Now I REALLY need to buy a Lottery Ticket!

I also won Lynn Davis’ Braided Circle she created out of pewter. Isn’t it beautiful?

In other news, I have stocked my Etsy Shop with Rosary Bracelets of my own design. (Also, check out the little Etsy List to the lower right on this page.)

And now through the holidays, if you buy a rosary, you will also receive a matching pair of earrings. Just look for this holiday badge:

Oh, and the bindweed beetle bracelet is also listed, so if you want to wear a winner, here’s your chance.

Now in Etsy!

Spring Busy-ness

It is the busiest week of the year for us, well, for my husband. Between last Sunday and this coming Sunday (Easter) he will have conducted or attended 12 church services. I will have attended most of them too. It is Holy Week, the opposite of Mardi Gras which kicked off, this whole Lent thing. (Technically, it was the day after Mardi Gras, Ash Wednesday that started it, but you know what I mean.)

This Lent has been one of the most introspective I have had in a very long time.

Along with the expected “denial thing” more time was spent working out my “stuff” than ever before and I have actually made some changes for good that have impacted the way I see myself and the way others see me. With the help of good friends and fellow seekers at church, I started a group, a support system, to help me get my chaos in order. My universe is by no means well organized yet, but I have made a start.

I have been working feverishly on my e-textbook with all its stops and starts. I have only just begun taking advantage of two or three hours a day that I did not acknowledge before -- the time between “alarm-clock Lindi” (our pushy little b*%$#h mini-schnauzer) and “make tea for Hubby and Me” usual beginning of my day. I have said it before, but not here, I do some of my best writing in my pajamas.

One of the things that I do each day is to read the blogs (see the left-hand column) of artists who love their work and their creativity and whose words resonate deep in my chest. I want to be creating beautiful things too, but cannot seem to find the time. So much to do – teach, write, church, family, home.I am looking forward to our time in Amsterdam, to get some perspective and to relax in a different environment without all the usual tugs at my time and attention. I will be working, but I am sure it will not feel quite so much like work.

Ta-Da!

As promised, I have photographed the necklace I made using Lynn Davis' Dutch Red Zephyr Connector I posted yesterday. I have trouble wearing heavy necklaces, but I have not had any at all with this little beauty. I've been test-wearing it for the last two days and have received a dozen of compliments. No one can believe the focal bead/connector is made from polymer clay. It looks like porcelain and is as light as a feather.

So, what do you think? I have another connector and can't decide if I want to make a twin or to do something different. Help me out here.

And Lynn, you are a most generous soul, thank you!

Thanks Lynn!

A few weeks ago, I was reading the always wonderful blog authored by Lynn Davis, who had created some terrific connectors in polymer clay. She asked for suggestions for their use and offered to give away a set as a prize. Well, there were six of us that responded and she decided that our ideas were so good that we should all get a set!

I received my set of Dutch Red connectors (right) on Christmas Eve. It has taken me this long to 'get to it' and create the lovely, long necklace I had suggested and, I must say, I'm quite pleased. I'll be taking photos later on and will posted them and send them on to Lynn. Thanks again Lynn, for your wonderful generosity!