Happy Saturday!

Ahhh Saturday, don't you just love it! It's pretty windy and cold here but the sun came out and the sky is clearing so all is right with the world! I spent a good portion of the day at the Time and Again Shop Spring Open House and it was a smashing success! My friend Tracey came over from Akron and we had a great time. She's a very talented altered art artist and you can see Tracey's works on Flickr. I got to meet a super fiber artist at the open house whose works you can view in a few posts before this one and her name is Chris. I'm fascinated by the detail and devotion she has to her craft.

Below you'll find a few new works (poker chip pendants, bird pendants and beeswax collages) just completed this week in the studio but rather than just show you the pictures I've decided to turn them into illustrations for a little story about life.........

Life is not always a day at the beach.......

or a bowl full of cherries...........

and somedays if seems like everybody wants you to fetch something for them......

And I know there are days when you feel like you don't want to leave your warm, safe nest.....



However, life is a long race and in the end, it's only you that you are racing against, so be original and........

Shoot for the moon because you just might land on it or at least fall among the stars!

That being said, continue to do these things for a happy life........... LOVE......

Be FREE.........

And sock away a NEST EGG for the future!

THE END

My New Obsession.....

My friend Tracey sent me 6 clay filled regulation size poker chips in the mail last week. I stacked them up on the end table and played with them, clicking them together for about a week before inspiration hit me...... now I can't stop making these poker chip pendants! It's a challenge to try to get a mini collage crammed into a 1.5 inch round disk.

Here is finished one with the metal bale glued on it.........

Here is the back of the pendant. You could always wear this side too!

More French inspired pendants..........Ooo-la-la!


Artsy-fartsy pendants.......

Easter pendants.........

These pendants are going to a spring open house at the Time and Again Shop! It's about 1 hour north of Pittsburgh and about 1 hour east of Youngstown. Time and Again is wonderful shop jammed with quality vintage items as well as one of kind handmade decorative items from local artists. The open house is April 4,5,6th. The Honey Girls Studio is featured at this open house and I'll be there on Saturday from 10:00 to 2:00 to personalize the bunny pots I painted.
Here is the address: 2213 Perry Highway
Greenville 16125 Phone: (724) 253-4901

Don't forget to check out the previous post to enter to win the Easter collage! Just become a follower of this blog and you are automatically entered.