Hi All!
I'm having a giveaway that will start Saturday June 1, 2013. The contest will run til June 9, 2013. The winner selected will have 48 hours to contact me. Check in Saturday for your chance to win a great Father's day gift.
Michelle
I feature my works, other artists and international news. http://wirequeenjewelry.com
Showing posts with label blogboost. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blogboost. Show all posts
Thursday, May 30, 2013
Thursday, January 17, 2013
I have a Dream Treasury
Hi All!
Here's a treasury created by Donna Marie of Waterbury Jewels to celebrate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King.
Here's a treasury created by Donna Marie of Waterbury Jewels to celebrate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King.
All links are clickable and will give you more information o the piece and purchase info.
Enjoy.
Michelle
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Friday, November 9, 2012
Eye Candy Friday Copper Necklaces 11/9/2012
Hi All!
Today's eye candy Friday's feature are Copper Necklaces. I hand wire wrapped or braided these in copper wire.
I received a great write up from Meghan at whatsernamejewelry here
She made me smile when I read the write-up.
You can read more info on the necklaces above and purchase by clicking on the titles.
You can use code Blog30 for 30% off good til Sunday 11/11/2012 at midnight.
Leave a comment letting me know which pieces you like. What stones you would like to see me work with next? What types of jewelry you like (earrings, rings etc)?
Looking forward to your comments.
Michelle
Today's eye candy Friday's feature are Copper Necklaces. I hand wire wrapped or braided these in copper wire.
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| mudcloth and copper necklace |
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| Twisted carnelian necklace |
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| Fancy agate in copper |
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| Copper circlet |
I received a great write up from Meghan at whatsernamejewelry here
She made me smile when I read the write-up.
You can read more info on the necklaces above and purchase by clicking on the titles.
You can use code Blog30 for 30% off good til Sunday 11/11/2012 at midnight.
Leave a comment letting me know which pieces you like. What stones you would like to see me work with next? What types of jewelry you like (earrings, rings etc)?
Looking forward to your comments.
Michelle
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Wonderful Wire Wrap Collection by Wire Artists
Wonderful Collection of Wire Artists by WisdomWorks
I love the uniqueness of wire work. You can make the same piece numerous times and each time it will have variances due to the nature of wire. You will notice each artist has their own style. Don't you just live handmade? No one else will ever have your exact same piece. express your individuality.
Enjoy
Michelle
I love the uniqueness of wire work. You can make the same piece numerous times and each time it will have variances due to the nature of wire. You will notice each artist has their own style. Don't you just live handmade? No one else will ever have your exact same piece. express your individuality.
Enjoy
Michelle
Thursday, April 19, 2012
I can relate to the Cubans under the American Embargo
This is an article the Kansas City paper listed below. Do you think its time we lifted the embargo againt Cuba?. We do business with Russia? Why not Cuba?
In Cuba, international businesses abound just not from the US By KEVIN G. HALL AND FRANCO ORDONEZ McClatchy Newspapers HAVANA -- Leaving Jose Marti International Airport in this capital city, a billboard reminds vividly of the U.S. trade embargo on Cuba. It shows a noose with the phrase, "Blockade: The Longest Genocide in History." The embargo, partially imposed in 1960 and fully in place two years later, is not a blockade. That's clear by the abundance of foreign goods and investment in Cuba. It is a blockade, however, in the sense that U.S. companies are blocked from doing business in Cuba. That hasn't stopped their international competitors from Canada, Mexico, Brazil and even China from setting up shop. It's striking when visiting the island just how much the rest of world now trades with, invests in and sends tourists to Cuba. Just drive east from Havana on the Via Blanca highway along the northwestern coast and toward Varadero, the Cuban resort city where Europeans, Canadians and efore you reach Varadero's beaches, there are plenty of reminders of globalization. Near the town of Santa Cruz del Norte, China's Greatwall Drilling Co. is searching for oil in cooperation with the Cuban state oil company known as Cupet. Some workers sport red jumpsuits with the company's GWDC logo. Much of the machinery was made in Romania during the era of Soviet control over the East Bloc. Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping, expected to become his nation's next leader in 2013, visited the joint venture in June. Greatwall has developed more than 63 wells in Cuba since 2005, the newspaper China Daily reported then. Greatwall's parent company, the China National Development Corp., won a contract in 2010 to expand a Cuban oil refinery jointly owned with Venezuela's state oil company, PDVSA. Just down the road from Santa Cruz del Norte, the Canadian flag flies in a joint venture between Cuba's stat Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/04/15/3555680/in-cuba-international-businesses.html#storylink=cpy
I can relate to the Cubans
I had the ocassion to meet the Cuban Attache(?) to Washington at an event in Detroit many years ago. He was a tall Black man, light complexioned like myself. I was really saddened when he told me that in Cuba before the Revolution he was not even allowed to clean toilets. Those of African descent no matter what your complexion were virtually slaves in their own country.
I could relate, I remember when Coleman Young was elected Mayor of Detroit. Eugene Harrington a local reporter was standing in front of a burning building and stated,"The last one out turn off the lights."
Twenty years later the TV station made him go back to Twelfth Street, now Rosa Parks Boulveard. There was a middle aged gentleman sitting on his front porch down the street from the shopping center Black folks had built. When Harrington walked up to him, the man recognized him and stated," I remember you! You're the reporter who said, The last one out turn off the light." "Well guess what, the lights still burning."
This was during a time when the Mayor of Dearborn publicly stated,"Any Black caught in Dearborn after dark was taking their life in their hands."
Seems like the more things change the more they remain the same. Rest in peace Trayvon Martin.
All said the embargo against Cuba is just STUPID. Those who fled Cuba after the revolution are just still po'd that they lost their plantation master lifestyle in Cuba.
The time is now for America to stop being the dog wagged by its tail and do the right thing by lifting this embargo.
Small business America will thank you.
Please leave you comments and left me know, yea or nay what you think.
Michelle
In Cuba, international businesses abound just not from the US By KEVIN G. HALL AND FRANCO ORDONEZ McClatchy Newspapers HAVANA -- Leaving Jose Marti International Airport in this capital city, a billboard reminds vividly of the U.S. trade embargo on Cuba. It shows a noose with the phrase, "Blockade: The Longest Genocide in History." The embargo, partially imposed in 1960 and fully in place two years later, is not a blockade. That's clear by the abundance of foreign goods and investment in Cuba. It is a blockade, however, in the sense that U.S. companies are blocked from doing business in Cuba. That hasn't stopped their international competitors from Canada, Mexico, Brazil and even China from setting up shop. It's striking when visiting the island just how much the rest of world now trades with, invests in and sends tourists to Cuba. Just drive east from Havana on the Via Blanca highway along the northwestern coast and toward Varadero, the Cuban resort city where Europeans, Canadians and efore you reach Varadero's beaches, there are plenty of reminders of globalization. Near the town of Santa Cruz del Norte, China's Greatwall Drilling Co. is searching for oil in cooperation with the Cuban state oil company known as Cupet. Some workers sport red jumpsuits with the company's GWDC logo. Much of the machinery was made in Romania during the era of Soviet control over the East Bloc. Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping, expected to become his nation's next leader in 2013, visited the joint venture in June. Greatwall has developed more than 63 wells in Cuba since 2005, the newspaper China Daily reported then. Greatwall's parent company, the China National Development Corp., won a contract in 2010 to expand a Cuban oil refinery jointly owned with Venezuela's state oil company, PDVSA. Just down the road from Santa Cruz del Norte, the Canadian flag flies in a joint venture between Cuba's stat Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/04/15/3555680/in-cuba-international-businesses.html#storylink=cpy
I can relate to the Cubans
I had the ocassion to meet the Cuban Attache(?) to Washington at an event in Detroit many years ago. He was a tall Black man, light complexioned like myself. I was really saddened when he told me that in Cuba before the Revolution he was not even allowed to clean toilets. Those of African descent no matter what your complexion were virtually slaves in their own country.
I could relate, I remember when Coleman Young was elected Mayor of Detroit. Eugene Harrington a local reporter was standing in front of a burning building and stated,"The last one out turn off the lights."
Twenty years later the TV station made him go back to Twelfth Street, now Rosa Parks Boulveard. There was a middle aged gentleman sitting on his front porch down the street from the shopping center Black folks had built. When Harrington walked up to him, the man recognized him and stated," I remember you! You're the reporter who said, The last one out turn off the light." "Well guess what, the lights still burning."
This was during a time when the Mayor of Dearborn publicly stated,"Any Black caught in Dearborn after dark was taking their life in their hands."
Seems like the more things change the more they remain the same. Rest in peace Trayvon Martin.
All said the embargo against Cuba is just STUPID. Those who fled Cuba after the revolution are just still po'd that they lost their plantation master lifestyle in Cuba.
The time is now for America to stop being the dog wagged by its tail and do the right thing by lifting this embargo.
Small business America will thank you.
Please leave you comments and left me know, yea or nay what you think.
Michelle
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
The World Gets Crazier and Crazier
The world is just getting crazier and crazier. I have followed the Trayvon Martin and the baby Jessica cases. Along with the US government telling the Government of Syria they have to abdicate, Iran has to give up nuclear weapons. Occupy Wall Street, the Tea Party, etc, etc. The world has just gone crazy. Sad to say, I don't see it getting better.
We, as a country, can no longer say," Do as I say, but not as I do." Our dirty linen is aired around the net in the blink of an eye. So we can't tell a country to stop doing the exact same thing we are doing in the US. We can't tell another country they have to treat their dissidents a certain way and we then treat out dissidents the way we have warned country x not to do. We can't tell a country you cannot have nuclear weapons because you are not our buddy. As we give nuclear technology, weapons and money to our buddy in the same region.
If one country has to follow the rule of law, all must follow the rule of law. Its like reading a holy book, you can't pick and choose what you will or will not follow. You have to take the whole book.
PERIOD.
We, as a country, can no longer say," Do as I say, but not as I do." Our dirty linen is aired around the net in the blink of an eye. So we can't tell a country to stop doing the exact same thing we are doing in the US. We can't tell another country they have to treat their dissidents a certain way and we then treat out dissidents the way we have warned country x not to do. We can't tell a country you cannot have nuclear weapons because you are not our buddy. As we give nuclear technology, weapons and money to our buddy in the same region.
If one country has to follow the rule of law, all must follow the rule of law. Its like reading a holy book, you can't pick and choose what you will or will not follow. You have to take the whole book.
PERIOD.
Cairo Egypt A crossroads for the world since ancient times.
What to do! What to do! If you're a betting person, takes bets that we're going to screw up more as a planet before it gets better. An if you believe in a higher authority
PRAY LIKE HELL.
See you tomorrow. Smile
Michelle
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