Yippppeeeee...I'm in Belle Armoire Jewelry!!!

I hope you all had an AWESOME, Relaxing & Joy Filled

Memorial Day Weekend!

Here in the mountains of So Cal, one could never expect that Saturday & Sunday

of this holiday weekend would be entirely yucky, cold, rainy & foggy.

Now, I'm not complaining...well yeah, I kinda am,

but Thank the Heavens above, Monday made up for it...it was Gorgeous.

The children were gone, the house was ours & hubby & I spent

the entire day making 'SPOONIN' Jewelry in the sun, PERFECTION!

And to make life even Sweeter...

today is the day my first, four page spread in

Belle Armoire Jewelry, comes out.

Can anybody give me a HECK YEAH!  ;)

I am sooooooo OVER THE MOON, I just want to share everything with you!

Ever since I picked up that very 1st Artful Blogging magazine almost 2 years ago in Baltimore, I knew I wanted my art to one day grace the pages of a Stampington Publication. It started with a little, simple encouragement by my dear friend Diane Cook from rosa & josie's.

She & her gorgeous jewelry design, have been published many times. At some point while

we were working together, I told her my dream & asked her how she went about submitting

her work. Diane was completely generous & supportive & emailed me this link...the Stampington Submissions. It gives all the guidelines needed to submit your work & be

considered for publication & then she said "Go for it & don't be defeated if you

don't get in on your 1st attempt, I've been declined many times!"

What, Diane declined...well, that's all it took for me to BELIEVE I too could TRY!

I choose my beloved Heirloom Jewelry to send in & I really did focus on my Presentation.

I tried to incorporate some of my favorite vintage elements into the design, vintage photo album pages, antique lace, old frayed fabric ribbon & a crocheted flower pin. The last day for submission was January 15 & I couldn't get it together until the 18th...but I sent it off anyway with my fingers crossed. It took a couple months before I heard anything from them, but then I received an email

that started with, 'Congratulations'!  

And to make a long story even longer...lol

there were some more wonderful surprises in this edition.

Diane Cook also has a beautiful article called,

'With One Finding'

A Jewelry Collaboration Between Like Minds

& the ad I designed for 'ARTBLISS' is nestled comfortably

next to all the other ads, as if it's no big deal.

Now...what is the point of this post, just to toot my own horn?

There's a little tooting going on, but the bigger picture I'm trying to paint is,

JUST DO IT!

JUST GO FOR IT!

It wouldn't be Brave if it wasn't Scary, you can make your DREAMS happen.

I LOVE the last lines of 'Under the Tuscan Sun',

"Unthinkably good things can happen even this late in the game. It's such a surprise."

That it is Sweet Hearts, that it is.

XOXO

vintagesusie