Falling In Love With My Home Again
Happy New Year! Wow, 2011. Here we go into an brand new year. My promise to myself is more gratitude. Working out of my house is great in many ways, but there is a down side. Isolation can be tough sometimes. My home environment is so lovely and yet it gets pretty old when you work in the same place you live. My vintage 1959 house is little, 968 square feet can close in on you after a few days inside at the computer. I like to say it is small but mighty! Friends have described it as a little jewel box. With inspiration from some of my artist friends, it is with new eyes that I am looking at my little house.
Kate McKinnon and
Marcia DeCoster are great
bloggers. I love their photography! Reading Kate's book on the airplane ride home from the Bead & Button Show a couple of years actually changed how I look at my surroundings. That perspective fades now and then and must be recharged. So out came my camera and I went through my little home and took a few photographs. I am a beginner and realize I need lessons, but not too bad. So bear with my photography skills while I give you little views of my little world. I walked into the bathroom this morning and noticed the sun shining in through the window lighting up this shell. Beautiful! Time to get the camera out while the light is just right. Then, looking to the left of the window, the jewelery I took off before bed the night before piled on the sink.
Spirals are a recurrent theme for me. The Nautilus shell vase and the spiral of my La Femme Spirit necklace carry out that theme for me once again. Yep, that's a Kate
McKinnon ring on the sink. It is one of my favorites!
Then, walking into my work studio, I noticed that I had placed my finished and unfinished
ZoTz Brooches on the desk next to the new buttons I just purchased online a few days ago. The
TACtile Gallery postcard to the right just happens to reflect the circle within a circle of color theme.
Hmmmm.
A Limited Edition Kits SaleBy the way, there is a sale going on right now with limited edition kits from my stash. The
Mardi Gras Medallions Earrings, (4 kits left), are a reconfiguration and new color theme on an old class sample bracelet. I taught the Third Eye Pendant, (4 kits left), at the Bead & Button Show a couple of
years ago and still have some class kits left. Then, I had 5 Cream colored Patchwork Collage kits from my last show, (2 kits left). There is a discount on each kit and I am paying the shipping!
They are selling well, and today is the last day of the sale, so check it out if you wish to do some fun and fabulous beading this year.
Limited Edition Kit SaleMy wish to all of you is that 2011 is full of Love, Joy, Peace, Kindness and Prosperity. Don't forget to open yourselves up to forgiveness and tolerance.
Happy New Year!
Jeannette
the work area is just one of the best reasons to be here. To the left is the sunset on the oce
an side and above is the sunrise.
looking north on the boardwalk in Mission Beach.
no Felting Class.
ia DeCoster's Bedazzled Button Class.
