Wow! I'm finally back into production after almost 4 months of reorganization of all my "stuff". Yes, I have been told that I could open a store. And yes, I probably could. But even though I now have a warehouse of sorts and a neater work area  it's not "pretty" by any means so don't start looking for it in a "Where Women Create" magazine.

The Paper Corner...yes ALL PAPER and only some of  the inventory!

Rubber Stamp Lane.  These are only wood mounted ones...the clears and unmounted are elsewhere!

Jewelry Row

Arts and Crafts, Mixed Media and Sewing

Paper Punches in the library card catalog and....more paper! And reference material.

The Jeweler's "Bench"

Yes, I need two computers and 5 screens and 3 printers. (The scanner is hiding)

Sewing corner...and yes, that is a typewriter over on the right.

The pounding/soldering/fusing cart...thanks Jamie and Jason!!!

This month's card swap...theme: Back to School

#4 Hard Drive series...this was donated to the Gay Men's Chorus of Honolulu for silent auction.

It's been a while since my last post. Life has changed a bit for me since then and I'm now only working a little over part time. I've decided to see if I can "make do" with just the part time work and try to get my website going...which has been on the back burner for at least 3 years now. If it doesn't pan out...well, it looks like I go job hunting...which I'm kind of dreading at my age.

Took a short hop over to Hilo to visit Mardi, my sister, just after my birthday in April. She had a card class with Anne Oshiro at Mardiart from the 19th through the 20th. Here's some pics.

 As soon as I got back I had to focus on getting some jewelry ready for The Bead Gallery's Charity Fair on April 28th. Talk about cramming! 

These are some of the pieces that I took to the fair. Most of them sold that day, so I guess I'm back to square one on inventory. That's good, I think?

Unfortunately, I don't have any more small hard drives to disassemble so I'm going to have to work with the large ones which might make for some "hefty" pendants. Hmm. We'll see. 

#1 of Hard Drive series

#2 of Hard Drive series

#4 of Hard Drive series

Dragon power bracelet

#3 of Hard Drive series

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Wired headbands galore!

This past weekend I took Beryl, my other sister, to Empty Bowl Hawaii. It's a benefit event for Hawaii Meals on Wheels...so it's a good cause. The Hawaii Potter's Guild makes a whole bunch of bowls and about 20 local chefs make 20 different soups for the event. You buy tickets that allows you one bowl of your choice and one soup of your choice. Here's our bowls! Beryl chose a Chicken Tortilla soup (I can't remember which restaurant it was from) and I chose French Onion from Le Bistro.

Up next, I've got to make five Mother's Day cards for the card swap this weekend and a bunch of thank you cards for all the birthday gifts I received!

Garden terrorist

Green onion...kale in the back

Swiss chard, lettuce from Jen's garden, plus Greek olives, Genoa salami, cukes, red onion and bell pepper

Reconstructed watch faces...made into rings. Had the watch faces for years!

SS heart ring

Wire wrap...my favorite thing to do

Knotted bracelet

Jasper on leather, Peruvian opal on waxed cotton

SS earrings

Rainbow beans--from Jen's garden mixed with sugar snap peas, shoyu chicken and hapa rice