Words Escape Me or my Brain Won’t Function

How is it that I can be SO full of ideas and things to share when I’m away at a conference or at school (it’s weird to say school, makes me feel like I’m 17 again) but when I return home I have nothing, absolutely nothing to say. Really, I have nothing. And I’m hungry. […]

West By God Virginia

Good Gravy! I see that some of you have left some amazing replies to my post yesterday. It helps me more than you could know to get some insight from those removed from the situation. Sometimes just living the frustration from day to day can bog you down and it takes words coming from someone […]

This post brought to you by LMFAO

No thanks to a local Hibachi restaurant, I’ve got this song stuck in my head: Now there, you can share in my joy. Everyday they be shufflin… true story. I’m sorry to report that I didn’t volunteer to campaign for President of the United States or anything like that today. I’m sure you were fully […]

A Girl and her fake press conference

Today was a bit of a mismatch. Like yesterday, I met what seemed like 100s of people (but it wasn’t quite that many) and learned that VMS instructors like to make people laugh… especially the ones from Melbourne (as in Australia… Down Under… home of Crocodile Dundee… yeah, that place). In an effort to concentrate […]

Greetings from West Virginia

It was many hours ago when my alarm went off at 4:00am and during that time I flew to Chicago, then to Pittsburgh, drove to West Virginia, ate at an old school Dairy Queen, set food in a Kroger for the first time since 1999, met a TON of people, exchanged many business cards, was […]

Blogging when I should be packing

I really should be packing right now. I even have nice, shiny new luggage to pack in (my old was obviously run over by a Delta plane). But here I sit, writing up a new blog post. And before I sat down at my computer, I made some dinner. And before I made some dinner, […]

All Work and No Play…

In case you’ve been wondering where I’ve been for the past month, it’s either been at work, at work, or at work. Okay, okay, I kid. I’ve been at work, making jewelry, and at work. Things have stayed quite busy up at the arts center, but it’s winding down as summer approaches and I’m looking […]

Triumphant Return

About a year ago (maybe more or less, I honestly can’t remember) my sister and I moved our Junque Rethunque booth from the cavernous back side of the flea market to a bright, sunny, corner spot with a window. We finally put our spin on the booth adding letters to spell out “JUNQUE”. We were […]

It’s the simple things…

… like the time to nap when your nose would normally be to the grindstone. It’s finding a small treasure buried deep in a pile on the bottom shelf at Goodwill. It’s a quiet afternoon with your windows open. It is the simple things that help you to reset. After oversleeping my alarm and dozing […]

The Secretest of Road Trips…

… and how I became obsessed with Steam Punk. In 3 short days (world, don’t you dare throw some long days at me because I mentioned that the next three will be short and if you give me one more long day, it’s quite possible that I’ll disown you for the remainder of the days… […]