I heard a voice arise behind me as the kids excitedly funneled into the classroom. My second year as a substitute teacher. It was a child fr...

Being a thrift store junkie from my teenage years, I would often pass by the vast array of ceramic angels on the shelves. Their wings outstr...

Just now, I heard the familiar sound of Trumpeter swans and looked to the window to see them through the skeleton arms of neighboring trees....

I cried myself to sleep last night because I’ll miss Nick Karasch, my sweet friend, my fellow insomniac, who kept me company online in the w...

     In the realm of fashion, few names hold as much sway and reverence as Anna Wintour . The formidable editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine ...

 Dear Abbie,     In the third grade, I was supposed to know my times tables by heart. I didn’t. My step father would abruptly ask me times t...

As a girl growing up in the deep south, water was truly an essential elixir. Water was a beacon of hope when the oppressive heat of the Fl...

vintage peridot rhinestone statement necklace  There is something about the color green that is immediately soothing. In these stat...

I came across a small, chapel sized upright piano on its side last Monday in someones yard two hours before you had to leave to teach. It w...

Yesterday  was most extraordinary...made up of moments that you simply have to write about. It was an I-cannot-stop-smiling kind of day. L...

     Ever since I can remember, I have loved the outdoors. As a girl, I spent hours playing in the woods, and swimming in Lake Santa Fe. As...

For this assemblage necklace, I used a bit of antique netting and lace for the "chain" and ancient rhinestone bits along with a ...

This holiday season, it's all about the sparkle here at Sacred Cake! But wait, it is always about the sparkle over here isn't it? T...

I haven't written in so long, but today I was prompted, perhaps by divine suggestion, to write. I found this poem in its raw form, hand...

And still. I rise. And I rise And I rise... Sometimes when you begin to think that you have nothing, it really becomes everything you ...

pink line of Creative Co-op Jewelry (being discontinued)  With the almost complete  phase out of my wholesale Jennifer Valentine Jewelr...