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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

 

 

Another...Soldering For Virgins Online Workshop! Yay!

 

Because you asked...another Soldering for Virgins Session has been added!
Register Now for March 1-March 14 Online Workshop! 

While a live Workshop is the ultimate, not everyone can travel to attend or sometimes schedules just don't work out.  Thus, I have taken the dive and created an ONLINE Video Workshop SOLDERING FOR VIRGINS!  Get de-flowered in the comfort of your pj's & bunny slippers!

Whether your a true Virgin, have taken a Workshop and are looking for a refresher, or are a Soldering Goddess, you will surely find a tip or trick that is invaluable.  How do I get my solder so smooth?  What happens if my jump ring tips over and sticks to the charm?  Which iron do I choose?  Over 90 minutes of video instruction and demonstration coupled with .pdf files of artwork, supplies, and highlights, as well as two group chat sessions are included with your Registration of $50.

Registration has begun...

(Note: Once the class is full, the Registrations will be closed) 

 

The Workshop will be available March 1 - March 14

Find out more information and REGISTER HERE

Come play with me...staying just where you are!

 

Comments from the first Online Virgins Workshop:

The class was fantastic.  Learned so much - and what a difference in my pieces!

What an awesome online class!  Looking forward to more online classes from you!

Sally, thanks so much for the class.  Even though I've been soldering for years, you've

taught this old dog a few new tips.

Thank you for a great class - it surpassed my expectations.

This workshop is wonderful...second only to being there in person with you! You did

such a great job with the videos and I've learned so much just watching them through the first time.

This has been a very informative and fun online class.  I have learned so many tips and 

techniques from you.  Thank you so much for sharing...can't wait for the next class.

Although I have taken the class, I really appreciate this review and as something I can refer

back to while I hone my skills.  I think this will make me even more comfortable.

 

 

 

 

What's Love Got To Do With It?

 

Edible cookie vintage postcards....a dream come true!

Love one another and you will be happy. 
It's as simple and as difficult as that.  

~Michael Leunig~

In the spirit of deer head taxidermy...some vintage Valentine graphics

To find someone who will love you for no reason,
and to shower that person with reasons,
that is the ultimate happiness.  

~Robert Brault~

What came before spin the bottle...spin the Valentine!

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person
is essential to your own.  

~Robert Heinlein~

The talented jewelry artist Nina Bagley can find a heart-shaped rock like a needle in a haystack!

We loved with a love that was more than love.  

~Edgar Allan Poe~

Wood - nt it be lovely!

Do I love you because you're beautiful,
Or are you beautiful because I love you?
~Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, Cinderella~

When kiddo's make Valentines....

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones,
as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire. 
~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld~

And Valentine for grown-ups...

For you see, each day I love you more
Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
~Rosemonde Gerard~

Paper Love

A hundred hearts would be too few
To carry all my love for you.
~Author Unknown~

With a bazillion other V-day ideas...

You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from.  

~Werner Erhard~

$7.88 per pair....handcrafted heart charms...Etsy

It is not that love is blind.  It is that love sees with a painter's eye,
finding the essence that renders all else background.  

~Robert Brault~

I wanna love me this!!!!

Love is a symbol of eternity.  It wipes out all sense of time,
destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.  

~Author Unknown~

 

Jewelry you can eat & love

Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.  

~Rose Franken~

why I love you...

Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm,
but willing to draw blood in its defense.  

~Mark Overby~

precious. just precious.

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other
but in looking outward together in the same direction. 

~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939~

Even Madonna writes Valentines...

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear,
too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice,
but for those who love, time is eternity.  

~Henry Van Dyke~

A favorite from John Derian...love gone wrong

Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones.  

~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966~

Stairway to Heaven

You know you're in love when you don't want to fall asleep
because reality is finally better than your dreams. 
~Dr. Seuss~

Love Letters during dinner....

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.  

~Henry David Thoreau~

Coffee, Tea or Me (he'll choose "me")

When love is not madness, it is not love.  

~Pedro Calderon de la Barca~

Breakfast...

Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want them to,
doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.  

~Author Unknown~

Healthy Lunch (in preparation for dinner....)

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.  

~Emily Brontë~

Pizza for Lunch....(so you can have what's for dinner....for dinner!)

We picture love as heart-shaped because we do not know the shape of the soul.  

~Robert Brault~

Dinner.....mmmmmm.......these treats.....I'm mad about them.....

I don't wish to be everything to everyone,
but I would like to be something to someone.  

~Javan~

Oh...and dessert! (...because you can!)

To the world you might be one person,
but to one person you might be the world.  

~Author Unknown~

As if cupcakes couldn't get any yummier looking...

Forget love - I'd rather fall in chocolate!  

~Sandra J. Dykes~

midnight Valentine snack...  

Love is an act of endless forgiveness,
a tender look which becomes a habit.  

~Peter Ustinov~

What does Love mean (in flowers)?

Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with
light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion.  

~Author Unknown~

Add some sparkle(rs) to your Valentines Day!

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.  

~G.K. Chesterton~

 

The hardest-learned lesson: 
that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.  

~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960~

 

 

It's Here! It's Here! The cat's out of the bag!

I am TICKLED PINK to share with you my dream come true...the Sally Jean Collection.   During the Atlanta Gift Show (Americasmart) last week I launched my new jewelry line and was taken aback by the response.  It is a moment I will never forget...sharing with buyers the little collage books where I create my artwork and having them "get it".  Yes, there really are more silly & sassy girls in the world than you can imagine!

 

Eye candy for the soul...the Collection includes Initials, Fairies, Collagettes, Stix, Double Bubbles and....*NEW* Bangle Bracelets!
(...because a woman is made up of many moods...you can stack them!)

I couldn't be happier.  A very special Thank You to my friends at SBDS...Ray, Gary, Jane, Stacy and everyone else!  I am humbled that you believed in me...saw my vision...and executed it better than I could have imagined.  I can't stop touching them...they are SOOOO Fondilicious!

The hardest part were the deadlines (I can barely think about Christmas 2011 in 2012, much less think about it in 2010!).  The best part...peeling off the gel medium from my fingers after creating the artwork.  Well, maybe that's not the best part.  But I like doing that (hee hee).  The best part is showing my father that...I'm not so odd after all...there are other fathers out there with silly little girls who painted rocks and played with GI Joe dolls and had funerals for the birds and fish their cat killed (tmi).  And showing my librarian mother that there is a purpose to cutting up old books.  And showing my brother (you know who you are) that yes, art can be a career.

Most of all...I have been inspired and my creativity has been fueled by the enthusiasm of my artful peers, students, friends, and customers.  I am truly blessed to do what I love...thank you for loving it too.

sally