My first creation of the new year, a pair of earrings. The lovely polymer clay feathers were made by artist Nicole St Laurent aka Raven’s Meadow. I accented them with some Czech glass owls, faceted rounds, and brass bead caps from gr8beads.com. I’m really in love with this ochre yellow…
Winter again….and I’ve been away from my bead table, giving my hands and my brain a break after doing so many shows leading up to the holiday shopping season. Not that I haven’t been creating in the mean time. I’ve been painting, something that I used to do quite often,…
This year has flown by. The heat of the summer had me hiding, again, as it does every year. Autumn’s cooler temperatures have me out and about exploring my beloved nature, my body feeling more comfortable and more “me”. The past two months have been busy with jewelry shows, creating,…
Winter is continuing its slow decline and spring is making itself known more and more with each passing day. From my second floor apartment patio, I can see an hear the birds starting their seasonal rituals. Their songs are getting more melodic, flights are a bit more showy, everything they’re…
It’s finally starting to feel like winter is coming to an end in my part of California. This winter has been an odd one for me. Normally I’m most physically active during the cold, rainy months. This winter, not so much. I’ve been feeling a bit, shall we say under…
Just a few weeks ago I was helping to release four gophers in to their new homes after they had been washed from their burrows by a winter rain storm. Monday found myself and my Hubby having a walk on the earthen damn at Uvas Reservoir. Just a couple of…
In my current state of Gopher, I’m trying to slowly bring my brain and heart back in to a creative mode. It’s hard. In the current chaos that is my brain, I want to swirl and swim. But that starts to feel like circling the bowl and I’m not quite…
We live in uneasy times. This political cycle has left many of us felling like a raw, exposed nerve left flailing in the wind. Every brush of a breeze feels like an assault. It’s enough to break even the strongest of souls. It’s enough to make others stand up and…
One year ago today this was my completed project. Water Goddess. Cultured stick pearls with flame patina’d copper.
Something else that is an important part of my life is my volunteer work at the Wildlife Education and Rehabilitation Center, aka WERC. I started there 6 years ago as an animal care volunteer, helping with injured and orphaned wildlife, and helping to take care of the permanent residents who…
