Renee Baker Designs

"Gypsy At Heart" One-Of-A-Kind Vintage Coin Necklace-Costume Jewelry~

noreply@blogger.com (Renee Baker) — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:49:00 +0000

She dances at night when the moon is right...
"Gypsy At Heart"

16" long .925 Sterling Silver chain combined with a leather Greek cord holds 8 vintage "three pence" coins:
year 1941, 1931, 1937, 1932, 1941, 1934, 1941 and 1936.
Earrings are handcrafted out of sterling silver chain and wire and accented with 5mm faceted genuine black onyx beads.
Coins: year 1930 and 1937.
Leather cord ends are all .925 sterling silver, marked with my favorite symbol "X".
Each coin and all rings are fused(permanently attached) to a sterling silver chain. Tiny heart, sterling wire and leather cord ends are oxidized to match the look of coins. Ear wires are for pierced ears, left bright and shiny.
At any time during your dance the coins will make mysterious sound as they gently hit each other.
The center point of any Gypsy costume!

Black onyx is the stone of protection.
Three pence-former cupronickel coin of the United Kingdom equal to three pennies. Year 1941 is silver.
"X"-Gebo (G)=gift, balance, love, partnership, friendship, understanding and so many other things.
To find out more about traditions, motifs and Gypsy jewelry click on the link below.

Gypsy Jewelry

Picture by Seanchai-peg

The Queen of the Gypsies: Rada (Табор уходит в небо, 1976)

©2008 Renee Baker Designs. All rights reserved.

One-Of-A-Kind Sterling Silver Hand Stamped Heart & 1920 Vintage Key Necklace

noreply@blogger.com (Renee Baker) — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:22:00 +0000

"The Key To My Heart"

18" .925 Sterling Silver cable chain holds one-of-a-kind 1920 1 1/4" high Vintage Key, sterling silver heart pendant-hand stamped with my favorite symbol, genuine ruby roundel, moonstone faceted beads and freshwater pearl.
Both chain and a heart are oxidized for an old look and to match the color of the key.
The hand stamped symbol for this necklace is based on Elder Futhark
runic alphabet. "X"-Gebo (G)=gift, balance, love, partnership, friendship, understanding and so many other things.
Ruby is the stone of passion and when given as a gift, it is a symbol of friendship and love.
Moonstone is the stone of passionate love.

Quote Of The Day

noreply@blogger.com (Renee Baker) — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:49:00 +0000

"Endless Highway"- Art by My Son

"When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it."

~ Charles de Lint ~

©2008 Haris B. All Rights Reserved.

Irish Sayings, Blessings, Poems

noreply@blogger.com (Renee Baker) — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 16:21:00 +0000

"When Irish eyes are smiling,
'Tis like a morn in spring.
With a lilt of Irish laughter
You can hear the angels sing."

Author Unknown~

Quote Of The Day

noreply@blogger.com (Renee Baker) — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:02:00 +0000

"Dance Of Life"- Edvard Munch

"Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world."

~ Harriet Tubman ~

Quote Of The Day

noreply@blogger.com (Renee Baker) — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:25:00 +0000

"You can't fake it when you're alone with God, you know."

Jim Bakker~

Quote Of The Day

noreply@blogger.com (Renee Baker) — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 15:54:00 +0000

"Cafe Terrace at Night" Vincent Van Gogh 1888

"I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars."

~ Og Mandino ~

In a letter to his sister, Van Gogh wrote about the Cafe Terrace at Night painting saying:
"Here you have a night painting without black, with nothing but beautiful blue and violet and green and in this surrounding the illuminated area colors itself sulfur pale yellow and citron green. It amuses me enormously to paint the night right on the spot. Normally, one draws and paints the painting during the daytime after the sketch. But I like to paint the thing immediately.
It is true that in the darkness I can take a blue for a green, a blue lilac for a pink lilac, since it is hard to distinguish the quality of the tone. But it is the only way to get away from our conventional night with poor pale whitish light, while even a simple candle already provides us with the richest of yellows and oranges."

Quote Of The Day

noreply@blogger.com (Renee Baker) — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 15:45:00 +0000

"Starry Night"

"For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream."

~ Vincent Van Gogh ~

Quote Of The Day

noreply@blogger.com (Renee Baker) — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 14:38:00 +0000

"Head To Head" by Edvard Munch 1908

"Love does not consist in gazing at each other
but in looking together in the same direction."

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ~

Quote Of The Day

noreply@blogger.com (Renee Baker) — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:03:00 +0000

"The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style."

Fred Astaire~

Quote Of The Day

noreply@blogger.com (Renee Baker) — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:13:00 +0000

“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.”

~Thomas Merton~

"Unconditional Love"- Photo by John&Renee Baker. All Rights Reserved. ©2006John&Renee Baker

Quote Of The Day

noreply@blogger.com (Renee Baker) — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 16:26:00 +0000

"Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you."

~Wayne Dyer~

"The Universal Being"- All rights reserved. ©2008 Renee Baker Designs.

Quote Of The Day

noreply@blogger.com (Renee Baker) — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 16:56:00 +0000

"Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent."

~Sophia Loren~

"All We Need Is Love"- All right reserved. ©2008 Renee Baker Designs.The hand stamped symbol for the necklace pictured is based on Elder Futhark runic alphabet. "X"-Gebo (G)=gift, balance, love, partnership, friendship, understanding etc...
Click on the image to enlarge and view the actual necklace :)

Quote Of The Day

noreply@blogger.com (Renee Baker) — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:51:00 +0000

"Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish."

Michelangelo~

Native American Wisdom

noreply@blogger.com (Renee Baker) — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:02:00 +0000

"No-one can prevent the voice of wisdom being shared to all those who are wise enough to listen, genuine wisdom shared carefully, can be one of the most powerful forces known to humankind. Wisdom, compassion, creativity, openness, harmony and equality which are built upon sure foundations are always able to transcend boundaries, physical boundaries, national boundaries and ethnic boundaries, wisdom is an awe, a wonder inspired from the Great Spirit embodied in the natural landscape."

"Eternal Love" Hand Stamped Sterling Silver Disc Necklace

noreply@blogger.com (Renee Baker) — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:51:00 +0000

Sterling Silver 16" long cable chain holds the 3/4" (about the size of the penny) hand fabricated, drilled and wire brushed sterling silver disc pendant.

The hand stamped symbol for this necklace is based on Elder Futhark
runic alphabet. "X"-Gebo (G)=gift, balance, love, partnership, friendship, understanding etc...
Circle...as you probably already know is a general symbol used to represent eternal, endless, without beginning or end,all possibilities,human spirit,inner individual, sun, moon and so many other things.

Daily Inspiration Renee's Style

noreply@blogger.com (Renee Baker) — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:56:00 +0000

"I praise the dance, for it frees people
from the heaviness of matter and binds the isolated to community.
I praise the dance, which demands everything:
health and a clear spirit and a buoyant soul.
Dance is a transformation of space, of time, of people,
who are in constant danger of becoming all brain, will, or feeling.
Dancing demands a whole person,
one who is firmly anchored in the center of his life,
who is not obsessed by lust for people and things
and the demon of isolation in his own ego.
Dancing demands a freed person,
one who vibrates with the equipoise of all his powers.
I praise the dance.
O man, learn to dance,
or else the angels in heaven will not know what to do with you."

~ Saint Augustine

Michael Wentink & Beata - Rumba - LATIN

"Rotating Lines" Original Watercolor Painting For Calculus Lovers-Glows In The Dark!

noreply@blogger.com (Renee Baker) — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:31:00 +0000

Quote Of The Day

noreply@blogger.com (Renee Baker) — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 17:32:00 +0000

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand."

Albert Einstein~

"Mind's Eye" Copyright 2008-All Rights Reserved. Renee Baker Designs

Tiny Nothings

noreply@blogger.com (Renee Baker) — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 21:26:00 +0000

“Give Dance A Chance”
has nothing to do
with blog
or blogging
forms of writing
To capture my moment
with a spirit of a dancer
and a great big heart
I choose to use
this opportunity
to record
my tiny nothings
random thoughts anyway
as I think I’d like to write
about feelings one day
with fresh eyes...
Let's dance!

1,2
3
4,5
6

quick, quick
slow
quick, quick
slow

Right, left
Right
Left, Right
Left...

A Living Reflection Of Our World

noreply@blogger.com (Renee Baker) — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:53:00 +0000

Photo by Renee: Norway

My friends,family and I were hanging out at Disney & Epcot Center this past weekend. I assume you know but just in case you don't know, Epcot-->(Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow) is one of the Walt Disney World theme parks. My favorite place to hang around! It is divided in two supercalifragilisticexpialidocious :) areas:

Future World and World Showcase.

Future World consists of a variety of areas that explore innovative aspects and applications of technology...Um diddle um diddle um diddle ay..<-- sorry about that...

...World Showcase features 11 areas representing different countries of the world: Canada, United Kingdom, France, Morocco, Japan,The American Adventure,Italy, Germany, China, Norway, Mexico, each area beautiful in it's own way!, music in the air!, people of all nations dancing on the streets!, Renee dancing with them!, singing like that---->la,la,la,la,la...

...it may start to sound pathetic but each dance, song, show and all the visitors from around the world I met that day at Epcot Center have helped to refashion the dreams of my heart. Their actions and happy faces made me turn eagerly back to believing that there is still love and hope for all of us in this world. See photos and video clips below~

Photos by Renee:France, Canada

1) "Like a grand and miraculous spaceship, our planet has sailed through the universe of time, and for a brief moment, we have been among it's many passengers."
Today we posses the ability to connect with one another instantly in the world.
By using our new tools to build better bridges between us we will discover we all share the common bonds of hope and sorrow, dreams and joys"
A new communications super network is being built before our eyes. Spaceship Earth glows with billions of interactions, carrying news and information at the very speed of light. But will these seemingly infinite communications become a flood of electronic bubble, or will we use this power to usher in a new age of understanding and cooperation on this, our Spaceship Earth?"

Narration taken from the "Spaceship Earth" ride ~

2) Illuminations: "Reflections of Earth" show consists of three parts: Chaos, Order and Celebration.

Finale

3) "May EPCOT Center entertain, inform and inspire and above all, may it instill a new sense of belief and pride in man's ability to shape a world that offers hope to people everywhere in the world."

—E. Cardon Walker, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Walt Disney Productions, October 24, 1982

*At last but not least:
No one has the right to say or decide on my behalf that the violence is the only way to go and that all of us can't be as one! Hand in hand, we can create the life we want by recognizing the power of our mind. In other words: We will be all OK if take the time to think before we act in any way. Thinking is not illegal yet!

Daily Reminder

noreply@blogger.com (Renee Baker) — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:25:00 +0000

Think!
It's not illegal yet.

Today Is That Day-The Liar's Diary by Patry Francis

noreply@blogger.com (Renee Baker) — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 06:00:00 +0000

I choose to grace my page today with covers and links to "The Liar's Diary" by Patry Francis. Her poetry and short stories have appeared in the Tampa, Colorado, Ontario and The American Poetry review, among the other publications. She is the three-time nominee for the Pushcart Prize and has twice been the recipient of the Massaschusetts Cultural Council Grant. The Liar's Diary (paperback) was just released today-January 29, 2008.

Patry Francis was diagnosed with cancer in November, 2007.

To find out how this wonderful artist/writer is coping with her illness please visit her blog at:

Simply Wait: Two Ounces of Bliss

To find out more about Patry and her work please visit her website at:

www.patryfrancis.com

About The Liar's Diary:

Publisher Comments:
A seductive psychological thriller about a woman facing the dark truths at the heart of her family
Jeanne Cross contented suburban life gets a jolt of energy from the arrival of Ali Mather, the stunning new music teacher at the local high school. With a magnetic personality and looks to match, Ali draws attention from all quarters, including Jeanne's husband and son. Nonetheless, Jeanne and Ali develop a deep friendship based on their mutual vulnerabilities and long-held secrets that Ali has been recording in her diary. The diary also holds a key to something darker: Alis suspicion that someone has been entering her house when she is not at home. Soon their friendship will be shattered by violence and Jeanne will find herself facing impossible choices in order to protect the people she loves.

Synopsis:
Answering the question of what is more powerful--family or friendship?,this debut novel unforgettably shows how far one woman would go to protect either. This chilling tour of troubled minds signals the launch of an immensely talented new novelist who knows just how to keep her readers guessing.

The Liar's Diary Book Trailer was created by Sheila Clover English, CEO Of Circle Seven Productions
Courtesy of Eileen Hutton at Brilliance Audio.

To buy the book or two click on one of the links below ~

The Liar's Diary Paperback at Amazon

The Liar's Diary Paperback at Powell's

The Liar's Diary Paperback at Barnes & Noble

You can also buy directly from Penguin
*After you add the book to your cart, just enter the word PATRY in the coupon code field and click ‘update cart’ to activate the 15% discount.

Please note:
This is not one of these "pay per post" blog posts!

Sit Down And Write!

noreply@blogger.com (Renee Baker) — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:03:00 +0000

The Perfect Match

Aspiring
Backer
Confident
Down-To-Earth
Enthusiast
Natural Manager
Practical
Playful
Religious individual
overall focused and absent from time to time!

"Red Bull Art Of Can" 2008 Exhibition - Open For Entries

noreply@blogger.com (Renee Baker) — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:29:00 +0000

Creative souls are invited to submit an original piece of artwork inspired by or created with Red Bull cans. The 2008 Houston exhibition marks the seventh Red Bull Art of Can to take place in the US.
Juried-No restrictions. Open to everyone!
Click on the picture below to find out more and to register. Hopefully I'll see you in Houston!