You! You’re invited! Yes you, reading this email. And your friends are invited too!WHAT:Join me in celebrating my brand new SHOWROOM!!! Play with beads, try on jewelry, sip wine, try on more jewelry, eat cookies, play with more beads, you…

A showroom! Me! My jewelry! Oh boy! Ever since I opened my own studio you have asked, “can we come to your studio and buy jewelry?”And I have answered, No. Because my current studio is a working studio. Meaning it’s…

mais out mes amis, c’est la tour eiffel! voulez-vous une verre du vin blanc avec moi en paree? ok, high school french was a while ago and contrary to what most americans think not all of us in canada are…

i’ll let you in on a secret, i love butterflies. how can you not love butterflies, look at how brightly coloured they are! i’ve always wanted to go to the monarch migration area in Michoacan Mexico where the winter migration…

last night i was heading out to dinner with the toronto lampworkers group. food and talking about glass? i am so there! as i was rushing out the door i glanced at the hall mirror – ARGH! i was jewel-less!!!…

although i don’t dare attempt to make wine with these. we tried making wine once, my head still pounds with the memories. i leave that to the experts. a good glass of cabernet sauvignon is an excellent tool on the…

oh boy, they work! consistently! red has been the bane of my life, i keep burning it, or burning the colour out in spots but now i’ve mastered it!!! (insert evil laugh). i still can’t get a great photo, it’s…

ok, i admit, it’s been a while since i was in school. but there still exists this inherent fear of labour day weekend. productivity was nil during the last week of august and i just plain old didn’t care, because…

oh the feeling of relief when i clicked that send button! you know when you have something looming over you and you just keep putting it off and off and off until one day you decide that’s it, i have…

staring into my backyard, watching bees, the family of blue jays living in the cottonwood tree (which until now has been the tree i hate most on the planet), pulling weeds and getting lost in the shape of the leaves,…

We’ve all heard polka music. We all wear polka dotted clothing. So what’s the connection? Why are a bunch of dots called “polka” dots? Enquiring minds want to know. From wikipedia.org: Polka dot is a pattern consisting of dots. Polka…

sometimes it’s time to pull back for a bit. when a wave of big thoughts rolls over me i stop and ponder for a while. this is that while. too many ideas, too many brain movies going on. leave the…

focus focus focus. i love watching the olympics. eyes on the goal. keep the focus. raw energy, power, strength, determination, hunger, ambition. politics aside, the birds nest and the water cube are amazing structures. nature maginified. i think i’ll play…

the weather gods are not being kind this summer. on the positive side no one has had to water their gardens! and the clouds have been spectacular! i should be doing more but i’m lying on a lawn chair and…

today was a maintenance day. recently when booting up my computer i was presented with that big blank blue screen that says something like, “blah blah blah serious system failure blah blah blah fat 32 blah blah blah you’re screwed…

just living is not enough. one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. Hans Christian Anderson

“is that in dollars?” says customer/browser in my booth. well let’s see… we are in canada and i know i haven’t read the newspaper much lately but i think we’re still using dollars. however i have the itch to travel…

sometimes it’s important to remember that there’s always another view in life. once a week i step away from the studio, put down the glass, and feel the wind in my hair. of course this gives me a great chance…

my brain is buzzing, like a hummingbird ideas flit through my head, land briefly and are replaced by more. my hands can’t keep up, i can’t write or sketch fast enough. so i don’t. i take some time to open…

too funny!!! i wonder if it can generate enough power to run a kiln…. A model (C) displays lingerie maker Triumph International Japan’s “Photovoltaic-Powered Bra” during an unveiling in Tokyo May 14, 2008. The camisole bra, which the company calls…

swimming is an excellent way to stretch out “torch shoulders”, that tightening of shoulder muscles after a long session of hunching over the torch to create glass beads. as i glide through the pool, thoughts glide through my mind. there…

i tried, i really really tried. i fired up the kiln (940 degrees), i turned on the oxygen concentrators (2 streams of hot air blowing into the studio), i fired up the torch (1700 degrees) and i sat down with…

an absolutely spectacular stunning fabulous cloudless blue sky. how could a girl sit inside on a day like this? who knows when the next one will be? i sat down this morning and i could hear it, my bicycle, calling,…

always wear a good bracelet on your left wrist, you know, the wrist that hands the money to the cashier in the window. because if you do there’s a chance that said cashier might say, “wow, what a great bracelet!…

good grief, i last posted on june 26. i blinked and BAM, i’ve done 3 shows, driven 2,000 km and 2 weeks go by. next time i must take the laptop with me. i keep forgetting that it’s so easy…

today i zipped out on my bike to the post office, stopping to stick my face in the honeysuckle hedge of course (see last post), to send out another package. it was such a beautiful day that a wee detour…

i have a thing for flowers. i love flowers. one day i will live in a tropical place – the sort of place where you throw your peach pit on the ground and the next day you are hacking back…

is this not the cutest tea cosy you have ever seen? i am totally in love with it. as i might have mentioned i am a tea drinker. lately my tea consumption is way over the top due to the…

if only they could talk… 2 years ago at the beaches arts and crafts show melanie (a very loyal sailorgirl jewelry customer) saw a purple pendant i had made. melanie loves purple. so i made this purple charm bracelet for…

this is my bead fuel. maybe it’s the british in my background coming through, there’s nothing like a good cup of tea. thanks to a gifting from my fabulous sister who’s visiting, i’m fully stocked in great loose leaf teas….