New Beads! Finally :)

It's taken me dang near forever to get these beads cleaned and photographed, but I finally did it.  Finally.  :)

So here is a sneak peak of the ones that are about to start going into the shop.  Now.

Here's a shot of some of the green beads I made that may end up going into the shop later.  I made these on special request for jewelry gifts.  It will be the last jewelry I make, if I hear back on these.  I may have missed my window of opportunity on that.  All I have to say about that is bronchitis for 5+ weeks really stunk and threw me into a tailspin on so many fronts.  Slowly digging my way out.  So very thankful to be able to breathe normally again.

Here are re-takes on the discs I shared over a month ago.  Finally got some sunlight for shooting beads, so I wanted to pull these out and rephotograph them since the originals were so dark on my dining room table.  These are all still in the shop and I will be updating the listings to add these photos today.

And now I am off to start updating Etsy as I enjoy the sunshine streaming in through my windows.  We are supposed to hit a sunny 65 today and that makes me oh-so-happy.

Finding My Balance

Why am I so scattered lately?  I finished my Christmas shopping before Halloween, yet I am still rushing to get so many things done.  I feel like I'm getting next to no time with my camera or my torch.  How did I get everything done when I worked full time?  We got our Christmas tree up last week and decorations inside the house set out.  It's looking like the outside of our home may not get decorated this year.  Thankfully we have a gorgeous home across the street to gaze upon from our dining room and bedroom windows.  :)

This post really makes me smile.  I love hearing/seeing when goals are reached and dreams become reality.

Love LOVE LOVE this post and encouraging people to grow from failures.  But then, I just love encouraging people.  I think we are all capable of more than we know and having our own cheerleader helps us get closer to our goals.

This has been my week for catch up on so many fronts.  Laundry.  Cleaning out cabinets.  Family blog posts and photo/file organization.  Photography orders.  Family calendars designed & ordered (the one year I didn't do it, I was threatened within an inch of my life by multiple grandparents.  note-to-self, do NOT make the grandparents angry by failing to deliver calendars.  ever again.).  My mind is clearing as many things are crossed off my mental To Do list. 

The kids will be out of school for the next two weeks and I can't wait to spend every minute with them!  We will be taking a little roadtrip with friends to a nearby canyon in Northwest Georgia.  Baking cookies.  Christmas crafts.  Playing outside (bless the South and temps in the 50s and 60s and sometimes the 70s in the month of December!) on bikes, rollerblades, scooters and tossing around footballs, baseballs and hitting a tennis ball back and forth.  Family is flying and driving in.  Another roadtrip up the coast to visit my best friend in North Carolina may work out (fingers crossed).  We will be painting a couple of chairs and making cushions for them so the kids have their own special desk chairs.  These next few weeks are going to fly by.  I just know it.

Those beads above will all be going into the shop at 2pm EST this afternoon.

Shop Update Today! (pssst. eggs are included!)

Here are pics of all the sets going in the shop in just under two hours!

And these sets of eggs are also going in the shop.  :)

This week has flown.  It feels like today should be Friday.  I made close to 250 beads in just three days.  I got close to 250 beads all cleaned in just three days!  The boy child finished a diorama of the Piedmont that is due tomorrow.  The girl child finished reading her first real chapter book after starting it last week.  Two of my photos got published in a Minneapolis magazine which you can read about here.  And I rid our bathroom of a nasty stink that was lingering for a few days after I found a dead snake underneath Todd's sock bin in our bathroom (thanks Jezzie).  All in all, a rather productive week!

I hope your week is going just as swimmingly!

Eggs Going into the Shop Today!

Wow!  I have over 50 eggs that have been split up into 18 little groups that will be going into my shop at 2pm EDT this afternoon.  I let my kids have fun deciding on the color combos and groups, so we have only one group of two...the rest will all be fraternal triplets.  Some of the eggs have randomly unique spots or a dusting of speckles on their bottoms....those will have additional pics in the listings.  There are a handful of etched eggs scattered throughout these batches.

See you at 2pm!