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AUGUST 2024

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Hello All!  I pray each of you are WELL!  July was certainly a roller coaster for me.  So much in the HEALTH DEPARTMENT, I'm facing, but this too, shall pass! I've had severe dry eye and no matter how many drops I put in, I still can't focus enough to hold a needle in my hand, let alone a bead.  Hence, no bead patterns for 2024. I am hoping to change that. I did get out my beading software and played around with it, but I just didn't "feel it".  I think, as a designer, you have to have that...

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IT'S MY BIRTHDAY MONTH! 70% OFF here at julieannsmith.com

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Hi ALL!  Well, it's another July!  I've had 67 of them so far in my life!  How many more can God bless me with?  I don't know!  I do know that it's hot here in Texas and my eyes are burning!  Life, however, it creates itself, continues on and so much we! I've been keeping super busy trying to get angelicwares.com up and running.  Boy has my patience been challenged.  I'd rather be creating them stuck posting and spending endless hours on the old computer.  There is Instagram, Facebook, Dropbox and so many apps that my mind is fuzzy.  Kind...

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WHAT AM I WORKING ON?

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Hello!  Are you guys well?  I pray so! Well, what am I working on?  The list is HUGE! I don't know about you, but my legs swell in this horrid heat.  So when I take a break and put my legs up, I usually turn on MIDSOMER MURDERS and crochet.   I have so many little scraps made into yarn balls, that I need something MINDLESS to do.  So I crochet. This is truly a lifesaver for me.  It keeps my hands going and it keeps me sain! At any rate, I am truly a busy gal.  I've been commissioned by...

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HEY YOU! HOW ARE YOU?

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I hope this finds you all doing GREAT!  The weather has calmed down a bit here and I've been doing very special orders, for the last month!  It's been crazy for sure.  But I feel a change coming in my life and I'm not quite sure what to expect, but I just feel it....you know!? I know it's been a while since I posted.  My bad.  I was trying to stay on a schedule but I just didn't get there.  I will try harder. Since I "officially" retired 2 years ago now, I decide I wanted to try my hand...

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THE "EYES" HAVE IT....

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Really!?  I had to go in to see why I couldn't see!  My age is showing.  Ya, I talk alot about age, because I'm having a terrible time dealing with it.  It's almost depressing. I was not doing well in school and I didn't know that I couldn't see.  That was in the days before they gave eye test to every child in school, along with hearing tests. So, in the 4th grade I had to start wearing glasses.  HUGE GLASSES!  They were so very heavy; it wore a spot on my nose.  But I was able to see, and...

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