Ok – the first winner is me! THANK YOU all for the lovely, kind comments! What fun!
I have consulted the magic random number generator at Random.org and the winner is: # 33.
Congratulations to Shama-Lama Mama!
Because I’m such a pokey blogger I’ll still be visiting OWOH blogs for some time. And again thank you all so much for making this such a positive experience.
Applause for Lisa of a A Whimsical Bohemian!
It’s time to visit blogs from the far corners of the globe! If you would like to join the fun, click HERE.
To introduce myself I’ll start with a fairy tale because everybody needs a story.
And yes, I am an artist though I also have a day job, and yes, I do live under trees. I love to make vintage style jewelry and stitch needlework – I have a thing for pincushions. I also do shabby scrapping and collage.
The trees and the tiny house are in the Verde Valley of northern Arizona -
Let’s step out the gate and visit -
The Verde Valley
The historic mining town of Jerome on the slope of Cleopatra Hill
The open pit above Jerome where they had to take off the side of the mountain because of the mine fires that burned for years
The surrounding countryside
The ever-changing sky
Across the valley, up to Sedona and Coffee Pot rock
Land of the red rocks
Over Midgley bridge
Up the narrow, winding road through Oak Creek canyon
Down the path to…
Oak Creek, then up the canyon to…
Flagstaff and the San Francisco peaks.
Thank you for visiting my part of the world and before you leave, please enter the drawing for a door prize -
A special, handmade something – Magic Gypsy’s Altar-in-a-Box. A tiny devotional to take with you to help keep those thoughts positive.
The inside, with the golden lotus and the pearl of wisdom
With devotional figure in place
The devotional figure – Quan Yin, goddess of compassion and mercy
Top of the lid
Inside the lid
The bottom of the box
Barbie’s helping to give an idea of the size.
If you would like to enter the drawing, please leave a comment and a way to reach you. I will draw the winner on February 17th, at 9:00pm Arizona time, and will announce it in a new post. Then I will email you or leave a comment on your blog.
Titania and…
Brownie say good-bye for now.
Enjoy the adventure!
I disappear from my blog for a while – so what do I do while I’m gone? Well, I make stuff! Or I finish stuff. Like the fairy in a jar that was started long ago…
Her name is Mavis and she’s a Sparkle Fairy – the type of fairy that puts the twinkle in glitter, the flash in rhinestones and the glimmer in sunlight on water. She moved in to the jar right away, no doubt because of all that glitter, and waited patiently for me to finish the lid. She didn’t stamp her wee foot, not even once, but she did mention the other fairies were beginning to talk. So I finished the lid, the center is paper – to keep the room dust out, the fairy dust in – and doesn’t stop the comings and goings of a fairy. The ring has glitter ribbon and vintage rhinestone trim, a ribbon rose and velvet leaves adorn the top.
She keeps me company in the studio…
Some other studio happenings…
This necklace and the amethyst necklace above were published in Somerset's magazine “Jewelry Affaire”
Thrill! Thrill! Thrill! Beautiful photos and a lovely article!
And off I go to make more stuff!
It’s time for the One World One Heart 2011 event!
This is a really, really big international blog event and it will be the last year. It’s hosted by A Whimsical Bohemian and I had a wonderful time at the past event and will be ready to go this year. Each participant offers a giveaway and last year mine went to a blogger from the Netherlands. Click on the link above or the sidebar button to find out more!
Brownie and I say Happy New Year!
Woof, woof!
Here’s some Christmas cheer from my house to you…
Enjoy the tree…
Have a seat at the table…
With a vintage plastic crèche…
A napkin holder dressed for the season…
And goodie bags to hand out…
Blessings of the season!
Crafting My Best Life, continued…
One of the projects was a starfish of felt with arms to hold messages of love from those we hold dear – I had forgotten how cheerful red felt is! Specially with yellow buttonhole stitch. Now I want to make an ocean full of cheerful starfish!
Tags to remind me of goals, a book for journaling
But the main goal: mission statements. Business on the right, personal on the left. This is a box lid, for the class we decorated a shoe sized box to hold the projects. I didn’t have a shoe box handy so I used the box from a Diwali Barbie who now dances in my studio (and looks exactly like Aishwarya Rai).
Keep howling!
The next “Crafting My Best Life” project was to find out what we value, distill those values into single words and put those words on painted rocks. Painting rocks is fun!
Finding the values meant answering questions like : when have you felt needed by others…, if I could muster up the courage I would …, when were you inspired…, and then condense the answers into a single word. Rocks were used because values are solid, what a great way to express that! I put the value of creativity on the big rock, because that’s so important to me now. Compassion is on the smallest rock so I can put it in my pocket and take it with me always. Hozho is a Navajo word that’s translated as “beauty” but it’s like the beauty of being in balance with the universe. Sangha means community, it’s a value learned from Buddhism. The muslin bag came with the class kit – to hold our rocks, on it I wrote I will remember.
Next: Starfish
