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Beader?s Showcase - Inquiries Appreciated!

Posted on October 02, 2008
My Beader’s Showcase slideshow. Enjoy! more about “untitled“, posted with vodpod       Posted in Greyfeather, Handcrafts, Jewelry, My Artistic Career      

Blast from the Past

Posted on September 26, 2008
The Spouse was switching channels on the TV, moving between the debates and looking for a baseball game, and he stumbled across an old episode of Jenny Jones’ tabloid show.  Lo and Behold, there was my face on screen, some 15-odd years younger, walking out of the courtroom with my clients after resolution of the case...

Invasion vs. Civil War

Posted on September 26, 2008
Did you know that after 3 days of the stomach flu and being unable to eat anything solid, it is possible to get high on chicken soup?  I kid you not.  Campbell’s Chicken With Stars may have some potential street value - doubtful, considering that it’s perfectly legal, entirely natural, and, most importantly, readily available [...

White Birds CAN dance!

Posted on September 21, 2008
more about "White Birds CAN dance!", posted with vodpod Posted in Uncategorized      

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Another Venue

Posted on September 20, 2008
The Grace Chosy Gallery on Monroe Street in Madison, WI is no showing (and offering for sale) several of my jewelry items.  The manager really seemed to like the blue-green shades I’ve been working with.   Accepted for display, among others, were these; The turquoise necklace has a matching bracelet that was also accepted...

One of the ?Best of the Bird?

Posted on September 16, 2008
This Friday, I have an appointment with 2:00 PM with a gallery owner in Madison, Wisconsin, to see if any of my jewelry is such that she thinks that her clientele might be interested.  I stopped in  a couple weeks back with a few examples, just on a lark...

What To Do With Turquoise, Part 2

Posted on September 15, 2008
One can work with turquoise without it being in a Southwestern style.  Altough I’m not sure what style you would call any of these.  Anyone care to comment?               

?The Bird? has arrived

Posted on September 08, 2008
For the present, Greyfeather Designs has an on line shop at http://www.artfire.com/shop.php?seller_id=154.  In time, you will be able to simply go to GreyfeatherDesigns.artfire.com, but the website designers haven’t gotten all the bugs out of the site yet...

Semi-Pro

Posted on September 03, 2008
As of late this afternoon, I am the official “Featured Artist” down at “Nikki’s Cafe”, a local coffee shop and gathering place about  a couple miles or so away from my home.  A whole stretch of wall space is going to be hung with my original photographs, which will be offered for sale by the [...

Working on Commission

Posted on August 31, 2008
A friend of mine from Indiana expressed an interest in a designer necklace that included Labradorite.  I was terribly flattered that she thought to ask me, as she does some design herself, and we have other, mutual friends who also do artsy-craftsy stuff...

What To Do with Turquoise

Posted on August 31, 2008
Everyone seems to associate turquoise with southwestern, Native American style jewelry, and nothing else.  That’s such a shame.  Turquoise, whether shaped or left in natural nuggets, is a gorgeous and versatile stone.  The color depends on the content of aluminum or copper in the matrix stone - the more copper, the bluer the stone, and green results [...

Design for the Day - The Bird

Posted on August 26, 2008
I had a lot of fun designing this one.  The center medallion shows a running bird, so I thought, “Hm;  Migration time, therefore autumn.”  And I set out to evoke the mood and the colors of the season. The medallion and all the individual metallic components are Thai Karen Hill Tribe, or Bali artisan silver, the [...

A World of Gems

Posted on August 26, 2008
My design partner and I visited the International Gem and Jewelry Exhibition (Intergem) Show in Chicago last weekend.  It was our first time since registering as a business and being able to purchase from the wholesalers area.  All I can say is WOW! I have never seen so many pretty rocks all gathered together in one [...

Shall we try another way, now?

Posted on August 19, 2008
Well, the public launch of Greyfeather has convinced me of one thing, at least.  The arts and craft show circuit is not for me. In other words, we bombed, almost completely. Now, admittedly, it was a hasty decision, and not very well planned.    While we put up a creditable effort on very short notice, we had a [...

Today?s design - a probable keeper!

Posted on August 14, 2008
This was a sort of a lark, to see how many different elements I could combine in a single piece while maintaining harmony among all the elements.  The focal is a silver Thai Karen tribal shield medallion.  It is flanked by silver bicone stamped beads, also of Thai origin...

Greyfeather Launched

Posted on August 13, 2008
If I’ve been absent for a while, it’s been for a good purpose.  I’ve been preparing for the official debut of Greyfeather Designs, a little artistic conceit of mine own that I hope to make into a source of spare change, or more.  For starters, I’ve done the following: Opened a “buisiness” account at my local [...

The (not so) Daily Bird: Great Blue Heron

Posted on July 18, 2008
This big guy is normally a wetlands bird, hanging out in marshes, lake sides, and other such areas.  This photo looks like such a bird’s normal habitat, doesn’t it?  Marsh, mudflats, open water, all the necessary.  Perfect, eh? It’s the same farmer’s field photographed earlier on...

Rodentia

Posted on July 04, 2008
There was a dead mouse on the kitchen floor this morning.  Right by the cat food bowl. It was about 3 inches long, not counting the tail; small and grey-furred and kind of damp.  It actually looked a great deal like one of those furry mice cat-toys that you can get at any decent pet store...

Fraud and more fraud

Posted on July 03, 2008
Strange things have been happening all this week. Tuesday, my PayPal account got hacked.  Some unknown person used it to pay $403.00 worth of their E-bay sellers fees.  (currently, I don’t sell) The dispute is being investigated, and I had to change all my security information...

Feline Fashion Flops

Posted on July 01, 2008
Due to furballs out of control and mats of undercoat with the density of crafting felt, old Murray here had himself a date with the vet and their resident stylist on Friday last week. I can’t say that I recommend her services for the typical well-groomed and cosmopolitan feline...

Therapy

Posted on June 28, 2008
The following is from “Newsweek” on the web.  I’m posting it here for a reason. “Why do people write confessional blogs? It’s a creative outlet. It’s a forum to vent. It’s an exercise in exhibitionism. To mental-health experts, though, it’s more than that: a blog is medicine...

The Early Bird Gets? Two

Posted on June 22, 2008
I think these speak for themselves.  Note how satisfied young Robin looks with himself too.

Speaking of Employment

Posted on June 22, 2008
Acting the aspiring but starving artist is obviously not all that I’ve been doing, look you.  The resume has been getting sent everywhere I can think of, and I spend several hours daily on line looking at what’s available, posting resumes to job-search and contract/temp legal search agencies, networking with folks I know who are [...

Warning! Alarm! - Not *Quite* ?Jaws?

Posted on June 22, 2008
more about “Warning! Alarm! - ade real 1“, posted with vodpod    

Kingfisher? and not-quite-employment

Posted on June 21, 2008
Check this out.  Just for fun, I messed with some effects on a sub-par photo of an interesting bird.  This:   Becomes this:   Pretty cool, eh? By the way, I’m no longer quite the amateur photographer/artist.  I now have several items of handmade jewelry on display at a local gallery, and some of them have sold...

High water and its strange results

Posted on June 21, 2008
I live in a small Midwestern river town, with a population of about 5 or 6000.  (OK,  know 5 or 6000 isn’t all that small, but I grew up in an urban megalopolis of several millions.  It’s all relative.) Here is what the town fairgrounds and athletic fields behind the town hall look like right [...

The Daily Bird: Ruby-Throated Hummingbird

Posted on June 21, 2008
Look what showed up in our dead tree yesterday afternoon! We had a brief thunderstorm. and after it was over, the sun came out bright and warm again.  This meant all our fine feathered friends were vying for spots on the bare branches to catch a few rays and dry off their feathers...

A lesson for the spirit in a house wren?s guise

Posted on May 29, 2008
I have been stalking this wee little birdie in the thickets of my back yard and the yards of my neighbors for the past 2 weeks, and finally, finally, I managed to capture the elusive little feather-puff on film, or actually, in pixels.  This is a common house wren, rather the ultimate Small Brown Bird (SBB; [...

Where the men were men? and the sheep kept their distance

Posted on May 22, 2008
I am indebted to Johnathan Jarrett at  http://tenthmedieval.wordpress.com/2008/02/27/buried-with-his-sheep-before-him-this-ones-for-the-smut-minded-out-there/ for this post.  It made for a good laugh at the start of the day. A Corner of Tenth-Century Europe Early medievalist?s thoughts and ponderings 27 February 2008 Buried with his sheep before him (this one?s for the smut-minded out there) Posted by Jonathan Jarrett under Blogroll, Celts, Humour | Tags: archaeology, Early Christianity, [...

Do they actually catch fire?

Posted on May 20, 2008
Quick!  Without going on to look for the source or full text of the article, what’s the first thing that comes to your mind upon reading this excerpt? Explosion Disrupts Digestive Disease Week Meeting  SAN DIEGO — Thousands of gastroenterologists and others attending Digestive Disease Week sessions were jolted today by an explosion that reverberated through [...

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