Polarity Locket Saves Motorists...and Marriage....

I received a wonderful little email yesterday from a customer who had recently purchased a magnetic locket from my Polarity shop....

Chicken Donation RESULTS

My customers are simply the best! During my 3 day chicken donation on Etsy over Thanksgiving weekend- a chicken donated to worldvision.org...

Shout Out from Whip Up!

Thanks to Whip UP for this shout out- check out their amazing site!...

How to Make Amazing CORK Christmas Tree Ornaments

While you are getting merry this season with your favorite bottles of red and white - start saving your wine corks (you may already...

REwrapping this year - Boxes and Bows

Go green instead of spending green this year! You will need: Scrap paper (a colorful magazine page looks great), cardboard packaging...

Black Friday thru Cyber Monday (otherwise known as Thanksgiving weekend SPECIAL in honor of LUCY)

I once had a chicken named Lucy. She appeared in our yard one day and kept trying to get into our house by flying into the windows...

New Stuff Added to My Shops This Week

This is my new Spread Your Wings butterfly mini recycled magnetic locket set - that was a mouthful! - I am feeling a lot like spreading...

Favorite Recent Monthly Purchase

As part of my monthly Etsy tithe (I am committed to putting 10% of my Etsy profits back into Etsy each month) - this is my favorite...

How to Make Sure Trash is NOT What's for Christmas This Year

This holiday season give our beautiful planet the gift of wrapping green - think recycle and reuse. I love having amazingly wrapped...

Question of the Week

This week's question goes to Vincent Corona-Evans (somethingwhimsical) the maker of those little BOB guys and a wonderful illustrator...

Tips for Photographing Jewelry from the Amazing Kella MacPhee

Today I asked my favorite Jersey Girl Photographer Kella MacPhee - check her out and prepare to be blown away - for some quick tips...

Don't you just love this...

because the world is so fast and so small... this is a poem from issue 12 of a wonderful little collection called Words Dance from...

New Stuff Added This Week To My Shops

The following items were added to my Etsy shops this week. UNCORKED now offers CLIMB which is my little tribute to the amazing Randy...

Question of the Week

This week I am asking crafty Miranda Layton of Buttonenvy about her earliest crafty memories and here is what she has to say:When...

SMIDGE Blogs About POLARITY!

A great big thanks to another Kat - the amazing editor at Smidge - for this wonderful shout out about Polarity's recycled locket...

Shout Out from ANYTHING INDIE

A Great Big Thank You to Andrea from One of My fave Blogs Anything Indie!...

Make a RECYCLED JEWELRY CASE

These are the instructions to make one of my jewelry cases from old frames. This will be featured on a new how-to blog - if anyone...

A Shout Out from RareBirds - One of my Fave Blogs!

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Cork Shout Out on MissMalaprop.Com

A Thanks to Mallory at MissMalaprop.com for this cork shout out! Check Out Her Amazing Blog!...

Australia's Girl Guides Leading the Way in Cork Recycling!

I used to be a girl scout and loved wearing my badge sash and sewing on the little badges! The Australian girl scouts (called girl...

ME Featured Artist of the Week

A thank you to my buddy Amy at ThePeachTree
for her terrific blog feature of my Etsy shops!

Indie Fixx Gets Your Office Green With My Cork & Magnets

Thanks to Kristen Angelo for the shout out on one of my favorite sites!Get Your IndieFixx...

Craft Show Tips & Tricks - Selling the Benefits of Your Handmade Craft

I have done so many shows with my work (which has changed from prints to collages to jewelry) over the years and I am always surprised...

SAVE MIQUEL

The Portuguese cork industry has begun a campaign designed to argue for the greenness of corks versus screwcaps and plastic wine...

thanks for the shout out scoutie girl!

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happy labor day weekend!

my kind of dandelion - make a wish!04/11/2006 Andre Kutscherauer...

Trunkt Live

My Trunkt portfolio is still pretty bare, but at least it's live!...

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summer is ending...

Well, summer is ending and it kind of feels like it never got started. All I have done is work, work, work. Got accepted into Trunkt...

WELCOME to my new studio late summer 2008!..well...not actually a new studio, but my studio with a new name (formerly Dream Scenes...