under the DAMN I WISH I WROTE THAT No matter what your fiber art “compulsion” her advice translates well to the all. Deb Shipp of DMK has shared some excellent thoughts on how to select a mentor for Kumihimo and Braiding in her blog at dmkartisanjewelry.blogspot.com She shared much of this in a conversation in […]

This is NOT a commercial but it might sound like one. More like a rant and ramble And, I suspect I am about to annoy more than a few of those packaging kits for Beaded Braids – but since I do not buy kits, only “hear from my customers” and members of our facebook group […]

Still I am going to keep coming back to the FB image about Working vs welfare refrig and not showing because all it accomplished was sensationalism of a real problem. Rather, it so clearly demonstrates (at least to me) the Symptom and Consequences (not the least of which is hate and class “envy”). Nor does […]

Today is father’s day in the US. There is so much I have to thank my parents for, but perhaps the most important thing was teaching a sense of personal responsibility for my own actions. They also were kind of big on doing something rather than whining. Recently I saw a thing with a picture […]

“They” (I can hear my father now – “WHO IS THEY” ) say that one should not make “big” decisions for at least a year after some major event – birth of a child, marriage, divorce, death of a loved one, major change in circumstances – losing a job – starting a new job, stock […]