The (Slowly Emerging) Debut of "Barefoot & Bipolar Designs"

"Barefoot & Bipolar Designs" 

A Reasonably Happy Subsidiary of Morse Code Jewelry

I've been toying with this idea for years... NON-morse code jewelry.  But I didn't want to do it unless it had something truly unique to offer.  I think I've come upon a few ideas.  That's not to say that I won't make jewelry just because it's beautiful, but I wanted the debut to involve something special.  

Nothing is officially for sale yet, as mcj's website needs to be retrofitted to accommodate online purchases (there will also be a morse code jewelry outlet there for pieces that need a home!) but I thought I'd post these pictures to whet your appetite.

Below is a 1.5 inch diameter pendant, with a sterling silver bail (mounted on frosted acrylic just for photography) that features an antique postcard image of Minot Light in Scituate, MA (Cohasset likes to make a fuss that Minot Light belongs to them, but that's jive... ;)

The glass is jeweler's grade mineral crystal, and it is sealed and sanded into the back of the glass via hand-casting with resin. 

It is a genuine postcard, and you can see the aging of the paper both front and back, which is linen-based.  As I write this the date of the card is in another room, but if I had to guess from the comfort of my couch, I think I remember it being circa 1912.

From what I understand from the lady who sold me the postcard, I might cause quite a dustup with hard-core postcard collectors by "destroying" it the way I did... Sorry 'bout that, gang.

Next to come will be sand, yes, literally sand, enclosed in glass pendants from local beaches.  It will be "loose" under a low-domed piece of glass.  I've had several stops and starts getting this one right.  You wouldn't think it would be hard to sandwich a little sand in between a couple of pieces of glass, but it can get messy pretty quick if you don't have a steady hand.  Nothing a little quake-gel and sponge q-tips won't fix, though...  Yeah, I know.  What the heck am I talking about... I'm not entirely sure either, but that's the solution that's workable right now to get it done.  It may become more Rube Goldberg as I go.  Who knows.

In the meantime, keep watching the blog and twitter and www.mcjusa.com for more updates and announcements!

Think the NEA under Obama would approve of either one of these?

The "Miss Me Yet" picture below originally featured a photo of a smiling & waving W. (He spent like a Democrat, but kept us safe like a MAN... unlike the radical-man-child we have now in the Oval Office) but someone who reads Michelle Malkin (who is a smart as she is beautiful) Photoshopped it and sent it to her and she posted it on her website.

The Obama picture below it, also from her website, seems the perfect flip side to this one, huh?

My 110 pound lap dog...

There he is.  Gizmo the Wonderpup, also known as the Fields Family Homeland Security, frolicking in this morning's snowfall, on school vacation, while indoors, the Pink Mafia, aka, Leigh, Kaela, and Coryne Fields, drive their mother insane...

He was only supposed to be about 70-80 pounds.  He just kept growing, and growing... like Clifford the Big Red Dog "Love makes little things grow..."

He has no concept whatsoever that's he's not a chihuahua... Just climbs right up on me with the slightest encouragement....

Oh boy.

President Transparency?

Just came across this post on an Executive Order Obama signed on his first day in office shielding Presidential records from the Freedom of Information Act... Papers that previous Presidents made available.

It's his first day... Unless he's got or is planning to have something to hide, why, on his first day, would Mr. Transparency be so concerned about keeping his papers secret?

I give you the "regular person" test... the one that absolutely NOONE in the mainstream media seems to feel the effect of... ever:

If it's you, and you're in charge, and you have nothing to hide, and you know that the usual, long-standing protections regarding national security, etcetera, are already in place, and you're just there to protect and defend the constitution, are you this paranoid? You're not George Washington, okay?  It's not like you're the first guy ever who has been President and have to be mindful of the law of unintended consequences and balance historical record with keeping our secrets from the bad guys... There are nearly four dozen presidents before you who made sure that the release of Executive papers won't endanger the American people in any way.  So if it's not the American people you are trying to protect, that leaves only one person... YOU.


THINK about this.  Obama's legal counsel didn't just wake up, hungover from the Inaugural Balls, answer the phone and get the order to proceed, bloodshot eyes and shaking hands, over to the computer and slap together the proper and precise legal language to enact this executive order so his boss could sign it later that morning. This required planning, thought, approval, specifics... Obama had intent, here.  He had something in mind.  Multiple somethings.... What?


IT DEFIES COMMON SENSE.  THIS is why people are so enamored with Scott Brown and Sarah Palin - because they don't do "weird" stuff like this.  They don't do stuff that DEFIES COMMON SENSE and FLUNKS THE SMELL TEST.

So much of what Obama does requires the willful suspension of disbelief... over and over and over again...