Blogging....too funny not to share

I know this isn't like anything that I usually do but I just thought this was so funny I had to share it.  Before I started a blog I thought "What do I have to say that anyone would be at all interested in?" Now I follow blogs because I enjoy reading and seeing what others have to share. Funny how I changed my tune once I just tried it.

Cherry Charm Watch

I've been busy designing this rainy afternoon. I recently received a number of new watch faces, my watch inventory is low, so I figured I'd work up some new pieces to share. Clicking on the "Cherry Charm Watch" title above will magically take you over to Artfire.com where you can read the details. Thanks for letting me share.

Things I Love Thursday...

1. Chihuly Chandelier at Victoria and Albert Museum, 2. Chihuly Sculpture, 3. Chihuly art work, 4. Chihuly blown glass artistry and reflections, 5. Chihuly Bridge of Glass Seaform Pavilion Panel 1 - HDR, 6. Chihuly, 7. Blue Gleaming Chihuly Glass Art, Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, Arizona, 8. Chihuly Glass Reflections, 9. Chihuly Glass, Bellagio

A new Dale Chihuly Exhibition just opened in St. Petersburg recently. I had the good fortune to go to see his glass work last week. It was stunning and well worth the time to see it. No cameras were allowed in this exhibition but obviously other people have taken wonderful photographs of his displays of beauty. I share them in my "Things I Love Thursdays" here and in my Flickr group (TILT). Enjoy!

Red Kitchen for Rednesday......

Ms. Cristina's kitchen continues around the corner to this very RED wall.(see Monday's blog)                

This display of RED is on top of her refrigerator just to the right of the RED wall.

One time when Ms. Christina was up for a visit with me, we went "junking" in a cute little town called Dade City. We found this plain little birdhouse in a store. Ms. Christina looked at me at said "Make it Mary Engelbreit" for me. Soooo....I did. I painted it, decoupaged some giftwrap on it, and bought some little minitures to add to the side porch.

Then I made a little "bowl of cherries" out of polymer clay to place on the porch bench. What I failed to do is dust it off before I took this picture so don't enlarge it and look too closely...lol.

Here's a close up of the wall view shared yesterday. Still more RED.

Here are the ME "Cherries" place setting for eight that I picked up from my friend on my trip to Ft. Myers. Also, some of my enamel ware Cherry mugs and my Cherry glasses. They fit right at home in my kitchen...right?

Please join all the wonderful bloggers at SueLovesCherries to share in Rednesday.

Christina's Mary Engelbreit Kitchen.....

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As I mentioned Monday, I went to visit with my friend, Christina, in Ft. Myers this past weekend. I took pictures of her darling ME inspired Cherry kitchen. A million years ago, before they had digital cameras, I painted the glass inserts in her corner hutch for her. She usually leaves the doors open, which is fine because you can see the designs from either side.

I've always "coveted" her Ann Estelle stand.

Part of the fun of my trip was to go pick up from her an eight piece setting of the the ME Cherry dinnerware pictured on the top shelf in this photo. Happy dance!

I'll take you around the rest of the kitchen tomorrow.

M.E. Monday.......

I know I'm running a little late for our Mary Engelbreit Monday sharing but I have a good excuse. I've just returned home from a wonderful weekend in Ft. Myers where I went to visit my dear friend Christina. She loves ME and Cherries as much as I do. It's been a year since we've seen each other which is far too long for friends who only live 2.5 hours apart. Life just gets in our way sometimes.

Anywho...next week is her birthday so we did a little celebrating early. I made these little cupcakes for her and took them down in the special ME cupcake box. Even the cupcake papers are ME. She freaked and loved them.

Not only did she love the way they looked she loved the taste...lol....she had 3 I had 1 but then again...It is HER birthday.

I have one more thing to share for ME Monday. Christina for years now, has decorated her Christmas tree all in a ME theme. I don't even recall all of the stuff that I have made for her to put on the tree. After Christmas this past year I saw these tiny little red tree ornaments marked down to something like 70% off at JoAnns so I bought them thinking they looked like little Cherries. I came up with the idea to add some brown trim cord and green ribbon to turn them into Cherry ornaments. I finished them up last week so that I could take a dozen of them to Christina for her birthday. She loved them, too! It's so easy to give gifts to people who you know what they like.

These isn't a great picture of them but you get the idea of what they look like. You can see my reflection while take the picture...lol.

Please join us and post the link to your blog with the related Mary Engelbreit pictures to share with everyone. It can be a ME licensed product or something that was "inspired" by Mary Engelbreit's artwork. It "should" be a photo that you took of something that you own. We're flexible here....let's have fun above all else.

Once you've posted your picture come back and add your link in McLinky below. Please share the link back to my blog so that everyone can take part in sharing their post and pictures.

Things I Love Thursday.....

I Love it when Mary Engelbreit leaves me a comment on Facebook!

You'll have to click on the photo to enlarge it so you can actually read it.

I'm down here doing the "Happy Dance"! I'm just sayin', how often does Mary E. leave a comment on her Facebook page for you? How sweet is she?

I went over to St. Petersbug this morning with my neighbor, Paddy, to go see the new Chihuly Glass Exhibition that just opened up over there. Fabulous by the way. That was going to be my blog post today but "shoot" a comment from "The Queen of Everything" trumps that.

I get home about 4 pm start peeling off the clothes, because it's 95 freaking degrees outside, and I flip on my laptop to get the hamsters running to power up my little Fisher-Price computer (seriously...I have a DELL and I love my DELL) so that I can check the emails. Well!! My equally crazy about ME, Facebook Friend & loyal jewelry customer, Ms. Jeanne from PA, has sent me a "Wow" Did you see the comment from Mary E. to you on her Facebook page. I do my Scobby Doo shake of the head and think "Huh?" What's she talkin' bout???? I pop over to the "every so popular", "You should be a Fan", Mary Engelbreit Facebook page and there it is from 2 hours ago! Ms. E has left me a comment on my July 17th post there.

OMG! OMG! Now....how do I respond back???!! I have to be cool...not gushy... or stalkerish. I thought for a few minutes and then just typed a little something back to Ms. Mary. I'm cool....but like I said...major happy dancing going on in the Cherry Chick house today.

Thanks for letting me gush  share with you. ;-)

Sharing Red for Rednesday......

Ms. Sue over at "It's A Very Cherry World!" is hosting Rednesday on her blog. I'm going for florals this week. Be sure and click over to see what everyone else has that's Red for Rednesday.

It's Christmas in July

I've been to Longwood Gardens, in Kenneth Sqaure, PA located south of Philadelphia, PA a couple of times now. I just love the place and I know if I lived close by that I would have a membership to go as often as I wanted. Today I'm sharing some of my Red photos that I've taken while there. It's a wonderful place to take photographs in. If you click on the photos they will Enlarge to Gigantic for a closer view. ;-)

Beautiful Amaryllis

Red Begonia Balls

Cranberries fill the fountain in Exhibition Hall I

Playing with my PhotoShop Software brushes

East Conservatory Entry

Red Poinsettia Planting

Poinsettia Row

Red Berries and Frosted Glass

Thanks for sharing Christmas in July with me

ME Monday Giveaway

DogsMom

So.....using the reliable Random Number Generator....the ME Monday giveaway will go to DogsMom. Thank you to everyone who joined in to share pictures from your blog, became a new follower, or left a comment for me. Oh and yes.....that is "Cherry Chick" pictured in the Winner photo above. NOT!

     

ME Monday & Giveaway......

It's Time Again for ME Mondays

As I mentioned in my earlier Sunday post below, I'm have a Mary Engelbreit Giveaway with this weeks ME Monday. Please see the details on how to participate in the giveaway in that earlier post.

Welcome, again, to Mary Engelbreit Monday. Please join us and post the link to your blog with the related Mary Engelbreit pictures to share with everyone. It can be a ME licensed product or something that was "inspired" by Mary Engelbreit's artwork. It "should" be a photo that you took of something that you own. We're flexible here....let's have fun above all else.

Once you've posted your picture come back and add your link in Mr. Linky below. Please share the link back to my blog so that everyone can take part in sharing their post and pictures.

I have a few interesting and unique ME items to share this week.....

"Life is Just a Chair of Bowlies" is a Limited Edition Porcelain figurine dated 1986 that I've had forever it seems like. It's a favorite of mine.

If I recall correctly, my Mother gave this Anne Estelle needlepoint pillow to me one year as a Christmas gift.

This stationery tin was a promotional giveaway one year at J.C. Penney's for Mother's Day. My sweet son, Christopher, gave it to me. Ahhh....I know....isn't that sweet?

Now...please share your ME pictures, link with us here and read about participating in the ME Giveaway below.

Sunday and Such....

Well...I was all set to do my Sunday Favorites with Chari over at Happy To Design today but it looks like she is busy with her house guest this weekend. I say friends and family come first....blog later. ;-)

So....I've decided now to do a little "ME Monday" giveaway. Participation in the sharing of everyone's Mary Engelbreit stuff has been declining. I so look forward to seeing what kind of ME things everyone else has on those ME Mondays.

Here's the bribe Giveaway....A pair of adult size ME Cherry Socks, a package of ME Cherry tissues, and a cute little ME Cherry note pad. I will randomly draw a number from entries on Tuesday this week. You get one entry when you leave a comment on the ME Monday blog post this week. You get two more entries if you become a new "follower" of my blog. Current "followers" will get two more entries if you tell me in your comment on the ME Monday blog post that you already are a "follower". You get three more entries if you mention the ME Monday Giveaway on your blog and let me know in your comment on the ME Monday post. And..........just to confuse the heck out of everyone...lol...you get FOUR...that's right....FOUR more chances to win this Mary Cherryful giveaway package if you actually post your Mary Engelbreit photos on your blog and link up to the ME Monday post here this week. I think I'm gonna have to go work on a spreadsheet for this thing. ;-)
I will have the ME Monday post up and ready to be linked to starting about 8 p.m. EST tonight and you can post to it until 11:59 p.m. EST on Monday evening. I look forward to seeing your ME "stuff" this week.

Red Harlequin Cuff Bracelet & more....

I've just finished posting the newest Cherry Chick Jewelry designs to my Artfire.com shop. These were the designs that I had featured in my slideshow from Rednesday. They're all priced and waiting to go to a new home! ;-) Please pop over and see what you can't live without. Enjoy!

Things I Love Thursday Mosaic....

It's time for sharing a mosaic of pictures from Flickr.com...Cookies this Thursday! Yum!

1. Spring 2010 Wedding Dress Cookie Collection, 2. Easter Bonnet Cookie Pops, 3. Petit Four cookies, 4. Rose fondant cookie lollys, 5. Easter Flower Basket Cookie Pops, 6. Painted butterfly cookie 1, 7. simple valentine cookies, 8. Embossed cookies, 9. Cherry Onesie Cookies, 10. Jack O Lantern Cookies, 11. Jack Skellington cookie lollies, 12. Flower cookie collection 3, 13. Ice Cream Cookies

Make sure you enlarge the photo so that you can see all of the wonderful detail in these little pieces of art. I think that they're too pretty to eat.

Sharing ME Monday...

Don't let it be said that I am not dedicated to our Mary Engelbreit Monday! My internet service went down on Friday at home so I've made the trip out this evening to my local McDonald's to use their Wifi. I only have about 30 minutes of battery tip left on my laptop and no electrical outlet in site here. Yikes!!
I had hope to offer a Mary Englebreit giveaway this week but because of my limited time I will hold off until next week.
I'm sharing what I think are a few of my "unique" Mary Engelbreit items this week. I have a limited edition print in my office "Home" that came from ME. Next I have a few of the many ME watches that I have collected over the years. I once sold them for the manufacturer who made them. My third item is from a line of tolietries that once was sold under Mary's license. I have a bottle of liquid soap to share here. Last, is a very well used rubber jar opener that I got because of my subscription to Mary's Home Companion magazine. Does anyone else have one of them??
Thanks so much for joining us on this ME Monday. Please share your ME item pictures with us.

Welcome, again, to Mary Engelbreit Monday. Please join us and post the link to your blog with the related Mary Engelbreit pictures to share with everyone. It can be a ME licensed product or something that was "inspired" by Mary Engelbreit's artwork. It "should" be a photo that you took of something that you own. We're flexible here....let's have fun above all else.

Once you've posted your picture come back and add your link in Mr. Linky below. Please share the link back to my blog so that everyone can take part in sharing their post and picture.

Things I Love Thursdays....Cupcakes

1. cupcake display, 2. Cupcakes for High Tea Party, 3. pastels wedding cuppies, 4. just another vintage tea set, 5. pretty pinks, 6. rose cupcakes 277, 7. 35 cherry cupcakes 009, 8. rose cupcakes, 9. Bird House Cupcakes, 10. rose cupcakes 262, 11. flip flops 2, 12. White and Pink Embossed Wedding Cupcakes, 13. Cherry cupcakes

While I didn't make any of these wonderful cupcakes and I didn't take any of the photographs, I do still love them all for "Things I Love Thursday" mosaic on Flickr. Enjoy!

Sharing of the Red on Rednesday.....

I'm linking up with Sue & the ladies over at It's A Very Cherry World today to share my Red with everyone. I'm going with Sue's theme of sharing how I "express" myself with Red in my daily life. Below you will find screen shots of the various pages were I have presence on the web. Now that I've gathered it all together it makes me realize how much time I spend on this computer. Yikes! Fortunately, it's from the comfort of my couch...lol.

#1 Would be my blog page here....obviously it meets the Red criteria..... 

#2 Is my Google account Home Page....love those cherries from Betsy Johnson....

#3 Is my Twitter Page...yep, got Red there.....

#4 Is my Yahoo home page...it's got that bordello Red look to it I think.

#5 Is my Shutterfly.com page....

#6 Is my Cherry Chick Jewelry.com website....

#7 Is my original website Cherry Chick.biz.....

#8 Is my Artfire.com shop.....

#9 Is my Etsy.com Shop.....

#10 and last is my computer desktop...if I knew how to get a background on my Photobucket and Flickr accounts I would have 12 but I think 10 will do just fine...someone might think I was obsessive if I had that many. :-)

Please make sure you jump over to see all the other blogs linked at www.Suelovescherries.blogspot.com  where everyone is sharing their Red for Rednesday.