Right before Christmas, I decided I wanted to make jewelry to give as gifts. I started making my Mom’s bracelet. She is a beader/designer, so I thought she might appreciate my efforts to try and make my own stuff. That’s how it started. Here is a look at the finished bracelet and earrings set: It [...]
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I Started Making Jewelry
January 25th, 2009
My Grand-Puppy!
January 25th, 2009
Well, it’s finally happened, I’m a grandma. A little earlier than expected, but I’m not complaining. My dog, Sweets, had puppies earlier this month. It was her first pregnancy (and last…I’ll make sure of that). I felt so bad for her because for the last few weeks before the babies were born, she looked completely [...]
This is Us
August 3rd, 2008
I just realized I have been writing blogs about my life, beadwork, and embroidery, and you haven’t even seen who we are. So I figured I would go ahead and put a blog out so you can put the names to the faces. This is me. I am sometimes silly, sometimes serious, and sometimes neurotic [...]
Grandpa’s Cardinal
August 2nd, 2008
I love doing embroidery. And I love giving them as gifts because it makes those I love happy. I try to find things that will be significant to the people I make them for. For my Grandma it was hummingbirds, but for my Grandpa, it is cardinals. This is what the cardinal project looked like [...]
Hummingbird for Grandma
July 6th, 2008
Back in 1995 I decided to make a hummingbird embroidery picture for my grandma. She loved hummingbirds and there were always hummingbirds around her house, so I wanted to make her something to immortalize what she loved. I had been doing cross-stitch and plastic canvas for a while, and I had done one (a flower [...]