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Just a quick note to let you know that my counseling agency has FINALLY made it's way to the cyber highway! NOW, besides finding your favorite counselor here at the Palace,



Wait, that's not me...excuse me a moment while I have an identity crisis...



Ah, yes. That's more like it...Anyhoodlyhoo, my counseling agency now has a website...I built it myself, so please don't mock or laugh me to scorn:

http://www.ccfsonline.com

I still have LOTs of tweaking to do, but there it is. In all its html glory. Also, you can find my counseling profile here:

http://www.ecounseling.com/counselors/71-paula-clouse

Yes, I do online counseling too! And if you live somewhere FABulous, I'll make house calls!

And I'm on Facebook here:

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/profile.php?id=739133569&ref=profile

And Twitter here:

http://twitter.com/PaulaClare

And my brother in law put up this puppy:

http://www.paulaclousecounseling.com

So there you have it...more places to find my faces than you'd EVER want to know about! So with all this availability, that means that YOU, dear reader, have no excuse but to be a glowing specimen of mental health!



I'm sure that is most certainly the case!

More soon!

XOXOXOX



Paula Clare!

ALTARED ART WEEKEND FAST APPROACHING!

Greetings, dear reader!

I am SO excited about the AltAred Art weekend coming up here at the Palace! There will be lots of art, creativity, laughing, chocolate, and mayhem believe me (when was the last time you got your "quota" of mayhem I ask?) Once again, I'll show you a couple of the things we'll be creating:

BANNER-A-GO-GO:









And we'll be making our version of Martha Bonneau's Getting Kitschy:



So, So, SO Adorable! What fun! I can't wait!

More soon!

XOXOXOX



Paula Clare!

IT'S ALIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVE!

Well, mostly.

Greetings dear reader! Paula Clare LIVE to you from the grave (WINK, I DO have a flair for the dramatic, don't I?) to report on some of the FABulous goodies I've acquired in my absence:

I finally bit the bullet and bought this set for my Ash Wednesday services and for other services where I preside:

Isn't it completely amazing? It is hand thrown by the good folks at Ocepek Pottery in Ohio. I can't tell you how much I love this particular set...I think it looks like something that might have been on our Lord's table at the Last Supper, don't you? (I never "got" the idea of a golden chalice or all the finery often used in church services...I don't think Jesus would have been so pretentious...but then, that's just one Franciscan's view on things!) Every year I scramble for some kind of vessel to use in the Ash Wednesday service, and every year I think, "Oh, if ONLY I had that hand thrown set..." so this year I purchased it. It is one of my greatest and most treasured possessions.

Now in a completely superfluous vein, I have finally discovered the monthly kit club I can afford, AND love:

It's a "Button of the Month" club. Are these not delish? AND a 3 month subscription is only 19.99! I am so excited to get these little goodies in the mail. They are like precious little works of art...definitely EYE CANDY that come to me direct from the artist's hands to my mailbox! Tessa Ann is an Etsy discovery...her shop is full of colorful goodness. The above collection is winging it's way to me as I type! WOOT! Some of the buttons are so gorgeous I'm sure I'll just back them with some fabulous paper and frame them! AND (and this is something I LOVE) the buttons are washable...so I can use them on sewing projects...can you say PILLOWS? Behold the pillow hand stitched while on my "death bed":



This is from a kit purchased at Elsie Flannigan's Red Velvet Art Studio, in Springfield, MO. Adorable, is it not?

More soon!

XOXOXOX



Paula Clare!

HOME AGAIN...AND SICK!

Greetings dear reader! So sorry for the lack of updates in the past week or so...

I was with my sister Peggy in Indiana the last weekend in February, and then went to babysit my grandson for a week in Springfield, MO. I hope to post photos of both shortly.

While in Springfield, I contracted some kind of plague and was violently ill with congestion, fever and a general malaise that makes one feel rather....bluk. I am home today instead of counseling because I woke up with a fever and feeling dizzy (er) than usual. So I am again sequestered to the sofa.

I will be updating with photos and more retreat info as soon as I can!

Thanks for your prayers and staying with me...even in my blogging absences

More soon!

XOXOXOX



Paula Clare!