I {Heart} Faces. “Hands On” Challenge

I ♥ Faces usually focuses on faces (DUH) but they change emphasis from time to time.  This week’s I ♥ Faces Monday challenge is “Hands On.”  The photo I am using is very special to me.  I look at it and it brings a multitude of emotions and memories to mind.  My friend Lana was [...]

Snail Mail Notes Goes Professional

Snail Mail Notes began because I wanted small enclosure cards to place on gifts for bridal/baby showers and birthday parties.   I was cheap tired of putting a $2-3 greeting card on the gift, knowing the card would most likely just be opened long enough to see who was giving the gift.  I searched card [...]

Welcoming Joy Huber – Dealing with Difficult People

The phrase “Go Girl” is special to me.  I wear a Go Girl ring and have given a Go Girl ring to many friends over the years. Woven into that phrase is the Malouf family.  Dian Malouf is the designer of my Go Girl ring and her daughter, Brooke, works closely with the family business. [...]

Malouf Meeting.

Well, you know by now that I have a favorite jewelry designer/Renaissance Woman.  Dian Malouf.  Through the years I’ve had written, internet and telephone contact with Dian and her daughter Brooke.  But I’ve never met them in person.  Until this past Saturday. JSilver was hosting a Dian Malouf trunk show.  Here is J with Dian at a [...]

Friday Faves – Dian Malouf, Part 2.

In the Spring of 2006, I found a little box in my mail.  I opened it to find a beautiful silver ring with the Alamo on the square front of the ring.  I didn’t order it.  There was no card inside the box.  I was stumped.  I called my friend Lana to see if she [...]

Friday Faves – dian malouf’s Go Girl Ring

  I have a long history with one piece of jewlery. A Go Girl ring, designed by Dian Malouf. She originally designed the ring as a tangible sign of support for girlfriends who were going through cancer treatments. I first wore my Go Girl ring in December 1999 for a dear friend, Patricia, who was fighting Inflammatory Breast [...]

Lana Thrailkill Mason 1957 – 2006

Three years ago today I lost a dear friend.  And today I want to say her name out-loud to honor her memory. Lana. Thrailkill. Mason. I called her Lana Lana Lana. She answered back Paula Paula Paula. Lana was a wife for more than 20 years, devoted PTA and team mom, wonderful singer, boisterous laugher, [...]

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