No fooling, free National Parks Week is coming up this month
National Parks Week is April 21-29 this year, which means, admission to all the US National Parks is FREE.
Visit the National Parks Service to see which parks this includes then plan your trip!
Photograph: Tunnel View, Yosemite, by Don J. Schulte
Valentine’s Day! Treasury
Hey, I made an etsy treasury full of hearts and Valentine-y goodies! Check it out here.
February Challenge: Necklace a Day
Fellow East Bay Arts Collective member Katherine of Percent is organizing a necklace-a-day challenge for February. I always see those 30-day prompts (your instagrams, blogging cues, drawings, etc.) and think they’d be fun but they’re not quite motivating enough for me.
This one is right up my alley, since jewelry-making is the one thing I do regularly — I have my tray next to my TV-watching chair and it’s a good excuse for watching guilty-pleasure shows (“But I’m making something! I just like the background noise!”). And I am really, really bad at getting around to photographing and posting my jewelry on my etsy store, so it’s great to have this commitment to get me to get off my butt and do something with my jewelry besides letting it gather dust.
I’m making one necklace each day (I started last night), then photographing, blogging, and etsy-posting the following day. I’m going to try very hard, anyway. And I might make the occasional bracelet or pair of earrings instead some days. You will have to check back to find out! (If you like me on Facebook, you can get updated when I post there.)
Anyone who’s interested in the challenge should join in, see Katherine’s original February Challenge: Necklace a Day post on her blog for details.
Las Ofrendas 2011
resources for Día de los Muertos and a listing of related events in the san francisco bay area. check back as events will be updated through october. feel free to share additional events in the comments.
Oakland
Día de los Muertos
– Fruitvale 30 oct @ 10-5
Love & Loss: Días de los Muertos 2011
– oakland museum 12 oct-11 dec
– community celebrations 23 oct 12-4:30
– fotos!
Berkeley
celebration in the gourmet ghetto
– 2 nov 5-9p
San Francisco
Day of the Dead
procession, 2 nov @7pm
Mission Cultural Center
altars & exhibit 22 oct-19 nov
– workshops through 29 oct
Galería de la Raza
SOMArts Altars for the Spirits
– 8 oct-5 nov
Watsonville
Pajaro Valley Arts Council
– Mi Casa es Tu Casa 11, 28 oct-19 dec
San Jose
MACLA
Summer Colours Week 2011: Pink
I had a lot of fun seeking out and setting up shots for Summer Colours Week‘s pink day…even managed to sneak one blue and one green in, too [I’ll put those up later]. I tried to represent a mix of outdoors [flowers and travel] and things I love doing in summer [yard sales, crafting, collecting bits and bobs at the beach].
Summer Colours Week: Yellow favorites
A couple sweet yellows I’ve been enjoying over on the poppytalk Summer 2011 Colours Week flickr group [click the photos to visit the photographer’s flickr page]:
by lluize
by Sushipot
by scrumdillydilly [and check out this awesome 3 minute cake batter cake]
by cookoorikoo/Shampton Industries [who is having a ring sale — how cute is this?]
poppytalk: Summer Colours Week Kicks Off Today!
Summer Colours Week 2011: Yellow
It’s Summer Colours Week again!
I love working with warm summer-colored beads, the yellows just pop against your tan.
I don’t remember if I posted this, a birdhouse I decorated for a Kentucky Derby-themed party. It ended up being to heavy to sit on the hat all evening so it became a dining room decoration instead.
And a couple pieces I have over on etsy…
My creative space
I made a couple of these vintage button necklaces awhile back and am just getting around to photographing them…the warm summery gold and cream of this one is my favorite so far.
Available at gwen.etsy.com
It’s been awhile since I’ve made a nest but I recently sold my favorite nest necklace and it seemed like time to make another.
I scored some antique chandelier crystals at an estate sale recently. They will be added to pretty, sparkly accessories soon!
And here are some of the necklaces I’ve made but haven’t had the time to list yet. One of these days…
Recommendation: Genevieve Motley jewelry
South African jewelry designer Genevieve Motley makes the most lovely, unique pieces you can imagine. Very economically priced, too. I won this fantastic necklace and have received many compliments on it over the past few days.
Head on over to her shop at genmotley.etsy.com.
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