Earrings that I’m making.

I’ve got a new jones.   Making earrings.

I have struggled with necklaces...and hassled

with bracelets.   But making earrings?  

Easy.  Fast.  Quick gratification.

I made these modern day Mourning Jewelry ones

the day Amy Winehouse died.  A tribute to her.

I used jet Victorian buttons on these.

Old Amethyst beads, vintage rhinestone spacers,

old Art Deco connectors.

Citron colored crystal beads saved from a decayed

Art Deco necklace found in a shop in England.

These blue beads are Czech Picasso Saturn's.

Love, luv, love these.

These purple ones were harvested off of a 1920s Art Deco

necklace that I found in a dusty old box at the  Newark Antique Market

In Northern England.

I have never worn swinging, dangling earrings.

I always went the modest route with studs and silver hoops. But these feel so cool to wear and

  they feel great swinging under my hair.  I’m hooked on them now.   

I am not a bragger...  or a very good self promoter.  People

often say to me.."Gee, I never knew you could do that!"

I dislike blowing my own horn.  In la, la, la “L.A.Land"

everybody is always bragging about something that they do.

Heck I’m from the Midwest...we don’t do that kind of stuff.

So I quietly made these earrings at my kitchen table.

They are for sale in my etsy  shop.

Southern California in the winter.

Southern California in the winter..

some random pictures...

on a beautiful sunny clear day.

When it rains down here...

It snows up there.

If the air quality is good this is what we

get to see.  A day trip to some antique stores

near Riverside and these are the views we got

78 degrees...hot and sunny.

This is why we put up with traffic, crowds and crime.

You can’t beat this weather and that is a fact...

and that is why a zillion people have flocked to live

here.  

This is my kind of winter.  Hope you are enjoying yours.

Tonight...a annual post thanksgiving dinner at an old friends house.

They have been doing it for 21 years.

rock on Murph and Paul.

Happy Thanksgiving

A very fine stained glass window at The American Club, Kohler, Wisconsin.

Gratitude is what keeps us going in the midst of

pain and sorrow.  It’s what makes us realize how good

we have it.   Without giving thanks for what we have

we are nothing but takers.  And when you are nothing

but a taker you are nothing.

Today and everyday I give thanks for my warm, cozy home.

My husband.  My pets.  My friends.  My neighbors.

My creativity.  My music.  My health.  Yoga.  My business.

My self.  

Gratitude is part of my daily life.  Not just today but everyday.

I give thanks to all you for your kindness, warmth and friendship.

Happy Thanksgiving.

Building a Website...and a hair slide

My man is building a website with his

best friend in England.  He is learning

as he is going along.  New stuff...

new frustrations...


HOWEVER...

I can’t get on the computer!

He is learning Photoshop (I can hear the cussing

all over the house) and it’s causing him alot of grief.
But some of the stuff he is learning...wow.
And the site is looking awesome.  Good times.
The atmosphere is crackling with anticipation and
excitement on his new venture.  This is something
he has been talking about for along time.  He didn’t
know how or who or what.   But his equally
genius friend came to his aid...

but i still can’t get on the computer!

 To appease me he found time to make me a present.

Guess I’ll have to let him slide...

Remembrance Day

On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day

of the eleventh month

we stop to remember the fallen.

Remember all the brave men and women both past and present

who have fought and died for our freedom.