June's Gonna Be Busy

I can't believe it's already June.  Where is time going?  I have lots of things I want to get done this month, so I'm hoping that energy and productivity are on my side in the next few weeks.  

- I want to work on a couple of tutorial ideas that I have floating around in my brain.  

- I want to finish a couple more lessons in my Photoshop Elements workbook so I can actually start using it for something productive. 

- I want to sell some beach-inspired pieces to one of the gift shops in my neighborhood.

- I want to leave my office by 1730 every evening.

- I want to lose five pounds.

- I want to get mentally prepared to turn 40 in July.

- I want to work on a project for Operation Tackle that Bead Stash; the color palette is gorgeous!  Plus it works into my beach-inspiration...

- I want to see if I can go two weeks without buying any beads or other crafting supplies.

- I want to get something together Marcie's Margie & Me palette this month...

See...there is lots to do so I have to get prepped with a good night sleep!  I'm taking Frankie to the dermatologist in the morning and that will take all the energy and productivity of tomorrow...a cat with allergy treatments.  haaaaaaaaaaaaa  I'll see if I can get some photos.  Will be interesting.

Marcie, Margie, & Me

My first Margie & Me project.  Sure, it happened by accident, but apparently serendipity is in my creative corner lately so I'm just going to go with it!  I often wonder if things just pop out of my mind by themselves or if I picked up the ideas while wandering around and they went into little parts of my brain and even though I don't really know they're there, they appear somehow either on my worktable in wire or beads or even in my day job solving problems and doing lots of paperwork to document solving those problems...even bureaucracy benefits from creativity once in a while. 

Anyway, Marcie posted a sweet compliment yesterday and pointed out my recent bracelet and how it is perfectly in line with this month's Margie & Me challenge.  

The main color for March is yellow... 

Marcie used this Van Gogh painting to pull a palette together for inspiration:

See?  It's my glass bead festivus on memory wire!  There are other details about the challenge and the color inspirations over on this post from Marcie

Another cool thing about my blog relationship with Marcie is that this month I have a pair of earrings in the spring issue of Stringing feature a set of her beaded beads...in YELLOW!

Yeah, I know I posted about all these before, but now I'm looking around for yellows and it's just too cool to have this link with another creative mind like Marcie's!!!!