Today I was bestowed the honor of receiving an Arte y Pico (Peak of the art) award for my blog. Thank you, Markia, for bestowing this award upon my humble blog.
Naturally, this leads the reader to ask ‘What is this award?” The answer to this question follows;
When your blog is bestowed the [...]
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This past weekend my family and I were out on the Porch Creek Indian reservation for the annual Green Corn celebration. Because I was on my moon cycle, I was not able to participate fully. When it is your ‘time’ as a woman, you cannot touch the other people on the grounds because [...]
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Green Corn is coming up this weekend and me and the family have been busy preparing. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the Creek or Cherokee traditions of Green Corn, you may find the following article of interest: Green Corn Ceremony. This is a wikipedia article on the Creek New Year festival. Don’t [...]
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This is part two of My Favorite Jewels, in which I am sharing a few of my favorite peices over the years.
One of my recent favorites is this lovely blossom necklace. I created the pendant using a variation of the herringbone technique from Metallique’s tutorial. The results are stunning! Very lovely. I was not pleased [...]
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This is just a quick note to let you know that I’ve managed to feed my old blog from my blogger account into my wordpress blog. That means that a LOT of new content has just been added here for you to enjoy. My old blog goes all the way back to 2005. There must [...]
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My latest entry to the YOJ project – another sculpted coil pendant. I’m gearing up for some new tutorial releases and this is one of the tuts on the schedule. I wanted to brush up on my technique for this style of pendant since it’s literally been months since I’ve made one. The main [...]
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