Julie Picarello is a talented polymer clay artist with a knack for color, pattern, and texture. Her upcoming book reveals all of the secrets of her brand of mokume gane, and walks you through several attractive projects. Take a peek inside, and leave a comment for your chance to win a copy!
Read More: Patterns in Polymer + giveaway
Libby saw this salad in my Flickr photostream last week and requested the recipe, and since it’s been entirely too long around here, recipe-wise, I am gladly typing it up and sharing it right now. I found this salad years ago in one of my old favorite books, Vineyard Seasons by Susan Branch (used copies […]
Read More: Pine Nut Salad
We had a beautiful weekend here, filled with family, celebrating, day-tripping, and beautiful weather. Eamonn had his First Communion on Saturday, and on Sunday Neil suggested we take a trip to New Hope, PA. New Hope is just the kind of tourist-trap town Neil (along with the little men we live with) don’t particularly care […]
Read More: Weekending
Last week, one of the Picture Spring prompts required us to find a dandelion that had gone to seed. None of mine had at that time, but they did a few days later, and I thought it would be fun to see what kind of images I could get, even though Picture Spring is over. […]
Read More: Fun with flowers and weeds
Thank you, if you commented on my last post, emailed me, or posted on Facebook. It meant a lot to me. In flipping through the (many) skirts hanging in my closet this weekend, I realized that they were all in happy floral quilting cottons, funky thrifted bedsheets, or silly novelty fabrics. Nothing really struck me […]
Read More: Wrapped upWe lost my grandmother yesterday. The kids stayed home from school today and this morning we were talking about Granny, what funerals are like, heaven, how Grandma (her daughter, my mother) must be feeling, how we are feeling… and we also spent some time sitting quietly together on my bed, propped up on pillows, reading […]
Read More: Picture Spring, week four
Is there anything more wonderful than that first string of seventy-degree days in the spring? Everything is more beautiful suddenly: the sun, the clouds, the lovely chartreuse of new leaves… even the rain feels more optimistic. It’s warm enough at night to leave a bedroom window slightly open, and to shed the heavy Winter blanket […]
Read More: Post cards from Branch Brook Park
Dirt under my fingernails, smeared onto my apron, deposited on my camera’s shutter button… I transplanted the strawberry plants today. I got them, oh, about a month ago. I had put them temporarily in a plastic Chinese food container while I searched for a strawberry pot. I found a pot pretty quickly, but then I […]
Read More: Down and dirty
Spring is coming along, ever so slowly. My yard is starting to bloom, but mostly in shades of yellow, with a little bit of purple here and there. Even though it’s like this every year, I still don’t get “Spring” from yellow. Yellow feels like “Fall” to me. We seriously need some pink in this […]
Read More: Picture Spring, week three
It’s time to choose a winner for the skirt contest! Between comments, subscriptions and retweets, there were 34 entries. Random.org so kindly chose #8 for me, which works out to be… [drumroll, please] Melissa E! Congratulations, Melissa! I’ll be emailing you later today and asking a couple of nosy questions that will help me get […]
Read More: And the winner is…
Polymer Clay All Day
Bangle Bracelets
Price range: $20.00 through $42.00
Barrettes
$30.00
Dangly Earrings
$30.00
Inlay Rings
Price range: $24.00 through $32.00
Pendant Necklaces
Price range: $36.00 through $46.00
Stud Earrings
$20.00
Shawl Pins
$30.00
Focal Buttons
Price range: $8.00 through $10.00
Crochet Hooks
$24.00
