tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91389294555602669392024-02-18T20:41:34.643-06:00Missficklemedia.comI'm a dork.
A flake.
A little bit scatter brained and more than damaged.
But I love to make things, talk about making things, I love life and people fascinate me and I just have to have an outlet for all that, so thanks for reading and commenting.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11963424365699253864noreply@blogger.comBlogger414125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9138929455560266939.post-17958939476782415042014-05-10T00:00:00.000-05:002014-05-10T00:00:03.516-05:00Welcome to the 8th Annual Bead Soup Blog Hop Party!!!<div style="text-align: center;">
Hello!</div>
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I am so glad you could make it!</div>
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I have my saucy party frock on, I've spiked the fruit punch and my soup has been simmering on the stove for a good long month now. </div>
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I was extremely excited to participate this year as I was in dire need of a challenge and new beads!</div>
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Oh, boy, did I get both in abundance!!!</div>
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I was very lucky to be paired up with the supremely talented <span style="font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://sharondriscoll.blogspot.com/">Sharon Driscoll </a>.</i></span></div>
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Sharon is a <i>lamp worker</i> (whispered in an awed hush) and what this woman can do in glass is nothing short of magnificent.</div>
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Lamp worked beads are hard for me to afford, I fill and fill my shopping cart and then sigh while I sadly close out the screen and wait for the right moment to invest in such fine artisan beads.</div>
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SHE SENT ME SPECIAL MADE BEADS!!!!!</div>
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Her color scheme of turquoise and orange was accented by a chartreuse green and off white.</div>
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She sent so much beady goodness, I sat for several hours, confounded and overwhelmed,</div>
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thinking, "How on earth am I going to use all of this and more importantly, how will I ever do her glass justice?"</div>
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But Sharon reassured me... "you don't have to use all of it." </div>
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So I concentrated on my favorite pieces of the lot.</div>
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The first was this glorious long tube bead;</div>
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I had some weavings from Maire done up in charcoal linen and chartreuse seed beads that I had been struggling to create something with. These weavings were the perfect compliment! So I went with a forging technique of hammered neck cuff bars, a centerpiece of woven linen and seed beads and then created an extra long antiqued copper headpin to slide the orange, white, turquoise, brown and chartreuse glass bead onto.</div>
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I feel the simplicity of the design allows the bead to stand out, but its lines of woven seed beads compliment the chevron lines in the long glass tube. There is a mix of textures and materials you do not often see playing along this piece and I am very pleased with the end result.</div>
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The hypnotic swirled bead.</div>
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I got lost in this bead. </div>
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I wanted to carry it in my pocket for <i>always,</i> it made me so happy.</div>
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Instead I busted out some gemstones and a chunk of amber I had been hoarding. Then bit the bullet and using sterling silver stock, I wire-wrapped the heck out of this piece, using the forged sterling "S" clasp that Sharon had sent along with her soup.</div>
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Red coral, Amazonite, Taiwan Jade, Soo Joo Jade, Chalcedony and bits of Turquoise create a flow of color that leads the eye right to the mother pendant of Sharon's glass focal and amber briolette.</div>
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I know this makes you happy, these colors are so uplifting!</div>
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And now for the piece de resistance....</div>
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It said "Shannon, you must feature me in a necklace made of metal, drenched in one of your favorite color combinations to wear, with textures that mimic the currents of color inside me."</div>
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I cut rippled patterned brass and copper sheet into diamond shapes, carefully scribing around the focal bead as a template. I then cut the the diamonds out, ground and hammered the edges and busted up yet another pair of hole punch pliers, double hole punching both sides of all 4 metal pieces, plus a triangle drop to hang from the lamp work bead. Tumbled, treated to soot black patina, distressed and then washed with a cabos water blue patina before sealing and assembling to a copper chain and diamond shaped, forged clasp, also treated to the same colors.</div>
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A tiny white glass bead dangles from its extender chain.</div>
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And yes, I had a matched pair of turquoise dotted earthy brown glass Sharon included and so I continued with a pair of earrings;</div>
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I hope you enjoyed what I had the honor to create with Sharon's bead soup, it was such a pleasurable experience for me!</div>
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As a thank you for visiting, I would like to offer the final piece of Sharon's glass, along with a necklace kit, as a give-away.</div>
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Sharon has been such a generous bead soup partner, I know she would feel the same as I, letting someone else enjoy such luscious glass in fun, bright colors, perfect for the upcoming summer!</div>
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So please leave a comment and include your own blog link so I can connect with you when I draw a number next Saturday. </div>
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Please visit Sharon's Bead Soup post to see what she has been cookin up with the soup ingredients I sent her,</div>
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<i><a href="http://sharondriscoll.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-size: x-large;">here</span></a></i>.</div>
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And please enjoy shopping her lovely glass goodies in her etsy shop </div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/rightturnartwerks?ref=em">here</a></i></span>.</div>
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Thank you to our lovely hostess, <span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><a href="http://www.prettythingsblog.com/">Lori Anderson</a></i></span>, who overcame personal trials and tribulation in order for the Bead Soup Party to go on.</div>
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We love you, Lori!</div>
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He sat at my kitchen table (an exclusive, difficult chair to achieve) and I tried to stay focused on what he was saying but in reality, I was transfixed by his hands....</div>
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Rough, work hardened, experienced, and oh so capable...</div>
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He gestured as he spoke, stopping only to sketch a quick drawing of his work place.</div>
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My brain halted on the words;</div>
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"cut copper tubing"</div>
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You can purchase pure copper tubing and cut it to size?!?!?!</div>
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I fumbled with the tube cutter, purchased with the last $15 in my bank account.</div>
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I couldn't get it to cut through the copper tubing.</div>
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It squished the tube and even though I affixed my dremel with a saw off blade to cut all the way through, I couldn't get a clean cut.</div>
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I was so excited to have a new project, I couldn't wait....</div>
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I showed my son, "See, this is how you can cut the copper cleanly.</div>
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He sat and formed a blister over the tube cutter and raw copper, cutting me various sizes.</div>
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They tried to talk over the the sound of my hammering the newly cut copper but it took a lot of strength to hammer those down. It was loud and HARD.</div>
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These would fit over thick leather cording.</div>
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These would look <span style="font-size: large; font-style: italic;">awesome </span>on the hammered bead frames.</div>
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These would work as spacers. Pandora had nothin on me.</div>
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Yes, fused silver copper tube beads.</div>
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I often think about how things used to be, still is in some areas of the world, before the industrial age, before the pioneer age, before the age of exploration by sea. Living off the land you were born to, making use of the resources around you.</div>
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I don't know how well I would have fared, being mostly decorative and kinda useless, but I do know I could have gathered the heck out of things!</div>
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I constantly walk with my head down, scouring for little things I can collect, so much so that I have to remind myself to look up, look around and see the world around me (make eye contact and smile, Shannon, they're not all demons).</div>
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But I can't help it! </div>
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I love to gather; shells, pods, stones, pebbles, nuts, seeds, bits of wood or man made objects left to the elements. Each tiny piece has a story.</div>
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I think that is why most women are pegged as "shoppers". We shop in place of gathering now, it's in our biological make-up.</div>
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Stores have simply made it easy to gather.</div>
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And so I have titled this piece as; </div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-large;">The Gatherer </span></i></div>
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I had the verdigris brass neck cuff with an African recycled glass bead forever, just sitting and waiting.</div>
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Then when <span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Bohemian-Inspired-Jewelry-Designs-Leather-Ribbon/dp/1596684984/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1397570641&sr=1-1&keywords=bohemian+inspired+jewelry">Erin and Lorelei's book</a></span> came out, I added linen to both sides of the focal bead, inspired by their use of cording with metal. But it still sat and sat....... never having any meaning or direction, until I started selling off my bead collection. I pulled every bead I owned out of drawers and found I have a nice little hoard of natural materials that look very cohesive when mixed together; melon buri seeds, panya seeds, horn, coconut, amber salwag and red bahay seeds!</div>
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The polymer clay focal is hand carved by <span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/Artybecca?ref=listing-shop-header-item-count">Artybecca</a></span></div>
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I attached it to the African glass with a knotted leather bail and because the back hook of the neck cuff does not have a right or left, you can turn this piece around and wear the sun follower side of the necklace.</div>
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Peace and Prosperity, </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11963424365699253864noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9138929455560266939.post-41083246927024369592014-01-31T00:00:00.000-06:002014-02-03T20:47:52.908-06:00Ok, Enough of That! Now onto This!<div style="text-align: center;">
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Do you want to hear me talk about some fun stuff for a change?</div>
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I had the honor of chatting it up for a podcast with Cara Rae of</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><i> <a href="http://icreateflix.com/">icreateflix.com</a></i></span> .</div>
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Cara is incredibly easy to talk to and she had me spilling the beans about creating, combining children, home and business tasks, production work versus one of a kind pieces and sources of inspiration.</div>
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(I promise I do not mention man trouble once during the interview!)</div>
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You can listen to the show on Monday, the 3rd.</div>
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I am working on a series of downloadable videos to turn over to Cara that will be available for purchase during the Spring.</div>
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They'll be super affordable and a great introduction to basic metalsmithing that I'm sure will spark a fire for creating your own metal components for your art jewelry.</div>
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My goal for the video instruction is that you just simply..... </div>
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Don't get bogged down with acquiring tools and setting up the perfect work bench, just pick up a hammer and start learning what happens when you lay into a piece of metal!</div>
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Before I go, here's a joke;</div>
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There was an old blacksmith who realized he needed to quit working so hard and start training an apprentice for the small town forge he ran.</div>
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He choose a strong young man to assist him.</div>
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The old blacksmith was very crabby and exacting;</div>
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"Just do <i>exactly</i> what I tell you to do", he instructed the young man.</div>
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The next day he took an annealed piece of metal from the forge and laid it on the anvil.</div>
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"Now when I nod my head", he barked "Hit it real good and hard with the hammer."</div>
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The town is now looking for a new blacksmith.</div>
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There's a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/missficklemedia">video on facebook</a> that I couldn't bring over here. The camera microphone on the computer kept muffling our sound and you couldn't hear what we were saying, so we used my phone and uploaded it to facebook. I don't know what happened to the computer recording microphone, I might have messed with it when I was looking for a way to increase the volume on my netflix movies.</div>
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1. <span style="color: blue; font-size: x-large;"><i>HAPPY NEW YEARS!!! </i></span></div>
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I am so excited to see what is in store for everyone in 2014. </div>
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I hope for peace and prosperity for us all!</div>
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2. SALE!!!</div>
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20,000 items sold online means a PAAAAARTY!</div>
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Here is the coupon code for 20% off your entire purchase until Friday the 10th.</div>
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Thank you for your support of <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/missficklemedia?ref=si_shop"><span style="font-size: large;">missficklemedia.com</span></a> and I hope you continue to find joy in creating!</div>
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3. MAIRE DODD IS BACK!!!</div>
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Maire is back at the metal bench and stamping out little <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/170911557/be-brave-stamped-charms-patina-copper?ref=shop_home_active">copper charm pairs</a> in her special font!</div>
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They are selling quickly and she hasn't finished a new batch yet, so don't wait!</div>
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There were times I seriously questioned my decision to remain in business, the obstacles that I have had to overcome have been substantial and while I wanted to keep it going for the kids, I couldn't if it continued to fail in its provision for them. </div>
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Often times I would wake up to a sale from this customer that did more than ease the financial burden of providing for two kids on my own, it gave me encouragement to keep producing work, to continue to share the designs my brain can't seem to stop and to rest in the fact that someone enjoyed creating from materials I provided them with. </div>
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I don't think she knows what an angel she is.</div>
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But I would love to send out a $100.00 gift certificate to</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Debby Bergstresser. </i></span></div>
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Debby, thank you, from my family to yours.</div>
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(I've got your address, Girl!)</div>
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Oh, and look what I made...</div>
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Although they are slimming down a bit there are still great pickings of antique and vintage brass stock that can be cleaned up, drenched in color and re-assembled into modern fresh accessories.</div>
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Oh Nina, sing to me....</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11963424365699253864noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9138929455560266939.post-24539729051440186082013-11-09T12:30:00.000-06:002013-11-09T12:30:03.554-06:00Copper in the Arts and my new friend Jennifer<div style="text-align: center;">
I was recently interviewed by author <span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Jennifer Hetrick</span></span> for a digital magazine called <a href="http://www.copper.org/consumers/arts/2013/october/">Copper in the Arts</a>, which is sponsored by the <span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.copper.org/">Copper Development Association.</a></span></div>
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This online publication was a new discovery to me and I poured over its pages, learning technique and artistic skill from the talents of admired artists like <span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.copper.org/consumers/arts/2011/October/">Cynthia Jimenez</a>,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.copper.org/consumers/arts/2013/march/Leslie_Neidig.html"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #e06666;">Leslie Neidig</span></span> </a>, </span>and <span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.copper.org/consumers/arts/2007/june/june_profile_stone.html">Chelsea Stone</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This publication also has fascinating <a href="http://www.copper.org/education/history/us-history/g_fact_us.html">articles</a> about the history and smelting of copper which I never really gave much thought to until having read some of the information made available to us through the various sources that this online magazine gathers for us. </span></div>
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This was a positive experience for me and I dare say I learned a little bit about myself through the process.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.copper.org/consumers/arts/2013/october/modern-rustic-meets-the-jewelry-of-missficklemedia.com-.html">Modern Rustic Meets the Jewelry of Missficklemedia.com</a></span></div>
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But I want to talk about Jennifer....</div>
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Every once in a while the internet puts me in contact with a truly beautiful soul. It amazes me as I know that before 2005, I would have never had the opportunity to meet some of these souls that not only open my eyes to unique perspectives but makes a connection with me that touches my heart.</div>
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Jennifer is most definitely one of these souls; friendly, open hearted, patient, easy to communicate with and intelligent. She is also genuinely appreciative of artists and supports handmade as she demonstrated to me by sending me one of these magnificent sample boxes of homemade fruit butters from her town of Sassamansville, Pennsylvania;</div>
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Oh So Worthy of indulging in a few carbs.</div>
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These fruit butters are made by <span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.baumanfamily.com/">The Bauman Family</a> </span>using natural ingredients and no preservatives<span style="font-size: large;">. </span>I'm sure I do not need to tell you this would make an awesome gift!</div>
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Thank you to Copper in the Arts for the work they do, promoting this sublimely versatile metal that has given my own work such beauty, Thank you to Jennifer for your wonderful article that gave my self-esteem a badly needed boost and thank you to Christi Dick of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/LostMarblesJewelry">Lost Marbles Jewelry</a> who mentioned my name to Jennifer.</div>
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Oh my. I can hardly remember how to write. What sign in? What log in? How do I start a new paragraph? Where's my pictures? Can I just write in abstract poetry?</div>
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Things are different now; my feeeeeeeeelings aren't always positive and shouldn't be shared. That cuts down on the writing and sharing and relating.<br />
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extra large <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/missficklemedia?section_id=6711139">Hammered Patina Disc Pairs </a></div>
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And some new <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/missficklemedia?section_id=6711139">Fold Formed Leaves</a> in a rainbow of color!</div>
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With little fluttering pairs for earrings!</div>
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Then I took a new <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/missficklemedia?section_id=13741698">Weavings</a> offered by Maire and created this necklace with a leaf pendant, seed beads, cotton cording and more moonstone....</div>
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Some large, flamboyant <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/missficklemedia?section_id=6711137">chain</a> for my bold ladies;</div>
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I have visions in my head that I cannot complete because of my inability to invest in anything new.</div>
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I KNOW you know what that feels like.</div>
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The need to create a special adornment for your body that reflects the state of mind, body and spirit that you ARE, that you feel at this moment in your life.</div>
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I feel it when I look at the work of <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/KathyVanKleeck">Kathy Van Kleeck </a>, <a href="http://loreleieurtojewelry.indiemade.com/">Lorelei Eurto</a>, and my special <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/mairedodd">Maire</a>... </div>
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I am an admitted ceramics whore, I flit from one to another, as if I was the fickle miss my shop name suggests. But the yearning stays the same, to feel the weight of fired clay in my hands, against my chest and brushing against my neck is a very REAL need. There is something infinitely satisfying about creating with something directly from the earth, molded and shaped from the hands of women I admire so much.</div>
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4. I don't want to sit at a wheel: I want to form, shape, texture, cut, color.... and then just magically wear the finished ceramics (all that comes between is often not mentioned in product descriptions because they know no one READS, but they are still steps that require time, experience, muscle control and knowledge in order to complete successfully). I couldn't for the life of me find a class just for that, they all involved a wheel and learning firing temperatures. E-gads!!! Numbers!!! </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/150831165/driftwood-shards-under-a-blue-moon?ref=shop_home_active">Petra of Scorched Earth</a>;</i></span></div>
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I do not know if the future holds clay shaping for me, but until then I will be haunting the shops of these artists!</div>
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Peace & Prosperity;</div>
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Shannon</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11963424365699253864noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9138929455560266939.post-42534269862069020262013-07-22T11:12:00.000-05:002013-07-22T11:12:57.213-05:00Just Keep Walking, Shan<div style="text-align: center;">
You know things go awry in your body when you stop.</div>
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An unbalance begins again, an unbalance that you fought so hard to overcome.</div>
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If you let yourself stop, you become stagnant in your brain, muscles and momentum.</div>
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Your emotions roller coaster and you cannot let yourself be overcome with emotions right now, at a time when your children's well being depends on you.</div>
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Familiar aches and pains return and haunt you like painful memories from the past brought into the physical realm as obstacles that keep you from pushing forward.</div>
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Chemicals rise and fall, altering behaviours and decision making that keep you from living harmoniously.</div>
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Fatigue sets in and you reach for the bad foods as if their quick fix feeling is actually what you need when it is really a poison that takes away your full potential.</div>
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Just keep walking.</div>
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And when your legs ache, remember how much more your heart ached and push past that. When your ribs constrict and cut off your breathing, slowly sip the fresh oxygen you need to fuel yourself. </div>
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And when you stumble, lean on the shoulders of the women that have their feet firmly rooted in wisdom and perseverance.</div>
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Walk like the nomad your ancestors were, like your body was meant to do to find shelter and food.</div>
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Walk like your very life depends on it, because it actually does.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11963424365699253864noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9138929455560266939.post-36386247060354816462013-06-16T09:12:00.000-05:002013-06-16T09:12:01.932-05:00Every Day She Reached Out To Me<div style="text-align: center;">
Every. Single. Day.</div>
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Even when months went by without me being able to say a word or respond back. She still emailed, convoed, called, chatted and texted.</div>
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Sometimes it was just an</div>
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xoxo.....</div>
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Letting me know I was not alone.</div>
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Letting me know someone cared.</div>
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When my anger had pushed everyone away, when I couldn't trust myself to fulfill expectations, when I acted like a complete brat, she forgave me and still reached out. </div>
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Friends like that are rare.</div>
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And to be blessed with her friendship has taught me so much, so much that I hope to be able to show others and respond in kind.</div>
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Isn't she beautiful? </div>
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<a href="http://mairedodd.blogspot.com/">Maire Dodd</a> has been a huge source of comfort to me, loving me unconditionally through-out my darkest days of despair. She has also been a huge source of inspiration to me in my work, teaching me things I egotistically thought I had nothing left to learn in. </div>
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She is a private person and I respect that, but she has given me permission to share that she has not been well. She too has experienced life at its cruelest, dealing with blow after blow that has literally knocked her off her feet and laid her up with a debilitating illness that almost took her ability to walk.</div>
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Recovery has been very slow and painful.</div>
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She has not been able to work.</div>
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And as a working artist, this has been devastating to her life and spirit.</div>
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She fights daily to overcome the difficulties of being a single mother with 3 kids and now has not been able to do the work of her hands and heart for months.</div>
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Can you, for a moment, imagine?</div>
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Being unable to create?</div>
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Maire is now at the point where she can sit up in bed and move slowly around her house. She is not able to make it up and down the stairs to her workbench, but she has been working on Tibetan calligraphy and weaving when her recovering body allows her.</div>
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She has allowed me the honor to stock these pieces in my own shop so that I may take care of the sections of business that her health is not able to allow her to complete right now.<br />
(shipping is both mentally and physically painful to me, a completely healthy person)</div>
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And wouldn't you know, it fueled one of the most beautiful artistic collaborations I have ever been involved in!!!</div>
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Maire's weaving;<br />
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Paired with some hammered neck cuff bars;<br />
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Makes for some peace, love and happiness.....<br />
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It feels good on; the fringe a soft caress, the join between metal and fiber, flexible and light weight.<br />
We are pleased. :)<br />
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And we hope you are moved to create some one of a kind pieces from the pairings of metal and woven fiber!<br />
Please visit the "Weavings" sections of our shop here;<br />
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Thank you for letting us share what has come from our collaboration. Born from darkness, but always reaching towards lightness!<br />
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Peace and Prosperity,<br />
Shannon<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11963424365699253864noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9138929455560266939.post-78562373946989697082013-05-05T12:58:00.001-05:002013-05-05T12:58:26.943-05:00Guess who just accessed her old blog with the weird unknown email address?<div style="text-align: center;">
ME!!!</div>
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Did you miss me? </div>
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Did you read my other blog where I whine and cry about being unloved and poor?</div>
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Did you even notice I was gone?</div>
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Do you want me to post what I have been putting together or go away again?</div>
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I am also working on a project that will help me explain what I do visually, in case any one is interested. I hope to be able to share more as I wrap things up and work on my organization, that which was once so gloriously efficient but now is as beaten down to useless as my belief in life-long love.</div>
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Down to a pulpy mess, sticky on the floor, where I step over it day after day after day, ignoring the even bigger mess it makes by over-looking it. </div>
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Yep, that's how I like to deal with my problems, ignore them and play with beads and jewelry instead. </div>
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Hesitating, terror gripped her in mental images of wrecked metal and scraped skin.</div>
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But she slung her leg up over the seat anyway and gripped his waist tight.</div>
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The rumble of the motor vibrated beneath her thighs and then there was no more time for fear, </div>
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they were off, seemingly lifted into the air.</div>
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Wind stung her face and she tucked her chin into his leather covered back, squeezing harder to still the shaking.</div>
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The road to the side of his shoulder became a blur, trees sped past and colored lights turned to ribbon-ed streams against the indigo sky.</div>
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Something broke through fear.</div>
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Something lifted inside her.</div>
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Exhilaration. </div>
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Freedom.</div>
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Fear conquered.<br />
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Now I'm not saying I'm going to turn into a biker chic, but Dang!<br />
That was fun! </div>
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I find <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/bashabeads">Basha Beads</a> very inspiring.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11963424365699253864noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9138929455560266939.post-66714270668794872592012-10-07T22:41:00.002-05:002012-10-07T22:41:58.246-05:00Wendy is a Winner!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wendy from <a href="http://thecraftersapprentice.blogspot.com/">The Crafter's Apprentice !</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wendy, I am excited to send these out to you! I also found a few of the pastel patinated copper discs that Lori used for her Vintage Bean Soup project so I am going to include some of those in your package.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thank you to everyone who visited my celebration post, I feel like I have made some new friends and I hope to get to know you all better through your own blogs.</span></div>
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Isn't that fun!?!</div>
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Have you had such an exotic soup? I have not, but I want to try it.</div>
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As I do all these savory soup recipes included in this book!</div>
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There's Ginger Peach Soup by <i><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.prettythingsblog.com/">Lori</a>,</span></i> Stone Soup by <i><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://beadingbymalindekoning.blogspot.com/">Malin</a>,</span></i> Autumn Harvest Soup by <i><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://paintingwithfireartwear.blogspot.com/">Barb</a></span></i>, Savory Tomato Soup by <i><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://kabsconcepts.com/wp/">Kerry</a></span></i>, Summer Strawberry and Mint Soup by <i><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.brandigirlblog.com/">Brandi</a></span></i> and so much more. </div>
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Today is my celebration day for the week long blog hop. I am celebrating the release of this book for a few personal reasons; </div>
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<li>Lori welcomed me into her blog circle with open, encouraging arms and she did not give up on me even though I became very uncommunicative while the preparations for publishing her book were underway.</li>
<li>I have met some of my best beading buddies through the bead soup blog parties.</li>
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Lori discusses bead soup beginnings and inspiration, using up left over beads, embellishing focals, referring to a color wheel and purchasing randomly (Gasp! But I plan everything out!!!). The projects are as varied as the designers are, but there is a lovely synchronicity to the flow of the book, which I enjoyed reading as much as I enjoy reading Lori's blog.</div>
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My own personal soup was sent in from <i><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/storiestheytell?ref=pr_shop_more">Christine Damm</a></span></i>, one of my most favorite polymer clay artist whose specialty of large donut focals and handmade beads seriously tempt my wallet every time I see them!</div>
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To have one of her silky, colorful sets in my hands that I could mix with beads is something I am very grateful for and I hope you enjoy the project I stepped out with it. </div>
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Now I am sure you are not missing out on the prizes and give-aways and I would very much like to offer a set of the lavender flower beads that Lori uses in the books cover project;</div>
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So please leave a comment and I will send out a set of 4 to the winner drawn on Sunday.</div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Yay!!!!</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">It's here!</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Super delicious and really cleverly pulled together using recipe cards and fresh "ingredient" lists! </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">To celebrate the book release, there's going to be a ParrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrTyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyY!</span></i></div>
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Purchase as much footage as you can afford from <span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://store.metalliferous.com/products.asp?dept=2962">metalliferous</a></span>.</div>
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This summer was so welcome, I relished the hundred degree weather and adjusted my schedule accordingly so I could be working in the garage early morning and late evening.</div>
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Kayaking in <a href="http://www.americascave.com/">Meremac</a>. </div>
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Planning a neighborhood BBQ so Pinky can meet our neighbors.</div>
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The wineries. </div>
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Rides through the back country roads under multi-colored trees. </div>
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The apple orchard.</div>
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Hiking <a href="http://www.visitmo.com/elephant-rocks-state-park.aspx">Elephant Rocks State Park</a>. </div>
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We're gonna paint recycled glass jars and hang em from the porch, fill them with <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3B36Ljm2nE">solar lights</a> we got from home depot. </div>
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Maire's whisper petal arrived and I was enthralled by the silken sheen of the torched and waxed metal.</div>
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I kept it close by for days as I pondered her enclosed poem by Aldous Huxley; </div>
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everything lightly.</div>
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Think lightly, act lightly, feel lightly.</div>
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Yes, feel lightly, even though you're feeling deeply. </div>
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I punched a hole at the bottom, snipped vintage crocheted lace apart, created a loop through one of them and the petal, then wire-wrapped an 8mm verdigris bead onto antiqued copper chain.</div>
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I am taking the advise of one of my new wise women friends and creating a blessings journal.</div>
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Too much bad stuff has happened in a short period of time and I am fighting to remain positive, peaceful and helpful to my fellow mankind.</div>
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While I still enjoy the printed word, I am also seeing new life through the camera so I would like to share a blessing I have with you.</div>
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She turns darkness to light.</div>
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She bubbles up with excitement over things like walking the neighbors dog, getting her hands dirty, going for rides, straight legs in a cartwheel.</div>
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She adds color to my real life.</div>
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One of the most amazing things about her is how she thinks about other people. You saw her birthday video? How she turns the conversation to me? She does that with everyone and with everything. </div>
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She did that here with the Fu Fu sign she painted on my work bench. She knows it's my favorite tree (a mimosa tree with the fuzzy pink fraggle rock lookin flowers?). </div>
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She wants to get to know her neighbors "so we can check on them and see they're alright".</div>
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I feel she was sent to me to balance my reclusiveness. </div>
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Some people draw their energy from others, just like her daddy, and they can't be kept from what they receive as extroverts. </div>
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As her mama, I have the keys and (sometimes) the cash to get her there and a chauffeuring sponsor is a role I will gladly embrace to help her fulfill all her dreams. </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11963424365699253864noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9138929455560266939.post-47468224059921236392012-08-20T10:37:00.000-05:002012-08-20T10:37:57.269-05:00Strength through Numbers<div style="text-align: center;">
I love making components for people to make jewelry with.</div>
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And I love helping women sell their designs.</div>
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And I really love combining unique materials to create an esthetic of ancient history meets modern rustic. </div>
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I really reeeeeallllly love that I have found some other women who feel strongly about the above statements as well.</div>
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That's right, <span style="font-size: large;"><i>Missficklemedia.com</i></span> is now a collective!</div>
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While I personally feel like having their help will enable me to continue on in business, the energy and spirit they bring to the online shop will be a huge benefit to the customers who faithfully support and design with handmade components.</div>
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Please allow me introduce the first 3 featured artisans who will be helping stock the missficklemedia online shop....<br />
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<i><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://mairedodd.blogspot.com/">Maire Dodd</a></span></i><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/mairedodd"> Metal Work </a></i></span><br />
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<a href="http://kristen-beadjourney.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Kristen Stevens</i></span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/BeadworkbyKAS"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Beaded Beads</span></i></a><br />
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<a href="http://starryroadstudio.blogspot.com/"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">Karen Totten</span></i></a><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/ktotten">Ceramic Pottery Beads</a></i></span><br />
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I am not going to go into detail about why I feel the way I do about each of these women and their work. I would just start crying and make a big snotty mess of the keyboard.<br />
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I do want to share the fruits of my labor when I found myself with a sunny afternoon, a cool breeze in the garage and the choice offerings of handmade artisan components ...<br />
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It felt like heaven and I got lost in color, texture and assembly for hours... <br />
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Me and Karen.<br />
Sorry, I meant Karen and I....<br />
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Kristen and Maire<br />
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So you see, it works. It all just woooooooooooooooooooorks, <br />
<i><span style="font-size: x-large;">TOGETHER.</span></i><br />
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(i ♥ you.)<br />
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Most of them are One Of A Kind or Limited Editions.<br />
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In order to keep their price within reason, they are created in batches and once they are gone.... they're gone. The artist reserves the right to change their inventory as inspiration and raw stock availability directs them elsewhere. <br />
I will be taking a break from the made to order items so I can finish some collections for a few designers and stock up bead stores for the holidays.<br />
Thank you in advance for your patience as I have over 700 items to list! <br />
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What are you keeping busy with?<br />
Are you getting ready for some fall shows, maybe even putting together an newsletter email list you can have your show customers sign up for?<br />
Ummmm, maybe I should see how to do that? I love getting newsletters from my favorite artists, especially when I am not able to personally keep abreast of their work.<br />
What do you think? Do you use email to stay in touch with your customers? Do you hate them (the emails not the customers!!) and groan when you receive them?<br />
Let me know in comments and I'll tell you what I find out in another blog post.<br />
Much Love & Respect,<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11963424365699253864noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9138929455560266939.post-84047295552959979942012-07-30T00:07:00.000-05:002012-07-30T00:07:00.787-05:00I'm 39 today.<div style="text-align: center;">
I wake at 6, cause that's when the alarm goes off.</div>
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I lay in bed and try not to think about the fact that I do not hear "Good Morning, Sweetie." any more.</div>
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I usually use about 4 to 6 tissues before the mornings pep talk of; </div>
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"Pull up your boot straps, Girl! You have it easy compared to some!".</div>
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I make my protein shake, because nothing good comes of skipping it. </div>
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I take a walk.</div>
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I drink some water.</div>
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I shower. </div>
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I fix my hair.</div>
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I put in my contacts.</div>
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I make an "effort" where an effort was not made before; "you never know who you might run into today" the hopeless romantic in me whispers. </div>
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I make the kids their breakfast, ignoring the fact that cereal sounds as bad for them as the vats of chocolate I used to consume.</div>
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I start a load of laundry.</div>
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I clean up after breakfast.</div>
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I argue with myself over soda or green tea.</div>
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Green tea means I go straight to work, soda means I leave the house and buy one, then run an errand, then since I'm out, I run a few more, I spend money I do not have to get things done.</div>
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Work is emails until I can't think of any more words,</div>
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or the work bench where time loses its meaning.... my favorite of days.</div>
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I put off shipping until it absolutely has to be done, it requires so much concentration and time to get it done without mistakes, I dread it.</div>
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I fix the kiddos lunch, we sit together and talk.</div>
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I make them laugh.</div>
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I explain things and we make plans, some take money we don't have so we make other plans that do not require money.</div>
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They run from the table with kisses and</div>
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"I love you, Mom!"</div>
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I go back to work.</div>
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Photographing. Editing. Measuring & counting. Listing. More emails. Ugh. Math.</div>
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(Anything that requires math, I procrastinate on since Mike is gone.) </div>
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I work until Dinner.</div>
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Dinner is heat & assemble, I can't focus and I burn simple dishes so I use pre-made foods a lot.</div>
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It is a shame to the handmade movement.</div>
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The kids eat while I clean up the kitchen and graze without committing to a meal. </div>
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I tell the kids what is expected of them chore wise, how they can help keep the house, what we are doing tomorrow. I ask what they are playing, what game they are challenged by, what creative project they have cooked up in their fascinating brains. </div>
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I gather materials that make it easier on them or I read project instructions or I try to explain concepts I really do not have a clue on. </div>
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I spend my evenings with Pinky mostly. She has the most needs right now.</div>
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She needs touching, reassurances, consistency and eye to eye attention. </div>
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She needs to know I will not leave.</div>
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The evenings pass with various activities, I try not to work, even though it is always waiting for me.</div>
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I stay busy. </div>
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I try to call people. </div>
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I check my match.com account and sign off without responding to a single advance.</div>
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I do not have the energy to listen to more heart break and that is all there is available at our age.</div>
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I spend but a moment pining for the passion of youth, when it was inconceivable to be unwanted. </div>
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I pour a drink and put on music, this gets me to the point where I just start moving.</div>
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I follow exercise routines I memorized from wii fit or youtube videos.</div>
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More music, colored lights that glow in the dark and lots of naturalistic sleep aids.</div>
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I smother love that wells up inside me and I pray.</div>
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I wait for sleep and I hope for a more joyful tomorrow.</div>
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Because everyone tells me it just takes time.<br />
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Wow, that 39 year old woman has rockin jewelry.<br />
Happy Birthday, Serious Girl.<br />
Maybe someone will give you a sense of humor for your birthday!!! <br />
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I am skidding in here with my post in the nick of time!</div>
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Let me tell you it has been a craaaaazy month and I have wanted to sit down with my soup of beads for sometime, only to be way laid by....... ummmm, the fresh hot mess that is my life?!?</div>
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Anyway, let me introduce to you my wonderfully generous and talented partner; Shelby Foxwell of</div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/sundownbeaddesigns?ref=em">Sundown Bead Designs.</a></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">I was so happy to meet a new metal friend and I felt like Shelby cooked up a soup that was tailored to my taste!</span></span></div>
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Shelby included Hollow Lampwork Beads by <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/AlishaWhite">Alisha White</a>,</div>
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a Handmade Stamped Brass Toggle Clasp by <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/sundownfindings?page=2">Sundown Findings</a> (that's Shelby!!!)</div>
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and a mix of stone beads including turquoise spike beads, picture jasper, honey jade and new jade.</div>
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She also included some gold leather strap that I will admit I was stumped and ran out of time on.</div>
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At first I was thinking, "Oh no, I haven't got any brass!"</div>
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But then I remembered I did, unpacked it and sat down to get to work.</div>
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Last night. </div>
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I have a terrible habit of pulling every 'like' color of bead and component out before starting a project and due to a lack of tables, I am working on the floor, hippie style.</div>
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This was a worked-out-okay-beading-session and here is what I put together;</div>
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Summer Fields Verdigris Neck Cuff </div>
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The gorgeous green and gold pendant by Beads by Earth Tones was complimented perfectly by a patina-ted neck cuff I just happened to have out already.</div>
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SaaaaaaaaWeeeeeeeeT!</div>
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Paired with a scrap of gold sari silk and a spike bead of turquoise and I'm done!</div>
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Now onto the new jade, which is such a pretty shade of pale green.</div>
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I added a mismatched lot of brass bead caps, hammered brass links and some chain for a lovely lavalier;</div>
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But it looks soooooooooo pretty on!</div>
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Now here is the piece I created with Shelby's toggle;</div>
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It is too special to put at the back of the neck....</div>
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Yes, simplicity <i>is</i> the name of the game here.</div>
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I am not interested in impressing you with technique, but rather creating jewelry I would want to wear with its focus on the handmade focals.</div>
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Following along with the green and yellow theme, I added a couple of honey jade to these very green verdigris links and POOF!</div>
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Instant charm!</div>
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Honey Drops</div>
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The hollow glass by Alisha were a bit different in size so I added bead caps to even out their appearance and hammered brass spears to follow the curve of a woman's jaw. </div>
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I really wish I had more time, I would like to play with the other beads but I'm off to visit other soup makers now. </div>
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(Does it ever get old, all the soup references? lol)</div>
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Visit other bead soup blog posts here;</div>
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<i><a href="http://lorianderson-beadsoupblogparty.blogspot.com/2012/06/participants-of-6th-bead-soup-blog.html"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The 6th Bead Soup Blog Party Participants </span></a></i></div>
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And say hi to our lovely host Lori here;</div>
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Last but certainly not least, please visit Shelby here to see what she has simmering on the stove with the bead soup I sent her (heehee!!);</div>
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Much Love & respect,</div>
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