FORWARD ON !

In life you always hold out hope that people will have the fortitude of character and do the right thing in the end...hmmmm not always the case....so you can stew and fume and wring your hands and express how unfair life can be at times...but my solution is to just press on...looking forward, which has always been my way....
so, above is the first state ornament that I designed so many years ago...all fresh and updated and with a touch of Squiggee that will be in the Squiggee line and distributed by CBK...every month some more will be updated till all fifty states are completed...there will be a handful, maybe six at the Jan TNNA trade show.....it is always nice to take positive action ...lol...maybe the pioneer state of mind is catching here in the West...who knows...tomorrow I will have yet another state...then another and another....

National Teasures

The Scoop on the States!

Between May 25, 2005 and October 25, 2006...I researched , and created these small State ornaments for my wholesale line , adding DC and a tree top ornament. It was a real eye opener the flowers and birds...and the birds that some states have in common as their state bird . Their was a wonderful resource on the web ,that had a great deal of the information i was looking for...flags and flowers...what did people do before they had the web at their fingertips?.....

The ornaments are small ranging from around 6 to 4 inches in any direction, depending on the state...some shapes were hard..like Hawaii...the boxier ones very easy .......at one point I thought I would never finish them...fifty plus DC ..they seem to go on forever....but in the end they make a nice little series....you can see the Squiggee influence in size ..but no beads or do das...not that you couldn't add them yourself...