimes

Greetings and Blessings...

It's amazing that nature is such a source of inspiration.. a neverending walk in garden splendor.

The last two weeks have been spent playing around with color mixes and it's amazing what works and what doesn't. I have laid out at least 10 pieces of jewelry that will never see the light of day in a finished form because I just can't fathom a single person liking them when I want to run far away from them before my eyes explode.

On the other hand, I've finished a couple of pieces that will soon be someone's coveted treasure:



and a few more that lay here to be completed in my next bout of insomnia.

Colors, textures and shapes. These are things we should mess with and mix-up and experiment with. It's amazing how things come together with a shirt or a dress that on a nude mannequin or plastic stand would send one into fits of laughter or disbelief:




Here are more conventional pieces that just jump to lige and hopefully there will be many, many more to follow:






Blessed Be.