Melissa J. Lee
Saturday, March 3, 2018

Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On

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So, five years ago, after I had completely stopped designing jewelry, we moved into temporary housing, preparatory to selling our house. ...
Thursday, June 2, 2016

Video Games Are Life

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Since the end of the school year is approaching, the SO has started to bring home all of his artwork.  He handed this to me today.  Appa...
Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Tarina Tarantino x Kidrobot (or Finally Talking About Jewelry, Even if It's Not Mine)

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Here's my little shrine to Tarina Tarantino x Kidrobot. Back in 2008, we visited the Kidrobot store in Soho (which, alas, has since ...
Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Merry Wanderer of the Night

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Continuing on with my Mardi Gras throw-inspired crafting, here's a glittery wristlet purse.  The Mystic Krewe of Nyx throws hand-d...
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Saturday, April 5, 2014

Happy Are They Whom the Muses Love

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Hello, anyone out there?!?  I have no idea if anyone is still reading this blog after my continuing, years-long hiatus, but I...
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Friday, November 9, 2012

Playtime

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Here's the first piece of jewelry I've made in over a year.  (My son really loves LEGO, can you tell?)  It's a neck cuff ass...
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Monday, April 16, 2012

Easter Egg Maracas

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I went to Target this morning for sundries and discovered that the store has marked down all Easter supplies to 90% off original price.  ...
Sunday, March 11, 2012

All I Got Was a Rock

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I finally decided that hauling the SO out to collect geodes in a riverbed was not realistic, at least for the next year or two given his...
Wednesday, January 11, 2012

I'm in love...

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Oh, how I love this...  (The artist is painting between layers of resin, fyi.) (Yes, I'm still alive - I even have new work to show,...
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Friday, July 22, 2011

Fire Mountain Gems and Beads, Grand Prize Silver Medal Winner

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I've produced so few new pieces in the past couple years, it gives me a great deal of pleasure to be able to reveal, finally, one of my ...
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Thursday, July 14, 2011

Still Alive, Still on Hiatus

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My in-laws were visiting, and they took the SO (and me) to the Museum of Science and Industry. Ironically, he wanted to spend most of his t...
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Monday, June 20, 2011

Who Does Mattel Think It Is?

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Okay, I admit it, I'm steaming mad. My son, about whom I often write, is 5 years old. He adores superheroes. Simply adores. For hi...
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Sunday, April 24, 2011

Bead & Jewelry Linky Love

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I've been reviewing old work recently. Here's one of the first necklaces I ever made, "Charmed Kiss", designed around one...
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Saturday, April 23, 2011

Shameless Self-Promo

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I just received my author copy of the magazine in the mail today - it was a fun trip down memory lane. The bulk of the projects I wrote for...
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Thursday, April 21, 2011

Roman Glass

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My local bead store, Chelsea's Beads , has just brought in a really nice shipment of Roman glass beads. (I took a look, and some of them...
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Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Trumped

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Perfect Bronze Bead by Anne Choi. Last year, I had this great idea to expand my "Love is a Puzzle" series of pendants - a big rebu...
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Monday, April 18, 2011

The Weather is Here

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Here's the view from my window this morning. The Short One was mighty excited (you can see his tracks in the bottom left of the photo)....
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Sunday, April 17, 2011

Bead and Jewelry Linky Love

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"Celestial" - my fine silver Lunar Phases pendant with gorgeous turquoise drums and onyx Here are your intriguing links for the we...
Wednesday, April 13, 2011

A Cunning Plan?

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So, my husband showed up at the dinner table tonight with the above photo - have you ever seen cuter bunnies nestled up together? Neither h...
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Monday, April 11, 2011

A Good Problem to Have?

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So, I've had this "problem" rattling around in the craft closet. A while ago, when I was relatively new to metal clay and the...
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Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Eye Candy

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I just finished my Bead Dreams entry yesterday, as usual, running right down to the wire - but I did make the deadline. Barely. Anyway, wo...
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Saturday, March 12, 2011

Grubby Muses

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Here's a little art project the Short One recently completed at school. I have to admit, I like it quite a bit. It reminds me of a sim...
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Monday, March 7, 2011

Shameless You-Know-What

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It took me ages to track them down in the U.S., but I did finally manage to get copies of Issues 27 and 28 of Bead Magazine - with full cov...
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Thursday, March 3, 2011

One of My Favorite Things

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Sarah Moran sent this photo to me ages ago, but, of course, since I haven't exactly been lively on the blog, it got buried. We traded ...
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Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Still Alive

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I just thought I'd drop in quickly to say that, yes, I am still here! I've received such wonderful, kind messages from friends and ...
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Melissa J. Lee
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I am an intellectual property lawyer by training and have a background in English Renaissance literature. I love science fiction. I primarily watch Sesame Street these days and find myself humming "Pop Goes the Weasel" at odd moments (guess why). I can happily eat ice cream in the middle of winter when the wind chill is 20 below 0. I have been making beads and designing jewelry since 2007.
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