Education -day 5 a to z blogging challeng

What can I say about Education ---  I seem to learn so much more as an adult I never took art classes in school as I played an instrument.  Should have did art as I wasn't any good at playing an instrument.  I tried my hardest and didn't give up but I dropped it as soon as school ended and never missed it.  Well I picked it up a time or two but ....art is more interesting a varied.  I am constantly learning how to make something new.  I use to quilt way back when and tried sewing a bit but I was never perfectionistic enough to make something look awsome especially things like little ruffle sleeves and hems.  I tried out ribbon embroidery and smocking which I soon discovered when I moved back to Idaho that smocking is not something people do here.  So then I took up homeschooling and the only artsy stuff was what ever we did for school and drawing nature journals.  I learned way more at homeschool then I did growing up too.  But then my kids went off to public school as I had this awful thing call fibromyalgia that made me tire and sore all the time.  When the kids went back to school I was lost I had nothing to do with myself because homeschooling had been my hobby, job, lifestyle, everything I put all my energy into it and now there was a huge hole.  So my hubby thought I needed a hobby.. said take a class do something to get yourself past this.  So I took a jewelry making class because the other classes were full but I don't do anything half way so within two years I was teaching my own jewelry classes, selling on ETSY, and artfire and for the last year doing shows.   But there are so many other jewelry artists out there that I have had to branch out to make something I could sell so now I have spread my wings looking for new things to do.  I started  making magnets, then magnet boards, then other things with decorative paper like decorating tins, notebooks, jars, what ever I could find.  And my next project is a floor cloth for my booth.  I bought the cloth so tommorow I am teaching myself with the wonderful world of the computer how to make a floor cloth.  The first thing I have to do is sponge it down with hot water and let it dry so it can shrink then I have to fold and iron the edges and sew them for the hem.  Then will come the fun stuff painting.  It looks like I need latex paint so I will be off to the store to check out all the reject paint colors  I want to make something with hotpink, pink, brown maybe Still gotta figure it out.  I am thinking I might go with stripes except that would mean I would have to be a perfectionist and get them straight maybe pink in the middle with a boarder of stenciled flowers that sounds easier.  Hmm I am off to find pictures and ideas off the internet

how about this one maybe to busy

a little to simple

hey no straight lines this would work with a pink background no white for me

i suppose I could do this for stripes but might look to homemade

maybe a little bit of a mix of all of them.  

Day 3 C :a to z blog challenge

Crunched for time.  That seems to be my life.  It always seems there is something that doesn't get done.  The dog doesn't get a haircut or a walk, dinner is late, nothing is cleaned up, projects are days late, special orders are calling to me,  I have jewelry shows and classes to plan and prepare for I have a surprise jewelry party to throw Thursday and a Jewelry Open House at my House the 15th of April and I need to send out invites to that and get everything ready.  so much to do so little time.  I am trying to plan out my booth for this summer which is impossible to do in my head but I guess the Open house will let me try out some ideas.  I am making tons of magnets and other stuff so I have a good backup supply since I will be doing a weekly show.  Here are a few of my ideas for my booth.
bright pink and white gerber daisies

pink or white table clothes

my big black walls to hang up my magnet boards and lots of  of tulle and flowers

I really want to make or buy one of these flag banners with my store name

Then I still need to find some really cute rug or floor mat thinking of maybe a painting floor throw and paint i bright pink with flowers or just stripes even.

maybe with cute flowers  hmm