I've been trying...

I've been trying to stretch my jewelry wings, and make things I haven't made before. I really think these earrings I made last week fit the bill! :) I shaped the wire and coiled more tiny wire around the rounded shapes, and then added the lovely lampwork bead in the middle (lampwork is by agirlandherglass.net) and I was very pleased with the results! I have the urge to make more wirework, but my polymer clay items are really starting to sell and I am torn...

Good Morning!

Good morning! My son's grandmother loaned me her digital camera yesterday, so I can now add more jewelry to my shop! That means I better get to work...lol. Of course, I am job hunting now, and spending so much time being my son's personal chauffeur, I hope I can find time for the jewelry making too. This is a picture of my son I took this morning while he was on the sofa waiting for the bus to come. :)

The job hunting is rather necessary though, I graduated with my Bachelor's Degree in Social Work in May, and I really need to put that diploma to use, so I can pay back my student loans-lol!

Speaking of job hunting and school, found out that my university charges $5 per official transcript, and I will need one every time I go on a job interview...I can see this becoming rather costly, they still want your money after you graduate I see.

Trying out ETSY Storque Showcase

Well, I missed the day of the regular showcase, so today I'm trying out the ETSY online zine (Storque) showcase, to see how it goes. I am switching out items during the day, to see how many views I am getting, and to see if I will actually make any sales off of the showcase. Keep your fingers crossed for me! :)

The lovely polymer clay seahorse that I had on my last post has been claimed by a lovely lady, I really need to get my daughter in the mood to make more polymer items, she is so good at it! :) She's a very talented girl, heehee, if I do say so myself! :) I'm adding a froggie pendant that she made to today's post to prove it! This froggie idea was inspired by Christi Friesen's beautiful work.

I see it's been a while since I've written...life is hectic

I see it's been a while since I've written...life is hectic right now with school having started back and my son is in band. I have to take him to practices 2 nights a week, youth 2 nights a week, games every other week, and other assorted mom-type taxi service duties.

We were discussing bookcases and therefore books in the ETSY forums the other day and I had to admit to something that I hadn't told my daughter yet....

You see, I've been collecting books all my adult life, although I have to weed them out now & then because umm...yeah they'd take over the house otherwise. My daughter says the books are hers when I go.../giggle! She can't have 'em-I'm taking them with me dangit-what would the afterlife be without my books? Hell, I tell ya!

I just told her yesterday, she ain't getting my books...she may never speak to me again!

But hey, to make it up to her a little bit, I will add one of her items from my shop to my blog today! :)

Sob...

Sob...excuse my crying but my camera broke! It will still work for distance pictures but the close-up button no longer works-weird...my son says it's been dropped on it's head one too many times. He may be right-he's an expert on the subject, after all! /giggle (just kidding, of course, I work on a volunteer basis with abused children-I would never hurt a child!)

Anyway, I really can't add anything new to my shop until I can get a new camera...therefore the sobbing, as I am broke right now-heehee! Darn expensive children, that teenager of mine keeps growing and needing new clothes and shoes, and then there's the band fees and band camp and youth camp-he costs way too much money. Fortunately for him (and me!), he's a good kid-and so worth the expense! :)

I really need to get back to the polymer but...

This lovely purple heart sold today. I really need to get back to working with the polymer clay but it's so hot here it would melt in my hands before I could create anything. This particular item sold because I posted on one of the jewelry forums I belong to about someone's purple jewelry set (because purple is my favorite color!) and they clicked on my link to my shop, and purple just happened to be her favorite color too...

tee heee! :)

Ah well, if it ever cools down here in North Carolina, expect more polymer clay items in my shop! I love working with it, when it's not making a mess in my hands due to the extreme heat. I've come a long ways from my childhood days of play-doh. With play-doh all I could make was a great ugly multi-color'ed lump of clay. If you haven't given polymer clay a try you should-it's tons of fun!

The heart idea is inspired by Christi Friesen's work-google her-you won't be sorry! :)

Have you ever heard of...

Have you ever heard of yeast overgrowth? I've been not doing well because severe food allergies and chemical sensitivity, smell sensitivity for a while now(almost 10 years-though it has been much worse in the past 3 or 4). In the past year I've lost almost 100 pounds (thank God I was severely overweight to start with) because of anaphylatic reactions to most foods that I have tried to eat. I was down to organic wheat noodles and spinach. I'm now eating organic skim milk with organic puffed wheat-something I could not do before because of a casein allergy. I started on some very strong probiotics 2 weeks ago and the nervousness is gone, the racing heart is gone, the sudden fevers are gone, and so are the topical yeast breakouts, and I now have the energy that I used to have. Hmm...methinks I'm onto something. Although my doctors tried to put it off on my nerves! The nerve of them! I asked them about the possibility of candida overgrowth, and they poo-pooed the very idea of it. =/ There are no homeopathic doctors in my small town. I am going to try to slowly reintroduce other foods back into my diet-not my two severest allergies of course-peanuts and seafood, but the others. Wish me luck y'all!

PS I am posting about this because I figure I am not the only one with this problem. I purchased powdered probiotics from custom probiotics because they had some with high potency and absolutely no additives.

PPS I was gonna tell y'all this week about how my son went off to band camp and didn't call me even once...but hey-that's the gist of it! Ungrateful brat! Teehee!