Gail's Tales...and Jewelry Design

If you like old maps...old transit maps...old New York City transit maps.....take a look at this site . It has all kinds of old maps of th...

64 days to go. The apartment is booked. I can't wait to see this place. It has beams going through the living room and a ton of windows....

I played hooky from work this afternoon and went to the Rings and Things show. It was only in town for one day and ran from 12-4 so I had no...

That's the sound of a tree falling. And this is the second time it's happened this summer. Not the whole tree...but a very very very...

Back in 2005 I got the cover of Bead Style magazine. It was particularly significant because this was the necklace I made the night my Dad p...

Cleopatra has nothing on this chick. I would show the original picture that it came from but...I accidentally saved the tear-away image over...

with the post on Monday. Sounds like I'm not the only person that gets suckered into repairing jewelry. But I will not do it again and ...

that is what I said to myself with each amethyst chip I strung tonight. Get ready because I'm going to rant even though I did this to m...

Pretty colors. I'm off to prep another load for the kiln. I could have made one big load but like a little kid...I couldn't wait. I...

If you like old book illustrations, you need to check out BibliOdyssey . I could spend days and days on this site. Pick an picture...any pic...

This weekend is the Cleveland Airshow...an annual Labor Day event. The Thunderbirds arrived today. I could see them practicing from my offi...

I'm stuck on making tear aways. I played around with pictures I took in Paris and I've been making tear aways for about a week. Some...

Most of the people who know me wouldn't describe anything about me or the way I act as whimsical. So when I was given a project with the...

Been doing some experimenting altering pics with Photoshop's stamp feature ... stamperizing. Then making tear-aways. Below is a piece fr...

I'm involved in an exercise in expanding creativity. One of the projects was to take pictures of things around you and use it as inspira...

You like that word...stamperize. I made that up :) I've been considering buying some rubber stamps of the Eiffel Tower and other sites i...

What a week. You all heard about my fall on Wednesday. Well that was mid-week. The beginning of the week started with my being called bac...

see more Lolcats and funny pictures This was on Anne's blog and it says it all for me today. I'm in a sour mood but I'm trying ...

I left work early on Friday and had a chance to snap some photos that I've been wanting to take. The first is the side of an abandoned b...