Thanksgiving Specials Sale!

At 7p I'll put up my Thanksgiving Specials! :) That's in less than 10 minutes! :)


GO HERE!!

Stupid Animals.

Why do I have animals? I keep asking myself. Really. And it has nothing to do with the Little Dogs either, it has to do with Jeff's dog, Sallie. She's a wonderful dog (for the most part) but she likes to chew on odd things (ie: pencils, eats crayons, tubes of lipstick, containers of lip gloss, plastic cups). Who eats this stuff? We've actually known for a long time that this was her drug of choice, especially crayons, because we would find the "evidence" in the yard. ::wink wink:: I've complained about it for a long time too, but I have to admit she is a sweet dog so I try to overlook her flaws.

This morning I went down to my studio room, which is across from the girls room. It was early. And the girls are sleeping. I look in and see Sallie covered (and I do mean covered) in red lipstick. Red. Lipstick. Her nose, her paws. Covered. Aside from the fact that she looks ridiculous, the girls carpet, which my mother JUST cleaned and looked wonderful, now has red lipstick on it. A large spot. Large. Like the size of my butt, large. I'm furious. I wasn't even going to mention it but it has me so livid, that I need to tell someone. That's you.

Jeff just said, "I guess I could find her a new home". Um. No. That is not an option. People who do that sort of thing upset me. It's like turning your child over to an adoption agency and saying, "I don't want you anymore". So that option isn't an option. She is our responsibility and she'll die with us, whether she does it on her own due to old age or we kill her during one of her eating sprees. Nah. I'm kidding about that last bit, right? lol Anyway, I just don't agree with finding her a new home. This is her home. Whether we like it or not, we picked her and we have to take all of her. She is after all, kind to everyone.

So, does anyone know what can get Lancome Red Lipstick out of white carpet? Help if you can.

Miserable in Kentucky,

Yay for less stress!

Phew. I have a few more to do. I cannot, absolutely cannot believe it. I feel good. The wind is at my back and everything that I've been stressing over is nearly over.

Jeff's new job begins on Monday. Yay! Our lives will change (quite a bit) because his new schedule will have us turning into morning people...to say the least. He asked me several months back about whether I thought it would be okay if he applied for a job as a bus driver for our county. Of course it's alright! I was thrilled. It meant that he would be close by, working here in Woodford County, and he could continue being Youth Pastor at our church. What better opportunity could there be? I know. Awesomeness. (that's a word.) The job is low-stress, minding that you don't have to contend with bratty teenagers but in my fifteen years of being married to this man, I know without a doubt that he'll have absolutely NO problem dealing with those creatures. ::snort:: I'm super excited!

Well, I thought I would surprise everyone with some new things before the Thanksgiving Specials but it doesn't look like that's going to happen. I got so engrossed in finishing orders, that I didn't have time to upload any photos. Sorry. It will just make you excited for Monday night @7p. Be there or be square! :) Look for the link "Thanksgiving Fun" in my categories section of the Shoppe's site.

Alrighty you! Have a great weekend. We have a fun day planned for tomorrow. We're headed to see Scrooge (in 3D) with some friends. I'm not entirely thrilled because I'll need to wear either my contacts or "enjoy" wearing two sets of glasses to see the screen. Ahhhh, the fun of poor eye sight! lol Contacts it is, I spose. Anyway, everyone's looking forward to the day. Me too!

Have a lovely evening. :)

just a note...

I've started this blog post three times. I just can't seem to write what I need to just now. My mind is spinning with a new idea and yet I haven't even created it yet...it is however, built in my mind.

I want to tell you the name. But I can't. You'll have to wait.

I'll talk to you soon. :)

New things...

Good Evening! Just wanted to let you know that my Circle of Life earrings are back in stock along with a new style that's slightly similar but different! :) To purchase, go HERE.


And here's one that I meant to post some time back... I can only duplicate this one time. To view more photos of this SET, go HERE.

I hope your evening is going well, we're late with dinner and Jeff is making breakfast food. My kids are thrilled! lol Talk to you tomorrow!

Old is New.

Hello!

I snagged one of these vintage circa 1923 Aqua glass Ball jars from Etsy, complete with vintage lid and all. It's beautiful. I'm on a mission to find more of them at yard and rummage sales later this Spring. I have a plan for them. They're fairly pricey so finding one at a decent price is tricky. Mine was about 8 dollars with free shipping, so that's not bad, but some of them can be super expensive (like 20 bucks each. um? no.) I'm all for the whole vintage-costs-more thing but I also like a bargain. When it came in the mail the family looked at me like, "seriously Mom? a old jar?" lol And I told them to mind their own business, that not everything that's wonderful is brand new and shiny. :) Some things are beautiful because of their age. Appropriately enough, the aqua glass jar arrived on my birthday. ::wink wink::

Isn't this little Gnome cute? It reminds me of the Amazing Race Travelocity Gnome, doesn't it? :) (we're Amazing Race fans here) These little glass terrariums are easy to make, and the girls want one in their room. So cute!

In other news... I'm home today...

Thank YOU all so much for the wonderful, wonderful comments about my work. Everyone's packages are arriving now, and thankfully my overseas customers are finally getting theirs too. If you haven't gotten your box yet, it's coming! I finished twelve yesterday and off they went. Today's batch will be about sixteen, possibly twenty, it just depends on how much I can accomplish without my phone ringing. lol Lots of calls came into my house yesterday. Jeff will handle them today, he's working from home today and hopefully he'll work on the laundry. ::sigh:: It's always looming. Boo hiss.

Enjoy your day! :)

Everyone Waits.

Moon took this photo of me and did a Vintage coloring to it. She knows how much I adore Vintage. My next family photo will be done in this style. It's not too bright, not black and white, not sepia, just somewhere in the middle...slightly softer, I just love it. We're still waiting on the rest of our photos from the shoot. Argh! The waiting is killing us! lol It's worth it though so no complaining from me. I know how long it takes to edit photos. A long time!

My silver order arrives tomorrow. I cannot wait. It's like waiting for Christmas morning and none of the silver is for me, but I don't care... I just love unwrapping it and touching it and seeing all the shiny-ness and how wonderful it will make you when combined with other wonderful things. :) So I wait. And wait.

In the meantime, I'm working on the very very last of the orders. It will be so nice for everyone to have all their things. My mind aches for a clean slate, with nothing swimming in my head, no loose ends to finish up. My overseas orders have taken extremely long to arrive and my post office assures me that they will get there just fine but that they're very behind at the moment. My part-time mailman (the fella who takes over when our regular mailman is off), said that they are down several mailmen. I asked why he was so late (it was almost dark when he got here!) and he said that he hoped to finish the route before the sun went down. Ugh! So I know they're working as best they can.

I guess everyone is doing the waiting game at the moment.

I'm off. I have so much to do! And I just can't chat! Enjoy the beautiful weather and I'll yack atcha later!!!

Happy Sunday.

Natalie. :) She's so pretty.


I love this face.

A sneak peek. Holiday News.

At our Sunday photo shoot with Moon, my folks had their pictures taken, the first for them in many years. We almost didn't do this event because it was very sunny, but in the end, it worked out well and although we have a few more sun rays than Moon would have liked... I love what I've seen so far.

Didn't this come out nicely? I think so too. :) And here's one of my Mom. I think this is fantastic! Her best color is Royal Blue. Love it!

There's more to come but I'll have to wait until next week to show you. Moon hasn't posted them yet. :)

In other news... I changed my Holiday Open House to December 14th @ 7p because of recent emails, asking me to. People are busy with events that weekend and you know what, I am too! I didn't realize it so I felt that Monday night would be a better time. I hope that works out for everyone. All of the bracelets will be pre-sized to an "average" length. If your wrist is larger or smaller, I will resize them but the time for that will be an additional 5 days. I won't be taking any orders on any of the Holiday items until AFTER Christmas. Well, let me back up... I will take orders on them, but I will not be working on them until AFTER Christmas. Make sense? My last several holidays with my family have been filled with stress and I just decided that this year I'd spend it with those I love and take some time off. I will resume work on January 7th.

However, that's not to say I won't be in my studio all that time. For me, I think that's virtually impossible since I adore working with beads and glass. So, if I post a "spontaneous special" it will be ready-to-ship that day. I'll make sure that if I post a special it will be in the morning so that it can be mailed off on the same day.

Okay my peeps! I hope you have a wonderful Saturday! My little girls are off to their BFF's house so I can get ready for our Boyd Orchard's event tonight with the Girl Scouts, Natalie is on her own Girl Scout two-day camping trip (she left last night at 5p) and Nathaniel is spending the night with his friends. lol So that's it! :) Happy Weekend everyone!

Happy Friday!

The Mums in my yard.


The pumpkins at our local orchard.

Happy Friday!

Working.

Hi. I'm working. I'm here and will be working until about 11p. So if you have questions, just email me. :)

Also, I won't have anything new for a little while. I have so much work to do (thank you so much!!! Yay!!!), that I want to finish this stuff up first. I have some things I made a few weeks ago but I'm going to save them for the Thanksgiving Day Specials. There's not much, just some fun things you might like for gifts. The Christmas Open House will be as big as I can make it. :) I'll do my best, promise. However, if there are things I can take orders on I will... but after the Sale I will not be working until the second week in January.

Talk to you later! :)

Lunch with friends...

I'm going to lunch with some girlfriends for my birthday. :)

I'll be back this afternoon. I don't have any specials to put up or anything, after allll the orders for my birthday sale, I'm going to be busy for a while. lol But I still have to get the last batch of orders out from the last sale, so I'll be working today and the remainder of the week to finish. Most of them just need finished off, photo'd and mailed. :)

Have a great afternoon!