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Fifty three years ago, I was a senior at Bladensburg Senior High School in Maryland. I was a rising star in the science world and in the science fair world. I was Photography Editor of the yearbook. I had been a scientist, in my soul, since childhood. I came from a family of photographers and …

Shine On Harvest Moon

Earrings Everyday’s October theme is Harvest Moon. Here are a few pairs of earrings I have made with a moon theme: Shine On Harvest Moon. The moon disks are made from some of my Opal Polymer Clay then dry brushed with several colors of interference acrylics. I added Basha Beads to complete them. Apollo 17. …

ABS March Challenge – Twilight Birches

The March challenge for Art Bead Scene reminded me of paintings I’d seen of birches at twilight. I am crazy about birches and have 531 pins of birch trees on my “Birches” board on Pinerest. Here is the challenge painting: Edith Carr painted this in 1912 after a six week adventure into rural British Columbia. …

We All Scream for Ice Cream

Dry Gulch Beads and Jewelry issued a challenge to make something in this palette: If you’ve been reading this blog long, you know I love a challenge. I mixed up a translucent silver and three shades of translucent pink from the palette and made the lush, mature, gorgeous female figures for the earrings. I added …

Art Jewelry Elements January Challenge

Looking for the ABS Challenge? It is down three clicks! It was a month will a full heart! This month’s challenge from Art Jewelry Elements was open to all! http://www.artjewelryelements.blogspot.com The editors challenged us to use components created by the editors, rescued from our stashes of beads, and to make something from them. I found …

Cracked, Sore Fingertips?

A bead artist in one of my Facebook groups was bemoaning her cracked fingertips. I will share what I wrote to her, in case you are suffering as well. I am a doctor/artist and I wrote a comprehensive health care guide for women who do crafts. It won a Gold Medal for Health Communication and …

At the End of Your Rope?

Are you feeling at the end of your rope? My dear, late friend Fr. Al Durrance used to say this: God can always be found at the end of your rope. Al had been in the healing ministry for 56 years when he passed last July. He brought me into that ministry in 1994 and …

Goddesses on Mexican Beaches

Yesterday I was photographing some of the lush, female figures that I offer as earring components in my Etsy shop at http://www.susandolphindelaney.wordpress.com. I found my tongue planted firmly in my cheek. I have a brick that has MEXICO stamped into it, so I decided to use it as a prop and to place the ladies …

Earrings in Motion

Each month earring artist Erin Prais-Hintz of Earrings Everyday challenges us to create earrings based on a prompt. This month her prompt was a film showing a kinetic sculpture “Breaking Wave” by Plebeian Design. You can see this amazing sculpture prompt at http://www.earrings-everyday.blogspot.com. When I was a girl, growing up in DC, Mother would pack …

Never Say Never

The painting above, by Pieter Janez Saendam (1635), is the current challenge for Art Bead Scene. When I saw the painting, I ignited, and had to make my entries NOW. I did not have the benefit of the wonderful palette you see above, to the right, created by the incomparable Brandi Huessey. A trained artist, …