Calendar of Events - UPDATE!

I think i said in an earlier post that, although my website it up, i am currently unable to edit it, which means that the calendar is not up to date. Prices are also not all correct but that is another issue. i'm working on a new website but, as you probably know, that is not a quick process! so, in the meantime, here is my calendar of shows for the next few months:

Satuday, June 4, July 2, September 3, October 1, Baton Rouge Arts Market, 8-noon

Sat/Sun, October 14-15, Festivals Acadiens et Creoles, Lafayette, LA

Saturday, November 5, Baton Rouge Arts Market, Baton Rouge, LA 8 - noon

Saturday/Sunday, November 12-13, Three Rivers Arts Festival, Covington, LA (NOTE: this is tentative)

My summer dates are somewhat tentative we i travel quite a bit during the summer months. Please contact me if you want to be sure i will be at a particular market.

thanks! have a great week - more info later.

River - Baton Rouge

so, this is a picture taken from baton rouge last week - the river at it's crest it was maybe 5-7 feet from the top of the levee. amazing.

More river pics - Natchez

The picture above was taken from Natchez, which is, of course, high on a bluff. The other side of the river has a lot of flooding which seems mostly to be confined to businesses that were built between the river and the levee. I guess that area is doomed to flood - it's just a matter of when.

Big River!

Now for something completely different! i have pictures of the mississippi river. the picture at right was taken in new orleans this week - just as the river was cresting. it was quite a site. we watched the natchez riverboat take off on their tour of the river. i wouldn't have wanted to be on that boat with the river so high!

sterling silver bracelet new!

whew! it is HOT here, already. it feels like summertime already. anyway, i wanted to show you another picture of a new bracelet. some of you may recognize it as japanese weave (in chain maille talk). this one is made of 16 & 18 gauge wire & is fully doubled. very cool - nice & heavy, just like we like it. it's about 2 inches across. this is one you will know you are wearing - i don't do dainty, remember? what do you think?

New pic & website update

I have had a couple of new pictures taken since i have applied to a couple of new (to me) shows in the area. To the left is one of the new pics - i think it came out really nice. photo by ralph gabriner, of course. he is a magician with jewelry. i'm very happy with all the pictures he takes of my jewelry. i think my jewelry looks nice with i complete it but ralph adds a special look to it - it looks larger than life, really. love it.

this necklace is pretty substantial - it's made of heavy gauge sterling silver wire (have you seen the price of silver lately???!!! out of sight...) - and gorgeous white freshwater coin pearls - lovely, yes? very drapable & fun to wear. a real attention-getter!

anyway, as you may know, i have had website issues lately. as a result, i cannot currently edit my site SO that means, my calendar is incorrect. if you are looking for where i'll be in the next few months, you can no longer find that info on my website.

i'm in the process of rebuilding my site using a site builder that i can use with any server but it is a slow process. so far, i have looked at & considered wordpress, joomla!, the inmotion pro site builder and imac. i also plan to check out sitespinner. i'm learning a lot but it's pretty tedious. most claim to be "intuitive" or at least "very simple to use" but i'm not finding that to be the case. it looks like inmotion is pretty straight forward but it's tied to the inmotion web host so that's not an ideal solution. imac looks promising - i think i can carry it where ever i may go in the future for hosting but i need to do a little more checking on that.

Website woes

hi -

some of you may know that my website has been down for a couple of weeks - i was in a panic when a customer told me it was down. well, after several emails back & forth with my website server, i decided to find a new server for my site. i asked around & finally settled on using InMotion Webhosting and they have been so great. Not only did they work with me tirelessly to answer all my many questions, they restored my site!! I am so happy - i thought for two days that i was going to have to start all over with designing a website. i do need to update a few things on the site but it's basically up & functional! woohoo!

i have decided to apply for the Three Rivers Festival in Covington, LA which happens in November. I have been accepted and not accepted by this festival in various years and have taken a few years off from even applying. it's hard to get rejected! i have to learn not to take it personally. Anyway, i have sent a few pieces of jewelry off to get professionally photographed and will post those here when i get them back.

I also will be getting out my camera and taking some photos for general use - it's way past time to add some new things to my website.

that's it for now - thanks for stopping in!