Happy LOVE Day!

My wish

for you

this Valentines Day...

is that

your original ideas get you well deserved recognition! Sending out Love, Love, Love!!!

You are Not Alone...WHERE WOMEN CREATE BUSINESS!

Entrepreneur's Unite! The incomparable Jo Packham has done it again! Teamed with Stampington & Company she has created a brand new publication to help "us" achieve our dreams and goals.

WHERE WOMEN CREATE BUSINESS - A PASSION FOR SUCCESS will prove to be an indispensable tool, and a valuable resource. As I began reading through the first few pages I couldn't help but think to myself "Why wasn't this type of magazine around when I was starting out!"

None the less... it will certainly assist me now and going forward. And best of all it is specifically geared to what it is that "we" all do... WISH, DREAM, CREATE, CREATE, CREATE & PURSUE our business with passion!

WWC Business gets straight to the heart of things, with informative articles on accounting, banking and even how to design a winning and memorable business card that will represent exactly who you are and what you do perfectly.

There is is special book review section "Pages" that will guide you in choosing the best business books to read with Jo's favorite lines from each book highlighted "It does not matter where you started in life, it matters where you go." - By Peter Buffett

There are wonderful articles that feature the best in the business like Amy Butler, Anna Griffin, and Jen O'Connor as they share their hard earned knowledge and experience. Columns like, HELLO SOUL, HELLO BUSINESS, Legal Ease, Media Matters,and even info on how to work with a PR team.

If you are just starting out, or have been traveling your chosen path for sometime now you won't want to be without each and every issue, WHERE WOMEN CREATE BUSINESS is like a delicious little cheat sheet to help tutor and keep those creative wheels rolling in the right direction!

Happy New Year!

2013 is upon us! Lets resolve to honor the past and look towards a bright future!! Cheers to you all!

Holiday Wishes

This year my wish for all of us,

is simply to try and see

the forest through

the trees.

Sending bright stars, high hopes, peaceful dreams and love to everyone this Holiday Season.

To Facebook or not to Facebook that is the Question?

I have a question and would like your opinion. I need some help making up my mind about something. I think, most probably I am virtually the last person who is not on Facebook!? I have been holding out, not sure why. (Maybe it feels like writing for magazines, working on my own projects, keeping up with my blog and a variety of other diversions, like raising my fur babies, tending to home and garden and husband... etc.) I don't want any one thing to be neglected. Sometimes it all seems like a lot, and then other times I feel like I really need to dive in head first and catch up!! Life is flying by at such lightning speed any more... there is SO much I still want to do. So my question to you is are you on Facebook, do you like it, does it work for you,do you keep up with a blog too? I am trying to decide whether to join Facebook too and would greatly value any input from all of you!

A Winner & Round Top, Texas!

Thank you everyone for all the kinds words about WHERE WOMEN CREATE and my feature! The winner of a free autographed copy is Marsha DiCostanzo of "Cute Stuff Inside". Be sure to pop back in next week, I am going to put up a post showing a recent working field trip to Round Top, Texas. For those who are not familiar with it, they have a most fabulous antiques fair there twice a year.... it is truly a wonderland of international and local treasures... got to hang out with my friend's Jo, Dana, Rachel Ashwell, and Robin Brown,come back and visit to get all the details!

Where Women Create Magazine Giveaway!

The Winter issue of WHERE WOMEN CREATE magazine is a DREAM issue... it features some of my favorite and extremely inspirational artists!

Like the magical, Robin Brown of Magnolia Pearl fame, Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan of the fabulous blog Apartment Therapy thru which I have had the great honor of having my artwork featured and the Oh - So incredible Countess Isabelle de Borchgrave with her super mesmerizing paper costumes.

Oh yeah... and me! My little studio is featured and I am thrilled, I love writing the Creative Rituals column for WWC,

and so to have the opportunity to share my work space with you within these pages is all kinds of wonderful!

To me it is like entering another world and though it is not a very large room what it lacks in square footage it more than makes up for by providing considerable reverie...

by way of excruciatingly beautiful natural colors,

exquisite antique textures,

and a soothing atmosphere of my kind of mischievous chaos!

It is a place where past butterflies can gently rest on bright pink cheeks,

a place where earth and sea meet...

a place where aqua winged paper creatures roam (lots and lots of them)!

It is my magical room... where amethyst jewel ships sail,

and sail,

and sail on westward winds... I can go in and the ideas just start swirling.

I have a habit of keeping all sorts of gathered oddments that easily set me dreaming... when one dream has come to fruition another immediately begins to brew!

It has always been a dream of mine to be in WHERE WOMEN CREATE (my favorite bookazine), Thank You Jo for including me! I know this will become a highly coveted issue and most probably sell out so run and pick up a copy. I am holding a special magazine giveaway... so leave a comment to win a free copy! Whisper or scream... tell me what your biggest dream is, by stating it aloud for others to hear I feel it solidifies and helps to make it come true! I will pick a winner on November 25th and notify them by email. Good luck and see you soon!