May 29, 2009
Welcome to Friday Faves…a new weekly installment here on "Art, Life, Love". I will be choosing and showcasing items from Etsy, Artfire, or 1000Market artisans. For my 1st foray, I am featuring work from members of a new group I joined, Etsy Secrets.
Go and check out their shops…they are filled with gorgeous handcrafted drool-worthy items!
May 28, 2009
Trying to incorporate a few changes around here…Pink Zinnias has been a good blog, but it is time to change my monniker a bit in keeping with where I am in my head, heart, and pocketbook. I have been debating leaving Typepad and going to a free site, but I really like it here, so in an effort to generate more traffic, am changing the blog title for now, with a domain name change down the road. I decided to simply use my name, it is my business name after all.
Coming next will be a new header, although I may have 1 or 2 pink zinnias stuck here and there 
I am also going to be incorporating some weekly posts, in an effort to be more consistent in my blogging…stay tuned!
May 14, 2009
Hmm, I was really hoping to have more comments/entries for these cute mixed-metal earrings! I thought I had more readers…I mean, they are free I will be randomly selecting the winner on Saturday evening @6pm EST, so get to work!
December 24, 2008
Let your heart be light.
From now on your troubles will be out of sight.
Have yourself a Merry little Christmas,
Make the yuletide gay.
From now on your troubles will be miles away.
Here we are as in olden days, happy golden days of yore.
Faithful friends who are dear to us, travel near to us once more.
Through the years we all will be together, if the fates allow.
Hang a shining star upon the highest bough.
And have yourself a Merry little Christmas now!
October 30, 2008
Okay, I guess I was a bit down today, but everytime I looked at my blog with the pink and green, I just wanted to cry, so I experimented with some different themes…it is Autumn, after all! Let me know what you think.
October 1, 2008
Tammy from Tammy’s Treasure Chest, creator of some of the coolest jewelry out there has bestowed upon me a Brilliante Weblog Award!
Oh, my goodness. I feel faint! Thank you from the bottom of my heart! Wow, what an honor, I never expected it! There are so many people who have influenced me and inspired me to create and blog. I feel pretty unworthy to have been given this award, but I promise to work hard to deserve it.
In passing the torch, I am nominating the following blogs to receive this award as well. I know several of them have received it from other bloggers, but that just attests to the pure, yummy goodness of their blogs!
Here are the rules for this award:
1. The winner can put the logo on their blog.
2. Link to the person you received your award from.
3. Nominate at least 7 other blogs.
4. Put links of those blogs on yours.
5. Leave a message on the blogs you’ve nominated.
6. Write an acceptance speech in the style of the Academy Awards, thanking every body’s mother, father, sister, brother, aunties and uncles and the kitchen staff at your favorite restaurant!
Now, go and visit these great blogs and show them some love!
September 30, 2008
Yay, if you are reading this, I must have done something right and you found your way here!
Welcome to the new and (hopefully) improved Pink Zinnias. I have been debating this move for months and not even halfway through my free trial period, I made the typepad decision. I loved my WordPress blog, and I while I admire their "no ads" mentality and respect their decision not to allow javascript, I was getting very frustrated that everytime I wanted to add a widget or something cool to help me market myself, I ran into this "no javascript" brick wall!
It is definitely still a work-in-progress, but I already feel at home here…hope you do as well!
September 30, 2008
Hi all! After quite a bit of research, polling, thought and flip-flopping I have decided to make the move from wordpress to typepad. There are a number of reasons which I won’t go into here, but I am very excited about the move and have been working to make it a welcoming place.
http://pinkzinnias.typepad.com
Hope to see you there soon!
September 15, 2008
and boy are my fingers sore! I made 3 new wire-wrapped rosaries this weekend (well, almost 3 – 1 needs a bit more work) in an effort to get some inventory stockpiled for some more Autumn shows that I am doing. One of them is at St. John the Beloved in McLean, VA, where I sing, so I like to have a nice selection of rosaries, rosary bracelets, and other spiritual jewelry when showing there. I have a ways to go, as I have been concentrating on other techniques lately.
When doing wrapped-loops, I like to use my fingers as much as possible to keep plier dings at a minimum, but it really does take a toll on them…it usually takes me about 5 rosaries or other wrapped pieces to build up a good callous, sort of like guitar-playing!
Hopefully, I’ll have some pictures to post later!
June 24, 2008
I have been in a huge slump, jewelry-wise, for the past few weeks. Ever since I was sick several weeks ago, I just haven’t had the gumption to get back in the groove. I have several pieces started and I go and rummage through them, pick them up, look at them, and put them back down in the pile.
I know what most of my problem is…I haven’t been taking care of myself the way I should be. This time last summer, my fam and I had just gotten back from a week at the beach – very relaxing and pleasant, but after seeing all the pictures and being horrifed at the way I looked, not only in a swimsuit, but regular summer clothes, I decided to really work to get in shape. My mantra was “50 by 50″ – lose 50 pounds by my 50th birthday (then a whole 15 months away)! I joined weight-watchers and started walking/working-out regularly. By September, my 49th bd, I had lost 20 lbs and felt really good about myself. Then, as all mothers of 6 year olds know, the candy holidays came around…you know, October – Halloween, November – Thanksgiving (what, you don’t celebrate Turkey Day by gorging on chocolate candy?), December – Christmas, yada, yada… For awhile I maintained, but around February my weight crept back up, and it seems that now I have gained every last bit back.
I made the decision over the weekend to get back on the wagon, as it were…went to my 1st WW meeting since Feb. and have been trying to track my food intake and move more. At this point, my “50 by 50″ seems impossible, but I guess “fit by 50″ might be doable – I have less than 3 months to make a dent!
Now, if I can just get some jewelry made…
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