Sharry Miller

Happy Halloween

Blessed Samhain or whatever you choose to commemorate the last day of October. I missed out on getting my daughter ready for the real night of trick-0r-treating. I had to travel for work today and the next two days. I love travelling. Even if it's just from one small Alaskan town to another, there's always that possibiltiy of something interesting happening that would never happen at home. This trip might just have been made by... Read more →

A little bling

I managed a few hours in the studio today and had to resist adding dichroic glass to everything I made. A little bling is a marvelous thing! Read more →

Halloween, Day 1

Rowan decided in the end to call herself a girl pirate at school today. She started out a gypsy, but ended up thinking a pirate was cooler. Same costume, different identity. I told her with the jingly coin-decorated over-skirt and lots of jewelry, she could say she was wearing all her booty. As usual in Valdez, trick-or-treating at local businesses had to be done in a coat and rubber boots. At least this year the... Read more →

One day at a time

Why is it so hard to do the things that are good for you, that you even enjoy? For me: exercising (especially outdoors), creating in my studio, and writing. So, finally, for today I have managed to address two of the trifecta. I didn't exercise. I did, however, get two kiln loads of glass ready to go. Several more pendants and two snowflakes will be cool enough to pull out in the morning. Then I... Read more →

Happiness

I started this blog with grand intentions of writing nearly every day about whatever I felt like writing about. As usual, I've let it get bogged down by feeling that everything I write and send out to the world, even my occaissonal Facebook posts, should have some grand, deeper meaning. Bah, humbug! Enough of that. Several weeks ago I finished reading The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin. Excellent book - well written, entertaining, and made... Read more →