health, wealth & inspiration

Picture from MarsCon 2009...I had to throw a George L in here...

Well, I had my cardiac stress test on Monday....not fun. With women, those can come up with a false postive, which means, it did look like I could have a heart attack or somewhat blocked vessels or it is from my weight. Well, I have lost 38 pds but never had the current weight put into my chart until today.

Because of the false postive, I am scheduled for a cardiac cath on 5/28. Please pray that this procedure goes well & figures out what my next step will be. I am on heart medication so that should begin helping as well.

Wealth....will come thru God along with the inspiration. I am being so calm about everything and usually I am worrying my red head about it. The Lord is so working miracles in my life that it is so wonderful!

Creating, we are aiming for tonight & Ms Peaches will be with us so we will know if she has to pee. She doesn't indicate that very well, just really intense stares, which she does for everything! I need to get her one of those dog translators like they had in "Up", great movie, go see it.

Stuff

1. I am going to get our jewelery stats into Etsy stores.
2. We are going to take more pictures of jewelery & get them uploaded.
3. Create some
4. Pet, pet, walkies, walkies, pet, pet, feed, feed, potty, potty Ms Diva:)

Have a blessed weekend & I have a cardiac stress test on Monday, keeping fingers crossed that it is good:)

Health Jewelery and more........

Miss Peaches Diva...:)

Well, I had my upper GI on Monday...no ulcer but they are checking if I am gluten intolerant. More testing to come.

Monkey mom is doing great. We actually created last night so the creative fairy was there but got chased out by jealous basset hound who thinks she is the diva of the house and sadly, momma diva thinks so too:)

Day job is getting insane but I can do it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If I don't comment in your blog or on my blog it is because this computer is blocking it. I am reading everything but this computer is being rather annoying!

making and experimenting.....

pretty flowers on the side of the road in Texas, picture by Jolene Hardy

Mom & I are having a lot of fun making, baking and experimenting with some of the wonderful items purchased from the bead shows here in Tucson. Now, the sun is finally out, new pictures will be snapping with our new marco discovery:) oh boy.............I get my hair cut tonight, finally! I hate it when it gets long & yucky. I am sure I will have to color it as soon as I get it cut cause of all the gray hair I am finding, sigh. I love my wisdom but this old body needs to go away LOLOLOL...

I am actually thinking about putting both Etsy stores on vacation until we can get going on these pictures.....

Pictures

Molly's butt (our newest addition) with Sadie hoping that Tom will feed them:)

You won't believe this....we figured out that Tom's camera has macros on it...oh gheesh. I only have been reading about taking better pictures etc, and all the articles are stating about a marco setting. Well, sheesh, mom & I feel like stupid dorks. But now we found it and still feel like dorks!!!!!!! Oh gheesh!!!

Well behold....pictures will start being awesome very soon!!!!

Quiet and yucky day

Picture by Jolene Hardy

It is 57 degrees here in Tucson and it has been raining. It looks like it may rain again...fun times. I like that it gets stuff green but EVERYONE gets moody when weather like this comes. We are used to sunshine all the time.

Made another dragon, these are fun but it takes me at least a couple of hours to make one. I need to get cracking on more jewelery type items that are much faster to make.

christmas

Well, I need to run home and make more jewelery tonight for Henry's store. I guess I sold something in the gallery before it even opened, at least I hope it was piece of jewelry, sometimes people do get confused LOLOLOL. He wants our jewelery in his store so on Saturday, I am going over to talk about comission, pricing etc. I am really looking forward to that:)

I think the grinch has struck at work, not here but elsewhere. I am trying to be merry and bright but all I want to do is stay home in bed! If you haven't guess, home is my safe zone. I am going over to Tom's this weekend, because we need to leave ms sadie at his house so she doesn't claw/chew up my front room door. We need her on puppy prozac as soon as we can afford it, poor thing.

Parents have left

Picture by Jolene; baby bobcats 2008 in my yard.

They left early this morning. I will miss them but now my house is mine again!!!!! Mom & I made some more jewelery that I am going to take to the new shop & hopefully he will love some pieces to put into the gallery, keeping the fingers crossed.

I have to go to Target and pick up some stuff so I doubt if I will have time to take pictures. I may do it at Tom's house and just bring my stuff with me.

I was totally wishing today was Friday, bummer it is not. For those who comment in this blog, I can not comment to a bunch of people from day job. My computer is wanky here......

I am so excited...

Mom & I are beading our little fingers off...just wait till you see our new jewelery on our Esty sites:)

:) Looking forward to "seeing" you there and don't forget we extended our sale until 11/21:) Shop now for those favorites or they will be going to another home or styled into a different piece of jewelery:)

hating my bank...

When my wonderful credit union merged with this evil credity union....not good things resulted. Oh, we promise you will have NO issues or problems with the merge...HA! THEY LIED! sigh. So now, I have to go thru a huge amount of hassle to get my direct depost & other things moved to another bank.

Tom's dad is leaving tomorrow early and we are going on a date:) We only get weekends to see each since we live about 30 minutes away and it is hard on weekdays to get together espically with psycho Sadie who needs puppy prozac cause she freaks when her humans aren't there and even out of her sight.

My parents are coming some time next week so at least that gives me more time to wash the floors in my house. I was hit with the creativity bug so I made some jewelery. I also have to send more jewelery to the museum and Margaret's shop.

OH, I sold another piece of jewelery at the museum!!! hooray! Plus, I need to have a big Etsy sale so I will work on that either day if possible or tomorrow if possible.

H1N1 sucks..

Mom's funky bracelet, the fiber beads can be bought from here...http://www.etsy.com/shop/Ebrown2503

My advice, try not to get this crap.....I got the medication in time so I feel loads better but I can't get rid of my stupid fever. If I am fever free for 48 hrs than I can go back to work. I did clean up some of the house when I was feeling better, took tons of pictures to update Etsy stores and right now, I am Sadie sitting while Tom & his dad runs around doing some errands for him and for me. She has finally calmed down a bit and now lies down by me & occasionaly gets up to see where dad is at.

I am looking forward to talking to Tom's dad somemore once I am no longer contagious.

sign for booth

Since they don't want a hand written sign, which I understand, I just had a brilliant idea! I am going to take old rather yucky glass beads and with wire make a Funky Monkey Girl sign and put it on some poster board....I am going to be busy tonight with making lists and packing...wish me luck!

Evil noise

is finally gone...............PRAISE GOD! Now, last night, I have the most awesome idea for a necklace, got my butt out of bed, dug for something to draw it on and it will be coming to life in stages here:) It is going to involve more crafty stuff from me and Ms Margot Potter just inspired me last night............hee,hee....just wait!!

Behold the monkey created...

Yes, it is back!!!! I was one creative person these 3 days off. I feel so much better. I re watched Factory Girl and made a necklace with Edie Segwick in mind. I have it on today. It is black and white and hopefully retro. I also made a couple of rings, which is pretty unusal for me to do and they both turned out quite nicely if I do say so myself:)

I made a couple of necklaces with the beads that I won from Lorelei back when. One of them is full of skulls with one of those glass art beads and skulls from Gaeawhom I love and I can't spell either name correctly right now but I promise (all fixed:)) I believe that one will go to the museum gift shop in San Antonio. Oh I have my jewelery or I should state mom and I's jewelery in a museum gift shop in San Antonio. It is fun to state that but of course, sales are a bit down:(

Friday I will pick up a thingee that my mom had so I can download/edit and get new product out in our Etsy stores...I am thinking about a huge sale also just to move stock out:) I will let everyone know here and on my Facebook. I am on Facebook, not the business but thinking about getting that addressed soon.

Work

I am at work and taking drugs....I am hoping that I can get more relaxed so this shoulder will quit binging me. bleck.

Must make some more bracelets for our jewelery that I finally got up in Copper Country! I need to find the stick thing mom had that allows me to put my picture disk in it and upload to the computer right away:)

I had bunnies and quail in my backyard last night. I do believe the bobcats have moved on to something cooler. I also found out that we do have a mountain lion living in our wash here!!! WOW, I definately don't want to run into her/him!

This 3 day weekend, I am going to relax, buy some beads, go to pool and start beading!

FEEL THE NEED TO BEAD/CREATE

Okay, my question posed to all of you, how long can you go without creating anything?

Finding....

I am finding other blogs that are full of inspiration either verbally and with wonderful pictures. They are inspiring to go different directions with my jewelery and expand my horizons.

Thank you.

Organized

is the key word for my studio. I thought I was but having no space truly you aren't. Now, I have an entire room, a huge closet and my dad sleeping there:) So, my plans are on the back burner for now but yes, they are bumping and thumping around my brain.

I have a good digital camera but I am not getting the quality of the pictures that I truly need to sell our jewelery. Mom & I are taking inventory tonight and getting things ready to go into Copper Country this weekend. For those who don't know, Copper Country is an antique and comissioned store. It has all sorts of goodies in it and I have bought my shabby chic dresser and kitchen chairs from it. It is HUGE but the jewelery counters, which are locked are up front and everyone goes wandering down those aisles. http://www.coppercountryantiques.com/ website....

The kitchen is almost ready to take pictures:) I have my 2 Mary Engelbreit pictures up on my red wall and they both just pop! It is cool!!!!!!!!!!

This picture is my Mayan necklace listed here: http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5041123

painting and wild animals

Back at the day job, bummer. My red and yellow kitchen is coming along wonderfully:) As soon as it is all painted and pictures are hung, I will post it on here.

My dad is sleeping in my studio because of the lack of light at night, I have good lamps etc for the day time hours so no setting up tables etc, I am getting antsy from lack of beading!!!!!

Loreli made an awesome necklace using the Alice in Wonderland theme so I am thinking of favorite childhood stories to do some of the same thing. Thanks for the great idea!!

I think I have 2 families of bobcats that are roaming in the neighbors and mine backyard. It is really cool. I need to water something back there when I get home so I will loads of noise so they know I am coming out. Mom got the best pictures so I will try to get them posted. It is so cool!

Both Funky Monkey Girls and Viva Mexico are back up. I am slowly learning how to edit pictures on my laptop at home so new product will be gradually updated on both sites. Also, we got a couple of shelves at Copper Country so we will be putting product in there this week:) I am excited.

The washer/dryer will be delivered today, it was suppose to be delivered on Saturday but who knows what happened? sigh...such is life. Luckily everyone had enough clean underwear LOL.

Studio...

argh....feeling frustated because I haven't created anything in a while and plus, I can't find my jewelery to wear everyday. I am thinking I am going to move some boxes into the guest bedroom so I can at least start unpacking some stuff so I can create!! I can't unpack living room until I get that painted.

Must find jewelery...feeling really really naked lately!