A few weeks ago I went to the Gem Faire show/exhibit/bead buying heaven with some friends in the Salt Lake area. We had a blast perusing and purchasing fun beads and trinkets. I went with a small budget (since I have tons from the last gem faire that I haven’t touched yet) and didn’t buy tons, but I DID find some fabulous-out-of-this-world-must-have-them red coral CHUNKY beads. I’ve wanted to make a Wilma necklace for a while now but hadn’t found…
Dear friends, I generally try to keep religion and politics and other discussions that can cause contention and get tempers riled up off of my blog. I am a “Mormon”, a Latter Day Saint, and I am often asked which #wife I am. Well, I’m wife #1andonly. (Please know that polygamy was discontinued and banned over 100 years ago by the LDS church. Those who practice this are excommunicated.) Over the years I have taken and can continue to take…
So my sister, Elizabeth, called me this weekend and asked me to make a necklace for her sister in law’s wedding… which is in two weeks… yikes! Cara’s (the bride) colors are lime green, teal, and the bridesmaids are wearing black dresses. These are the shoes and the dress Liz gets to wear. They are SOOOOOOO darling! I wish I could wear heels like this without falling over and breaking my ankle.. or leg… or hip… hehe! Liz wanted…
I’m starting an online class today called Soul Restoration (part 1). Many of you are already familiar with the Brave Girls Club and their wonderful community. Some day my goal is to GO TO Brave Girls CAMP, but until then online Soul Restoration will do… I am excited to do a little “soul cleansing” through art. There’s nothing terribly wrong or anything, but thought that this would be a good way to get a jump start on finding the “old…
I’ve lived in Utah for almost 17 years now and you would think that by now I would be used to the weather. Nope… every year I am “shocked” at Mama Nature’s “bipolar“ disorder in this wonderful state. One minute it’s beautiful and sunny and we’re workin in the yard and getting sunburned… and the next, well, here, I’ll show you. {I missed the deadline for Wendy Tunison’s photography challenge so I’m sharing my photos for this week’s “Signs of…
Today (Friday) Kari Seals sent me an email and asked me to help her bounce some ideas around with a sketch that her CTMH unit was doing. It is a crazy fun sketch and of course I wanted to play, too! I immediately had a ton of ideas flying through my brain but had to reign them in a little… Here’s the sketch: So I got on Skype to chit chat with my friend, Michelle Johns, and she bounced some…
I’m back with some photos of our Charm Swap from this year’s Creative University. This year Tresa asked me to be the “Charm Mistress”/head Charm Fairy and organize and carry out the swap. This year we did TWO separate and completely different charm swaps!! It was a TON of work and a TON of fun! I created a Charm School and our Charm Guidelines and posted them on our old CU students site. Rather than me retype and post pics…
In our almost 12 years of marriage we have never done the “green thing” for St Patrick’s day but this year I felt like it might be fun to do something for it. Originally I thought I’d do the whole Corned Beef Brisket with cabbage, taters, and carrots thing, but then I got to thinking about it… the last time that Brent and I made corned beef brisket neither of us cared for it that much so down the disposal…
Hey friends! I’m still “off” for a few days, working on some spring cleaning projects that are driving me out of my mind but need to be done.. lol… but I got some fun info from my blog “sponsors” that I wanted to share with you! {I’m putting both “ads” in one post so that I don’t flood you with emails.} First off… PICABOO has a CRAZY deal available for new Picaboo X users. Simply set up a new account…
We have a winner! I used Random.org to draw a winner! I took out the double comments and my comment and we had 13 entries in this contest. Random.org selected our winner… drum roll please…. tappppity tap tap tap tap tapppp…. Our winner is #2 – Kandi G!! Shoot me an email with your mailing address, Kandi, and I will pop these little darlings in the mail to ya! Thank you for playing everyone! Inky Smiles! PS.. I’m going to…