One of a Kind Designs

05/22/2026

05/22/2026

Some of the things I completed or have worked on this week!

05/19/2026

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05/13/2026

Man the most destructive animal!

Fireflies are not just disappearing from fields.

They are disappearing from memory.

The real detail is this: their glow is not decoration. It is language.

Each flash is a tiny signal sent through the dark, a coded invitation from one beetle to another. Males blink from the air. Females answer from grass, shrubs, and leaf litter. For millions of summers, the system worked because night was actually dark.

Then came porch lights, parking lots, lawn chemicals, and cleaner-looking yards with fewer wild edges.

Many firefly larvae spend months underground or in damp leaf litter, hunting snails, slugs, and worms before they ever become the floating lanterns people remember.

That means the damage often starts before anyone notices the lights are gone.

A pesticide does not have to hit the glowing adult to break the future. A floodlit yard does not have to kill a firefly to silence its courtship.

That is the quiet tragedy here.

We may not be losing a bug.

We may be losing one of summer’s oldest conversations.

05/12/2026

Summer is here 2026!

05/11/2026

From left to right! I just couldn’t pass up those ice cream cups or the popsicle makers from the dollar store!

05/11/2026

Finished another wreath today that has been in my head and storage locker for awhile. Real Chianti bottle…a picnic for two! They don’t always have flowers or bows and or represent a holiday. They could be a reminder of fond memories.

04/16/2026

First try adding my logo photos!

12/12/2025

Yup!

THIS was my Christmas as a young child.
It was like hitting the jackpot getting a stocking like this! ❤️🎄
I still love oranges, and the smell of oranges, especially at Christmas because of this memory!
Kids these days will never understand!🫤

12/06/2025

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