Today, I made a decision to close my Etsy shop, Carol’s Jewelry Orchard. It’s been open for ten years! Ten Years! Wow! I seriously do not know where the time has gone. During the ten years of making affordable, handcrafted jewelry, I progressed as an artist. What started as a need to have something of…
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Photo Challenge: Any Kind Of Geometric Shape in Black and White
The following are my entries for Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge on January 3, 2019. The prompt is for any kind of Geometric Shape in Black and White. Although all six of these photos were originally in color, a black and white filter was applied, and they are still stunning! Enjoy some Origami Creations…
Bargain Days
Today is Slice of Life Tuesday, a day of the week that connects us with other writers and authors who post in the like named forum hosted by Two Writing Teachers! Today, I offer a true slice of my world from this morning! As many know, retail establishments run bargain days, sidewalk sales, and other types…
Investments in Home Maker Spaces
About a year ago, we got a 3-D printer. As parents, we try to support our children’s interests. Outside of school, each of our sons have some self-cultivated abilities that seem to be serving them well to complete their well-roundedness and sense of accomplishment. To a very large extent, they are innate talents, supported by…
Kindness Projects…Ideas for Making the World a Better Place
This year my boys were involved in some unusual learning projects in high school. My soon to graduate senior took a business course called Building Wealth that was more of a course about belief and value systems than the accumulation of physical wealth. It was a wonderful experience for him. In that course, they had…
Art on a Cart
Some years ago, before we expanded and built a fourth elementary school in our district, our students had art on a cart. Since there were so many students and only one art room, part-time art teachers visited classrooms for the time the students were scheduled to have art class, which I believe was once in…
Lessons from a Home Maker Space
Just over a year ago, my husband bought a 3D printer for our house. Really, it was bought for my 18-year-old who will graduate from HS in a few months. He’s our inventor, our experimenter, our dreamer. Over the course of the last year, he’s put the 3D printer to good use. He played with…
Stories from A Day at A Craft Show!
Yesterday, I was a vendor at a juried Arts and Crafts show in our city. Essentially, I was peddling my wares as a jewelry artist and landscape-travel photographer. I’ve been making handcrafted jewelry for just over ten years and taking photographs for as long as I can remember. Participating in arts and craft shows are…
A Year Later: Still Pining for The Hague, Netherlands, and Maybe a Tulip or Two.
Last September, I was fortunate enough to visit The Netherlands, specifically the city of The Hague with my oldest son. He presented at an international scientific conference as a college student on some research he had conducted over the previous two years. I was able to go with him on my first trip to Europe!…