New Stuff I have made

I finally pulled out the camera and took some pictures. It has been one of those weeks where the Fibromyalgia took over and it was all I could do to get up and get the kids taken care of. But things are looking up took the dog out and went on a 2 mile walk with my daughter. My dog loves me, my daughter loves me and my body loves me. But back to what I have been making.

There are so many jewelry designers locally and jewelry is just not selling at shows so I made a ton of magnets and made some really cute tins and magnetized them too and then made some cute magnet boards for all those magnets. Here are a few pictures.

Some purity magnets with scrabble pieces, covered with resin and a nobium magnet

These are my ispirational word magnets

Some bigger glass magnets

Some tins with the same images

A cute little magnet board with matching magnets

Another cute one

Another matching pill box

Jamberrysong's Creations: First Prompt and Giveaway - Creating Self through Worlds

Jamberrysong's Creations: First Prompt and Giveaway - Creating Self through Worlds

Taking a day off

I got up this morning and boarded a plane to meet up with my hubby in San Jose Ca. He is off on business all day - team building they call it - really they are playing golf.

I am hanging out in the hotel room suite

Starting to get bored

This morning I tried out the leather bracelet tutorial and made a cute little bracelet with blue opal beads and black leather. Found out I started to close to the first knot and ended too close to the last knot so have a few beads sticking out otherwise it turned out great. Then I realize I can start over with the same beads and make it over. Duh... It took only about half an hour to make a 7 inch one next time I think I will make a 2 or 3 wrap one. Might as well go all the way except all that thread will be a challenge. It likes to tangle. I had to use nymo thread so that the thread would fit through the beads. I brought my awesome camera but not the cord to connect it to my computer. All in all not to bad on forgetting things much better than forgetting the camera.

This one isn't mine it's one off etsy. I added a link in there somewhere. I didn't bring many beads and left the tools at home. I'm always afraid some airport security guy that doesn't know the rules will steal them. Or keep me so long I miss my flight.

One thing I learned if you want to slow down the security line and get lots of scrutiny forget to put your dangerous makeup in a clear baggie. They searched it and x rayed it 3 times. Lol sorry I guess I don't travel often enough. Why not check out my camera or make me turn on my computer now my makeup is more dangerous?????

Isreal didn't care about my 1 liter diet coke but the US cares about my makeup and of course no drinks alowed. Ok if Isreal doesn't care don't you think the no drinks is more about getting more money off us poor travelers by making us buy something in the airport to drink.

the correct way

I got a free baggie for my trip home. wow free stuff.

Tommorow i am going to go visit the town. There is an egyptian museum here and I have to check it out while I have the chance. We did egyptian art week with the kids as school a few weeks ago so they want pictures and presents from there.

Then off to Kelley Park.

Suppose to be all sorts of historical buildings and some pretty parks. My hubby is checking out of this hotel so I will have to find a place to spend the day until he gets back at 7 pm. Might have to make him come pick me up somewhere. He is taking the GPS so he can pick up a car rental from the airport. So I will have to use the old fashioned way as I don't have a fancy cell phone.

Well I am off to plan my day for tommorow then off to find the exercise room and do something besides sit here on my computer.

It was so sweet I called my kids and they said they were all being really good. Then my youngest says I remember you told us about being a team. So Cute. Yesterday they were all moaning and groaning about having to get up in the morning and get themselves to school without mom to supervise. And telling me there was no way they could get along. So glad they decided to listen to their mom for once.

I figured if they wanted to fight then they would have to live with the consequences with no mom there to step in and fix it.

The Blooming Rose

If youv'e never met my middle child she is an original individual. She's always been one that wasn't easily swayed or convinced to do what she didn't want to do. If you tried to get her to go faster so she could win racea she would just say that's ok I'd rather walk. When the kids played a game she didn't like she just came inside and did something she wanted to. She was the sweetest little kid but so socially ackward. School was rough, not only did she not fit in with the other girls, she'd rather hang out with the guys. But she struggled with reading and writing and all the letters came out backwards. She never finished her work on time and her head was in the clouds. I know she can really write because on lazy summer days she would be writing her own little adventure novels and I was always anxious to see what would happen next.
We finally discovered she has ADD inattentive disorder along with some learning disorders and for a while she struggled along ok with out any help from medication. But this year her teachers were really concerned because she was really struggling at school. I noticed it too she was tired all the time and had emotional outbursts that weren't easy calmed but 2 hours later she was my sweet angel telling me she was sorry and offering to help with anything at all. So not knowing what else to do we started the medication gauntlet and continue on it.

She's always struggled with not fitting in and not knowing what she was good at. She wasn't good at school, she's ackward with kids, she loves grownups but that doesn't help her much now. Well this week I witnessed the most wonderful thing.

My little 11 year old who started trying out for plays 4 years ago with such a shy demenor and timid voice but who never gave up and took what ever tiny part they would give her is Get this the Lead in the School Play. She has a whole book of lines and just a week to learn them. But I will forever have ingrained in my head a smiling jumping joyful girl in front of the whole school relishing in winning the lead role. I myself would be mortified and scared and would be sick until it was all over but she is on cloud nine.

Finally my sweet little middle child that struggles at everything in life, who hangs back and lets everyone else take the limelight gets to shine. I hope she takes this experience and realizes that even if she isn't the best at school and ackward socially that she is better at this one thing ---something that scares most people to death. Good luck My Little Rose be a Star this weekend and let your smile shine bright.

The Writing and Art of Andrew Thornton Another Awsome giveaway

The Writing and Art of Andrew Thornton Another great giveaway with beads from golemstudio and softflex company These are some awsome beads so go check out Andews giveaway. I've won one and it was for an awsome pin and softflex wire.

I love those beads

SoftFlexGirl Giveaway

SoftFlexGirl go check out her blog to win some great jewelry findings

Pretty Shiny Things- Star Girl's Jewelry Box

Pretty Shiny Things- Star Girl's Jewelry Box

When I was perusing all the blogs for the bead soup party I found these beautiful polymer clay beads that I fell in love with and I went on Etsy and bought them right that minute. Well now my favorite beads are in a giveaway which I so want to win. But if I don't I'm gonna have them anyways but it would be nice to have 2 sets one set to keep and one set to design with and sell. But you can try to win them too I can live with that. So go follow the length and see if You agree with me on these being beautiful. And if you don't win I can still make you something with those beautiful beads i know where to get more. :)