H.A.P.P.Y...H.O.L.I.D.A.Y.S!
I hope you're all surviving another hectic holiday season still smiling & feeling that "your glass is at least half full":)
It's been a strange month for me. As I was gearing up for my last holiday craft show, I learned that I needed major surgery & was lucky to schedule it on Dec. 14, thankfully a week
after the show. (I'm trying to view that as a glass-half-
full idea:) On the good side, let's just say that surgery gives me a legit excuse to bypass ALL the holiday hubbub -- a good thing, right? But the glass-half-empty news is that my little gremlins (aged 7, 4, 8 weeks) & our daughter have taken turns being sick, so they've been off-limits to me since I learned I needed surgery. What's Christmas without kids buried under wrapping paper & bow ribbons! I'm hoping we're all well by Christmas Day for my first visit with them in a month.
Since I can't see my kids, the next best medicine is jewelry making, & I've had LOTS of time to take my "medicine." All of these pieces should be named "Recovery Therapy" & are the first entries in my 2011 Spring/Summer Collection.
For variety, I've been working on this fresh look for my blog. What do you think? Suggestions & comments always welcome. I love the concept of Fresh Starts:)
I wish for you all a Merry Christmas & a New Year full of smiles, good health, love, & optimism:) CHEERS!
I strive for variety in jewelry design. Apparently this variety is unusual enough that customers comment on it often at craft shows & on my website albums. To tie such variety together, I've chosen a rich, black background for both my craft booth & my website albums. Variety keeps my artsy passion alive & challenging for me.
But sometimes a little design motif fascinates me so much that I can't let it go, which explains the recurring appearance of the "dot on a stem," for example. And, of course, this clean, spare motif requires a clean, spare design. So far, it has represented a decorative feature among wire curves, a moon near a mountain, flowers in a garden, & sprigs in a bouquet. It even appeared without the dot as cactus in my pendant High Desert. My imagination is working overtime, so I suspect you'll see the dot again. Stay tuned:)
