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It's that time again!  Almost October, and time for the Write 31 Days Challenge.  I'm taking the challenge again, writing, or hoping to write, for 31 days.  This year, I've changed my blog ...

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I've made it his far, hopefully I won't run out of steam for the next 49 weeks! The theme this week was Weaving and braiding. I didn't stick to the theme really, but this is my interpretation o...

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Week 2 The water lily pond at the Giverny home of Claude Monet has been painted more than most famous buildings.  Monet painted it over 250 times over the years... This week in the YOJ Proj...

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Week 1 I did it... I signed up for the Year of Jewelry Project again! I had a great year in 2015, but 2016 was a fizzle... I worked,  and worked a lot on jewelry... just never had time or the...

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Working on the Write 31 Days challenge. This year is full of extras, like my son being in High School, I'm working a new job, and not being able to see well...Seems that it is taking a toll. I...

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Jennifer Lane is about to launch her new e-book, please give it a read, coming December 1st to Amazon.

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Here it is the first week of October, the weather here has taken a turn for Autumn today, wonderful cool breezes, nice and always needed rain has graced us, and all is right in the world it seem...

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Good morning to everyone! Such a wonderful day to be alive and able  to write! Today is the first day of October. Not only is it the unofficial start to Everything Pumpkin Month... it is also ...

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This writing thing is not what I thought it would be! This morning I had somewhat of a meltdown. I looked at the outline for the 31Days writing challenge and the lines crossing out potential je...

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It is Fall! Today, the 23rd of September is the official beginning of the season and it is cool and beautiful here in the Western part of Texas! With the beginning of Autumn, the thoughts of fo...

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Today, September 11, 2015, is a day of remembrance for the people of the United States, and truly, around the world. It is the day in 2001 that the world changed. It effected everyone, whether y...

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Here it is, down to the last couple of weeks in August, and I am starting to think about Fall... Cooler weather today (dipped to the upper 80s here) has me thinking that it might just get around...

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I've been wanting to paint for a while, every day it seems, but life and work always get in the way... sometimes I just can't stand it and will paint something that I have made just to fulfill t...

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I usually start drooling when I go to The Pioneer Woman's page . There are yummy treats that will make you do that... but also the weekly (or so it seems, sometimes it seems daily) giveaways tha...

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I have been trying to get my Year of Jewelry blog posts caught up today. I took a lot of pictures of work that I have done... and try to match them to the weeks that I made them for. It has been...

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Today is the day of the big reveal for the Bead Peeps Swap 'n' Hop! I've been excited about showing the items that I made,but I have been even more excited to see what my partner Alicia made! t...

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While mom was in the hospital this time, I tried to keep busy crocheting again, I tried to do as many butterflies as I could, and I did a few more white with smaller thread, and a multi-colored ...

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While my mother was in the hospital recently, I needed to keep busy while visiting. I can't sit long, and when I am sitting, I have to have something in my hand or I go crazy. When it was time f...

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The weeks have flown by, never a dull moment with me and my house. The first of the year brought cold, colds, and lots of work. My mother had a bad cold that left her feeling terrible. She tur...

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I received my package from my beed peeps partner Alicia Marinache and was so excited to see the goodies that she sent! I love that we have similar tastes and similar ideas of what to send. Neit...

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 Year of Jewelry 2015 is upon us... This year, I jumped in and have been working for three weeks so far. My Talisman, for the first week of January was a bead embroidered piece that just pushed ...

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1. Patience 2. More patience 3. Even more patience. It's almost Christmas... and I have a wishlist of metal working tools... the top of the list is a full face mask for grinding and polishing...

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Derek Jeter's last I have to tell you , being a Texan, I grew up on Texas Rangers baseball, but the Yankees always held a place in my heart... What's not to love? It is the home of legends... ...

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Yipee! 31 Days is back in October! If you don't know what 31 Days is  then you have been missing out! 31 Days is an online writing challenge that was started by Myquillyn Smith (The Nester)  ...

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First of all, I really would like to thank Lori Anderson , who masterminded this blog hop. She has been an inspiration to a lot of us and she deserves a lot of credit to have gotten this big ...

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