Stuff...

Well, my cardiac cath went fine, hurt like a bear but I have no plugged veins/arterties or anything like that around my heart, good news. Bad news, still trying to figure out what is going on with me but we are working on it:)

Good news, finally got more pics taken & now the Vivamexico and Funky Monkey Girls Etsy sites are both updated, hooray!

Worked on getting my studio cutier and did some jewelery but my wrist hurt too bad to do a lot. Got some plants potted in my front yard, painted furniture, hung up new lamps....that was mainly thanks to mom & dad.

My diva Peaches is very happy to have mommy feeling better and so is mommy:) We need to purchase more clasps...isn't it amazing that you swear you have a bunch of them and boom, you are totally out.

pictures

Well, now you can see what I look like........pic on bottom of blog. I am tired of the look of our blog so I really need to figure out what exactly to do with it?

Hmmmmmm...........had a brilliant thought, mom & I are going to get stencils & stuff to make my studio walls funky! Plus, working on making a valance for both in studio & living room. Mom has also been crafting so I learned by watching her. Her jewelery is beautiful all so! I love you mom!

I hand made a mother's day card for her, that was fun. I am coming into work briefly on Sunday. I have so much to do and my neck is starting to burn so I am switching things to do. It is a great day and I thank Jesus for that!

Creative fairy has hit.........briefly!

All pictures are copyrighted by Jolene Hardy

That darned fairy, if I thought it would keep her in my studio, I would clip her wings but that is rather evil so I have to live thru her journeys. Let me see, I took a bunch of pictures to update Etsy shoppes, monkey mom is working on that. I create something that I am not sure what I am calling it yet.....I made some jewelery and basically hung up more pictures, clean up and moved things around. That has helped.

I quit all my pills that are like motrin etc...tummy feels much better, body aching worse, sigh. I will keep fighting the good fight.

Postive...

Picture by Jolene Hardy, inside of a mission's chapel in San Antonio Texas....beautiful in it's simplicity!

Well, I finally got one of my heart tests scheduled, so that is good. My computer at home has loads of evil nasty things in it so I have to find someone who can fix it for me for fairly inexpensively.

The new work camera aka for jewelery pictures is the BOMB!!!!! Oh , the photos are awesome. I can not do any type of photo type things in my day job computer so I take the pictures then send them to the Monkey Mom to get them posted in Etsy...what a pain!

Monkey Mom sent in some jewelery pictures in a beading magazine so I hope we get selected! Great for her.

My creative fairy is still in mourning so hopefully I will be able to create more soon. Today is the first day that physically and mentally I am feeling more like myself again, praise the Lord!

Tuesday

It is cold..........very very cold to a former Minnesotian and the blood has thinned out. The mountains are full of snow but the humidity is up so I really am feeling it, yuck. I am cooking dragons tonight. I chicked out until now but I can't wait anymore!!! I want to take pictures too but hopefully will get to that this weekend between beads shows! I can't believe it is the Tucson bead show again! While mom is here working on wedding stuff as well.

When I get home, the sun isn't in a good position and all the pictures, no matter how much I light the piece up still looks really dark.

Too long

Man, I have been so busy during the last part of December, I haven't had a chance to blog until today. Holidays are always busy at day job and then we passed an inspection today! Whew...

I haven't made anything new and I need to get going on taking pictures. I have been so busy that I get home, eat, read and go to bed. That has been my life lately, incredibly boring:)

So I need to get back on track on my New Year's resolution so thus me blogging a little:)

Okay, what happened to Fall?

Picture by Jolene Hardy

Where did fall go? Did it disappear from Tucson while I was sick? That isn't fair! I love fall it is one of my mostest favorites seasons! I like the crispy cold weather, the crispy leaves and apples bought from an orchard. yumminess. Mind you, I hate the next season that comes after fall espically in Minnesota.

I was hoping for more fall time since I can go outside and don't have to worry about breathing on people.

I updated Etsy shoppes last night...please go to links below:

http://www.etsy.com/shop/FunkyMonkeys

http://www.etsy.com/shop/vivamexico

:)

Okay better

Another cool pendant in the back of a pocket watch.

My steam punk pendant, this one turned out wonderfully!

This one did have a flat backed swarovski crystal on it, after resin, it looks like a mirror...that bubble looking thing is just a reflection, it is not on the pendant. The first picture doesn't have it on there.

Now, these are my items from playing with ICE resin....what do y'all think?

Alright, got home & listed some items in both Etsy shoppes Funky Monkey Girls and Vivamexico so I feel better that way:)

All pictures and jewlery items were done/taken by Jolene Hardy Funky Monkey Girls and copywrited as such.

My life......

You know, my life is pretty darned great even with all the bills from the new house:) I am basically healthy, my day job is good (even though I seem to whine about it a lot), I make jewelery and fenturing out of my niche, so to speak and the new man in my life is wonderful. Yep, it is official, I am head over heels with Tom.

yesterday, he drove home, 30 minutes one way, to grab the Sadie monster(his dog) and drove to my house another 30 minutes just to cook dinner for us. He knows that I can't drive that well in the dark and made this effort because he missed me. TALK ABOUT MIND BLOWING!!!! No one that I have ever dated has done this type of stuff for me.............I mean NO ONE! I never believed in soul mates before and thought that it was all crap....now, I do.

I finally got my special art beads last night & created my piece to enter into the art scene contest. I did take some pictures last night but will take more tonight & then send them in:) I am really excited about it....

Just some pics.....

Tucson mountains

On the way to Old Tucson studios

Downtown Tucson

A mission in San Antonio TX

Taken in San Antonio TX

All pictures taken by Jolene Hardy and copyrighted as such.

Etsy photos

Okay here are the pics of the jewelery that are now up in Etsy...what do you think?

weekend

I must apologize for not answering back posts right away....work computer won't let me on some people, strange. I forget to check this at home but I will start:)

I had a pretty good weekend despite the fact that I could hardly sleep due to my severe shoulder pain due to Fibromyglia....I just asked my doctor to write a consult so I can be seen in pain clinic, what I am doing now isn't working all that well.

The man aka Tom was over this weekend w/the full of seperation anxiety doggie Sadie, we are working on that, so it was stay home weekend. We went for walkies and washed cars, I thought Precious was going to die of "Oh my ghosh, she is actually cleaning the outside of me?" Precious is my 2005 mustang, whom I must get my oil changed today. His car got nice & cleaned as well. We played Scrabble and after I won, I had to promise not to use his scrabble tiles for jewelery, but I did find a place where I can order them (hee,heee). We took a bunch of jewelery pictures using his camera so tonight, I call the monkey mom to remind me how to get them cropped etc so I can list them in our Etsy stores. Loads of Day of the Dead jewelery will be posted soon:)

I am hurting mightly today so I smell like Icey Hot, sigh, luckily for me, I don't mind that smell.

Exciting

This picture is from a mission in San Antonio Texas that I took before I left there. It is beautiful and has one of the oldest rose windows in the United States.

Do you know how cool it is to read and get inspired by all of you? Thank you for your wisdom and wonderful creative beauty to look at and drool!

A kind of rainy day

We had some sprinkles here, I wonder if our monsoon season is ready to start? I have been totally busy with day job that this is my first chance to get into here. I am doing great and the rest of the house is almost ready for some picture taking:) I love having my own home, it rocks my world!

A fluffy and girly day of the dead piece.

Pendant by Gaea of course:)

Where is this coming from? Well, it is technically my business blog so I am trying to get more business pictures/pieces etc on here also:)

colors...

These piece is made from jade (at least that is what they had listed as the stone) and the pixie from Green Girl Studio with pearls of course:)

My comment to a comment doesn't work well at the day job so the peach in the kitchen is before I painted it red/yellow combo..:)

It is wonderful having the folks here and happy fairy day. My main bedroom/bathroom has fairies in it. I love fairies and I have a fairy tattoo:) Yep, that is me, just a wild thing what can I say.

I am freezing at the day job and really want to go home!! :) So I give you a picture of the desert around Tucson, it is so beautiful!

Before and after shots of house

Here are some before & after shots of the house. First will be the kitchen and part of the living room.

So there you go:) After the other rooms get done, I will post them here as well. My poor dad did all the painting and that red, he did NOT like:) Had to put too many coats of paint on the wall but it is worth it:) I have so enjoyed having my folks here, everytime they visit, I learn more about them:)

I know that some of these pictures are repeat sorry, problems with formatting on here with a not that great computer person on the other end.:) LOL.

It is Monday!

This is a picture of me before I lost the 30 pds and got new glasses:) This is dated from Dec 2008. I can add a newer picture of me tonight.

I am trying hard to get excited for Mondays...why you may ask, because if you think about it, we wish most of our lives away. "I wish it was Friday or I wish it was Saturday!" What about the other days of the week, yes we have to work but our attitude determines our reality and our happiness. So, I am trying to get excited about Mondays-Thursday LOL!

I had some guests over to the new house. It was so much fun. The living room is almost all painted so I got to put up some pretties and some pictures. Looking much more like me:) ahhh, that is always fun & nice:)

I also sold a bunch of jewelery to my friends mom, who I can't remember her name for the life of me! I am bad, I remember faces but names, not that great at!

Last night sunset/flower

Beads...

I got the beading stuff and tables all packed away yesterday! Mom bought a bed for her use while she is here and then for my use once she leaves. Of course, I over did it so the back is rather sore! sigh....

Honestly, I just want to be healthy...sigh.

Mom will be doing some packing in the kitchen for me and I will wrap up the stuff. Today, I am hoping we can get our Etsy sites updated with new pics, we have them done but haven't done the editing etc so that is definately on the agenda espically since I can't do much lifting'/packing etc.

Lord willing my back will feel better!

New jewelry on Etsy

Here are some pictures of new jewelery that is on Etsy in our new shop called VivaMexico. The pictures on Etsy are better or they will be once we redo the photos again:)