June 27th's FREE BEADS winner is.....
~*~*~ Lisa from Oregon ~*~*~
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AND THIS WEEK's FREE BEADS!!!
OK! DONE!
I think I'm caught up now! Thanks for keeping the faith (and continuing to vote) that I'd be giving away FREE BEADS even when I didn't have any beads made. I may be a little late...but eventually I come through. Have a great evening!
monday morning
Well I finally told the truth. I made beads this weekend! I know! Can you believe it? It's been so long I thought I'd forgotten how. I really enjoyed myself. Especially with all I've had going on - it was a nice escape. And not only did I make beads for last, last week's AND last week's FREE BEADS but also for THIS WEEK's FREE BEADS! That is shocking! Finally I'm caught up. I've got 2 showings on the house today but I'll try to squeeze in some time this afternoon to photog them and get'em posted.
I did have a showing yesterday. I was a bit surprised. It's such a stinky market that I'm surprised there are people actually out there looking to buy. I'm very pleased we're getting some activity. I've got the house pretty easy to maintain so it only takes me about an hour give or take to get the house ready. I think turning on all the lights takes the longest. Plus I've got Patrick helping me out. He can pretty well guarantee that he's going to pull out the vacuum each time there's a showing. I'm pretty anal when it comes to selling my house. Everything has to be just so. It's like a ritual I have moving from room to room doing whatever it is that needs to be done. And I can't leave until it's all exactly right. Yet the house looks pretty good from yesterday so there's not too much to do today. I may only have to vacuum to erase the track marks on the carpet but everything else is pretty much good to go. Yea!
I just pray one of these lookers is ready to buy and likes my house. PLEASE!!!!!!!!! I'm tired of cleaning!!!!! Back with bead pics later AND winners from all these previous FREE BEAD drawings.
Stay tuned.
friday afternoon
I'm still here! This was a very busy week for me. The house is on the market, the realtor tour came through and now I can finally rest....for just a little while at least. All the hard work these past few weeks paid off. We're finally moved in! It took us 4 years, but we're finally living in our house the way I've wanted to live in it since I unlocked the front door. With all the moves we've made, we never really quite "moved-in". I find we just want to get all the boxes out of the way so we just put things wherever they fit. We never really organize or put things in the right place. So I found I was always cramming something here or there just to get it out of the way.
Since we did so much purging, that opened up space for necessities so now everything in my house has a home. And it feels so good - or will for the next 2 months that we're here. I find it's so easy to keep this house picked up now...and kind of makes me mad that it took me leaving to get it to this point! But alas I am and I'll relish in it for the rest of my stay.
Which brings me to beads. Although I didn't have time to bead this week, I think I may be able to this weekend - maybe even today! The boys are all going golfing in a bit so that'll leave me the afternoon to get my work space set up in the garage. If that goes well I may turn on the torch today. If not, I'll be ready for it tomorrow. So although I don't have last week's or this week's free beads...I hope to by the end of the weekend. And I also intend on FINALLY drawing names for the previous 3 weeks' winners this weekend too - I PROMISE.
I had a good suggestion from a gal that said I shouldn't fret over these free beads. With all I have going on, I should instead hold my drawings every OTHER friday. I think that's a fantastic idea. And I may just do that. But for now I'm going to "try" and see if I can get caught up and maybe get ahead of the game this weekend. I feel like I can finally relax just a little bit. I have another realtor tour next Tuesday but I'm pretty much ready to go.
So that's what's going on in my world. The fires up here are casting a very eerie fog in the sky. Kind of like the LA smog which we never get up here. Yet I should get used to them since I'm headed in that direction! I hope just living an hour north will keep us away from it...I so prefer blue skies. I pray they get these fires contained soon.
Stay tuned.
last week's FREE BEADS
friday afternoon
I'm back! Well, I've been back since Wednesday but I hit the ground running since I returned. It hit me this morning that today is FREE BEAD friday! And here I thought I was ahead of the game when in fact I'm a week behind. The beads you see pictured to the right are LAST week's FREE BEADS. I thought I already had last week's FREE BEADS posted. And yet, I still have not picked FREE BEAD winners from the 30th or the 6th..and now the 13th.
I don't have FREE BEADS for today so what I'll do is hold today's FREE BEAD drawing with next week's FREE BEAD drawing. I had to dig DEEP into my bead stash to find beads for last week's FREE BEADS. The CiRcLeT has been sitting in my stash for some time. I had intially made it for one of my bead special offerings but I didn't like how the yellow kind of "carmelized" in the heat. It's a neat effect I think but I wouldn't sell it. Yet for FREE it'll work. And it's either that or I don't offer FREE BEADS. I'm worried I won't have time to make beads for next week's 2 drawings either! But I'll do it somehow.
I have the realtor coming out tomorrow to draw up the papers to list our house. I'm about 80% there with having the house ready. I figure it'll be a few days before it's actually on the MLS listings so that'll buy me some time. And with how stinky the markets are around here anyway, I'm sure I won't have a looker for quite some time.
So I'm off to cross a few more things off my list. I'll be back with last, last, last week's; last, last week's and last week's FREE BEADS winners later this weekend. I have a bunch to do before tomorrow so I have to get going.
Stay tuned for winners!
thursday afternoon
Coming to you from Dallas! Never got around to the FREE BEAD drawing last, last week OR last week's FREE BEADS winner. Between the move, end of school and this trip - I haven't had much time for anything. Unfortunately FREE BEAD drawings will have to wait until I get back home next week. I'm pretty sure I'll have some beads in my bead box that I can string into a FREE BEAD set for this week. So don't worry - I'll still be holding a drawing for this week and next. It'll just be a bit delayed. So if you want to register, go ahead - I'll be giving away FREE BEADS this week and next.
It's HOT here!!! Ugh - I don't know how I ever lived in this heat. It's hot in the house with the air on 70! It's like the heat just gets into your skin and it won't leave - kind of like the cold getting into your bones. I'm in this constant state of hotness. Must be the humidity because it was in the 90's before I left town and it didn't feel this hot. It's like you don't want to go outside!! I'm about to go get my haircut with my mom. Nothing big, just a trim. My mom wants to beautify herself this week because she's going in for a knee replacement (yikes!) next week and knows she won't be getting out anytime soon. So she and I are going to have a day of beauty.
I'll try and check in this weekend with any exciting news. Right now I'm just trying to survive the HEAT!!
this week's FREE BEADS
friday afternoon
I can't believe I haven't been here all week! I barely have time to sit and eat, much less spend time on the computer. Our new realtor down south is sending me listings and I haven't checked half of them! Much less reply to emails and update my site. So if you've emailed me (and many of you have wishing me well on the move...thank you!) I'm a little behind on replies. I've read them all but like to reply individually and I just don't have enough hours in the day right now to get to it. But I will.
My wonderful brother and his wonderful wife are headed up our way to spend the weekend helping us with the house. Isn't that the best?? JP and I worked our butts off this week and most of what we wanted to finish is done. Yet we wanted to paint our bedroom and bathroom and my brother and his wife are going to help us with that. Must have been divine intervention because JP had 2 one way tickets on Southwest for their trip up and then JP will drive them back home on Sunday since he starts work on Monday. My brother is even starting a new job on Monday so it's especially nice that he's taking his weekend to spend it working with us. Yet I'm sure we'll have some time to sip a beer and play spades....but not before work first!
As you can see, I did manage to scrounge up some FREE BEADS for today's drawing. Yet I still have not picked a FREE BEAD winner from last week! That should tell you how little time I have. So I'll pick last week's and this week's FREE BEADS winners on Monday. I know I won't have time before then. My time management issues will all change once the house is on the market and I'm in my routine. As many of you know that have moved, it's lots of work up front, then it settles down, then it picks back up again just before the movers come. Yet I feel like we've done so much work for them already. In purging (obviously I didn't do so good of a job during my YOP ((year of the purge)) last year) we managed to box up quite a few things. I like my closets to look empty so it appears bigger when the house is being shown. And the dump! Oh my gosh I meant to take a picture. JP borrowed a trailer that was as long and wide as a Tahoe. It was overflowing with crap. Why do we accumulate so much stuff. I'm sure my husband would argue it's more me than him. And I suppose he's right. But after seeing all the things we tossed, I'll think twice about buying something to begin with.
Well I'm off to start taping off our bedroom for tomorrow's main event. Have a great weekend!
sunday night
Haven't picked a FREE BEAD winner yet. I'll do that tomorrow. I've been a bit silent around here because I've been busy. I think I can share my big news with you guys now....drum roll please....
We're moving - AGAIN!
Yes, you and I both read that right. Seems even more real to me seeing it in writing. I always thought we'd live here long enough to see Patrick off to college. But that's not to be. I also had hoped we'd beat our record of living in one city for more than 5 years since we've been married. We've lived here for 4 years this past April. Our longest stay was in Overland Park, Kansas where we lived for almost 5 years. I REALLY hope my next move beats that one.
We're moving to Southern California. My husband's new job is located in Moorpark. We'll be looking for houses in Westlake Village, Thousand Oaks and the Newbury Park areas. I was in denial for the first week but it's starting to sink in now. The move is made easier because we have family in the area. My brother lives in LA and will be about 45 minutes from where we're looking for a house. And my husband's cousin lives in Westlake Village. In fact, Patrick will be attending the same Catholic school as his cousins. That's a real treat for both families since niether of us has ever had family nearby, much less attending the same school! So we're all very excited about the family aspect of this move. Plus, I'm getting TONS of help from our cousin. She's like my very own personal moving assistant. Thanks ML!!
I don't know when we'll actually move. I'm still trying to get this house ready to sell. That's a priority. Patrick starts school at the end of August so I hope to have a house down there by then. Yet we may have to rent a room at an extended stay hotel for a while. Who knows. I'm not even going to think that far down the road. I'm just trying to get through all the piles of poo I've managed to collect over the years.
Other than the obvious, the move shouldn't really affect my beading. Yet in order to clean up the house, I'm having to move my beading area out to the garage. I'm worried it won't lend itself to much torch time. With my work area down the hall, I found I'd walk in there and light up the torch for just a half hour if that's all the time I had. Now that it's in the garage, I'll feel like I'll need a couple of hours to make it worth my while. I don't know why that is. It's almost like out of sight, out of mind. I'll have to work on that.
So if you've been on my list for a custom order, they'll be on hold for a while. JP and I are taking this entire week getting the house into shape. The following week I'm going to Dallas to see my family. When I return, I'll be busy with realtor tours and such so it may be the end of June before I can get back on the torch regularly. I will try and keep my FREE BEAD offers going.
Stay tuned!
this week's FREE BEADS
last week's FREE BEADS winner is...
~*Kellie from Nevada*~
Congratulations Kellie! Thanks for all the votes.
Sorry I haven't updated much lately. I've been VERY busy with a few things going on in my life. Unfortunately I'm off to baseball for the evening so it'll have to wait until later in the week. But hey at least I got them there FREE BEAD pictures up already! And it's only Wednesday!!
Stay tuned.
freedom isn't free. remember our fallen soldiers.
this week's FREE BEADS
Got lots going on in my life right now...I'll update you guys next week with that. My brother is coming up for Memorial Day weekend so it'll be a nice, calm, lazy weekend that is MUCH needed after this week. FREE BEAD drawing on Monday after my brother and his wife leave.
Stay tuned.
last week's FREE BEADS winner is...
~*~*~ Maria from Luxembourg ~*~*~
Congratulations Maria! Thanks for the votes!
We were gone all weekend so I'm trying to play catch up. My house is a wreck and instead of staying home and cleaning, what do you think I did?? I got a pedicure. Well that and a good deed of volunteering at the church. Yet since I've been home I feel like I can't get past all the junk. Every room is a mess! I could be multi-tasking by cooking AND doing housework but instead I sit here with you. Well that along with admiring a few shoes at Zappos.
Not much else really going on other than looking forward to eating dinner. Not only because I'm eating dinner, but also because of dessert afterward.
Here's my latest indulgence:
You guys - it's the BEST! Not only does it have 0 cholesterol (which I really have to watch) but it has 0 fat! You wouldn't believe all the 0's on the label. It's every woman's dream. And it actually tastes pretty darn good - really creamy - just like the label says. So far I've only tried the chocolate fudge brownie...but cookies and cream is next on my list.
Alright, I've got buzzards beeping - I must go tend to the food. Jenn and I will be posting Princess and Tomboy beads later this week - possibly even over the weekend. So keep those emails coming in. I'll post the results from the questionnaire below along with the beads.
Stay tuned.
this week's FREE BEADS
thursday afternoon
Jenn and I have decided to hold a drawing for our little questionnaire located just below this entry. Everyone will be entered to win one of two mini-bead sets. If you're a tomboy, you'll be entered to win tomboy-inspired beads made by me. If you're a princess, you'll be entered to win princess-inspired beads made by Jenn. I'll keep the drawing open for another week until everyone has had a chance to send in their response.
This drawing is in addition to the weekly FREE BEAD drawing I hold every Friday. When you send in your response, your name will be entered an additional 2 times for that week's FREE BEAD drawing.
FREE BEAD pictures coming up later tonight.
wednesday morning
Nobody seems to have any good movies for me???? I must be the only gal in the US that likes scary movies. Jenn and I have been discussing this subject at great length via email this week. She prefers chick flicks while I prefer suspense-thrillers. Jenn seems to think it has something to do with our upbringing. I was a tomboy. I played with Barbies and such, but I always was involved in sports. I played football with the neighborhood boys and was always in some sport at school. Jenn said she pretended that she was a princess and that her prince would come take her away to his castle. I can't ever imagine a time in my life when I played that way. Barbie was as close as I got.
So Jenn and I have decided there must be a link to how you played as a child that relates to the type of movies you like. Now when I say I like scary movies - I like suspense - I don't like slasher films. And although I've seen a couple of Saw movies, I quit after the second one. I'm not entertained watching someone's arm get chopped off. I'm not into the bloody, Texas Chainsaw Massacre-type movies. My type is more like Signs, The Village, Panic Room, Flight Plan...although not all great movies, they were thoroughly entertaining to me.
So anyway, I'd love to here from you guys about what you think of our theory. If you were a princess or tomboy and does that relate to what kind of movies you like? If you were a tomboy and you prefer chick flicks then our theory is shattered. Yet I'd like to think there are those of you out there that like suspese-thrillers that were princesses when you were younger!
So I'm sending a shout out to all you princesses! I'm taking a vote. All you have to do is click on the link that best describes your taste. If you do, I'll add your name 2 times to this week's FREE BEADS AND maybe hold an additional drawing for something else...to be determined. What do you have to lose? Just click and send. You don't need to add a response unless you want to.
If you were a princess but prefer suspense-thrillers
If you were a princess but prefer chick flicks
If you were a tomboy but prefer chick-flicks
If you were a tomboy but prefer suspense thrillers
Inquiring minds wanna' know!!
last week's FREE BEADS winner is...
~*~*~ Carlene from Washington ~*~*~
Congratulations Carlene! Thanks for the votes!
Hope everyone had a nice Mother's Day!!
We had our Goddaughter spend the night Friday night. How fun to have a girl in the house for a change. She's SO cute! 4 year's old with the vocabulary of a 20 year old. The stuff that comes out of her mouth is too funny. We kept her all day Saturday until we passed her off to her mom around 5pm. I was tired on Sunday! I forgot what it's like to run around and keep a 4 year old entertained. Painting fingernails, baking and decorating cookies, swimming, crafting, etc, etc, etc. Whew! We had fun though.
Thanks for the emails regarding custom orders. I got some great feedback. A few ideas that I have not thought of which brought me to my latest decision. I'm going to put a link on my site for custom orders. I've been getting lots of requests lately and although I can't take on too many, I feel like I'm at a point where I can take on more than I used to. So I'd like to have a page that explains pricing and how I handle custom requests. I think I'll work on that tonight and try to get it up and running within the next couple of days. So be on the lookout for that.
I can't believe there's less than a month left of school! Patrick gets out on June 6th. He and I are heading home to see my family in Dallas the following week. I'm looking forward to that. My mom has done some remodeling in her house and says she needs my help with a few touches. It'll be fun to run around with her getting that stuff done. It was a year ago March that she had her last chemo session. She's doing well in that department but has had the lasting effects of neuropathy in her feet so she can't get around as fast as she used to. But as she puts it, she's still here on this earth to "complain" about it so that's good!
On a random sidenote, have any of y'all seen any good movies lately? I'd love for y'all to drop me a line and give me suggestions. I like all genres but especially scary movies. JP doesn't like scary movies - more action and comedy - so when he's on the road I like to rent movies I know he wouldn't watch. I like thrillers, scary and action flicks. My 2 younger brothers and I are always on the hunt for entertaining movies. Since the 3 of us especially like scary movies, that's a hard genre to keep us satisfied. One of my favorites is Jeepers Creepers. It's literally as the title states - Creepy! It's rare a movie really scares me. Very little freaks me out. So if you guys have any good ones, please send them my way. I'll warn you though - I'm not a chick flick kind of gal. I don't care much for romantic comedies and the like. I'll watch them if they're on HBO or something, but I wouldn't go out and rent them. I find them disappointing - especially the endings. I just watched Catch and Release with Jennifer Garner on HBO one night - what a snoozer! So predictable. OK. The dryer is beeping...I must tend to my house!
Stay tuned.
this week's FREE BEADS
wednesday afternoon
last week's FREE BEADS winner is...
~*~*~ Meagan from Iowa ~*~*~
Congratulations Meagan! Thank you for the votes!
I picked her name back on Saturday but I just got around to updating! I just got back from my Design Stars group. We're getting some product ready for another craft show. We've had lots of gals asking for them around town and we haven't a thing to sell for months. So we've been cranking them out and are ready to get out there. It's taken some time away from beading but I enjoy that creative outlet too.
I'm fulfilling a couple of bead custom orders this week for some gals that have been patiently awaiting their sets - for months. Naturally they knew it would take a while but I still feel bad. I don't have much on the calendar so I hope to get lots of beading time in during the next few weeks. I had a suggestion last week from a gal that bought some beads from me that I'd like to run past y'all. Would you guys be interested in me updating bead specials and taking orders on them?
So for instance, I'll post a picture of Pinky Pops (for example) and show 3 in stock but actually only have 1 in stock and make the other 2 to order once someone buys them? Kind of a make'em as I sell'em but require money up front? I'm not too fond of the idea because it would create an "assembly line" type of environment for me - yet it would allow people a chance at a set they've been eyeing. I especially don't like taking the money up front but then it would probably totally motivate me to get them made quick.
My other option is not announcing when I'll have new bead specials for sale and just posting them when I have them. It's not as if I've got lines of people wanting my beads but I do find that it can matter what time of the day or week I post as to whether someone hits me the right time for a set of beads. And also because I never post that many sets OR that often. So I'd like any feedback y'all have on this or what you'd like to see.
I do know that many of you don't like eBay or etsy as a vehicle to sell beads - especially eBay. Yet I ted to like them both because it's good advertising and brings new people to my site which I like to do. Yet I haven't sold on eBay in way over a year or more. I like etsy because it's a fixed price and it allows me to be a part of my favorite site online. I can get lost on that site for hours. The picture you see to 
side is my most recent purchase. I LOVE this! What a creative way to recycle an otherwise garbage-bound item. I love unusual rings so this is right up my alley. You can find the gal's etsy shop here.
Well whatever you think about my ideas, I always like to hear from you guys so drop me a note with your thoughts when you get a chance. Not much else going on this week. Just keeping busy with the usual stuff. Have a good one!
this week's FREE BEADS
thursday morning
Today is new bead specials day! I've got most of my beads strung and ready to be photog'ed. I've got a busy day today in addition to beads and I'm trying to find a good time to update. I have to leave for baseball around 4pm and have bunko afterward. I've had a few of you emailing wanting to know when I'd be posting new bead specials, realizing the middle of the day isn't convenient for everyone. So I think I'll update tonight when I return from bunko. Hopefully I'll remember how after a couple of glasses of wine. So it'll be much later in the day. I figure if the time difference doesn't allow you to catch them tonight, you'll get them first thing tomorrow morning. Stay tuned!
monday afternoon
Finally! LAST, LAST week's
FREE BEADS winner is...
~*~*~ April from Indiana ~*~*~
Congratulations April!
and this PAST week's
FREE BEADS winner is...
~*~*~ Joanie from Minnesota ~*~*~
Congratulations Joanie...here's what Joanie won...
I'm going to work on trying to figure out my photo program on my new computer. I'm still planning on updating Thursday with new bead specials.
Stay tuned.
sunday.april 27.2008
Does anything seem strange to you? Maybe you already noticed. I used the actual date today instead of just the day of the week. That's because this day will go down in the history books for me.
Something happened to me; something that will forever change me. I can never look at myself in the mirror the same way again after what I did today. In my 41 years, 8 months and 19 days I have lived with something since the day I was born. Today that changed. Are you ready???? Here it is.....drum roll please............I colored my hair. Yep, that's it. I colored my hair for the very first time in my life today. This is MONUMENTAL news my dear friends. I discovered as you age, your hair ages too. I've never liked the color gray, especially on my head. And I had a lot of it. It was getting so bad that I was going to have to change the hair color on my driver's license. So I decided I'd try my hand at this coloring thing. And I must say, I like the results but NOT the process. How much messier can it be?? Yet as low maintenance as I am, there ain't no way I'm paying $100 for someone else to do it for me. So Pecan Golden Brown has made me a new woman.
So I'm back to being a "true" brunette. I missed a few gray strands here and there but that's because I was freaking out and washed my hair before I was supposed to. Now that I'm a pro, I'll know what to do next time. So that's my big news. May not seem that big of a deal, especially when I read girls as young as 11 years old are getting their hair colored. But for me it's huge. I'm so cheap that if I could find a way to cut my own hair, I would. So this is a BIG step for me. I'm a big girl now!
You know. I'm kind of a little sad about it actually. I really wanted to see how long I could go before I HAD to color my hair. I was on a pretty good streak. It was bad enough that I had to remember to get my haircut. Now I'll have to forever worry every 6 weeks or so that I have to color my hair. UGH! My sister will be proud though. She's always been one to change the shade of her hair. She'll appreciate me growing up a bit.
Well I have free bead picture but I can't update. I'm switching over all my files and programs to my new laptop and it's causing some problems. My photo program I use to edit my photos is on my new computer but it's not working. So unless I can find a way to edit them on my old computer - we're in BIG trouble.
Hence, I've changed my bead specials update to Thursday. I was planning on taking pictures tomorrow and trying to update new bead specials by evening but with this new photo trouble that'll have to change. I've sat here for 30 minutes and I can't get it to work. Heck, I can't even get photos to save. I have to drag and drop them into files. Vista is the operating system on my new computer and I have no familiarity with it at all. I'm really trying to use my new laptop for everything but these little hiccups are making that difficult. So stay tuned for a bead specials update.
OH..and free beads winners for this week AND last.
friday night
Hey ladies. I've been busy making beads this week among other things and completely forgot to update my site! I have yet to announce LAST week's free beads winner and post this week's new free beads. Sorry about that. Patrick has a baseball game tomorrow which tends to consume much of the day. But I promise I'll try to get it all updated by Sunday.
I've had many of you asking if Monday is looking good for updating. The answer is yes and no. I have beads but want to make a few more sets. Right now I have about 6 sets done with one in the works. I have about 5 more sets I'd like to make so I'd prefer to push back that Monday date to later in the week so I can get it all done. So please be patient with me while I try to get that all done.
I'm currently typing away on my new laptop. It's going to completely replace my desktop. JP has been working on getting all my pictures and files transferred over from my old computer. It's weird to think that I can do everything from the comfort of my couch. I LOVE the idea of it. What a blob I am!
OK. So I'll be back by the end of the weekend with free beads to giveaway! Stay tuned.
wednesday night
I can't believe tomorrow is Thursday! And I never updated last week's FREE BEADS winner! It seems my updates as of late are always making excuses for my lack of updates AND my lack of beads.
Today I had a date with my Design Stars. We've had quite a few people around town asking about our goods and we have had very little stock on hand. We're trying to plan a show in June so we need to get busy. We were very busy today churning out product. Needless to say, no beads were made. Yet I plan on making beads tomorrow. I have a dentist appointment then it's in front of the torch the rest of the day. I have Monday has my current posting day. I hope I can stay with that date. Worst case, I'll push it back a couple of days. But I'm going to shoot for Monday for now.
Let's see, what else. We had a great time at the wedding in Cleveland. Yet it wasn't the most pleasant of flights. Our flight out of San Jose was delayed by 2 hours which caused us to miss our connection in Chicago. Of course we were booked on the last flight out that night to Cleveland so we had to wait until the next morning's flight. Well they didn't pull our bags - they just transfer them to the next flight out. And because that was the next day, we had to check into a hotel with the clothes on our back. Oh, the gate agent was nice enough (insert wink here) to give me the obligatory travel pack with a razor from the 70's, a tooth brush with bristles that belong on a steel brush and a comb that would make Barbie cry. It was pretty pathetic. I NEVER carry my bags - especially make-up. So I didn't have a thing - just some lipstick in my purse. Which I found out the next morning makes a decent blush for your cheeks in a pinch. I looked pretty harry the next day but what are you gonna' do.
That following morning was Patrick's birthday. I was bummed that we had to travel on his birthday instead of playing as we had intended. We pretty much got in town just in time to shower, grab a quick lunch at Dave and Busters (Patrick's FAVORITE place) and then take off to the Cleveland Indians game. I had a birthday greeting for him posted on their scoreboard. I got a picture of it so I'll post it at some point this weekend. He was so surprised. It was well worth it.
Well that's enough chatter. I'm heading off to bed. Stay tuned.
tuesday afternoon
My computer just came back up after a day. I lost connection yesterday just after noon so I'm way backed up. I'll be doing the drawing for last week's FREE BEADS so stay tuned for that. Off to baseball.
this week's FREE BEADS
and LAST week's FREE BEADS winner is...
~*~*~ Andrea from Germany ~*~*~
and this is what she won...
See - I promised I'd update bead pictures AND last week's winner before I left town. There's a bit of a shadow on these pictures because I took them just as the sun was about to go down past the roof tops in the neighborhood. But I got it done. Now I'm scrambling to pack, pick the house up, do some laundry, etc, etc, etc before I leave town. I can't stand to leave the house messy. My brother will be here yet I can't count on him to pick up my mess.
I got a few bead sets done. Yet I have a few more to make. I'd like to update my site with around 8-10 sets when I update so you can have something to choose from. So I'll probably spend some time next week finishing up a few sets so my bead specials page will be stacked. I had a few of you that thought you missed them already. I didn't realize I posted April 14th as my update - I must have done that in my sleep! I guess you figured out that wasn't going to happen. I promise I have beads! I WILL update! Stay tuned.
sunday afternoon
Hey gals! Still no beads. I just haven't had that much time on the torch this week. I don't know what I've been doing all this time but I'm doing something! I had hope to find time yesterday, but Patrick is in a new baseball league that requires the teams to play games away from town. Although it's not far away, I can't just hop on back home before baseball starts to get a few things done. Instead we have to sit around for an hour during warm-ups. VERY boring. We left the house yesterday at 10:45 and didn't return until around 4pm. It was almost a 3 hour game and they bead them in the 5th inning with the 10 run rule. Can you imagine how long it would have been had they not?? I'm not liking this "big boy" baseball. The spikes alone make me nervous with all that sliding!
It was my dear husband's birthday yesterday. I usually put a picture up for family members' birthdays but I'm on a new computer (which, by the way, I LOVE) and I have no pictures on this yet. We got home, opened gifts, went to dinner and then on to a friend's surprise birthday party for the rest of the evening. I had barely any time to shower yesterday!
This week is going to be tight. I have a few bead specials ready but I'm afraid to say it's going to have to wait until I return from our trip. We leave Wednesday morning and the next 2 days I'll be busy getting ready for that. Yet I promise to have free beads from last week (along with a winner) and this coming week's free bead pictures up before I leave.
The weather has been great here. I actually had to turn on the air conditioner yesterday! Our pool is in the mid-70's so Patrick jumped in after his game. I can't believe this summer-like weather. I got a bit of sun just sitting at Patrick's game. I'm looking forward to getting rid of my pastey-white skin.
I'm cleaning house today and then making beads. My plan is to have all my sets done before I leave town, then update my site the early part of next week with new bead sets. Stay tuned!
thursday night
This week just kind of got away from me. I can't believe tomorrow is already Friday! Don't quite have those free beads ready for show and tell just yet. BUT, I have been making beads that I hope to have ready for sale next week. We're heading to a wedding next weekend so my plan is update before then.
Free bead pictures up over the weekend.
monday night
GO JAYHAWKS!!
Patrick's party went well. No big issues to report. They were all well-mannered and ate well. A couple of them slept (including my son) but not many. One mom told me today that her son fell asleep in the car on the way home from our house. He got out of the car and slept until 8pm, woke up and ate, then went back to sleep at 9pm and slept through the night. Isn't that amazing?? He definitely got caught up on his sleep!
Anyway, I'm glad that's over. I actually cleaned my work station and started on beads today for my site. My plan is to upload new bead sets a week from today. Stay tuned!
and this week's FREE BEADS winner is...
~*~*~ Beth from Pennsylvania ~*~*~
Congratulations Beth! Thanks for continuing to vote for my site!
Wish me luck today. I'm embarking on a VERY brave journey. We're celebrating Patrick's 13th birthday today with his friends. His birthday isn't until the 17th, but we'll be out of town that weekend and this seems to be the best weekend to get a group of boys together before baseball games start next week.
