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FYI: MyMutation Online Competition
Dear Readers: I received an email from Lisa McCosker of the Sydney Opera House regarding an interesting online dance competition called MyMutation. Read more about it and check out the YouTube [...]
Gilroy Garlic Festival
After 15 years of living here, Charles and I finally attended the world famous Gilroy Garlic Festival. Gilroy is an easy jump on the highway from here and only about an hour south; we had a little [...]
Controversies Continue at SYTYCD
This is the most controversial season ever for SYTYCD. We started with the choice to bring in All Stars and reduce the number of competitors, we lost several dancers due to rehearsal injury, and then [...]
Koyaanisqatsi—Life Out Of Balance
Koyaanisqatsi is a Hopi word meaning “life in turmoil, life out of balance, life disintegrating, a state of life that calls for another way of living.” It is an apt description of the [...]
A Hula Master Visits Santa Cruz
I’d always promised myself that before I kicked the bucket I’d take a hula class. Now seemed as good a time as any so I signed up for Polynesian dance with our own Lorraine Kalehua Kinnamon, [...]
My Unemployment Reading List
When faced with the fact that I was going to be unemployed for a long while (though I never imagined it would be this long) and because I had been on a strict diet of academic books for so long, I [...]
Yuva Bharati Presents An Evening of Odissi
On Friday night, my friend Andrea and I attended an Odissi recital in Palo Alto, hosted by Yuva Bharati—a non-profit cultural organization that supports Indian culture in the US. The evening [...]
Thinking About Racist Speech
We’ve all heard by now the violent speech allegedly from the mouth of Mel Gibson. You may have heard too that Gibson’s old friend Whoopie Goldberg defended him saying in all her dealings with [...]
It’s getting Complicated
I have this new way of creating post to my Blog. So this is a test post to see how it works. The following photo is from City Center Las Vegas
hot summer weather and cool new art dollsit is sweltering hot here in scenic city chattanooga tennessee...one hundred degrees yesterday...almost to hot to move...but instead to sit inside under the cool air and sculpt has been my plan...and [...]
Stepping out of the boxafter many nights of staying up late to sculpt, paint and collage....my newest art doll has come to life and is stepping out of her world into ours so to speak,,,and basically that is how i [...]
Welcome to my wonderlandMany of you may be visiting my blog for the very first time and I'm so glad you were able to stop in...art dolls are my passion....creating art is like breathing to me...can't live without either [...]
The Durham Arwalk... the aftermathThe Durham Artwalk over this past weekend was one of the most fun events I have participated in a long time... as an artist, I would definitely recommend DAW to other artists. The staff and [...]
My prizes from the Durham ArtwalkMost people know I have a thing for notecards... and some days I think I keep the USPS in business. I got a few from other artists who were in the Carolina Theater with me during the Durham [...]
Why is it always trash?Oh, tell my why do you always choose trash? Over the toys you have all over the house... the toys I trip over, toss for you clean up debris from regularly...
Yet, stealing trash seems to make [...]
Birthdays...
So do you do anything special for birthdays? My side of the family seems to have gotten almost lazy... we have one big birthday for everyone with a "near to the date" birthday. On December 30th [...]
My first ever treasurySo I finally got around to reading all of my e-mails and created my first ever treasury - which was pretty easy with the new always open/always on concept. I centered it on the NCTriangle Etsy Team. [...]
This weekend's present to myself!What weekend isn’t great if you start with a present for yourself?
And this isn’t my normal type of beautiful stone/fossil/or shell to add to my jewelry-making-supplies collection… [...]
NeglectSo, I've been neglecting all online portions of my business lately. This blog, my shops on etsy, 1000Markets, and Artfire...
I was aghast last week when I openned up my etsy shop and it [...]
Porn
Dear makers of pornographic websites that continually post comments on my blog,
I don't want or need your sites and am getting tired of rejecting all of your comments. Is there really a [...]
Apex PeakfestAnother weekend festival has passed for me and boy has it gotten me beat. I had one of those days where it was so hot, I was uncomfortable the entire day and every kid that had popsicle or lollipop [...]
More Shells!I love visiting beaches... especially when I walk alway with lots of shells. I made my husband take me to Topsail Island recently and walked away with all kids of loot. I even got a few good pieces [...]
MailMonday night, I stayed up late putting in a huge order of supplies... getting ready for a marathon of making during the summer to get ready for fall shows. I've been so excited wondering exaclty how [...]
I ruined a masterpiece!I was working on a pendant for me... wanted to call it my new masterpiece and I have managed to break a piece of sea glass. I love purple, so the rarity of finding a lavender shade of sea glass was [...]
The path to organization...begins in a car ride to Charlotte, North Carolina.
Or at least that is how I am finally attacking this year's goal of getting my jewelry-making stuff organized.Last Sunday, a friend and I [...]
Sandi Who?Why the T-shirt lady of course! And this month's featured EtsyBlogger.
She's got a shop full of just about everything... Handmade by Sandi has crochet, sewn items, jewelry, felted, [...]
Creating the New Workspace - Day 1So Day 1 is done...
For those of you who don't know, my husband and I have a bonus area over the garage. There is a long skinny room that will be my studio and a small office off to the [...]
Paint!Ah, now the painting is done (finally...). Not sure I will be painting anything again in the near future. The color I chose was Benjamin Moore's Gargoyle. I did the entire walls in my husband's [...]
The GardenI had to take a break from working on the studio space and get my garden in order - can't have all of my seedlings keeling over on me! Especially after I cheated and spent so much money on them. [...]
The Gardenia...Getting out of the car and walking up my sidewalk, a wonderful aroma drifted up...
Looking down, I couldn't believe it, my gardenia bush is blooming like crazy. I was so excited I had to [...]
The bane of my existanceHas been this little door... taking up hours and days just to get hung, but at least now I can say my husband's desk is built. (minus 1 drawer because I have extras of every other piece besides the [...]
eBayMuch to some of my etsy friend's dismay, I've been an active user of eBay for awhile (since 2005 actually) but today something happened that almost made me cancel my account.
I've thought [...]
I want it!This evening I was fiddling around with my artfire account when my eye got caught by an ad...
The Sew Essentials Quilter's Design Table:
I was drooling before my [...]
The needed vacation...I got to visit my parent's home for the weekend and was so glad we had time to run out to Boca Grande (on Gasparilla Island). Not only did I come home with a whole bunch of venus clams but just [...]
New Toys!Don't you love those days when you get a new toy!
Mine came in the mail in the form of these two books: Woven Wire Jewelry and Silver Wire Jewelry. (Plus the necessary clamp I bought at [...]
Going small...I love large jewelry so my wire wrapped sea shells end up being the bigger sort, but recently, I've begun listening to friends a little more when they say they'd like smaller pendants... so I've [...]
More garden surprisesDon't you love when unexpected stuff happens in the garden. (Well, not the surprises when the neighbor's cat uses it as a toilet... the good surprises!) Since I do a rather pitiful job at weeding [...]
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