Happy New Years!!!

Its not quite the New Year yet, but I thought I'd drop a line real quick to say Happy New Years!! I am going to share my resolutions too...so I can be held more accountable for them! I have three major ones...

1. Lose 50 pounds - I could probably stand to lose more, but I wanted to give myself a reasonable amount to lose in a year. I think this is more than reasonable. If I get to this goal earlier, I will set another one! I am going to reach this goal by doing Weight Watchers Online.
2. Don't buy beads or crafting materials unless its from money earned from sales. This is a difficult one. I am seriously addicted to buying beads. I need to get a handle on it and myself. I need to use what I have currently. I need to focus more of my time on crafting with what I have and trying to sell what I craft. I think I just established how I'll reach this goal...so I don't have to get into that.
3. Organize my time better. This is actually several little goals all wrapped into one. I hate clutter, and if you were to look at my desk and my crafting area, you would never know it. Its very overwhelming...so one of the small goals is to declutter and get rid of "stuff" There is a lot of "stuff" we have, and its just taking up space. I have two options for getting rid of it. Either online through, ebay or something like it...Or I could bless others with it. Recently I have just been doing a lot of giving away. I gave away my polymer clay stuff, I gave away my candle making stuff. I gave a way a lot of household items to the Goodwill. It is easier and faster to give away. Its probably what I'll do with most of my stuff. I also want to be able to do several thing in one day. I am not very good at managing time right now...I seem to take too long on one thing. I will organize a daily calendar for myself and treat everything I do like its my job.

That is all I can come up with right now. If I come up with more ways of achieving these, I'll let you know! I would love to hear your New Year's Resolutions or ideas on how I can achieve mine. Or Both! Have a wonderful 2008! Be safe!!

I haven't dropped off...

I haven't dropped off the face of the Earth! I have just been so busy getting ready for Christmas, and family visiting. I have nothing to share, really...not this time. Although, as I am sitting here thinking, I did post a new bracelet on Monday.

Its called Autumn Memories



I haven't made any jewelry lately, aside from earrings. Oh, wait...I did make a sweet little bracelet for a very little girl. She's about 8 months, I believe. It was for my hairdresser's daughter. I don't know why, but I am terrible at taking pictures of gifts I have made. It was really cute. After I wrapped everything up, I realized I didn't take a single photo!! Oh well!! I had just never made children's jewelry before, and it would have been nice to have in my collection.

I am cutting this short today... (Not that short!!) I still have lots of stuff to do!! Including going to the market to get groceries for our Christmas dinner! I probably won't be back until after the holiday...so I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday!!! Merry Christmas! Happy Boxing Day! I hope to have something in here before the New Year...so I won't mention that yet!!

Excuses Excuses!

I have been sick this week. Thats it...that is my excuse for not posting. I made some cute bracelets last weekend, and then I got sick. I have pretty much been taking it easy or sleeping all week. It sucks. I am better now, and I have lots to do! First...Props...I haven't done this in quite awhile, so long in fact I am not sure what needs to be done. Sadly, I am going with the most recent first!

Tamarasherbes Talk about wonderful!! First, you couldn't deal with a more delightful person than Tamara. She is great, I had all kinds of questions for her, and she answered every single one. She is very nice and helpful. I haven't tried everything I have gotten from her, some are gifts, that is if I can part with them. Last month she had a drawing, and the person that won, got all kinds of free goodies from her. I WON!! I am so spoiled now!! I am keeping most of my goodies, but since I dipped into the gift pile, I am replenishing with some of my freebies. I can't really go into detail about the wonderful stuff I got now, just in case those family members are reading. I will say that I got the Happy Hippy Herbal Tea in the gift basket and its wonderful!

The tea is the only thing I have tried so far that isn't going to someone else as a gift, so I really can't comment on other things I have tried. I can say however, that I am looking very forward to trying both the Herbal Bath Tea and the Hair Therapy and Hair Rinse. I also have to send out a big thanks to Trinket Tree for blogging about her store.

Wow...I really went on and on about that...now everything else will pale in comparison. Of course I cannot talk about gifts...and most of them are being specially made, so they're not here yet anyway!

Ok, now in no particular order the following....

I got these beautiful boro beads from Dhea of Javabead way back in October. I have yet to make anything with them. This is so typical of me. I buy beads, especially lampwork, hold on to them for months and months, and then create. I don't know if I have mentioned this before but I am a bit of a bead hoard. Oh...the picture...


Aren't they beautiful? I can't wait to use them! I say that...but we all know it will be a long time before I do that!

One last prop...
I saw this ornament, and I just HAD to have it! This is from doodlebugfinery She has a few similar ornaments listed. This little guy is great! DH doesn't like him, but too bad, I do! He's lavender filled, and he smells wonderful!



This was meant to be a short post...but then I decided, lets do props...I guess I am also in a babble mood. So one last thing before I sign out.

My latest addition to my store. I call it Inspired Its got to be one of my favorite bracelets I have made to date. Of course, I don't know about other artists, but for me, favorites are always changing. Favorite colors, favorite gemstones, favorite T-Shirt...the list can go on and on. I am pretty sure I have a new favorite something almost every week.



Hopefully I haven't gone on and on too much!