Happy Thanksgiving

I am grateful for so many things...

every year gets better and better and for the first time

I am feeling comfortable in my skin.

This has been quite a year with tremendous

ups and downs...but all is all good...very good.

Happy Thanksgiving to all my blog friends

and my lovely customers.

Thank you for making it so.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder...

Well at least I hope so because boy have I been absent...It seems that once I got an Ipad,

this blog and me visiting others have fallen to the wayside.  It’s very hard to leave a comment

on an Ipad...especially when you have to do the two words (prove that your not a robot) well,

those words end up hiding underneath the “keyboard” so you can’t even see them to type them

in and I get easily frustrated so I just don’t comment.   And hey...I can’t see or read those words...it’s like Latin or something so I squint away trying to work out the words letters numbers and then just give up . So I have visited, to be sure, but often

times my comment visited the ether.

When I first started to blog, I had nothing much else going on.  I had just  gotten my uke...

I wasn’t making jewelry... I didn’t have an etsy shop...now I have so much more on my plate that

the blog has certainly taken a back seat.   It has been a gateway to so many things...my world has

done a 180 since I started blogging and I have met so many nice people from all over the world...

 But now I spend so much time on the computer doing my Etsy shops that the blog just sometimes

gets forgotten.  And hey...I am lazy and disorganized and easily distracted...why I can spend an hour just going through a box of beads and picking out the tiny seed beads as dirty dishes are piling up in the sink.  I see some women on some blogs do it all...and they have like six kids and a farm and are home canning and growing organic food and making their kids clothes from fabric that they loomed themselves from sheep that they raised and spun the wool and dyed it from roots and berries.  But

that is not me...and the truth is is that the older I get the worse I get...

Today is election day...I hope for our country...and no matter who gets in I wish we would just unite for the common good...and put aside our differences and focus on what needs to be done and what we can do as individuals to make our country, our world, our planet a better place.  

 Hope all is well with everyone.  Thanks for hanging in there with me as I separate the wheat from the chaff. xx c

Some New bangles.

Yeah...more bangles.

Making these are like knitting to me...

when I am stuck I go to the bangles to free me up...

I don’t have to think too hard ...just create and play...

add and subtract...I know how they will turn out (basically) and

the problem solving is minimal...so I am still working

without busting my brain apart trying to figure something out.

I’m working on new techniques and I have

to say...they are rockin my old standards.

What’s different?  The wrappage for one...

What I am aiming for is a bracelet that really looks

and feels like it came from some remote tribe

with not many tools and not a whole lot of things at

their disposal.  I wanted the wrapping to look thick,

like leather...old worn leather...used before but still

usable...I wanted more volume... more feel...so I 

wrapped it and then wrapped it again and then just

globbed on my secret potion of wax and scents and mojo.

It all started when I cleaned my workbench....I mean

really just swept the whole kit and caboodle into baking pans...

clean sweep...put those pans away and looked at just was left

in my table top “containers” and decided to work with what was

there in front of me...

I said to myself....use this stuff up...work with it...manipulate

it into something else...

and use the beads you have...Got this zebra one from a

gift package/ exchange...can’t remember who but dang so

cool....Thanks to whoever...wish i had a pile of these...

and my ever continuing journey of messing around with picMonkey

and now using photobooth on the Mac to get these shots of how

the bangles look on...and designing my beatnheart t-shirt and
playing America’s top model without a head.

Well...blogger is not letting me add more pictures and gee wiz

you just can’t  fight it sometimes...

The Universe is telling me to get back to the work bench...

But all is well...it’s hotter than hell

like 90 something but I’m feelin

good today...Husband is on his way

down the 405 South... from his LA Mid-town stu dee o...

maybe I can talk him into taking me out to dinner

cause i don’t wanna cook don’t make me no sinner

and after all it wouldn’t hurt if i ended up thinner...

(say that like you was (w)rapping...)

so peace out homies

till next time...

bh

Belle Armoire Jewelry September 2012

,

Well the day finally arrived.  The autumn issue

of Belle Armoire Jewelry magazine hit the newstands...

and yes...I was in it...well exclamation points galore

because who would have  ever thunk something like this would 

happen to me.

I was contacted by the editor herself asking me to submit seven of my pieces.

I thought someone was playing a cruel joke on me...

and beyond flabbergasted... just couldn’t believe it ...How did it happen?

So I got  to work and did my presentation...all the info on how I made the pieces,

what materials I used, took photos and shipped them off to the mag.

The magazine features articles and also has a section called The Boutique.

The Boutique shows a picture of your piece and your name.  I thought

that there was maybe a remote possibility of me getting in there...Remote...

very remote.

An article, is well pretty darn cool and so is being in the boutique section

but an article is,  well,  AN ARTICLE!!  with words and pictures and who

you are and your influences and all that cool stuff...you know like a movie star.

Well I didn’t expect anything...why me?  nothing like that ever, ever, happens 

to me.  I’m from Sheboygan for cryin out loud!  But low and behold, in about

two months I got an email from the editor saying congratulations you are getting

in and we are using all seven of your pieces and you’re going to have an article

and you have to write it!   Well geez I have to write a magazine article? 

WHOA!

So I set  myself to work and  wrote up my articles, but basically it was the same

stuff I did with my submission, so cool -not that much work left to do after all.

So, now that I am a famous celebrity Super Star will

I still talk to all you guys?  Will you start asking me to

lend you money?

But wait....there’s more...The sweet, adorable wonderful editor is putting the rest of the submissions

in the next issue.....so that means I’ll be in two magazines this year and since they are on the newstands

for 3 months I’ll be sitting around in Barnes and Noble and all the very fancy magazine stands for a  total of one half year.   I embarassed the crap out of my husband by waving the magazine all around
 the store, telling everyone in line I was in the mag, showing them the article, signing autographs...it was pandemonium!  

So yeah...life’s ups and downs eh? 

Thank you Belle Armoire Magazine for making my wildest dreams come true.

A New Day

 I am home after a trip that ran the gamet of emotions and events from flying in a Cessna plane... Meeting a blogger friend Jeanine from Chippy Shabby in one of the most beautiful little towns on the shores of Lake Michigan... Doing yoga with my big brother and reuniting with some old dear friends..

    And in my mailbox , on my return home, the latest issue of Belle Armoire  Jewelry Magazine... More on that when I catch my breath, re-group, refocus and carry on with new power, strength, meaning and purpose.


Thank you all so much for your condolences... You are all part of my life as dear and close friends and companions that share all the moments, both good and bad, sorrowful and joyful with me and through your kind words help me in inmeasurable ways.   I love you all.

Beatnheart 

Princess rest in peace

My little Princess passed away Thursday August 23rd at around 11 am...

.. My husband was home at the time

... She left this World  peacefully and swiftly...and she left it in her house on her terms
Just as I prayed she would... She went when she was ready and in a natural fashion
And for that I am so  so grateful.

I am glad I wasn't there .. It would have been more than I can take

 But right now I would do anything to be home..

To one of the most beautiful, soulfull and extraordinary animals that I ever had the pleasure
to know....I will miss her forever and she will always be a part of me and in my heart.

On Vacation

I’ll see you all the first week of September...

Etsy Shop is open 24/7...

Shipping will resume on September 1st

keep cool if you can..

xx

Beatnheart

loading up the shop

I’m getting ready for my trip to Wisconsin.  This will be the first time back since my mom’s passing.

I don’t know how I’ll be feeling... but it sure will be weird being in the house she died in and I’m bound to go through a lot of changes,  but I have some fun things planned and I’m ready to get out of the big city and be in my homeland which I miss, especially in the summer.   I am going to see one of my favorite bands, The BoDeans, in Oshkosh with my brother.  I also have a Blues Festival planned for a weekend so things ought to be pretty cool.

So in preparation, I’m working non-stop to fill my Etsy shop before I leave.  I just park myself in front of the fan because now it’s just too hot to sit outside.  This old 1920s house is hotter than a pistol inside.

More bangle stacks cause the ladies just can’t seem

to get enough of them....

and they keep selling..

and that makes me very happy.

I made many of these while watching a Marilyn Monroe

marathon on TCM...Bus Stop, Seven Year Itch

(The Sheboygan Conservatory of Music) and How to

Marry a Millionaire.

boho wedding

In closing, here’s a heart shaped

pee spot in the litter box...

I just couldn’t resist...