Spelling/books

If you hadn't noticed, I can not spell worth a darn. I am hard of hearing and as a kid because my asthma/allergies, I would never hear stuff correctly. So I have a tendency to spell words the way I think they should be due to me hearing it werid.

Okay, I found on the Impatient Beaders blog a book that will assist me in making ribbon type beads Fabulous fabric beads by Kristal Wick! I don't know about you, but I am pretty excited about it. I had allegric reactions to felt as a kid so stuff like that it totally out for me to make but if you go here

http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5318408

Her fiber beads rock and we used them in many things. Plus she has little stories about her beads, check out her shoppe!

The book that I bought is called Beyond Beads by Margot Potter! I love it. This is coming from a girl who was terrified about using Mod Podge just a couple of months ago. yes....mod podge! So I am werid.

Something very important happening..

The almighty creative and wonderful fantastic woman and mom is acoming to Tucson AGAIN! Let's hear it for the Funky Monkey Mom aka Donna! She will be flying into town on April 2nd and bringing with her jewelery & her sodering tool. Be scared cause the monkey girl will be learning sodering......this coming in time for a woman who has burned her arm, her forehead and thumb at least a couple of times last week doing her hair!

Friday friday (sing like Monday monday)

It is Friday! This monkey has been in a creating funk. More than likely caused by the sheer fact that she has forgotten to take her "happy" pills for several days. That is NOT good for monkey girl & has very bad effects on mood/life/creativity etc.

I have to take them at night because along with all the other medication, it makes me extremely tired thus the HUGE need to be caffinated on a daily basis, oh I love a good cup of java!

I had a brilliant idea to make something from Polymer clay. I must experiment this weekend, great idea and now to see if come out of me is this next step LOL.

day job

I HATE my day job. Okay I am better now & it will better tomorrow.....but please remember something, that you transfered from a different town and different VA that everyone does things differently. That does not mean that that person is an idiot it means they need help getting into how you do things at this place........................................sigh. I HATE MEAN PEOPLE!

Words of wisdom from Margot Potter

"the visitorscopyright 2006 margot potterFor most of my life, I avoided happiness and success like the plague. Even though they kept offering themselves to me, I kept pushing them out the door. Get the hell outta here; can't you see I am wallowing in self doubt? Helloooooooooooo...The thing is, like some demented Jehovah's Witnesses, they kept knocking. Two years ago, I finally invited them in for some coffee. They stayed for dinner. We had a slumber party, popped some popcorn, watched Willy Wonka, painted each other's toe nails, played truth or dare and watched the sun come up. I asked them to move into the guest room. So far, things are working out for us. I still have to kick sorrow and failure out, but we have been together for so long, it's kind of tough. So, they are camped out in the back yard, just in case I need them. Soon, I'll hook them up with backpacks and send them on their way.It's the strangest thing, isn't it? We truly want to be happy, we long to succeed, we ache for love...but some part of us is afraid of what that will require. We feel guilty, we feel undeserving. If we manifest these things...well...we will have to be prepared to take responsibility for our life, to make some serious efforts, to risk failure, to risk hurting others, to stop playing the victim. Ultimately...it isn't fear of failure that keeps us from succeeding...it is fear of success. Being a failure is easy. It's comfortable. It requires little more than the ability to whine and blame everyone else for our misery. When we live in the lack mentality, we feel that everything we have is so tenuous and so undeserved, we begin to feel that someone is looming over us waiting to take it all away. We are right, on some level. The more we cling to things, the more they elude our grasp.To know true success and true happiness, we must find a way to open our hearts to love; I don't just mean Hallmark greeting card love, or some idealized, sterilized, socially acceptable love, not selfish love filled with unspoken expectations...but unconditional universal love. The love that asks nothing more of us then the willingness to dare...to stand strong...to be...who...we...are. Without shame. To finally and fully take responsibility for every aspect our lives, and to assess what works and what does not, and to be strong enough to admit to ourselves what we have to change in order to open ourselves up to true joy. There is a limitless amount of potential and abundance, right before us at every moment. We have to love ourselves enough to feel worthy of receiving them. That's a tough one. We will also have to understand that our willingness to stand strong in who we are will most likely not make us popular. So we have to ask ourselves...selves...do you choose to be popular and miserable, or do you choose to be happy? I vote for the second option myself.I figure, I have had a lifetime of unhappiness and failure, so from here on out, even in moments of absolute sorrow, I am opening my heart up to receive love, joy and success. I am, as are you, dear reader, worthy.(Oh, and don't forget, it's your movie, Scorsese, so get your ass up there on that crane and start acting like a director instead of hanging out by the food service table eating donuts waiting for someone to tell you what to do.)"It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing. It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dreams, for the adventure of being alive." From The Invitation Oriah Mountain Dreamer, Indian ElderBe in Peace,Margot" This is from her blog and she is very very wise!!!

Bracelet challenge

Okay mom & I decided to do a bracelet challenge using the little Mexican pottery crosses. This is mine made with 3 strands of memory wire swarovski crystals, glass and other little tidbits:)

Let me get momma's picture up here to and you shall see how our minds truly think alike!

My mom's bracelet also using memory wire....this is just too werid!

doggie and kitty jewelery

Last night, I made a really cool bracelet. We don't have a lot of bracelets at the monkey house & I honestly don't know why so I am trying to fix that. I will have monkey momma help along of course! It is made from jasper beads and a gray colored shell bird that I picked up at Michaels. I tried to make it very differently from the norm. It worked out quite well if I do say so myself. I will attempt pic later.

I also made some kitty charms that you can hang on a kitty's collar. We bought some glass kitty's from a Tucson show so this is one thing that will be duplicated however the colors of beads with them will be different.

I also took some shots of bracelet that mom & I are thinking about doing a bracelet challenge with! WE are also going to enter some jewelery into the Stringing Magazine & maybe Bead Style as well. We must get our stuff out there since we happen to believe it is different from everyone elses!!!