SallyJean

Falling for Fall in a Vintage Way

 Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends. 
~ H. Jackson Brown Jr. ~ 

Let's sit & chat

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. 

~ Henry Miller ~
 

Taxidermy Fetish

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
~ Jane Austin ~
 

THIS staircase comes with a house for just $56k

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all. 
~ Winston Churchill ~

( I ) Love Letters

Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.

~ James Herriot ~

Purr-alicious

 History is the sum total of the things that could have been avoided.  
~ Konrad Adenauer ~

Buy a Bank

It is easily overlooked that what is now called vintage was once brand new. 

~ Tony Visconti ~
 

Mix it Up

The challenge of history is to recover the past and introduce it to the present. 

~ David Thelen ~
 

I'd learn to cook if I had this kitchen

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old. 
~ Benjamin Franklin ~

This Restaurant
via
Haute Living

Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums;
others, we take for walks. 

~ Roger Caras ~
 

Free People

and

Anthropologie

Age appears best in four things:  old wood to burn, old wine to drink,
old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
~ Francis Bacon ~
 

 

Drink it Up

Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take
between two deep breaths.  

~ Etty Hillesum~
 

Tattered Tush

A life-long blessing for children is to fill them with warm memories of times
together. Happy memories become treasures in the heart to pull out
on the tough days of adulthood. 

~ Charlotte Davis Kasl ~
 

Roll with it

History never looks like history when you are living through it.  

~ John W. Gardner ~
 

White Elephant

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land,
but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples. 
~ Franklin D Roosevelt ~

Art to Wear

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

~ CoCo Chanel ~
 

40 Winks

I collect antiques. Why? Because they're beautiful.
~ Broderick Crawford ~ 

Light my Fire

 History is who we are and why we are the way we are.  
~ David McCullough ~

Note the Window
 

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

~ Aeschylus ~


Kid Art
 

Everything I buy is vintage and smells funny. Maybe that's why I don't have a boyfriend. 

~ Lucy Liu ~


 Closet Case

 

Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural. 

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

 
Take a Seat

 
 I collect clothes - they keep building and building.
I buy them instead of having them washed. 
~ Juliette Lewis ~ 


What to Wear

How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then to rest afterward.  

~ Spanish Proverb ~

Confection Obsession

Real treasure lies not in what that can be seen, but what that cannot be seen. 

~ Unknown ~


It's a Box-Ful
 

People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them.  

~ James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son ~


Just floored by this floor of a local eclectic proprietress
 

Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are,
the things you never want to lose.  

~ From the television show The Wonder Years ~


A place to put it

Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by so quick
you can hardly catch it going.

~ Tennessee Williams ~

 

Wheel it Around
 

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals
and many copies. 

 ~ Alexis de Tocqeville, 1856 ~


Make your own Museum

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot.  
In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
~ Oscar Wilde ~ 

Pretty Purse

As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at.
We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery. 

~ Thom Gunn ~

The Zebra-keeper

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life.
Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. 

~ Joseph Campbell ~

Something Silver

We do not remember days; we remember moments.  

~ Cesare Pavese, The Burning Brand ~


Barn Bride
 

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds
than none at all. 

 ~ Mark Twain ~


With This Ring
 

History does not unfold:  it piles up.  

~ Robert M. Adams, Bad Mouth ~


It's a Sign
 

God gave us memories that we might have roses in December. 

 ~ J.M. Barrie, Courage, 1922 ~


Phlower Photo
 

There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure,
but I don't know many of them 

~ Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar ~


Bath Time
 

Memory feeds imagination.

~ Amy Tan ~

 

Oldie but Goodie
 

It was that there are no simple lessons in history,
that it is human nature that repeats itself, not history.  

~ John Toland ~

Old Fashioned Lights

Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.

~ George Bernard Shaw ~


Own this school for less than college tuition
 

Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us. 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

 

Feeling Blue...That Summer is Ending

Summer.  Beach sand, perfect tans.  Day walks, night talks.
Sleepless nights, pillow fights, & spending every day with those who matter most.
~ Unknown ~  

Fit for a Queen

All lovely things will have an ending,
All lovely things will fade and die; 

And youth, that's now so bravely spending,
Will beg a penny by and by. 

~ Conrad Aiken ~

 

Wood-nt it be Nice?

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal. 

~ Arthur Schopenhauer ~   

Four-Way Fantasy

How lucky I am to have something that makes
saying goodbye so hard. 

~ 

Carol Sobieski and Thomas Meehan, Annie ~

 

Sweet Beads

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

~ Lazurus Long ~ 

Framed

Summer.  Beach sand, perfect tans.  Day walks, night talks.
Sleepless nights, pillow fights, & spending every day with those
who matter most.
~ Unknown ~  

 

String me Up!

I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is. 

~ Bernardo Bertolucci ~ 

 

Let's play Dress Up!

Until this moment, I never understood how hard it was
to lose something you never had.
~ Unknown ~   

 

Two-Seater

Change always comes bearing gifts.
~ Price Pritchett ~  

 

Bow Tie for Enzo

If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies.
~ Unknown ~ 

Take a Joy Ride

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me
there lay an invincible summer.
~ Albert Camus ~

Mounted in the Kitch

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course,
on where you stop your story. 
~ Orson Welles ~  

Innocent Art

Why does it take a minute to say hello
and forever to say goodbye?  
~ Author Unknown ~

  

Roll It Up 

In my end is my beginning.
~ T.S. Eliot ~

Shop-A-Holic

Good seasons start with good beginnings. 

~ Sparky Anderson ~

Write Me!

If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it,
change the way you think about it. 
~ Mary Engelbreit ~

Paper Flowers

 To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
~ George Santayana ~  

Lay Your Head Down

Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding on to.
~ Unknown ~  

Underwater Fantasy

Growth is the only evidence of life.
~ John Henry Newman, Apologia pro vita sua, 1864 ~ 

 

In The Picture

I've always felt that life is a novel,
and part of it is written for you,
and part of it is written by you.
It's up to you to write the ending, ultimately.
~ Lynn Johnston ~

Where to put it

Moving on is simple, what you leave behind that makes it difficult.
~ Unknown ~

 

Mirror Mirror on the Wall

Don't be dismayed at good-byes.  
A farewell is necessary before you can meet again.
And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes,
is certain for those who are friends.
~ Richard Bach ~

Play Date

Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is the best ending for one.
~ Henry Ward Beecher ~
 

Reflections

Every end is a new beginning.
~ Proverb ~ 

 

 

 

 

It's a Party!

 A conclusion is simply the place where someone
got tired of thinking.
~ Unknown ~

Wrap Yourself Up!

Every beginning is a consequence - every beginning
ends some thing.
~ Paul Valery ~

Handmade

 The world is round and the place which may seem like the end
may also be just the beginning.
~ Ivy Baker Priest ~ 

Bathed in Luxury

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr ~ 

 

She's Lit...

May the road rise up to meet you,
may the wind be ever at your back. 
May the sun shine warm upon your face
and the rain fall softly on your fields. 
And until we meet again,
may God hold you in the hollow of his hand.
~ Irish Blessing ~ 

 

 

 

ARE YOU TICKLED PINK?

"I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles. "
~ Audrey Hepburn ~ 


 Pretty in Pink

"Big girls need big diamonds."

~ Elizabeth Taylor ~

 

Bling-aliscious

"They call it PMS because Mad Cow Disease was already taken."

 ~ Author Unknown ~
 

 

Did you see this?

"Never underestimate a girl’s ability to find something out."
~ Unknown ~

Sweet Hello

 "There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity."
~ Washington Irving ~

Snuggle-up-a-kuss

 
"The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was
discovered that they could give orders better from there."
~ Betty Grable ~ 

Steppin' Out

"One is not born a woman, one becomes one."
~ Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1949 ~

The Beauty of Nature

"A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create,
nurture and transform."
~ Diane Mariechild ~

All Dressered Up

"Women really do rule the world. They just haven't figured it out yet.
When they do, and they will, we're all in big big trouble."
~ Doctor Leon ~

 

Chandy Candy

"Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves
with their weakness."
~ Marie de Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise du Deffand, Letters to Voltaire ~ 

Sip a Spell

"Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood."
~ Oscar Wilde ~

Unfold

"Tell a girl she’s pretty, and she won’t believe you.
Tell her she’s ugly and she will believe it forever."
~ Unknown ~ 

All Dressed Up

"The three words women most want to hear from a man are, 'You lost weight'."
~ Lori Gottlieb ~
 

 Got Munchies?

"A woman should be an illusion"
~ Ian Fleming ~

The Scent of a Woman

"Look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man and work like a dog."
~ Caroline K. Simon ~ 

Pink Purse

 "We must keep both our femininity and our strength."
~ Indra Devi ~

Paper Roses

"Every woman is wrong until she cries, and then she is right - instantly."
~ Sam Slick (Thomas Chandler Haliburton) ~

Sugared Rim

"If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning."
~ Aristotle Onassis ~

Save Up

"A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head,
and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot"
~ Allan Beck ~ 

Totally Floppable

 "Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions."
~ Jules Michelet ~ 

Tea Time

"What are little girls made of?  Sugar and spice, and everything nice,
that's what little girls are made of"

~ Unknown ~

   

Sweet Tooth

"A woman wears her tears like jewelry."
~ Unknown ~

Do You See What I See?

"Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?"
~ Anne Frank ~

Lost in a Book
via
Read Me 

"Women are always beautiful" 
~ Ville Valo ~

Beauty is Skin Deep

"If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted - there is
practically nothing she can't do."
~ Helen Lawrenson ~

Surround Yourself with Pretty (in Pink)

"I am my own woman"
~ Evita Perón ~

 

ANNOUNCING...CHANDELIER-ELLA...ONLINE WORKSHOP

The Workshop you have been dying for...coming soon to a computer near you!  Yes...that's what I said!

The infamous 3-day Workshop CHANDELIER-ELLA ~ the one that was taught in Italy and in my studio ~ the one that is requested umpteen times from Florida to New Jersey to Australia ~ is now the newest Sally Jean Online Workshop. 

Beginning January 1st, you will learn how to make your own Chandelier frame with options (including how to use existing lighting fixtures), fill the panels in both soldered and non-soldered techniques (such as resin, fabric, paper...), make your own chandelier crystals, make hand-made flowers, add lighted elements to it, embellish it with unusual found objects, and more.  Bonus instruction on how to make Lampshades & Nightlights is also featured.   Since this is such a big project, the videos will be available for the entire month of January and class size is limited to the first 100 registrants.

http://sallyjean.com/2009/Pages/WorkshopsONLINEchandelier.html

 

Announcing....Crownaliscious Online Workshop

I am so excited to announce the newest (& most requested) online workshop...CROWNALISCIOUS!  In this self-paced class we will learn not one...but TWO projects...La Crown AND Viva La Tiara!

Register early for this Workshop which will be available August 1 - August 15.  For more information and to register  CLICK HERE FOR CROWNALISCIOUS

 

Come play with me...and get your Queen on!!!

 

 

 

Guess who's coming to San Diego?

 

Just announced...Workshops in San Diego...October 2011!
Come Play! 

http://sallyjean.com/2009/Pages/WorkshopsSanDiegoOctober2011.html

Click the Link above for details!

 

Are you a Virgin?

Or have you been around the block?   Now you can choose...
There are now 2 Virgins Workshops!  

The Original SOLDERING FOR VIRGINS (1) which is a must-do for anyone wanting to solder and covers all the basics you need to know.  Even if you've soldered before, it is a great re-fresher filled with tips & tricks for those "Ah-Ha" moments.

and

Soldering for Virgins (2) ~ the Advanced Class for soldering junkies who want to know more & do more!  From glass cutting (including odd shapes such as birds) to 3-Dimensional boxes (3 different techniques) to those irresistible DOTS...this workshop is the icing on the Virgin cake.

Both Workshops are from June 1 - June 15.  Take one.  Take the other.  Take both.  Since they are self-paced, you can watch the videos at any time during the 2 weeks at your leisure (and in your Bunny Slippers!)

To find out more information and REGISTER, click here:

VIRGINS WORKSHOPS

"Awesome! Never thought of doing charms this way. What a bonus!"

The jump ring tips alone were worth the price of admission..!!!

"I'm super excited to try this now that I've watched you!"

 

Happy Easter...

Take a moment for calm and peace...

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

I've fallen into this bliss

I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic,
serenity, sorcery and mystery.
~Luis Barragan~ 

 

So beautifully organic

After a storm comes a calm.
~Matthew Henry~

 

Grasp

Night, the beloved, Night, when words fade and things come alive.  
When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important
becomes whole and sound again.  When man reassembles his fragmentary self
and grows with the calm of a tree.
~Antoine de Saint-Exupery~ 

 

Just because it's French

French is a language that makes those who speak it both calm and dynamic.
~Bernard Pivot~

 

Need I say more?

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
~Michael Caine~

 

When it's done right

Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits.
~Satchel Paige~

 

Sit a spell

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling
or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind,
rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.
~Henri Matisse~

 

Token taxidermy du jour

Slow down and everything you are chasing will come around and catch you. 
~John De Paola~

 

The eye candy of old books

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow~

 

As time goes by

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.
~Reinhold Niebuhr~

The peace of the past

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
~Mother Teresa~

 

xo

Sally Jean

 

Sometimes your spirit needs art...

Art is the colors and textures of your imagination. 
~Meghan, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999~

Ready. Set. Go. 

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul,
and paints his own nature into his pictures. 
~Henry Ward Beecher~

 

I could create here....

The artist's world is limitless.  It can be found anywhere,
far from where he lives or a few feet away. 
It is always on his doorstep. 
~Paul Strand~

 

Sharing art...

I don't paint things.  I only paint the difference between things. 
~Henri Matisse~

 

Talk is pretty

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way
- things I had no words for. 
~Georgia O'Keeffe~

 

Eating art...

Great art picks up where nature ends. 
~Marc Chagall~

 

Carry art with you...that can carry art

Let me ask you something, what is not art? 
~Author Unknown~

 

Taxidermy fetish again...

An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he
- for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them. 
~Andy Warhol~

 

Whats on your mind is art
via
Not Paper 

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. 
~Pablo Picasso~

 

A photographers vision is art through his eyes and lens

When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day
what I did at work.  I told her I worked at the college - that my job was
to teach people how to draw.  She stared at me, incredulous,
and said, "You mean they forget?" 
~Howard Ikemoto~

 

Art to Wear

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit. 
~John Updike~

 

Sketchbooks filled with art...your history

There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art,
and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art. 
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe~

 

The story is as inspirational as the art

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. 
~Stella Adler~

 

You can't escape art...it follows you wherever you go

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. 
~Twyla Tharp~

 

Wrap art around your neck

It has been said that art is a tryst, for in the joy of it maker and beholder meet. 
~Kojiro Tomita~

 

A new eye candy show! I die!

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.  Art is knowing which ones to keep. 
~Scott Adams~

 

No other art makes my soul swoon than the art of a child...

Every child is an artist.  The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. 
~Pablo Picasso~

 

 

XO

Sally Jean