It’s been about a year since I’ve blogged here. The reason is that I just don’t have the time. I’ve been writing books, editing my other website, staying at home raising my son, designing jewelry, keeping track of my two precious daughters, loving up my husband, studying for a Ph.D., and spending too much time [...]

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Instead of doing the regular year- in-review deal, I’ve decided to review my lessons learned in my 2010 journey. I learned that I had a bunch of healing to do. We lost my husband’s father in the beginning of the year, and we didn’t really rest to mourn. We just continued to work during our [...]

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I don’t usually do custom orders. I’d much rather allow the design process to take me where it goes until I have a finished project. In my whole 6 or 7 years designing I’ve only done three custom orders. The first two didn’t go so well. I had someone to come to me and to [...]

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I started raising kids nearly 14 years ago. When I became a parent there was already a movement in full swing where children were to have their self-esteem bolstered and protected. I was and am in full agreement with that train of thought. However, the methods that some parents and other adults have taken to [...]

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Etsy has a thing on their site called Treasury. The way it works is etsy users lurk out a spot to make a treasury, and then they gather images from designers that they love and name their collection. I don’t have a bunch of time to lurk out a spot, so I usually do my [...]

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My husband always talks to me about the 10,000 hour-rule. It’s a theory that says we can become experts at anything by just committing 10,000 hours to it. I thought about how that relates to another theory that says we don’t just end up anywhere in life. Instead we work very hard to get where [...]

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My music, albeit uplifting, positive, deep, and thought-provoking, is littered with adult language:( They are meaningful curse words and purposeful N-words :/ (that’s how I tried to explain this to my kids). I compare my filthy language music to the current radio bull, and It’s very complicated. I want my kids to love Erykah, Mos [...]

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You may have seen these already, but I’m posting them for a laugh. I so wish Bobby would get completely clean… Every Little Step with Mike Tyson & Wayne Brady from Mike Tyson Don’t watch this one if you don’t want to hear a bunch of cursing. Do watch it if the bank has yo’ [...]

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I went out to work a show yesterday in my New town of St. Petersburg, FL. It was a “Fall” show, but of course in Florida it was about 87 degrees. I sat under my tent from 8 am until 4 pm, and I still got a serious suntan. It was hard labor y’all, and [...]

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