Creativity is Flowing...

Well it IS flowing even if things have seemed quiet lately. It is just flowing in a different direction at present. I had a huge job of picking out and scanning over 400 photos and then organizing them into a slideshow for the reunion we organized and I had only about 4 days to complete it. Plus I had to get a speech all ready for before and after the slideshow.

I'm on a roll. I now am working on a 40th anniversary photobook with mounds of pictures to go through. My pictures have been moved all over the place so I'm trying to organize them as I'm putting them away. :oD

I am not sure I will be done as soon as I'd hoped because I have a show coming up next weekend, so I may be stopping the book to prep for the show and then going back to it afterwards. Just go with the flow I guess.

My first week of the trip out to the coast was very busy as you can tell (see first paragraph). Our hotel room was a makeshift office! :o) The second week was just vacation and I did get some rest but it was too short. I WILL get there someday!

I also need to send out vendor invites for our Harvest Hues show (Sept 22) ASAP so need to do that this week as well.

Hope everyone is enjoying their summer!

Home Again...

Back home again after 2 weeks at the coast. Our reunion went wonderfully. We had a great turnout and everyone had a really good time. Our video coverage was great. I haven't checked out all the photos yet, but I'm sure they are great as well. My daughter was my photographer and videographer. What a big help! I now will be working on a DVD of the event complete with the slideshow we presented and a slideshow of the photos taken that night. We had some friends provide a bit of musical entertainment that everyone enjoyed, too. All in all, everyone was very pleased.

I'm now getting my bearings back and figuring out what needs to go where in my schedule. I've got a number of shows coming up. So busy day today! Beads of Courage session tonight! (For more info on Beads of Courage, see: http://www.beadsofcourage.ca/)

Oh, and another one of my pieces is featured in an Etsy Treasury: http://www.etsy.com/treasury/MTE2NzcyODN8MjcyMDUzMDg5MQ/starburst?ref=pr_treasury

Sizzling Summer Jewellery

I've been super busy last week trying to finish up all the pieces I had started for Bazaart! The reunion I'm planning is coming up soon and I need to work more on that before I leave.

So I did up these pieces and then decided to quit for now. Hoping I'll have time while I'm away to post some to my shop and to catch up on some paperwork!

Today is a Work Day ...

Today is a work day! I've got some pieces I didn't get finished for Bazaart! so I'm going to work on those and hopefully be able to clean off my table!

I found all my pics and scanned them for the slideshow for the reunion. I have to do some photo editing on a few but most are ok. I will be working on the actual slideshow when I get out there (1000 miles away) as I need to get more photos from people out there, first. I'm going out a week early so I guess I will be working on it then.

Well off to my silver! Will post pics later!

For My Fellow Pottery Lovers!

I came across this today and will be tucking it away for future reference. My DD (Darling Daughter) also does pottery (OK, these days it is called "Ceramics"). She has studied it in university whereas I have only studied it in high school, many moons ago (I won't say HOW many).

She's learned about all these different types of firings and we've been keeping this as an option for the future, so now I have some great picture instructions (I'm much better with those, these days)!

So here's my great find for today:
Gas Kiln Trials and Tribulations

Enjoy!

Yay! My Summer Heat Earrings are featured in a Treasury on Etsy!

JoAnne Drew has featured my Summer Heat Earrings in her Treasury on Etsy. Check it out:

Summer Heat by JoAnne Drew

I got a few new ideas for earrings last night. If I could just get a bit caught up and then get to the bench. We'll see how things go today. 

Yesterday was a bust, sort of. I did get my banking all caught up, though. And I made Sushi. All was not lost I guess... ;o)

Bazaart is over, now on to the next project...

My next project is organizing a reunion 1000 miles away! I've got about 4 weeks left. Only half the people have registered and the deadline was last week and I'm also working on a slideshow for it so I've got some phoning to do!


Our next JewelleryWon show has been sitting dormant, too without a venue so I need to put some time into that.


On my few forays into blog world and Etsyville I've come across a few things that got me excited.


One is  Art Jewelry Elements: Lark Call for Entries  . That would be so awesome to get your jewellery into a Lark book! My metal teacher has. I think that would be such an honour to be juried into that. I've been looking at some of my pieces to see what I could submit. I need to take some better pictures, though. Incidentally I emailed the link to all of our JewelleryWon artists as well!


Next is my good friend Roxanne Brown. She has been adding to her Etsy shop and I think it looks AWESOME! I love her jewellery! Check out her etsy shop: Roxanne Brown Jewellery.


Just this morning I found something else that piqued my interest at Art Jewelry Elements: Inspired by...Shells on the beach. I've never heard of a blog hop. I think that sounds great and I like the idea of creating something inspired by someone's photo!




Well off to clean up all my stuff after Bazaart! I'm not showing a picture of the mess here. Just imagine panick mode and everything going everywhere, while trying to finish pieces! That about sums up 3 areas of our house!


Have a great day!!