by Cindy on September 20, 2010
Over the weekend, Lori Anderson posted an engaging and informative free eCourse for bloggers! Have you seen it? Lori shares great tips and thought-provoking ideas for experienced and newbie bloggers alike. I found the comments left by fellow bloggers particularly interesting too. Do you want to hear what readers love and dislike when reading a blog? Stop in and be sure to read the comments too!
It was a whirlwind weekend…busy from start to finish. There were important milestones…such as losing a front tooth! Time for those big-gap smiles! Then there were birthdays…. we celebrated not only my Dad’s birthday yesterday, but also this very son’s tennis party that was postponed due to rain the weekend before. This time we were blessed with perfect weather. My husband made the coolest tennis balls to decorate the cake…made from rice krispy treats and fondant, would you believe!
I finished the weekend working late on an exciting and unexpected deadline….I usually work best in those circumstances. With a tight deadline, I can get anything done! Well, almost anything…. the one thing that has to give is sleep. And now I think another cup of coffee is in order…. Oh, can you tell what I took all the photos on…?
If you’re stopping by, I’d love to hear from you……and let me know what YOU’RE up to this week! 🙂
by Cindy on September 15, 2010
With just a little over a week away, every spare moment in my life seems to be focused on the much anticipated ArtBLISS Inaugural Event!
Before I go any further though, for those of you who CANNOT make this event, we have more good things to come! Jeanette and I are already planning next year’s big retreat and if you can’t wait til then, we have a few fantastic late winter/early spring workshops penciled in too! We hope to bring a little something for everyone to metropolitan DC area!
Our marvelous instructors have been hard at work, preparing for their classes. Deryn Mentock recently shared a few beautiful class project pictures over on her blog. I’ll be working with metal and vintage tintypes in Deryn’s Crowned Gems class myself! And stop over to Kerry Bogert’s blog today….you’ll be in for a visual treat! Kerry shares a peek at the INCREDIBLE limited edition beads she has created just for the ArtBLISS event. Her students will be happy to find these fabulous beads are a part of her Bang-a-rang class kits! And lucky for us, she’s bringing extra sets to sell at the Meet and Greet reception! Hey Kerry, hold a set for me!!
Beads and Photo by Kerry Bogert
We have a special guest visiting us at the Inaugural Event! Angela Finet from our extremely popular local stamp store,
Angela’s Happy Stamper will be present. Angela will bring loads of papercrafting goodies for sale at the Meet and Greet. On Saturday afternoon, retreat participants will be treated to a demo and Make-and-Take. Angela will be showing us how to decorate tags with the new Shimmer Sprays from Tsukeniko.
We have a weekend full of fun and creativity planned! If you don’t hear from me much in the next week or so, you’ll know why!
Thank you for stopping by and saying Hi!
by Cindy on September 13, 2010
Hello friends
I hope your week is off to a great start. Today flew by and I have a sneaky feeling the rest of the week will be the same. The days ’til ArtBLISS are numbered and there are many final details to tend to. There have been some last minute registrations which are wonderful to see! It’s not too late to join us, just visit the site and hit “Register Now!” 🙂
I mentioned in my last blog post that I would be meeting with my girlfriend Lori for our own little bead retreat weekend. What a great 24 hours…. it is wonderful to have a friend who understands me and I understand her. Just perfect. And when you throw in lots of bead talk over lunch, dinner and breakfast, can it get any better? We’re hoping to do it again soon. There are many of you that I hope to meet one day as well!
With a few spare moments here, and a few there, I managed to finally finish up this jingly-jangly bracelet. That’s what I love when working with wire – you can start your project one day, and finish it a week later. That’s my kind of pace with 4 kids and having to drive to 2 schools in another city…no long solo sessions in a studio for me. For this bracelet, I soldered some lumpy sterling silver links (using my favorite Stephanie Lee method), and added a wonderful lampwork focal and ceramic beads by Gaea.
Available in my poor little neglected Etsy shop! One day I will fill it up again!
Thanks for stopping by!!!
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