randomness

Lots and lots going on around here.  I find myself each and every week saying to myself "next week will slow down" or "next week I will do this."  Am I the only one?  I can't be.  There has to be millions of people out there that have a busy life.  I guess in a way I choose to be this busy.  I have come to terms that I like to be busy most of the time, otherwise I get bored.  What I need is a little organization in my life.  I need to schedule things out and stick to it.  Sometimes my head feels like it is going to explode because I have a million things I want/need to do.  

The salon has been extremely busy the last few weeks, which I am very grateful for.  I finally got it decorated today for Christmas and have a few extra things to do before my open house this week, but should be ready to go by Wednesday.

My WONDERFUL friends, clients, and blog followers have been keeping me so busy with necklace orders.  I couldn't have asked for a better outcome my first few weeks of my new venture.  A BIG thank you to everyone that has ordered!  I'm so excited for this new chapter in my life and can't wait to keep creating!

We had a great Thanksgiving.  I, along with about a million other people I'm sure, ate WAY WAY WAY too much and felt miserable all day.  It was still a great day though.  I did not venture out on Black Friday, but have been finding myself checking the Amazon deals way to often.  I still haven't bought anything.

We did our Christmas decorating last night.  If you want to call it that! ha ha  Don't worry there will be another post to follow in the next day or two!  Khloe is napping on the couch right now and Troy ran to pick up our new (portable) dishwasher.  WHOOO HOO!  We couldn't take it anymore and he found a good deal on Thanksgiving Day online so we couldn't pass it up.  I can't wait. The sink is full and I'm not touching one of them until I load them in the dishwasher!  

I'm just sitting here enjoying the tree and the quiet.  One of my favorite days of the week is Monday when I just get to hang out with Khloe and be lazy!

Christmas delivery

Just wanted to put a little notice on here about my deadline for Christmas on the necklaces! 

In order to guarantee delivery by December 24th your necklaces must be ordered by December 3rd.  If you are not having them shipped and are picking them up from me at the salon you must have your order in by December 9th.  If you miss these deadlines, send me a convo through my Etsy shop and I'll see what I can do.  It all depends on what I have in stock!

I would love to make a necklace for you, so be sure and check out my shop!  New items are added all the time (as quickly as I can get them on there).  I have been tremendously busy and just want to thank everyone for their support with my new venture.  It has been exciting so far and I can't wait to create more new items.  I have a few bracelet ideas up my sleeve, but probably won't get them in the shop before Christmas.

P.S.  Yes I'm still TOTALLY drooling over the hunk I got to meet.  The full details will be showing up soon! 

just hanging out

Just threw a little party tonight for some friends.  

Found this stragler out on the street.

Nobody special really......

Twilight anyone????

time to decorate

After our first big snow this weekend I have been seriously thinking about Christmas decorations.  I can't wait to put them up.  My only drawback is where we are living.  I really don't have tons of room to decorate so I'm going to have to be creative this year and very selective about the things I will have room for.

One thing I have had my eye on for the last couple of months is this Noel sign from Pottery Barn.  

I love love love it!

  I believe it is made of cast iron and retails for about $125!

(no longer on their site, must have sold out, obviously I'm one of the few who wouldn't pay $125 for this)

So I have a brilliant idea (hopefully) in mind to make a replica.  I'll post soon!

snap snap

Another necklace added to the shop!  I'm quite fond of this one, isn't that little camera cute?

photo shoot

I did a fun little photo shoot for a friend of mine last weekend.  They were wanting pictures taken for a Christmas card and I happily offered up my amateur services.

It was a very windy day so we did our best to find some spots out of the breeze.  I think everyone had a pretty good time! 

Isn't the little one cute? :)

more more more

I added a little goodness to my Etsy shop tonight.  

I just got the necklaces set up at the salon today and got a couple of orders!  So I will be back at work and adding more designs hopefully every couple of days! Yippppeeeee!

One of my favorites to date!  The washer is hammered and oxidized, with a heart and pearl hanging in the middle!  LOVE IT!

creeping

I can feel it....it's coming.  That terrible "c" word. 

The sneezing, watery eyes, itchy nose.  

Ugghhh

I'm willing it away.  It HAS to go away!  I have way to much going on this week to let it take me over.

We have been working, working, working on a plan for the house.  We go back and forth on are we going to add on, aren't we, how big would we want it, do we want a basement, etc.  It is really killing me that we are free to be in the house now and we have no clue what we are doing, so therefore work is halted.....rephrase, hasn't even begun.

Hmmm what else?

Ok Halloween has come and past and I still have not put on pictures...ughhh.  Can you tell I have no ambition lately?  I feel like all I do is sit and "think" about everything I have to do and not just get up and do it.  I need to start my good little to do list and get to it!  

On an exciting note one of my really really good friends put in a huge order for necklaces for Christmas gifts.  I'm so excited to get started on them and can't wait to post the new ones I came up with!  Thanks Jess! 

Oohh and another exciting note....I get to do my first "photo shoot" this weekend for one of my other friends and her family.  I CANNOT WAIT!!!  With just a smidgen of nervousness mixed in.  By the way do you know that I typed smidge and spell check came up and they don't consider that a word, but smidgen is?  Weird.  Sorry.  Off topic.

What was I saying....oh yes.....jewelry and photography....does it get any better??? 

etsy shop

My Etsy shop is up and running!  

Check it out in the upper side of the right column.  So excited to finally have a shop in Etsy!

If you want to order you can click on the Etsy link and order through Etsy or if you are a local, you know where to find me!

Since I'm just starting out I don't know what this holiday season will be like (hopefully crazy busy), so please be sure and allow 2 weeks for delivery before Christmas just in case!