Monday, June 22, 2015. My fruit designs are very popular and one of my favorite designs to make. Each necklace has 5 watermelons, 2 pineapples, oranges and bananas. I call them fruit salad necklaces! I also made a wholesale order of my gold tassel hand painted banana earrings, green tassel earrings as well as fruit necklaces.

Leather Post and Stud Earrings. Leather Post and Stud Earrings. Each piece is hand cut, hand painted and assembled one by one in my Chicago studio. The jewelry is created with my careful selection of colorful and unusual leather collection.

Excited to have twelve pounds of freshly picked strawberries sweetly packed away in the freezer. Grateful for a couple of kid-free hours out with a friend and the opportunity to talk about all the ups and downs of relationships. Humbled by a series of parenting mistakes. Comforted by the many chances to reconnect in this parenting journey. Which in so many ways describes the spaciousness of the human heart. Thinking a lot about this recent blog post.

Sunday, January 22, 2012. I cannot remember life without Pat. Pat was an over achiever. When she came home from school she would study till she went to sleep. To this day she is a very hard worker. Muller Brass got a greater worker when they hired her. The pictures loaded in a way I could not post below them. I want to tell who is in each picture.