Creative Sparks

Bright Sunday

at the Canyon.

Sometimes days are just like this. :)

"A New World is at hand"

This document is amazing.  When I read it or hear it read, I get chills and tears in my eyes.  The eloquence and the perfect words to declare ourselves free and independent....how wonderful!  Now declare your rights and go vote for the person who you believe will best serve our country.  Today is an exciting and historic day.  If you live in a state lucky enough to have the opportunity to vote today, please do so!

 

I have my favorite - an inspiring and riveting man.  Someone different that is standing up for change.  Now, choose your candidate and vote!!

Just a cute pic.

So dope

Hey Dudes and Dudettes.  We've had a few requests for full-length pics of our radical 80's threads.  Like, don't have a cow.  Here we are.  Didn't we look killer?!

My little helpers...

In the post below, you can see Gillian grabbing at some artfully arranged bracelets.  Sometimes I take pics of my items down on the floor by our big sliding window (but not this window) and this time, she was mobile enough to army crawl her way over to where I was to have a look-see at what I was doing.  Cute pudgy hands, huh?

Someone else popped in to help me too. Can you guess who he is?

9 months

and cuter than ever.  Army crawling everywhere. Smiling and laughing and happy.  A bit (!!) impatient.  Loves to watch her brothers and is VERY curious.  Enjoys eating peas and cheerios and the occasional 'nilla wafer.  Fluffy blonde hair that needs a trim. Pink cheeks.  Denim-blue eyes.  Dark eyelashes and sweet little tiny ears.  Cute toes and pudgy thighs.  Right now with a runny nose and one bottom tooth (and the other soon to follow!)  Has a great pincer grasp (not so good because of  the little leaves and tiny rocks and specks of fuzz that she seems to discover all the time - can we collectively look around the room please for anything that Gillian might pick up?)  The most gentle baby I've ever seen.  She has the softest touch - she just gently caresses whatever she reaches out for...my face while I'm feeding her...or daddy's hand or one of her toys.  So precious.

She's in the next room, crawling around and gnawing on chewey toys....with barely-there teeth and a grin all for me.  So...bye for now!! :)

 

  I get a few requests here and there for information on my "process" of taking my product shots.  Here you can see my super-duper fancy set up of my nightstand pulled up to the window and my miscellaneous scrapbook paper artfully arranged.  I did purchase the jewelry bust from a jewelry supply company (and my cute new pillow shams from Dillards....50% off!! Score!!!)  I love the natural light of this window...good for jewelry.  (and cute babies)  I never use flash.  Always edit in photoshop and try to pick bright papers that will help the little hearts and clips "pop."

Bunnies on a rock

I have a rock that was given to me as a child at a friend's birthday party.  It has my name painted on it along with a tiny little white bunny.  It has sat on my desk for as long as I can remember. I love it.  I think one of the boys dunked it in some water a couple of years ago and this has made the bunny rub off a bit....maybe I should touch that little bunny up so he's white and new for 2008. 

Have I ever told you of my love of rocks?  I have a jillion of them!  I seem to collect them everywhere I go.  I scan the ground whenever and wherever looking for the perfect little round stone.   I have little cairns all over my garden that I love to stack and restack and stack again.  When we were in Hawaii, it was *very* hard to resist the tumbled smoothness of the abundant lava rocks.  But, according to legend (or just locals wanting to reduce the environmental impact of tourists), it is bad luck to take lava rocks from Hawaii.

Have you noticed my new playlist?  I've seen (or rather, heard) several blogs with fun music playing.  I like the idea of new songs playing all the time and so have started to add a few here and there.  It's more time-consuming than I first figured and so I'll be working on it as time permits.

Anyway, back to my bunny rock.  What little childhood artifact do you still have?  (Sometimes I think I have more than my share! :)   

Here's to the little bunny rocks everywhere.

Exciting new changes

over at CraftTVWeekly.com!  It's official!  The new site is TVWeekly.com!  Check out the new home page and the premier of the new TVWeekly.com channel called "Plum and Verdigris." (all about jewelry making!!) 

Many of my dear friends have been working on this for months.....it's all very exciting!  Of course there are still some bugs to be worked out  but those are being tweaked as we speak. :)

Happy day!