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• "... you sitting right there with him in my head."
• "Clay & Glass II" opens at Marshall Art Gallery
• "Crazy baby party" in the park
• "Have you taken your medicine yet?"
• "He's just not ready to face his day..."
• "I can make it for that..."
• "In the scheme of things..."
• "She calls me baby..."
• "Symmetry" as it relates to my jewelry designs
• "That's so 2006" - Parenting has changed a bit
• "This is your Coffeemaker Recall Kit"
• "This program is not responding"
• "Trust the process" and eBay
• "Well informed" about side-effects
• 'Cause my friends are as kooky as I am...
• 10 reasons I decided to sell through Etsy
• 20 Year High School Reunion: The Report
• 24 New Pairs of Earrings!
• 70 pendants?
• 72 hours that defy description - but I'll tell ya' a little
• 87 year old's answer to telemarketers
• A FRIday in the life…
• A Photographic Love Story
• A To Do List with leftovers that'll last for days
• A Very Pie Saturday - (episode Pick a High Number)
• A banana sock to hold on to
• A blogger without technology?
• A day for clay
• A day with another artist friend
• A different mess, but the process? It's all the same...
• A few hours in Atlanta
• A full day and then some...
• A good day for jewelry...
• A great way to reignite a creative spark
• A hummingbird & a moth but no bears
• A late inspiration to take home with me
• A lifetime of acting classes could not have turned me into that kind of performer
• A list - after the fact
• A little con-ed, anyone?
• A little motorcycle jealousy
• A local music scene, Malcolm Gladwell & how many degrees of separation?
• A lot like me, only 30 something years younger
• A peek at my new home page
• A potter's wheel and a kiln!
• A safe place for a surprise cry
• A serious Scrabulous butt kickin'
• A simple way to brighten an otherwise ordinary day
• A sister kind of day
• A study in contrast: what is luxury?
• A tree falls & reminders abound
• A very specific shade of blue
• A weekend in South Alabama, now home again
• A.D.D. and moving
• A.D.D. and the "Bad Day"
• A.D.D. and the self-made career path
• A.D.D. people should not be allowed...
• ADD - you can laugh or you can cry; your choice!
• ADD blogging - Take 2 (I think it's 2...)
• ADD meds & book arrival messages as blog fodder
• Aaaaah, yes. There it is!
• Aaaarghhhhh!
• About that knitting lesson...
• About that site redesign
• About those "morning pages" from The Artist's Way
• About those mannequins
• Actually that's not a bad day's work!
• Adderall & a List
• After all that griping about a string of pearls...
• After days of rambling, a leetle smile for your Thursday
• After slices of perfection, there's that rain again...
• After the sale
• Aftermath
• Alan Alda on creativity
• Alicia Bock Photography - Lucky morning discovery
• All or nothing
• All that from a bookmarked blog: Hope
• All the words to THAT song?
• All this reconnecting 2 years, 10 years, 20 years later...
• All those names in the hat
• Although I kinda' didn't want to go...
• Although a bird watcher I am not
• Amoebas, glass, silver, books, music, threads, links, coffee...breathe
• Amusing urges while sitting on hold
• An 11 o'clock bedtime wasn't that early
• An Equal Opportunity Television Watching Household
• An artistic vibe
• An example of an ideal workday
• An old fashioned address book
• And a one, and a two, and a three...
• And another little site update
• And much like a child...
• And then I stole from the minister
• And then my brain fell out and landed on his foot
• And then there are nights like this
• And this is how you choose to spend your valuable time?
• Another "earring report"
• Another art chick
• Another great sale
• Another little site change
• Another one of those "good for no specific reason" kind of days
• Another random day in another random life
• Another reason it's good to have creative friends
• Another success
• Another thing I'll miss about the job I'm leaving
• Answer my call already!!!
• Anybody want to go to Vienna?
• Aren't farmer's markets the best?
• Art camp discoveries about myself
• Art camp today!
• Art theft, intrigue, and the lowly journal
• As simple as a smile
• Asheboro Fall Festival - 5 Day Progress Report
• Ask and you shall receive
• Association with quality resources
• At least I'm the one who broke it
• At least the earrings are great...
• Attitude really does matter a lot
• Auntie vs. Mommy - this morning's comparison
• Auntie, Squarespace Fan, & then some...
• Author affinity, like-mindedness, & self-amusement
• Avoidance
• Awesome article on bee sting remedies
• Awesome necklace. Then there was the photo shoot...
• Babies and other weekend excitement
• Baby Demands Makeover
• Baby's first Christmas
• Babysitting - first time quite like this
• Back to Monday
• Back to work then?
• Backed up your site lately?
• Background music of a power sander: work eupohoria?
• Backhanded Internet technical customer service compliment?
• Backing up Squarespace sites
• Baked my first cheesecake...sort of
• Balance always returns
• Basketball, community & feelin' good: in time for Thanksgiving
• Bath salts + yummy bubbles = renewal?
• Bead sorting and prep for beading party
• Beading back to a groove
• Beading minutia after baby giddiness
• Beading parties, baby hats, counting stuff, & new clients
• Because I haven't written anything in my blog since yesterday
• Because I promised I wouldn't post the other one
• Because customer service really is important
• Because nobody was in charge...
• Because that can't be the first thing you see when you come here...
• Because website revision is less drastic than a haircut or a one-way plane ticket
• Because you're looking for smiles anywhere
• Before tonight's beading party
• Bela Fleck and the Flecktones
• Belated... Technorati Profile?
• Benefits to setting a regular schedule
• Best sentence(s) of the day!
• Better than a Ganache cake, even?
• Better than my usual alarm clock
• Big Birthday Hoo Hah
• Big luv, artsy websites, jewelry designs & all that other stuff
• Bigger City = Less Free Time
• Bill & Carl: they want to help me build a brand
• Birth of the Beading Seminar
• Birthday Season has begun!
• Blogging ebb and flow...
• Blowing Rock visit yields space for my jewelry
• Bookmark insanity: even del.icio.us can't save me
• Boutique representation, commissions and festivals
• Bringin' her presents from work
• Brooches! Novel idea for "master list"
• Bubbles, anyone?
• Busy "downtime" now that I'm home
• But a 6 hour link from the Wall Street Journal is still a link from the Wall Street Journal, correct?
• But since it's Friday, it'll get better, right?
• But when I opened my eyes, it was Monday
• Buying beads for me vs. groups
• Calling in lazy
• Can adults get a "do over"?
• Can we talk more about this black coffee business?
• Can you identify what's in YOUR in-box?
• Category Cleanup: Where to Start?
• Cats, books & bonding with friends
• Cell phone woes
• Cell phones on eBay - let the bidding begin
• Choosing museums and galleries to visit
• Chris Dunmire on creativity
• Christina's Decor-ner's artisan inventory includes my jewelry
• Christmas Eve!
• Christmas cards or not?
• Clarity and chaos
• Clay and yarn and movies
• Clay, PMC, Enameling, Metalsmithing...Oh My!
• Clay, music, rain & babies...
• Collaborative feedback: great no matter how it's conveyed
• College, senior center, breakfast committee meeting: Never bored.
• Colorful appendages, caffeine withdrawals & other thrilling details
• Combatting the pall of bad dreams
• Come buy my stuff in High Point!
• Commence with packing already
• Commission kicking me back into gear
• Commissions of earrings
• Concerning forgiveness
• Contemplating A History of Beads
• Contemplative practices from unexpected origins
• Continuing to watch the Google numbers
• Conveniently ignoring the fact that I CHOOSE to live in the South
• Cookie dough and creativity
• Cooking television addictions & crushes on guys named Bobby
• Cooking with A.D.D. chick
• Cool to be in a house with other A.D.D. types
• Could it be that my computer is out to get me?
• Creating a new "normal"
• Creative endeavors & less focus than usual
• Creative toddler trapped in carseat
• Creativity lately...
• Cringing at the calendar
• Cure for common grouchiness?
• Customer service, my eye!!!
• Customer's surprise find - more than a year later...
• Dark & windey mountain road...anything for the art
• Dark chocolate, chiles & nibs?
• Darrell Scott on the Triad Acoustic Stage
• Dayquil, Nyquil, all those fluids...
• Deadlines help, eh?
• Dena's book is finally available!!!
• Denial in black & white; serious countdown mode
• Denial of Service attack, spotty email, Attention Deficit Reigns Supreme, waste collection delays, and ENDLESS Change
• Design AND photography satisfaction: festival bracelets are back!
• Didn't know you could find these recipes!
• Different from my usual movies
• Dinner, anyone?
• Disclaimer: I didn't take this photo. But...
• Discovering non NC potter, Liz Kinder
• Distracted
• Do they make businesses like that?
• Do they see your website the way you do?
• Do you read directions more than once?
• Do you stay in or go out in the rain?
• Dogs in sweaters and black squirrels...
• Don't blog and talk on the phone at the same time
• Don't skip the rough draft, Melody
• Don't tell him he's my excuse...
• Don't you love it...
• Dork much? W'll YEA!!!
• Double the nostalgia: photo contest top shots
• Drawing the line
• Dreaming about work
• Duck eggs???
• Dude...
• ENFP - Rediscovered Myers Briggs
• Economical ergonomics?
• Eew! Gross... Wanna' see? Adventures in cat allergies
• Efficiency and compact packing
• Efficient time estimation: laudable skill
• Einstein on creativity
• Email issues?
• Email taken for granted, until...
• Etsy & a funky bag for your laptop
• Etsy Shop Pre-Launch Announcement
• Etsy Shop Sneak Peek - Round 1
• Even artists forget to think outside that box...
• Even going for an ordinary walk...
• Even more necklaces!
• Even passive goal setting creates energy
• Ever curious about the origins of phrases?
• Ever think you're in charge?
• Every other year sick...
• Everybody should be allowed
• Everything in my world stops for this person
• Everything to love about a day with this tiny person
• Excellent chat with The Marshall Gallery
• Extroverted freelancer lesson: a reminder
• Family traditions; food for thought
• Far from Blue Monday - not just about the birthday
• Favorite photo of the day...
• Festival time crankin' up
• Festivals past, Clapton & Baltimore
• Fickle much? Another round of career thoughts.
• Finally - knitting photos
• Fires, intruders & surprise web search results. And it's only Tuesday!
• First Valentine's Day for ADD couple
• First blogging with baby in lap
• First experience using Art Clay Silver and Precious Metal Clay
• First morning home...
• First peekaboo with The Sultan of Cool
• First she quits her job then she moves out of her house
• Flat tire leads to TV interview? Gonna' be on Roy's Folks!
• Fond recollections of recipes gone bad...
• Force of habit
• Forced stillness
• Forgot best part while going on about Matt Damon's wedding
• Forgotten birthdays
• Found a blog site devoted to raku
• Found another A.D.D. blog
• Found perfect distraction from meds-induced turmoil
• Free Wi-Fi, yummy food, and gallons of coffee...
• Freelancer style holiday & a little stream o' consciousness
• Friday Inspiration and Goals
• Friend's learning patience with ADD Chick
• From Adderall to Strattera
• From Flickr's "Interestingness" on my birthday
• From a conversation with a 76 year old woman
• From another place
• From last night's email: on travel
• Full day in Seattle...then another one
• Fun fonts, but no good reason for this...
• Fun lyrics for realigning a shoddy mood
• Fun with copper clasps
• Functional art at a new favorite fused glass site
• Funny thing about creative momentum
• Gallery submissions to report
• Gearing up for this Sunday's pottery festival
• Gettin' wild & crazy with an 11 month old
• Getting around fear to reach awaiting success
• Getting inventory in order
• Giddy Squarespace evangelist (customer)
• Give back & dine out at the same time?
• Giving our undivided attention
• Goal setting, next round...
• Goes with the territory, man - html coding woes
• Goin' to Seattle...
• Going to work in Seattle
• Good ideas can come from frustrating circumstances
• Good thing my Daddy taught me to change a flat tire
• Google mystery continues
• Google's page today - Jan 1
• Got my book & discovered great used bookstore too!
• Grammar first, campaign trails later...okay?
• Graphics: among the fun pieces of my work...
• Great Mom Quote:
• Great pregnant woman quote
• Green
• Guest blogger's thoughts on cooking
• Had meant to introduce you to Cindi by now
• Hail to the almighty Raffle!
• Halle Berry's glowing skin
• Hammering and shooting today
• Hanging out and knitting
• Happy 2006!
• Happy Basil
• Happy Birthday Dad!
• Happy Birthday Mom!
• Happy Birthday Mr. Pie!
• Happy Easter Weekend
• Happy Father's Day!
• Happy, Happy Jewelry Designer
• Hard clay - beginning of a saga?
• Have beads, will travel
• Having a little designer's tantrum over here
• He's asleep in my bed...
• He's no longer interested in storing my motorcycle for me
• Headlong into another festival season
• Heartstrings & bracelets for remembering
• Help me choose, for eBay, okay?
• Helpful to connect with others whose minds work like mine
• Her narcissism: it surpasses even my own
• Here are the two necklaces I made today
• Hesitation, silliness, and our inner children
• His computer doesn't like me & other reasons you haven't gotten reply emails...
• Holy Glazed Pendants, Batman!
• Home again
• Home again
• Homemade, built-in exercise opportunity
• Homework complete
• Honeys, I'm home!
• Hooray for ribbing!
• Hospitality perfected, limes or no limes
• How creative could you be with this view?
• How much energy does it actually take to walk out to the car...?
• How to double your website traffic in a single day
• How to really mess with your inner control freak
• How'd that first week go for ya?
• How'd they find me, anyway?
• I always cave...eventually
• I am living a movie script...
• I gotta' get
• I gotta' get out more
• I have only myself to blame for my sleepiness
• I love it when...
• I love my life
• I really did like that skirt
• I was a little bit skeert...
• I will not have a panic attack. Really...
• I'm a little OCD that way...
• I'm enthralled by textures...
• I'm here to help; just don't expect smiles with that order. 'Kay?
• I'm only Half a Geek: Bookmarks and lessons learned
• I'm sure his portfolio is very impressive
• I've seen the future and he is an athlete
• Ice cream in my coffee & other tricks to wipe out cranky
• Icy days that change the rhythm
• Idea Girl gets it right
• Ideas of getting up really early next Election Day...
• Identity and perception
• If I were a runner...
• If I were on the other end of a conversation with me
• If today were about beads instead of clay...
• If you have to sell at fairs and festivals...
• If you were going to make a necklace before six a.m.
• Igniting enthusiasm
• In case anyone's curious...
• In case you missed the last sale
• In case you're not familiar with "our ways"
• In spite of the occasional "wax incident"
• In the middle of the night
• In the moment... in another language
• In time for tomorrow's pottery festival
• In which supermarket flirting is a highlight
• Inner Businesswoman puts ADD Chick on notice
• Innovation meets technology meets talent...
• Insomnia & alarm clock revolt: but let me tell you the happy stuff too!
• Insomnia meets ADD Girl
• Insomnia stinks
• Inspired morning
• Interesting observation - of myself
• Intriguing smatterings from the 'net
• Introducing The Festival Bracelets!
• Intuition and blogging no-nos
• Ironing aversions, Counting Crows cravings & twisting copper
• Is "in sorts" the opposite of "out of sorts"? Some tricks...
• Is there a support group for turning 39?
• Is this just wrong of me?
• Is work supposed to be this much fun???
• Is your new part-time job this cool?
• Isn't a tart sort of a pie, too?
• It *seemed* like a good design idea, but...
• It IS complicated, too...
• It always comes back to the basics, doesn't it?
• It seemed like a good idea at the time!
• It was a short little trip, but...
• It's a front yard...AND it's a photo studio!
• It's a happy little site, too! First Squarespace V5 round: just for me...
• It's against the rules to poke Dena. Make a note of it.
• It's always a risk
• It's been a few days since Adderall and
• It's fun to say "chocolate clay"
• It's more than just a January goal
• It's not exactly that I object to this whole Attention Deficit Disorder issue so much. Not EXACTLY...
• It's the best chicken salad I ever had, but there are reasons this isn't a cooking blog
• It's true: they probably don't care...
• Itineraries elsewhere
• Itsy, bitsy spider & other distractions from pain
• January 01, 2007
• Jewelry Sales
• Jewelry design process & enhanced chaos
• Jewelry supply order neurosis - buy more, save more!
• Jewelry that inspires me
• Just Another Tuesday in Creative Paradise
• Just a TINY little bit of knitting...
• Just a bit of simple gratitude and happiness
• Just a few simple hours with baby, & yet...
• Just because you can doesn't mean you should
• Just how much CAN one pack into a Tuesday?
• Just one more minute
• Justifying choices - even now
• Keepin' it interesting: ceiling hasn't fallen yet!
• Kickin' a little butt...takin' a couple of names
• Knitting and jewelry design combined!
• Knitting outside the proverbial box
• Knowing authors through what they write
• La la la, le le leeeeee - new earring design worked!
• Lagging inventory: inspiration for creative momentum
• Language is king
• Last Saturday in Seattle
• Last day for festivals!
• Last day in Toronto
• Last day of the year - oh yeah...
• Last minute packing
• Last morning at work and I can't sleep
• Late night habits
• Later
• Later the morning after...only now it's dark outside
• Latest parenting quote from sis
• Laundry, party prep, beading & who knows...
• Lazy blogger - two for one?
• Learning curves on a saturday morning
• Learning to tell time...again
• Leaving for Work on Time is Not an Option
• Lessons for me too, while "teaching" seniors
• Lessons learned; one more post about Roy's Folks... okay?
• Let me tell you 'bout the smoke alarm
• Like a proud mama...
• Links, festivals, kitties, online marketing, & empty cartons
• Lists and projects and randomly scattered activities
• Lists are amazing tools
• Little Saturday observations...
• Little delights: my first excursion in Seattle
• Little snow, lotta creative productivity?
• Little snow, lotta work
• Live music and dancing with children
• Living vicariously...just a little
• Long day
• Look what I just made!
• Lookin' for a rhythm...a groove
• Lookin' for my groove...again
• Looking for the ideal creative space
• Looking forward to my glazing session
• Lost blogger & the very fine A.D.D. Friday
• Lost my Gorilla Glue & discovered my coffee pot's been recalled
• Lotta' pendant happiness - in spite of near selection fiasco
• Love visiting my parents
• Love/hate and deadlines
• Loving variety - it's the little things
• MORE beaded necklaces
• Macaroni pound cake recipes & parenting searches
• Made contact with the MDA
• Made me snort a little
• Magical Expandavocabulary
• Making it utterly unnecessary for me to ever have children of my own
• Making necklaces on site - High Point Today!
• Making peace with my inner narcissist
• Mannequin shopping? Maybe not, but then again...
• Many guitars, then Matt Damon's marriage affects me how???
• Margot isn't going to ride with me anymore
• Markets in Seattle
• Marshall Art Gallery and our group show
• Master of None
• Maybe it really DOES hurt me more than it does you...
• Maybe spelling doesn't matter THAT much
• Maybe the perfect age of all...
• Maybe thunder isn't that scary: ask the baby
• Maybe you wouldn't call it a hobby, exactly
• Me and thee and spell check
• Meeting with another, er, free spirit
• Men and useful shopping advice
• Merging blogs from "The Network of If"
• Merging mental images & life cycles
• Merry Christmas
• Merry Christmas from the Family
• Midweek shift
• Mind-changing: Everybody's Perogative
• Monday morning flexibility = good stuff
• More Squarespace Luv
• More about that first TV interview
• More about that website dissatisfaction issue...
• More bacn than spam
• More dreams about the move
• More fun starting stuff than finishing it
• More fun than moving
• More fun with packing
• More light shed on autism
• More necklaces than I realized
• More on creative momentum & tricking ourselves
• More on fickleness
• More on learning through teaching
• More on the personality type stuff
• More on why I had to redesign my website... again
• More upcoming shows - come shop!
• More website design angst
• Morning excitement over pendants & beads
• Moving beyond a creative standstill
• Moving differently this time...
• Moving furniture or revamping my site...
• Mr. Pie and Grandma find a way to keep up
• Mr. Pie's Mom on parenting - a response
• Multi-talented artist's site - more raku and then some
• Multitasking and the A.D.D. chick
• Muscles you didn't know you had
• Mushy throat a bad omen?
• Music - my first creative love
• My Festival Fiasco, Part One: An Overview
• My Festival Fiasco, Part Two: Lessons Learned
• My Sunday morning date with a horse named Sandy
• My blogging clients - and me
• My favorite week of the year - Part I: Some Poetry
• My favorite week of the year - Part II: Some waking up
• My favorite week of the year - Part III: Laughter, one of the basics
• My favorite week of the year - Part IV: Some new & different approaches
• My favorite week of the year - Part V: Bigmama's Birthday & Some Gratitude
• My favorite week of the year - Part VI: Social networking & inevitable mental chaos
• My first perogies ever
• My juggling attempts never looked like this
• My lawn
• My life in a necklace factory
• My minute of fame...
• My new reading list - online!
• My other blog. This time it's different. Really.
• My technology, not his...
• MyFonts.com & the ADD customer
• NOW you need to change your website???
• NaNa! Enforcing kid-friendliness wherever we roam...
• Needin' Santa's help right about now...
• Neighborly much?
• Neighbors - on a Saturday morning
• Nervous laughter as I look around the house at all the boxes
• Networking, my people, checking a list & loving the frenzy
• Neurotic jewelry designer & another commission
• Neurotic much? Gratifying moments with commissions
• Never too old for stoopid lessons...
• Never was able to offer criticism without turning it inward, too...
• New Feet!
• New Squarespace Happiness
• New Stuff
• New book for jewelry designers
• New ceramic pendant happiness
• New chewable Zicam
• New earrings! In the middle of THIS day...
• New handmade necklace designs for you!
• New obsession
• New pendants calling my name
• New pendants: I'm so easily excited
• New photos online
• New porcelain pendants...steps one and two
• New spring line - clay drying nicely
• New stamps!
• New website for me
• New, tall chair!
• Nine hours 'til drop-off. More-or-less.
• No rocks, but an awful lotta' paper & scissors
• No vegetable garden; still thinking of homegrown
• Nosey much? Overheard while publicly catching up on email
• Not a fantasy - this CAN be done, can't it?
• Not a single new pair of earrings
• Not a single photo - beading party
• Not allowing a friend to visit me at home
• Not altogether spectacular, but not so bad either...
• Not because it's the best business decision
• Not before 7, but close
• Not exactly what I'd planned
• Not insomnia exactly...
• Not just a hurricane anymore...
• Not just a wig; those are plastic flowers, too!
• Not like riding a bicycle...
• Not my home... but my stuff is everywhere
• Not such a fancy holiday, but I liked it...
• Not the most useful thing you'll read today
• Not the original cool auntie
• Not the regular kind of haircut
• Not to completely obsess over this moving business, but...
• Not trained to be an electrician
• Not traveling right now? Then live vicariously!
• Not waiting until the last minute: novel idea...
• Not your Grandma's green thumb
• Notes, Replies to sender, & Piles o' bricks
• Nothing like a good box...
• Now following Lucy the Cat on Twitter
• Observations and discoveries on going freelance again
• Observations from Seattle - Part 1
• Observe my brilliant beading...chaos
• Of course I like it when you're happy. (Plus that little matter of my narcissistic side.)
• Office organization - has to get better
• Oh THAT'S the way you knit!
• Oh how the definition of "road trip" evolves...
• Oh yay - I broke my website
• Oh yay - glaring errors in cover letter... resume, too
• Oh! Finishing stuff feels good too...
• Oh, and it's a bigoldpile of stuff, too...
• Okay, break's over - can't stay away from the blog
• Old Stone Revue & recalled mountain music roots
• Old haunts and the people who work there
• On drinking black coffee
• On friendships: what makes 'em click?
• On shooting pool...
• On the bright side...
• On your business card, it says...
• Once again ConvergeSouth has to proceed without me
• One for me, then one for you...
• One of God's little jokes of nature?
• One week and one day away...
• One-of-a-kind vs. limited edition pieces
• Online Shop Grand Opening Delayed a Week!
• Only for this kid
• Only myself to blame for that "little" scene at the mall
• Oops! Again...
• Other ADD types, approval and the evolving voice
• Out of shape
• Over at 43 Things
• Overdue for a little insomniac blogging?
• Overheard while out at dinner...
• Overheard: on child-rearing techniques
• Overpacking again
• Overzealous media in death of stars
• Packing and contemplating Katrina
• Packing tips
• Packing vs. playing
• Paint brushes, copper, tissues, muscles & necklaces
• Parental evolution: from phone call
• Party nostalgia
• Paying attention: perceptions of beauty
• Permission to use Etsy's logo
• Personal entertainment vs. boredom
• Perspective: it's everything
• Photo progress still lagging
• Photo shoot - take two!
• Photo yuk
• Photographic technique: the search
• Photos, color, doors, writing - look what I found!
• Pink Prank Project: talk about your friendly practical jokes!
• Pirate parties and the creative stimulation of building a costume
• Planning = merely a suggestion
• Planning ahead... a month or two
• Plus creamy handmade soaps that smell of lavender or citrus & spice blends
• Poor little neglected blog...
• Portable pendant glazing
• Post Roy's Folks Craft Fair - As fun in person as on TV!
• Pottery Festival Sunday!
• Pottery Festival Today!!!
• Presentation is everything. Okay, so...
• ProBlogger - I bought the book, then I posted a photo
• Process continuing nicely - new happy necklaces!
• Procrastinate much?
• Procrastination and moving
• Productivity Mantra
• Productivity, pendants & a new camera phone!
• Professional development and the self-employed
• Program a phone much?
• Progress report - photo shoot
• Pros and Cons of self-employment
• Pull off glorious beading extravaganza - check!
• Punchy evening
• Purge what?
• Pushing the schedule envelope with ADD
• Quality art or a mooshy mess?
• Quest for Balance: Part 743
• Question o' the night:
• Questions to ask and answer: ProBlogger book
• Quick time-out for some gratitude
• Quilts in the African American tradition - a Squarespace site
• Quite a week
• Quotes from Men in Trees
• Rain in Toronto
• Random smiley things, before I get to work
• Reality TV - on the better side
• Recent questions while looking out the window
• Reflections on the rituals of womanhood
• Reign in the instant-gratification-junkie with hair coloring products
• Remember 13?
• Remembering life before the www...
• Repeat it to yourself, Missy: you are a jewelry designer, not repair chick
• Reporting back on the experiment
• Returnable, refundable, exchangable?
• Right this minute my very favorite thing is...
• Room for squares at Wired
• Roy's Folks Crafts Fair this Friday - hope to see you there!
• SOME people got snow
• Sale today!!!
• Same as yours...different from yours - holiday fun
• Satisfaction, of a sort
• Saturday morning recap
• Saturday morning, sleeping in
• Saving Grace - An Ugly Mug Coffee
• SavvyAuntie website beta launch - interesting timing
• Saying goodbye to Tristan
• Saying yes, Mr. Pie fun & general life goodness
• Scheduled website downtime tonight
• Scheduling silliness
• Search strings, voyeurism & the value of art
• Seattle Today
• Seattle sushi - my best ever
• Seeds waiting to be planted
• Seeing red & loving it...
• Selecting for Furniture Market turns into design groove
• Self as client: built-in case-study
• Self-employment looks like this...some days
• Selling at furniture market!
• Semi-precious stones: more complicated than glass to identify
• Serious Communication Lesson: She helped me want to better explain my Squarespace Love
• Seth wants to know why I'm a generalist. I do too.
• Setting up a new site for friends
• Seven days and counting
• She so needs a blog...
• She still calls 'em "baby"
• Show your face & remember your audience
• Sick days in high school weren't like this...
• Sickly in Seattle
• Side trips in Canada
• Silencing the big talkers
• Simple Pleasures: A Reminder
• Since I probably forgot to mention it lately...
• Since laughter raises our energetic vibrations...
• Since tomorrow's Friday, working from home isn't an option
• Sister finally watches A Knight's Tale
• Sitting in my living room, just taunting me
• Sketches to make stamps for PMC
• Slate.com's Olympics Sap-o-Meter
• Smells - gifts that keeps on giving?
• Snow for my last day in Toronto!
• So comfortable in her own skin
• So easily pleased...sometimes
• So let's say I wake up before 7 on a Saturday morning...
• So many talented people around me
• So much for "ain't no big deal"
• So much time she doesn't know what to do with it?
• So she can knit during reading time in her 5th grade class
• Social networks - addicted much?
• Social/Technology Faux Pas
• Some Saturdays are just like that
• Some days you just have to be the adult
• Something special about children
• Sounds like the perfect day
• Southern accents, writing styles, & more A.D.D. evidence
• Special days
• Spent some time with my mother...
• Squarespace & older Safari not a good match?
• Start with a waiver, end with your photo on the wall...
• Startin' girl-time early with unintentional voyeurism...
• Steps & steps to go; need to build on the jewelry design momentum
• Still later
• Still looking for the perfect light: today's photo shoot
• Still not sure about Twitter? Maggie Mason can help.
• Stones and silver: practicing on the real thing
• Studio time - when you're on
• Stuff for making other stuff
• Success with the cheesecake
• Successful photo shoot on New Year's Day - necklaces for you!
• Suckin' it up...
• Suitcase o' beads: always a hit
• Summer tradition; along for the ride
• Sunday Evening Timeline
• Supermarket chatter; further proof of my stunning brilliance
• Supplier quandary
• Sure I've already given you one list of observations today
• Sure there's more than just markets, but...
• Sure, he was here first, but...
• Surfing the net and studying - the A.D.D. way
• Surfing, shooting & sorting - apparently in no particular order
• Surprise 'em! Got any secrets to share?
• Surprise balance & the gratitude to go with it...
• Surprise insomnia
• Surrounded by paperwork and unfiled notes
• Suspension of disbelief goes too far
• Swan Lake - not your everyday ballet
• Synergy, serendipity & a very good vibe
• Taking your clients home with you
• Teaching first, then Festival Season resumes
• Ten things I love about my seniors classes...
• Tenacity pays; hours of glazing behind me
• Texture - from film to clay
• Texture, color, contrast AND immediacy? Oh yea...
• Thanks for all the emails: A "full circle" story
• Thanksgiving: the same, yet different
• That deer in the headlights is me
• That kind of disclosure must be liberating
• That's EXACTLY what mama says!
• The 12 Days of A.D.D.
• The Christmas tree that took its time
• The Distillery Historic District
• The Distillery Historic District, Part 2
• The Etsy Shop - Creaking, moaning & groaning into existence
• The Network of If: ADD entries complete
• The art of learning the assertive "no"
• The automated voice response unit
• The blank canvas - Internet Style
• The blogger's life...
• The building of a social gathering
• The busiest time of the year, then comes the calm...
• The coffee isn't intended for your gadgets
• The common cold: end of day one
• The complexity of local budget cuts. What now?
• The cost of replacing a mobile phone
• The day before a trip
• The end of festivals...for now
• The excruciating fear of thinking, really & truly, you've lost your cell phone
• The first Monday of a new year
• The height of intelligence
• The intention to sit still and just be...
• The intrigue of mosaic art
• The jacket that got its own necklace
• The job I almost applied for
• The large bookstores of today
• The lowly business card
• The magnificent timing of inspiration
• The mindnumbingly slow progress toward an Etsy store
• The moments of inspiration
• The more I play with this site, the more I love it
• The morning after
• The most interesting things are uncovered online at night
• The move that lasted forever
• The nest of bees in my front lawn
• The night Ms. Ellen tried to fix me up
• The note I forgot to write on Sunday...
• The presence of a mouse & a guy with big lips
• The princess has a birthday...number 4!
• The season for farmer's markets
• The song that gets in your head
• The sound of delirious laughter...
• The space between holidays and life
• The storage unit vs. the house I'm leaving
• The thing about Adderall
• The thing about that urban legend cookie recipe...
• The urge to travel
• The website that took seventeen years...
• The whirlwind isn't gonna' go away, is it?
• The yearly party I've still never attended
• The zen of packing
• Then Adderall it is!
• Then I clicked the link leading to design submissions
• Then Mom sent me ALL her beads
• Then the computer flew out the window
• Then what?
• There is no sane answer to this question
• There's a great quote about boredom
• There's a lot going on over there
• There's an up-side too...
• There's more than one way to get a new car!
• These are for 'Amma and Papa...
• These are gonna' be so cool with some glaze...
• They're all coming home
• They're bored, and need stuff to do!
• They're hunting me down...
• Thinkin' it'd be fun to have one of these
• Thinking about friends you lose touch with
• Thinking of others' grief this morning
• This blog has moved
• This is not really about the man who screamed in class
• This is supposed to be a joke, but...
• Those "self discovery questions" people seem to be looking for
• Those "writerly" notecards & large, green objects for inspiration
• Those Canadian Google pigeons got it wrong but I don't mind...
• Those cats and me...
• Those little subjects: previews of what's to come?
• Three dreams in two nights
• Throw it away already!
• Throw it away already!
• Throwing pots tomorrow
• Time to make the earrings...
• Time to move the furniture around again
• Time to try something new
• Tiny little day trip
• To everything a season...
• Today's highlights - & it's not even noon yet!
• Today's new, fun designs
• Today's phone call = the freelancer's prayer
• Today's writing projects
• Today, somebody else's inventory
• Told my family yesterday that I quit my job
• Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes? Oddly enough...
• Too little sleep? Too much?
• Top Chef - to the end
• Toronto!!!
• Totally his Grandpa's face
• Tracking a FedEx Package - The Melody Way
• Triad area website for Katrina relief
• Tricking myself
• Trucks are just so handy
• Trumpets blared and the clouds parted
• Try again or go to Marcy's, that is...
• Trying to get inside the jewelry client's head
• Tuesday and Wednesday next week - SALE!!!
• Turns out Friday the 13th doesn't bother me at all
• Twitches, knots & Saturday simplicity
• Two in a row? Nah...
• Typical Monday
• Unequivocal rejection of "Blue Monday" - especially this year...
• Uninspired? Well then, try again.
• Unwanted facial hair: an opportunity?
• Up early - brain overload
• Upon reentering freelancer world: my solemn promise...
• Urban legends, research, snakes and internet marketing
• Using things for something other than that for which they were intended
• Vera Wang for the masses & screw top wine
• Vertigo & Chocolate!
• Very exciting - tales of sales
• Very little satisfies me more than
• Virus or food poisoning?
• Visiting friends & photos to prove it
• Visiting friends with young children
• WAY more movies than I ever imagined
• Waited until the last minute to raise bail money
• Walking and chewing gum at the same time...
• Wanna' see my new necklace?
• Wanna' see?
• Watching milliondollarhomepage.com?
• Water in my bed at 3am
• Water, symphonies & lost bookmarks, plus more
• We follow patterns to knit socks, right?
• Web surfing yields more solid site redesign ideas
• Website cart before the horse - jewelry links
• Website design angst - again?
• Website in transition
• Website server maintenance
• Weekend beaded creations
• Weekend insomnia
• Weekend o' surprises
• Weird dreams last night
• Well it's on the list...
• Well now. It seems I was wrong. Again!
• Well of course an A.D.D. woman would think...
• Well you can revise THAT to-do list...
• Well, now that that's behind me!
• Well, sure he's hard to resist, but really!
• Well, that's ONE way to spend a weekend...
• What I made this weekend
• What I've been told some would call an ordinary Saturday
• What a Hoot!
• What a difference a year makes
• What an odd time for learning lessons about glaze application!
• What constitutes a good day?
• What do you do for YOUR inspiration?
• What do you do when your Adderall fails you?
• What else would you do on a Sunday afternoon with a cold?
• What food group is a juice box in?
• What lists?
• What procrastination???
• What stands in the way of writing
• What the muscled, tattooed driver of the minivan saw
• What was different about yesterday
• What were they thinkin' - no internet access???
• What would you do if guaranteed success?
• What's really "confidential" anyway?
• What's that? You hate whining too? Skip that post & read this one instead.
• What? Your Powerball lottery ticket didn't pay big either?
• When A.D.D. is not a welcomed friend
• When I don't love you but you're okay...
• When I started putting advertising on my sites...
• When does "sharing" become "dumping"?
• When freelancing is really cool
• When teaching helps us learn more
• When you blog a lot...
• When you're on... lovin' my job
• When your career includes having fun
• When your computer has a glitch you can't figure out
• When your hobbies and career collide
• When your mood needs a lift
• Where I'll be this week...
• Where I'll be today...
• Where to begin?
• Where to next, in the evolution of BMW's new fabric car?
• Where'd the balance go?
• Where's Waldo: The accessory version
• Which hat to wear today?
• While talking on the phone with my mother...
• Whiny morning
• Who knew I was so predictable?
• Who made you in charge?
• Why boxes are handy for babies
• Why is it never on the list?
• Why that last 1/2 Adderall will save my butt today
• Why the population keeps expanding
• Why the workshop worked...in spite of my attention span
• Why they're called power naps...
• Will Pixelotto yield another million for Alex Tew?
• Wire and beads
• With Hurricane Dennis lurking...
• With another show behind us...
• Wonder if this is caused by the meds?
• Wondering about raku in a tiny enameling kiln
• Wonky email - where'd it go?
• Wonky filenames, funky critters & the lazy blogger
• Word to the wants-to-be-wise
• Would you give an "imperfect" gift?
• Wouldn't it be cool...a week without sleep?
• Wow - great people!
• Wrapped cars as a possible blog topic?
• YAY! A new happy client...
• Yesterday's list vs. yesterday's reality
• You know the rain. That seriously cool rain...
• You little slacker...
• You want your contractors to be as confident in their work as he is
• You wouldn't exactly call them "highlights"
• You'd think I'd have plenty to write about here
• YouTube loves to help me waste time.
• Your blog has a voice. What is it allowed to say?
• Your blog: if your parents had THEIR say...
• Your expert on writing... with a southern accent???
• Yummy guitar music, a good work groove, flat tires & lots of toddler laughs
• Yup, it was a bad omen - I'm officially sick
• Yup, she loved 'em!
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