Here’s a bit of porcelain and clay for you this Wednesday. Raw and organic sculptures by Aneta Regel Deleu. Air-tex, Tortoise, Golf ball and Sea Urchin containers from Ikuko Iwamoto. Louisa Taylor’s stackable tea set. A porcelain and gold luster ‘mother & child’ from cer...

Ladies and Gentlemen, we're here to announce that the winner of the Swarovski Optik Guest Blogging Contest is... Lynnanne Fager!   You can read Lynnanne's entry on an unusual hybrid here. Special thanks to Swarovski Optik for providing the prizes for our contest: all the posted entries will get a ...

Hello blog readers! Or should I say hola lectores del blog? I am back from my Guatemala birding adventure and am sorting through photos. I want to thank everyone who entered the guest blogging contest. There were many fantastic blog entries and I'm sorry that we couldn't post them all. Be sure to ch...

  By Marcia Talley What's a mom do when her daughter has a princess fetish -- and mother knows a handsome prince is a dangerous desire? Award-winning author Marcia Talley talks about how her daughter solved this issue in today's blog. My granddaughter, Abigail, just turned three....

Welcome back to the Swarovski Optik Blogging Contest entry! Just a few more entries to go! Today's entry comes from Eric Brierley, past president of the San Antonio Audubon Society. He helped with a banding project for many years at Mitchell Lake Audubon Center in San Antonio, TX. Currently Eric bir...

This is a guest post by Renee. Hello everyone, this is Renee from Womanist Musings. Last month was the first edition of the WOC and Ally blog carnival. I started this is an effort to bring attention to the great work that WOC and allies are doing to deal with the various ways in which race interacts...

Welcome to Day 4 of the Swarovski Optik Guest Blogging Contest. We've had a lot of fun entries so far, and our next one is from Art Drauglis, and is about one of those truly remarkable encounters you can have in nature. Hawk vs. Turtle Shortly after I started up the Powell Mountain Trail in Shenando...

(Alberto Berretti)Due hard disk esterni USB 2. Circa 13 mila file, per un totale di poco meno di 120 gigabyte, da spostare dall'uno all'altro (praticamente il backup della mia vita). iMac G5: dopo una notte di trasferimento a poco meno......

Next up are Hollie Pocsai and Jane LaBatte from White Elephant Vintage,, which started out as an etsy shop and has now become a real bricks and mortar store! Thanks to you both for sharing your story and advice. Be sure to check out their website here. So…. When and how did you start your busi...

Safe, Secure and Sexy by TLC favorite Ramona Long    I have this thing about money. I hate it. Not “hate itâ€� as in, I hate having it and/or spending it or donating it to good causes. I like those things. I just hate talking about it. Money talk is uncouth. Bad manners. At antique sho...