The color trend of the most recent decade struck me as somber and muted and so dreary but I kept creating with the vibrant, crisp colors I love; colors such as mango and orange and hot pink and red and… Well, the list is almost endless. Now, I am excited because those colors are back [...]

I love to talk. My family nickname when I was very small was CRJ, short for Constantly Running Jaws. I’ve always had a lot to say. As an adult, little has changed; I’m opinionated, verbose, and fond of the lilt of language, (not to mention the allure of alliteration). Finally technology has caught up to [...]

I’ve been reading a lot lately about goal setting, planning, management and while most of the advice is all pretty similar, pretty much the same thing said in different words, one topic does not find agreement by all the experts. One expert says get the small stuff done, another says the opposite. A third says [...]

Garnet is well known as January’s birthstone because, unlike many other stones, it is the birthstone for both traditional and modern lists as well as for the lessor known Ayervedic list. But it is not the only stone associated with the month. Bernadine’s entry for January lists 12 birthstones!
Even as garnet itself comes in many [...]

My horizon is a distant swath of color reflecting the beauty I will bring to the universe. It is all the paintings, drawings, necklaces, bracelets and earrings that I will create between now and then. The really cool think about the horizon is that we can never reach it. We can start walking and keep [...]

Lately I’ve been reading a lot of articles all emphasizing the same idea – being cognizant of one’s audience. So, to my apparently varied audience I send wishes for a great year upcoming. In this I feel sure we can all agree. A good year where we move closer to peace and tolerance and plenty [...]

As we close in on the end of December 2009, it’s nice to stop a moment and reflect upon the accomplishments of the past year both professionally and personally. (Thank you Alyson Stanfield for the idea!) I’m going to start with a big personal accomplishment – I started getting back into shape (ok, I [...]

I rarely get to finish a piece on time for the Etsy Beadweavers monthly challenges, but I did it this month, the December 2009 “Peace Piece” challenge. My entry is a sculptural necklace accompanied by a poem. There are 20 entries, each an expression of the artist’s interpretation or inspiration of the theme. My own [...]

The Open Studio is over; it’s not time to rest on my laurels yet.

Why am I not panicking? Is it because instead of waiting til the last minute I have been working on signing up fellow artists and artisans, planning the promotional aspects, writing, drawing, ordering, creating? Why yes, I think that’s it. I’ve decided that I really do not enjoy the whole thing of Press Releases (writing [...]