Style

Fashion fades, only style remains. Coco Chanel

I am a big fan of Chanel. I cannot wait to see the movie! I love simplicity and feminine style and Chanel always seems to be that. It's odd as I get older I seem to have a drive to be more feminine. Maybe it's downsizing our horses so I don't feel like such a tom girl. When I go shopping now I seem to be drawn to floral prints, where as before I seemed to be drawn to whatever would survive barn work the longest!

I have a new bead set, Rapture. In my etsy. I am still a bit obsessed with Clio glass from double helix. I have been playing with disks a bit so I may get some of them listed soon.

Back at it

Taste concerns itself with broad, lifetime progress and never makes mistakes, style moves by fits and starts and is occasionally glorious. Kennedy Fraser

Sorry I've been slack about posting quotes. With all the outdoors work I've not spent as much time in the studio as I should. I wonder as an artist if my work should have a more specific style to it? So when people see a picture of my beads there is something that says they are mine? I tend to flit about when it comes to beadmaking, maybe diversity is my style?

Pond

Put my pond together today, I got it from BC Ponds. I highly recommend them. It came in three boxes and went together like a puzzle, I did the whole thing by myself! It's 300 gal and I may get some koi, for now it's got a water lily in it and a water iris. I may plant some clematis behind it. Thinking of getting a magnolia tree and a wisteria, anyone got any pros or cons to them?

Special Delivery!

Today was a happy day for me! My studio arrived! I desperately need more space so we bought a little building. I'll be moving my silver equipment out there and possibly setting up a couple torch stations. I've named it " Little Piece of Heaven". It's amazing how they can crane a building around!

I've had to move a lot of my garden but it's worth it! I'll have a large outdoor sitting area in front of it, my pond! Possibly a small deck!

My after 40 face felt far more comfortable than anything I lived with previously. Self-confidence was a powerful beauty potion. I looked better because I felt better. Failure and grief as well as success and love had served me well. Finally I was tapping into that most hard won of youth dews, wisdom. Nancy Collins

This one I am going to let sit alone. I need to think on it.

Moved my lavender and asparagus

I've moved my lavender and asparagus bed, in hopes of having a building moved into my veggie garden space. Possibly more studio room! We shall see though these things often do not go as planned.

The Bloomin Again show is at Coast Collective, it's a wonderful show. One of my favorites! I've got a few pieces in it here's one of them. I've called her Daystar.

I've been playing more with Double Helix's Clio glass. Here is Masquerade.

Hero?

We are the hero of our own story. Mary McCarthy

I wonder sometimes what I'll be remembered for? What stands out about me? What people think on first impressions, then after they get to know me?

I try and do good, at least every day. Even if the only good I do is scritch each horse as they get fed. Stroke the cat and he bolts by me up the stairs, it IS a race you know. I find my animals always get simple honest attention. People sometimes I wonder if I blow by them, too busy to notice?

Ever wonder what people will remember you for?