Bead Trends

When a fellow artist is selected to have one of their items in a show or national magazine I truly feel it's time to celebrate!

A wonderful artist that I know who creates totally awesome silver and gold jewelry Chris Winn of Milford CT; owner of Gilded Owl Jewelry is in Bead Trends magazine this month.
  

Congratulations Chris your jewelry leads the pack in design, uniqueness, and quality!!!!

 

Chris's project in this issue called “Mossy Woodland Owl” which is a diverse combination of Precious Metal Clay (fine silver), sterling silver, copper, suede, leather and silk components.

 

Thinking of a special gift for someone in your life I highly recommend you check out any of Chris's shops that will delight that loved one in your life!

Stores:
http://www.artfire.com/users/GildedOwlJewelry
http://www.etsy.com/shop/chriswrinn
http://www.cargoh.com/store/gilded-owl-jewelry

Website
http://gildedowljewelry.com/

And you can also find Chris at:
http://www.facebook.com/GildedOwlJewelry
https://twitter.com/GOJewelry

Wacky Tacky Mondays

Mondays are wacky. 

Period.  

As a person with no real life job other than my art - Mondays are nothing to get excited about. 

Mondays are tacky.

Weekends are nothing more than days making the week longer. 

Days run together.  Weeks have no end.  Months add up to years.

Wacky.

My art is getting wacky but I like that!

Enter the Dragon Day Tripping

During the night one dreams.  Your mind relaxes and things happen.  Some say it's to delete unused data, file new data that is necessary, and resort data we want to keep.  Pretty cool all that the brain collects during the day is up-cycled in ways one can only imagine.

It's also said for one to keep one minds sharp as they grow older is learn new skills.  Improve on old skills.  And use skills throughout the time your awake.

I'm expanding my mind.  A new cell phone.  Now you need to understand I came from a generation of humans that will have the hugest impact on the world 'Baby Boomers'.  And this ole boomer admits to not being savvy on many of the new Techie' gadgets that one finds in everyday life. 

My dream is to be so savvy on these items that I can keep up with my 15 year old nephews.  I also have a little guy who many of you know calls me Grandma Pat.  He is 4 and can work a iPhone faster than I can blink.

So I enter the world of Cell Phones that are smart, fast, slick, and costly.  A simple phone once owned is now going to the cell phone graveyard unless I decide to surprise my guy and keep it as our second line for his usage in case of an emergency should occur while out riding his bicycle.

Enter the dragon slayer.  Touch screen, unlimited data, messaging, web viewing, and APPS.  All new mind building skills.

Watch out Jerry Ray ~ Grandma Pat is going to have you blinking!

I'll be day tripping as the new & improved Dragon Slayer all over the world on this new smart phone.  Thank you AT&T for your 1cent deals.  Thanks to all the engineers for developing all these fun gadgets that drive us crazy and making us desire them!