Jeweled Again By Jessica

Category: Heart and Art

  • Artist Cards

    Every year, my son and I reread the Little House on the Prairie series by Laura Ingalls Wilder. In the book, ”Little Town on the Prairie”, there’s a part about Laura and her friends getting calling cards, aka name cards. A local printer printed their name on a card and then the girls exchanged them.…

  • Rosie and Roam

    This is Rosie and Roam: THEY are the reason my blog is named, Jeweled Again By Jessica. About a year and a half ago, I decided I wanted to open an Etsy shop, I needed a name for my art stuff. Well, there millions of Etsy shops, which means millions of names are already taken.…

  • Gifts Galore

    One time I heard that fifteen minutes of someone’s time is worth a thank you. Sometimes a simple utterance of those two words, is plenty. But, other times, ’thank you’ doesn’t feel like enough. That sums up a couple of recent situations where two different people have been so incredibly kind to me during my…

  • Supporting People in Their Art

    One really cool thing about art is being able to support other people in their art, too. Sure, I love making art myself, but I also love showing my support for others. There are many opportunities to do this, such as: retail shops flea markets craft fairs art fairs online friends Retail shops bring to…

  • Being Me in Art

    In 2015, after an unexpected hospital stay and a mystery illness, in the middle of the night and with butterflies in my stomach, I started a blog. At the time, my momma didn’t really understand why I wanted to do such a thing. It reminds me of how in that movie Julie and Julia, Julie’s…

  • Squeezing Past Artist Block

    Artists blocks. Writing blocks. Ugh. Been there, done that. Sometimes it’s hard to know whether to push through them and create anyway, or to just rest and wait the blocks out. Today, I pushed through one. If you read my recent post on suddenly losing my momma, you may understand. Losing someone and still creating,…

  • Art Even After Loss

    My last post was on a day that forever changed my life. The date was March 16, 2022 and it was the same day my momma wasn’t feeling quite right and went to her local hospital. Local to her is 8 hours from me… March 17, 2022, she called me from the hospital saying the…

  • Craft Show Lessons

    Oh my gosh, you guys, I think I’m figuring this craft show thing out a little! I’ve been reading and researching how to set up a booth, how to have a successful show, etc. I’ve read some amazing things about creating displays, branding, how to choose colors, how to lead the eye from product to…

  • Random Acts of Jewelry

    Yesterday, on a regular weekday afternoon, I went to get gas for my truck. When I pulled into the gas station, I saw one of my friends and her husband pulling out. We waved. The next thing I know, she was walking up and handing me a bag of jewelry she’d gotten from someone who…

  • Creating What We Love in Art

    If you saw my post the other day, Why Not Art, I told you that I have a favorite piece of art that I made and that the canvas board warped, making it not sellable. I was a bit nervous to make more and put them out into the world. Why? Because art that we…