October - BREAST CANCER AWARENESS month

As most of you know, October is BREAST CANCER AWARENESS month...Each year I donate a portion of my Etsy shop sales to a wonderful foundation called Pink Ribbon Girls...Please check out their website for more information...

This month I am donating 10% of ALL my Etsy shop sales to the cause, not just "pink" items as I've done in the past...So please stop by Dorset Hill Beads, look around and purchase one of my unique shop items...If you don't see something to purchase (i can't imagine you won't) please go to Pink Ribbon Girls and make a small donation to the cause...

Fun Friday...

well, not sure how "fun" it is but it is FRIDAY!  i hope to see my red head friend this weekend...knitting and chatting and sharing is the best time with my red head friend...dear to my heart, right from the start, my red head friend will remain till the end...

Meditation Monday.

Dabbling

Dabbling in my experimental art journal. I'm having fun here.

Breaking Through...

I have never ever considered myself an "artist"...I tried many times to paint, draw or whatever "i" thought was ART as a child growing up...my mom even made me take "art lessons" way back when...i never liked it and never thought i was good at it...afterall, i had cousins that were extremely talented artists in music and art and therefore i never felt i was good enough or "as good as them"...to overcome this sense of failure in being an artist i went the way of crafts...i love working and creating with my hands and thus i played with yarn, knitting, crocheting, beading, making jewelry to melting glass and making lampwork beads...my first acknowlegement of being an artist...a glass artist or lampwork artist...oh how i love to melt glass and create beautiful little treasures of glass and then creating them into something wearable...or...seeing what others create with my little reflections of playful beads creating with hot flowing glass...

Long story short...over the last 2 years that my glass studio is no long available to me, i've been dabbling in many different artsy craftsy areas that i have always loved creating...i enjoy working with paper, fabric and yes even still love to knit and crochet...i must have my hands busy creating something...that's just who i am...it makes me - ME...it keeps me grounded...it helps keep me sane in a sometimes insane world...it soothes my soul and makes my heart happy...

Point of the title...Breaking Through...Recently i have let the gates down in my mind about being an artist and have decided to pull out the paints and pencils and start what you all call an art journal...my creativity is going wild and i just love it...i get so excited when i can actuall DRAW something that looks half way decent (i think) or even create a painting using all kinds of elements (mixed media i believe it is called)...so i have BROKEN THROUGH this barrier of not letting myself believe i can create "art" and am now slowly letting my creative juices flow in many new directions...

i'm sharing this little pencil drawing i did on my train ride home the other day...something about her makes me happy...

Monday Meditation Contemplation

On any given Monday I will post a picture or quote that provokes some sort of thought or meditation for myself and I hope as well for my readers...Today I am asking for your comments, input and suggestions...It's called ORGANIZATION which I have very little of in my craft, computer and guest room...I won't touch on the other areas of my world that might be disorganized at this time...My focus for the time being is my creative space, little that it is, approximately 9.5 x 14...Not too shabby but definitely messy...I would like to create 3 areas to create, 1) jewelry creation, 2) paper crafting and 3) paint dabbling...

Here is a panoramic view (new download on phone) of my space...If you have any ideas or suggestions or think it's fine the way it is please leave a comment...Thanks for your support...

WINNER of Theme for Thursday

i did a short video to announce the winner...didn't turn out like i wanted it to but it does the job...i know for next time not to use my phone and to go for the camera instead...so here is the big announcement...
DRUMROLL PLEASE...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpYVW7DCUIY&feature=plcp

in case you can't get to the video...the winner was picked by RANDOM GENERATOR...i had only 6 comments and the winner was #3 which happens to be SNOWBIRD...snowbird is my sister so congrats to RoRo... :)