A Little Necklace Therapy

Working with my wonderful prize!

Recently the Art Elements Blog hosted a giveaway, and I won, I won, I won!!

Here is the wonderful pendant created in ceramic by Kristie Roeder.

The colors are so vivid, it was hard to capture them with my little camera, indoors, at night. 

Here is the necklace I created with the pendant, using a bunch of glass beads from my stash. 

I didn't want to get too fancy. Had to let the pendant be the star!

Oh, no, a thief!

My cat Merry trying to steal the necklace. 

Thank you to the folks at Art Elements for sponsoring the giveaway . Here are the other designers!

Guest Designers:
Sarajo Wentling
Lola Surwillo
Beti Horvath
Kate Kemp
Art Elements Team
Susan Kennedy
Lesley Watt
Claire Fabian
Jenny Davies-Reazor
Jen Cameron

Focus on Life: Let's Celebrate - Celebrate Sweetness!

Some Random Sweetness From My Day!

This week's Focus on Life prompt asks us to show some sweetness. I had already decided: NO MORE FOOD! So, I just kept my eye out for the sweetness around me. Here's what I found.

Sweet kitty Merry

Bebop says sweetly, "You gonna give me the cookie, or what?"

Wild Roses, so sweet!

Random yellow flower, pretty sweet. 

Let's see what others did with Sally Russick's  prompt.

An InLinkz Link-up

Focus on Life: Checking Out - Eye Level

A different approach to point of view. 

This week's prompt from Sally Russick of Focus on Life and The Studio Sublime, is Eye Level. She invites us to make note of what is at eye level while we are standing, sitting, kneeling, wherever we find ourselves.  

I noticed that when I sit in "my spot" on the end of the sofa, my buddy Merry keeps me company, and if she is not sitting right next to me, she may be playing with a friend on a nearby rocking chair. 

Sitting on the arm of the sofa. 

Notice the stalking of Haruko under the chair. 

The only other eye level view I found interesting was my little kitchen "garden." The blue flowers are muscari, also known as grape hyacinth. My contribution to the illusion of spring!

I get to see this as I stand at the kitchen counter.

Potted muscari, Christmas cactus, last year's pussy willow. 

So, that's the report from my eye level, let's explore what others have contributed. 

An InLinkz Link-up

Focus On: Feeling the Love

Litter Mates

Week 6 of the Focus on Life Blog Challenge sponsored by Sally Russick of Studio Sublime asks us to Feel the Love. 

Merry and Pippin are our sister and brother cats, and if cats can love each other, they prove it.

They tussle, they groom, and they share furniture. Meet Merry and Pippin!

Merry's beautiful face.

Pippin goes exploring with his other bestie, Bebop.

To see how the other participants have felt the love, Click Here!