This is just one of the fun night light shades I've made over the past year, Paris in the Night. This was a collaboration of my soul sista Lashell (yep same name different spelling) of DesignTalentedOne on Etsy. You can visit her store at

http://www.designtalentedone.etsy.com/

to see more of her interesting and unique creations!

I plan on putting these night lights in our Festival of the Arts this summer. Visit my shoppe to see more of these cute little prism flashing shades!

Designs By LaShelle

I try to bring beauty into everything I do and sometimes I run out of materials. I have to tell you about what one soul did for me.

We were laid off at my company for a while and I was running out of supplies and couldn't create anything more. One day I came home and to my suprise there was a bag on my front porch. It was FULL of wire, beads and other findings. It was like Christmas!

I came in the house, got online to check my etsy store and I had a convo from one CatherineMarissa.

You can check her shoppe out at

http://www.catherinemarissa.etsy.com/

She was the one who I found out left this delightful and very needed bag of wonderful "overflow" from her own craft supplies.

I began making things right away, trying to create through tears is tough. But there was no stopping me. The need to bead! Through the kindness of this dear woman I was able to list more things in my shoppe and to this day I still can't believe it. But that's the heart of CatherineMarissa.

THIS IS WHERE IT ALL HAPPENS

This is where it all happens when it's time to make something wonderful.

I'll sit and think about how I'm feeling at the time and begin to handle beads and then start to envision what I want to do. Early in the morning around 4:30am is the best time for me to begin to formulate ideas in my head and it just all starts to come together. Creating a new piece of jewelry or night light shade takes a lot of thought and other times I can make so much as it flows across my mind my fingers can't keep up.

I love to laugh. Anyone that knows me knows that I just wanna crack up, I can be serious but not too often. I love life, want to live it and live it well.

I would love to get to the place in life where I could afford it to do what I really want to do. I love elderly people. I love their stories, their charm and their wisdom. I can learn so much from just listening to everything they would have to tell me. It would be a priviledge to care for them, even in my own home. But it wouldn't pay the bills.

I had a daycare at one time, for 4 years. I love children as well, caring for people is so rewarding. But again, it doesn't provide enough money for medical insurance. So I stay at the job I'm at until my ship comes in, but at this point I'd take a row boat.