HSIA Living: 2011

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

bead embroidery surface design -3-

bead embroidery surface design

pendant available for purchase

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

bead embroidery surface design -2-

Monday, December 26, 2011

bead embroidery surface design -1-

Saturday, December 24, 2011

photos from the Leon & Lulu

2012 Holiday Artist Market

HSIA Designs

Friday, December 23, 2011

Questions of the Week

Are you nicer or meaner at Christmas time?
Do you like the Christmas season?
What is your favorite childhood memory about Christmas?
Have you ever been to Rockefeller Center at Christmas?
Did you ever wonder why reindeer don't have wings?
Were you afraid of Santa Claus coming into your house?
If you are not Caucasian, were you ever afraid of Santa Claus?
Have you ever been to the Macy's Parade?
Did you bake cookies and cakes and pies with your mom and grandmother at Christmas time?
Did you ever hear the reindeer landing on the roof of your house?
What would you change about celebrating the Christmas Holiday?
Are you honored that Jesus is the reason for the season?

Merry Christmas to you and your family and loved ones.

I praise God that Jesus came to live and die for our sins to give us true liberty.

Happy Birthday Jesus.

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

sophisticated lady

my niece at the Dream Maker Cafe

so sophisticated!

Freshman at University of Michigan.

Pretty and also quite genius and talented

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

I simply make the fabric cuff and doodled on it with markers and added colors and swirls and then embellished it. Voila! the Doodle Cuff. I am thinking about offering a class in 2012 if anyone is interested.

Monday, December 19, 2011

fabric collage mini pouch

available for purchase

Sunday, December 18, 2011

HSIA Holiday Market - Dream Maker Cafe

Here are a few items that were on display at my Holiday Art Market

bead embellished cuff bracelets and silk embellished pouch

tray of fabric collage pins great for any outfit

surface design on fabric collage bead embellished purse

tray of triangular fabric collage and embellished pendants

just add an organza ribbon or leather lace and wear it with any outfit

tier of fabric collage and heavily beaded cuff bracelets and bangles

fabric collage cuff bracelets and bangles

freeform offloom bead woven necklace

Thursday, December 15, 2011

The Toothache
by hatethatiloveu

It tingles throughout your jaw,
The pain that gets us all.
With an ache and a throb,
It's like being attaked by a mob.
The site of candy makes you wince,
And you loose all comon sense,
And when this pain comes back again,
It's one you'll never forget my friend.
The shock through your body makes you tear,
But crying wont help. No I'm sorry my dear.
It's worse pain than when your hit,
And you'll give anything for it to loosen up a bit.
At night comes very little sleep,
This agony keeps you up in a heap.
When the sun rises you'd pray it'd be done,
But sorry for you, the rides just begun.
Because through this time you're forced to move about,
And your mouth feels so swollen you want to shout!
But you will not hurt for long,
As the doctor pulls out his tong,
And rips that sucker away,
Helping you to have a better day.
Teehee

poem found online and borrowed to express what I am going through this week. Glory to God.

Friday, December 9, 2011

see life from both sides... the movie

Yesterday I decided to try my computer movie maker software. I had no idea what to expect and no directions on what to do. I started clicking on this and that until I created the above movie. Today I created a second movie which I will share at a later date.

Let me know how what you think.

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Change

I attended a corporate webinar this morning on Change Mapping. My company was bought by another company and we are going through transition. Most people know if they will be hired in by the new company except for the Career Transition Consultant. Well I am a Career Transition Consultant and have no idea what my future brings. Here are 2 things I made note of from the webinar.

Change

losing that which is familiar

Personal Resilience

the capacity for an individual to remain both flexible and strong in the midst of ambiguity and change

Monday, December 5, 2011

I wasn't actually dumped....lol

lol

I got a call this morning from Allen apologizing because he dropped his phone in water and it was totally destroyed. He called me from work to let me know and apologize. I did not tell him about this entry in the blog so ...shhhhhhhhhhhhh

Sunday, December 4, 2011

what a difference a day makes

Praise God I woke up in my RIGHT mind today. I was so emotional yesterday as many of you ladies have experienced. Cannot blame it on PMS anymore.

I am up and getting ready for church. What a blessing. My hair was done in like 15 minutes which is a MIRACLE since it often takes an hour or more after I have washed, wrapped, dried, and silkwrapped it. I know God is changing things in my life. HOORAY!

Well have a wonderful day and I will be adding lots of great stuff to the blog. YIPPY!

Patrice

Saturday, December 3, 2011

What a week...and I got DUMPED!

This past week was one of the most intense weeks I have ever had in my life. Okay I am exaggerating...maybe...but maybe not.

Saturday I had my HSIA Designs Holiday Market. I was so pleasantly surprised when my very first guest was Angie Hunter, a former employee of mine from General Motors. It was so wonderful to see her. She is still as sweet as pie. I have not seen her since like 1994 or so. It was such a blessing. There was a huge lag in time when NOBODY was at the show. I was wondering if anyone else would show up. Then Brenda (BFF) and her daughter Sundai (BFF Neice) came by. We had a blast. Then several other people dropped by and the fun began. Brenda, Sundai and I packed up the show and loaded my car for the next day's events. I came home exhausted.

Sunday I had the show at Leon and Lulu. There were goo gobs of people there. My sales were minimal and I could not help but wonder what I did or did not do right. Everyone said they loved my pieces. I had a variety of price points. hmmm. I was located next to a wonderful artist who made everything delightful. I saw so many of the other artist friends that I have made. The weather was really really bad but people still came out.

Monday I went to the cafe and was feeling sick and congested. I was so cold and could not get warm. I ran home took off my clothes and got in the bed and low and behold I got a call from my corporate job asking "are you on your way?" I had forgotten to write down a client appointment. I got up and drove 80mph to the job which is 20 miles away if I take the interstate which I did. I was really feeling quite sick. After the client session I headed over to Leon and Lulu show from 6-9. I left early because I had not sold anything and I was really getting sick.

Tuesday I worked at the cafe and then headed to Leon and Lulu show from 3-9. My sales increased and I did okay. The highlight of the day was bartering with SooMee for art. She took a purse and a heavily beaded cuff. I got 2 clay wall hangings and a wonderful large framed watercolor. I really like SooMee and hope to develop a friendship with her. Her work is wonderful.

Wednesday I worked at the cafe and then came home and got in the bed feeling congested. I woke up and then headed for Church to give a major presentation for our Leadership Group. I was so on the "edge" and my stress level was dangerously high. Concerned about my job situation did not make things any better. I am allocated work hours every 2 weeks. This allocation was 5hours for two weeks. I have exhausted my savings and now seem to have the weight of the world on my shoulders.

Thursday I woke up sick and did not go to the cafe. I stayed in bed and medicated until noon when I got up and headed to my corporate job to meet clients. I came home cannot remember too much more.

Friday I worked at the cafe and came home. Why can't I remember yesterday? well last night I took lots of nyquil and fell asleep watching Christmas shows on Hulu.com all night until 1 am.

This morning I woke up very stressed and decided to write a prayer petition to God. It took about 4 hours to prepare and then another 30-45 minutes to pray it through and take communion. It was a solemn day for me and I cannot believe that I cried for so many hours and had to use a bath towel to wipe the tears. The towel was sopping wet as if I had taken a shower. I really cry hard and quite ugly. lol
I was also DUMPED by Allen D. He is a guy that I have been chatting with for several months online. about a week or so ago we started talking on the phone. He was such a nice and funny guy. He had gone to Texas to visit family and we talked 3-4 times a day and it seemed to be going well. He flew back Wednesday and could not talk because he had car problems. he texted to say sorry and to call him. I was so sick and decided to text him saying he could call when he was ready to chat...blah blah blah.Well he never did. he also never responded to 2 additional texts. I feel like a real fool. Wow. Getting dumped feels so yucky especially when the guy decides that you are of such little value to him that he just ignores you as though you are crap. Well it is what it is. right? He was still a nice guy before this and hopefully he will be an honorable man with the next woman. I am VERY disappointed with how he dumped me. I did not deserve to be treated with such insensitivity. As far as I know I did nothing to offend him or cause this reaction. I pray that God will bless him with the most wonderful woman in the world that he will love and cherish and who he will want to be kind to and never hurt her or de-value her and that she will love and cherish him. He deserves the best and deserves to be loved.

Now it's after 10 pm and I relaxed my hair and sitting under the dryer. The tears have stopped for now. I am just so dissatisfied with my life in general. I hate, despise self failure and I have quite a few areas of failure going on right now. I wish I could close my eyes and wake up and everything would be just fine.

So that was the short version of the past week. Glory to God in the Highest. Tomorrow is another day. May the sun shine brigthly. OOOPs. this is Michigan and the sun rarely shines here; it is so dark all day long on most days.

Love ya,

Patrice