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Happy New Year!

ANNOUNCING...San Diego Workshops March 2013

March 13-15, 2013

Two Fabulous Workshops!

The Jackalope Journal

&

Dead Bug Society (2-day class)

 

More Information & Register Here!

 

 

God Bless America

 

 

 

Celebrate August

1. Make yourself a new cocktail...
1 1/4 oz. Vodka 
1/2 oz. Blue Curacao
Sour Mix or Bar mix
Mix in vodka and Blue Curacao, then fill the rest of your glass with sour mix. Top with a splash of lemon-lime soda, Pour over ice and garnish with a lemon slice! This blue drink will have you wired in minutes! 
~Blue Cocktail~

2. Make Pinwheels!
 How to make Pinwheels Here and Here

3. Have a Dinner Party!
~Outdoor Dinner Party~

4. Try a New Hairdoo!
~Get Bangs~ 

5. Glamp in your backyard...
Take your bed out to your deck.  
Bring the side tables, the lamps, the throw rug.  
Spend the night.  Sleep in.  I dare you.
~Sleep Tight~ 

6. Go for a Mini-Glamp...
Not quite brave enough for a full-fledged backyard glamping experience?  
Try this mini-version.  Just a twin bed, cot, or lawn lounger...
your best linens...down pillows...and Fluffy.  
The rule:  actually doze off. 
~Mini-Glamp~ 

7. At least you tried...
 Indulge in a picture-book (eye candy) in hammock...
OK...Totally minimal effort....grab a book and curl up in a hammock. 
~Like, Really, No Effort~ 

 

8. Have a romantic picnic!
With your sweetie-pie, a group of BFF's, or alone.
The trick is...pillows, fresh treats, wine...wine
~Bring Deet~ 

9. Make sculptures in the sand...
Forget the castles...think outside the box!  

10. Buy a staple...a wrap dress.
The perfect thing to throw on after a shower,
slip into on a cool late summer night (just add a sweater),
or pair with boots as fall comes knocking at your door. 
~Wrap Me Up~ 

11. Make your own Private Labels.
Cover up the "Helman's", the "Bullseye", the "Ajax"!
Design on your computer, print onto full-sheet label paper, stick them everywhere!
~"It's my very OWN mustard!"~ 

12. Be a Tourist in your OWN town for a day!
Visit the Chamber of Commerce...see the sights...take "touristy" pix!
~Pretend you're from some far-away exotic place~ 

13. Go for a Bike Ride!
Don't have a bike?  Rent one!  Get a bell, too! And ring it like crazy!  Or a horn!
~Tie on a basket and put a stuffed "Fluffy" in it~ 

14. Paint a Self-Portrait!
Make it interesting....use your OTHER hand!
~Frame It~ 

15.  Buy School Supplies! (Even if you don't have school-kids).
Donate them!  Our schools need the help!
~And do this throughout the year, too~ 

16. Start a tradition...Family Game Night!
Pick up some games at your local thrift store or a garage sale:
Jacks, Puzzles, Scrabble, Chutes & Ladders...
Make it a regular weekly thing. 

17. Make the best s'mores ever!
And eat them all!
~YUM~ 

 "If you want to visit Paris, the best time to go is during August,
when their aren't any French people there."
~ Kenneth Stilling~ 

 

 

A Shell-Turned Life

 

At the beach, life is different.  
Time doesn't move hour to hour but mood to moment.  
We live by the currents, plan by the tides and follow the sun.

~ Unknown ~ 

Shell on Shore 

Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair...

~ Susan Polis Schutz ~

Bust-Head 

The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea.

~ Isak Dinesen ~

Vintage SeaShell Postcard 

"I have always been fascinated by the ocean, to dip a limb beneath
its surface and know that I'm touching eternity, that it goes on forever
until it begins here again.” 

~ Lauren DeStefano, Wither ~

  

Beachally-Beautiful

 A life without love is like a year without summer.  
~ Swedish Proverb ~

Un-Bouquet

 I honestly think the beach is the only place children
actually entertain themselves.
~ Donna McLavy ~ 

A shell in the hand is worth...

If you are not barefoot, you're overdressed. 

~ Unknown ~

All dressed up!

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. 

~ Russel Baker ~ 

Shell-Shandy

In summer, the song sings itself.

~ William Carlow Williams ~

Surrounded by...

Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a childbrings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.

~ Cyril Connolly ~ 

Tassel

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. 

~ Sean Keen ~

Sand Sculpture...Great Bikini!

One benefit of summer was that each day we had more light to read by. 

~ Jeannette Walls ~ 

Document your Discoveries

I'll admit that I do quite like drinks that come in coconut shells.
So there's always that.

~ Danica McKellar ~ 

Add a little shell to your decor

Some of the best memories are made in flip flops.

 

~ Kellie Elmore ~

I'm floored by these shells 

Why do we love the sea?  It is because it has some potent power
to make us think things we like to think.

~ Robert Henri ~ 

Shelletters

Do what we can, summer will have its flies.  

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

An organic web 

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze
is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.

~ James Dent ~ 

At first glance an angel...but really a bird?

A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.

~ Patricia Briggs ~

Accessorize for Summer

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.  One can collect
only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.

~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh ~

Collect Them All 

Happiness is a summer breeze, sand between your toes,
and your best friend by your side.

~ Rachel, USA ~

Rainy Day at the Beach Craft Project

Eternity begins and ends with the ocean's tides.

~ Unknown ~

Or Make a Mirror

Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.

~ George R R Martin ~ 

Or a Flower

Because there's nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean
refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it's sent away.

~ Sarah Kay ~

Or Re-Side Your House!!!

My life is like a stroll on the beach...as near to the edge as I can go.

~ Thoreau ~

For the Green-Thumb Shell Collector

hark, now hear the sailors cry, 
smell the sea, and feel the sky 
let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic...

~ Van Morrison ~

Whimsical

The world's finest wilderness lies beneath the waves...

~ Wyland ~

More Whimsical

Don't grow up too quickly, lest you forget how much you love the beach.

~ Michelle Held ~

Too Whimsical for Words

Faith is knowing there is an ocean because you have seen a brook. 

~ William Arthur Ward ~

Shells on Fire

"Take your shoes off," purred the ocean waves.
~ Dr. SunWolf ~ 

Fit for a Queen

Summertime is always the best of what might be.

~ Charles Bowden ~

Mirror Mirror on the Wall

The summer night is like a perfection of thought. 

~ Wallace Stevens ~

Shell Shield 

At the beach, life is different.  Time doesn't move hour to hour
but mood to moment.  We live by the currents, plan by the tides
and follow the sun.

~ Unknown ~

 

 

...Making the Art for Bracelets....

Just thought I'd give you a peek-a-boo at my little collages made just for the Trunk Show Jewelry (and maybe some other little treasures...)!

1. Mini-Collages are created using blank playing cards. Layers of *real* antique ephemera are torn and places as a base.

 

2. Paint is smooshed here and there. I rarely wash my brush...so colors are spread and mixed haphazardly (the way I like it).

 

3. More layers of smaller antique ephemera are added. 

 

4. More paint smooshing...to blend it all together. 
Wash. Rinse. Repeat. 

 

5. I doodle with a charcoal pencil. Squiggles. Scallops. Dots. More is more!

6. Little extra touches of color. Quickly. Randomly.

7. And then I cut it all up! Showing how part of one of the collages became the background in "Once Upon A Time".

The End.

Peek at the Trunk Show Bracelets...

 

 

 

Announcing.... A *NEW* Online Workshop.... ~ The Perfume Bottle Pendant ~

Mark your calendars!!!

Registration has just opened for my newest ONLINE WORKSHOP...

The Perfume Bottle Pendant!!!

October 1 - October 31, 2012

The BEST part?   Be one of the first 25 to Register and you will receive a FREE Perfume Bottle Pendant Kit!!!  Yay!  That's a $20-$25 value.

You'll learn how to make the Original Sally Jean Perfume Bottle Pendant Necklace complete with two hinge options, glass cutting techniques, interior bottle adornments, and decorative Dots!  PLUS MORE!  All
shown in high-quality videos with well-explained step-by-step instructions and close-ups.  Oh...and there's always some "funalisciousness" in a Sally Jean video! 

Plus...a little Bonus of how to make larger Bottles...you know the kind...topped with shells and other treasures!  Just right for decorating with!

Then get your Bunny Slippers on and watch the videos online ~ anytime ~ 24/7 during the month of October and make yourself a show-stopping Perfume Bottle Pendant Necklace!  (and smell great too)! 

So make sure to Register right away to reserve your space and get your FREE Perfume Bottle Kit!

Let's Play Perfume!

xo

Sally Jean

* CLICK HERE TO GET MORE INFORMATION AND TO REGISTER *

 

 

 

   

Sally Jean Workshop in San Diego!

 

Announcing Sally Jean Workshops
in
SAN DIEGO!

October 15-19, 2012

Featuring:

Monday ~ Soldering for Virgins Christmas Garland
Tuesday ~ It's A Beary Beary Christmas
Wednesday ~ Collagemas...A Christmas Tree Collage
Thursday ~ Hark The Herald Angels Bling
Friday ~ Rudolphs Magical Mystery Tour

More Info & Register Now! 

 

 

The Softer Side of Spring

ship. drink. moth. bling.

I can’t change the direction of the wind,
but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
~ Jimmy Dean ~ 

 

phone.

 I do not seek.  I find. 
~ Pablo Picasso ~

paint.

 Every artist was first an amateur.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

play

The happiest life is that which constantly exercises
and educates what is best in us.
~ Hamerton ~

drink.

 Life is a pure flame,
and we live by an invisible sun within us.
~ Sir Thomas Brown ~

lounge.

 Every day do something that will
inch you closer to a better tomorrow.
~ Doug Firebaugh ~

cook.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts.
To believe in the heroic makes heroes. 
~ Benjamin Disraeli ~ 

relax.

 There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, 
or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.
~ A. P. Stanley ~

swim.

Go the extra mile.  It’s never crowded. 

~ Unknown ~

drive.

I seldom end up where I wanted to go,
but almost always end up where I need to be.
~ Douglas Adams ~

 

indulge.

 What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.
~ Oscar Wilde ~

cuddle.

We make a living by what we get,
but we make a life by what we give.
~ Winston Churchill ~

n.y.c.

 Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
~ Jack Canfield ~

twirl.

 Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still.
~ Chinese Proverb ~

plant.

Why not go out on a limb?
Isn’t that where the fruit is?
~ Frank Scully ~

 Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.
~ Plato ~

party.

 Live each day as if your life had just begun.
~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe ~

pile.

 The difference between try and triumph is
a little umph.
~ Unknown ~

play.

 The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.
~ Elbert Hubbard ~

fly.

 To me every hour of the day and night
is an unspeakably perfect miracle.
~ Walter Chrysler ~

style.

 It is in your moments of decision that your
destiny is shaped.
~ Anthony Robbins ~

beauty.

Imagination is the eye of the soul.
~ Joseph Joubert ~ 

fight.

 Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.
~ J. K. Rowling ~

sit.

 There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
~ Willa Cather ~

knit.

 If we all did the things we are capable of,
we would astound ourselves.
~ Thomas Edison ~

bloom.

 Even if I knew that tomorrow the world
would go to pieces,
I would still plant my apple tree. 
~ Martin Luther ~

seat.

 Most of the shadows of this life are caused 
by our standing in our own sunshine.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

pose.

I am only one, but I am one.
I cannot do everything, but I can do something.
And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. ~ Edward Everett Hale ~

eat.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are
tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~ 

map.

 Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
~ Helen Keller ~

shade.

 How wonderful it is that nobody
need wait a single moment
before starting to improve the world.
~ Anne Frank ~

 

 Sally Jean

 

 

 

 

 

What Happens in Vegas...You Bring Home from Vegas!

The ART & SOUL RETREAT in Las Vegas is nearly upon us and if you haven't yet experienced this special creative gathering (or if you  have),  you'll surely want to look into joining this adventure in June!

I'm teaching four fun Workshops including Ring Around Roulette ~ A Winning Necklace (wear it and you might win BIG!)!  Come play with me or any of the other fabulous instructors for 1, 2, 3, 4 or all 5 days.

One of the nicest things about this retreat in Vegas is the venue...The Green Valley Ranch Resort.  It is sooo nice!  How nice is it?  Last year, I had to take a photo of my bathroom as it was dreamy!!!  Really!!!  It's a very UN-Vegas experience (but there is still gambling if the Spa or Lounge or Shops across the street don't lure you away).  A great place to stay with your honey, your girlfriends, or alone if you just want to get away.

Make sure to check out Art & Soul Retreat in Las Vegas...

Art & Soul Retreat ~ Las Vegas

And if you can't make it to Las Vegas in June...consider Portland in July...  

Art & Soul Retreat ~ Portland

Or San Diego in October...

Sally Jean San Diego Workshop

Or...stay in your bunny slippers and take one of my online Workshops...

Sally Jean Online Workshops ~ On Demand

"Art is making something out of nothing." 

Come make something. Or nothing.
It's all in the experience.

Sally Jean