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2011-11-06T21:58:00.000-08:00

Good evening,

Finally I can start posting again! It's been forever but it seems my tech problems with Blogger are now a thing of the past! #knockonwood

I've in the thick of things with getting my log in problems resolved, it's seems I've lost a couple posts as well. :( Oh well, I'm not going to dwell on that. New posts coming very soon!

Happy 2011!

2011-01-11T20:52:00.000-08:00

Happy New Years everyone!

Hope everyone had a great end to 2010, and is having a great start to 2011. One thing I love about this time of year is appearance of the SUN! It was pretty depressing driving to work in the dark and leaving work in the dark. Now there is a glimmer of beautiful sunshine :)

A friend and fellow lampwork artist, Carrie Hamilton (who has a wonderful blog), had a post last week of her cat and it's love of shopping bags. Well hers is not the only one. Here is my Winston, and his favorite shopping bag. :)

On the jewelry side of things over the holidays I wasn't super productive but I did manage to make a few new pieces and will hopefully have some time to post photos this week. I find necklaces, especially the long ones hard to photograph. I might need to just get a model. If you want to see more photos of my jewelery you can check out my facebook page.

So now that it's 2011, did you all make new year resolutions? I normally don't but I did decide to change that this year.

1) Visit more with friends, and get out and visit old friends!

2) Take some group fitness/sports classes. Already registered in a Kettlebell class starting in a couple weeks.

3) Start my Suburban artists group, more info on that comings soon!

4) Blog once a week! (Although I have said that before)

Monday goodness

2010-11-29T21:18:00.000-08:00

Hey all....you might be asking Monday goodness? How does that work? Well sometimes you just have to embrace Monday for what it is and find something good in it. I know that can be especially hard after a long weekend like our wonderful friends south of the boarder. I'm luckily that I have a career that I enjoy and I work for a great company. :)

Here is something that I found though that made me smile. Can you even imagine having a bubble bath in a tub made from amethyst? Luxury at its MAX! I personally think it would be pure heaven.

Speaking of bathtubs.....I am a BIG Seattle fan, I love that city. It has a wonderful arts scene, great restaurants, and amazing shopping. There are some great deals right now thru Alaska Airlines, from Edmonton and Calgary until. I totally recommend going for a long weekend, just a lovely city even in the rain. :) I HIGHLY recommend Hotel 1000, this is were the bathtubs come in. Each room has a massive pedestal tub that fills from the ceiling, which will give you a mountain of bubbles. The restaurant is also great, and I was served the BEST room service breakfasts during my stay.

I will have some photos from this past weekend coming up on Wednesday. The sale was a great success. Thank you so much to everyone that came down. Cheers.

Gleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-k

2010-11-16T21:23:00.000-08:00

So I decided tonight I would watch Glee tonight since Gwyneth Paltrow is on. It's not that I hate the show, I just having troubles getting past all the obvious lip syncing and auto tune.....not to mention the song selection of Journey and Bon Jovi *gag*. Ms. Coldplay was pretty awesome though, if she comes back on again I will watch. :)

So here is a piece I have just finished. Well almost finished. I ran out of sterling silver crimp covers so I have to get some of those. The big beads are glass beads by me (naturally) with a sterling silver clasp and lots of freshwater pearls. I'm still having some issues getting a really good photo. :( But I did buy some new lights so hopefully I will have some time soon to set that up.

Today was the first day we've had that has really felt like winter. The temp dropped, snow started, and WINDY. Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. I love the snow, I just wish the wind would go away! :) I did find these though. Seriously, how awesome are they? :)

Prefect for us Canuck girls.

Feeling blah!

2010-11-08T20:54:00.000-08:00

Hola peeps. Hope everyone had a great Monday. My Monday was good, aside from feeling kinda blah. I've had this stupid lingering cold, and doesn't really want to turn into anything other then making me tired and and stuffed up. Oh well, I am going to just ignore it and think healthy thoughts. I figure that way the cold will go away or it will peak so I have a good excuse to chill out and get better. It does have to wait though until after this weekend since my first bead making class. I did have 2 other classes scheduled but they got cancelled since there weren't enough people signed up. We are good to go this weekend though. :) If you're in the area and would like to learn, you can contact the City of St.Albert 780-459-1600

So here is my house link for the day. They are in Calgary, and are little generic compared to my normal tastes. But....and I know, it's totally impractical, but I am diggin' the white hardwood!

I'm hoping to have some time later this week to make some more jewelry. I did make some more "pandora" beads I just have to get around to getting some photos done. :) In the mean time check out this Etsy seller, I am going to order a few prints for den. :)

2010-11-01T20:00:00.000-07:00

Happy November everyone. It always seems November is the real mark that winter is on it's way! Not that you'd really notice here...with all the sunshine. Have I mentioned how much I love summer? :) BUT winter can be good too. I got a nice selection of sweater dresses and boots so bring it on!

My work is getting busy again. I always have found it kind of strange that people get so into building houses when the weather gets cold. I am certainly not complaining though, cause I love to be busy. For those who don't know I design new homes. My official title is Architectural Technologist/Building Development Technologist. It's a big of a mouthful, so residential designer sounds better. :)Needless to say I am a little obsessed with homes and design. So with each post I am going to have a link to a cool house. So check out this beauty, from Klab Architect's in Greece.

Now onto the bracelet, this one has a mix of materials, glass pearls, glass beads made by me, sterling silver, clear quartz, Swarovski crystals. The clasp is a sterling silver heart.

All my items will be up on Etsy.com again soon for purchase, or you can see my items via my Facebook page.

The best of intentions....

2010-10-13T21:28:00.000-07:00

....so I had the best of intentions tonight to come home from work, make a nice dinner, relax a bit, then get straight down into my studio and start working on my many jewelry projects. :) Projects that I had mentioned previously in a post. Well it's now it's 10:28pm...what have I got done...well I made a nice dinner (chicken soup), relaxed for about half an hour...then I remember I have laundry to do. ha! Oh well, I tried, and I will try again tomorrow. :) Least for tomorrow I have leftovers for dinner.

So with all my blah blah blahing, I did manage to finish getting some "pandora" beads finished. The picture was ust taken on the fly, so quality isn't 100% but good enough for tonight. I am working on getting some individual photos taken, maybe this weekend I can make it happen.

Happy Belated Thanksgiving (to my fellow Canadians)

2010-10-12T21:21:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone!

I hope you all are having a great fall. This past weekend was the Thanksgiving long weekend up here in the G.W.N. (Great White North). It was a beautiful weekend, the weather couldn't have been nicer, and my BF, Ted and I, spent some time with our wonderful friends and family.

I have been a little bit slacking in the jewelry making department. I currently have 5 bracelets on the go, all of them started and that's about it. So it's my goal to finish off one per night. We'll see how that goes. :) I gotta get on it. The Christmas Sale season is FAST approching, and I want to be sure I have lots of stock. In the mean time. Here is the finished product of a necklace start I had posted previously. I'm really happy with the results, and have had lots of comments and interest regarding the Viking Knit on the back of the necklace.

Here's a little something I saw on Etsy today....made me laugh.... :) Click Here!

Time Flies...

2010-09-18T19:50:00.000-07:00

Good evening everyone! Well today I met up the the very nice lady from the City of St. Albert to get everything ready for my first class. Which may or may not take place next Saturday. Fingers crossed we get enough people signed up. I am excited to teach again, it's always fun introducing people to something new, and the students are always excited. Today I spent a little time on the torch, I made some large holed beads that fit, Pandora and Troll bracelets and I also made some cabinet knobs. They are still cooling off in the kiln so I will post some photos tomorrow.

So here in north-central Alberta we are basically into fall. The leaves have turned color and are falling off, seemingly over night. I love summer. I am one of these crazy people that love the HOT weather...which I think we got a total of 4 days of. BUT a few things I do love about cool fall days.....wearing boots....hot chocolate...the corn maze...OK that's all I can think of for now. :) I highly recommend checking to see of the area you live in has a corn maze. It is so much fun to get a group of friends and family together and see who can escape the maze the fastest. The key though is to go as late a possible, dusk or full dark adds a little more excitement.

Here are a photo of some boots I just bought... :) I am in footwear love with them. <3

Long Weekend Fun!

2010-09-10T20:35:00.000-07:00

Hey Hey World! I can't believe it's Friday night already, this weekwent so fast!
Last Saturday my boyfriend and I went to SONiC BOOM 2010. It's a rock music festival put on by a local radio station, and there were some great bands this year. Weezer, was amazing. I always really liked them, and now I love them! There performance is now in a tie for my favorite concert, tied with the Foo Fighters. :) I can hardly wait for next year!

For the past 4 days we've been tearing apart and painting our master bedroom and ensuite. It's taking longer then we thought, or we're just moving to slow. Maybe both. So I haven't had time to be creative. I have started a new necklace though. I'm pretty excited about it. So here's a teaser :) I need to get some fine silver wire so I can finish it. Hope you all have a great weekend. P.S. If you're looking for something to do tomorrow...come visit me at the 104st Farmers Market...9am to 3pm...104st and Jasper ave.

Cheers.

R.I.P. Summer

2010-09-01T21:28:00.000-07:00

Now I know we still have several weeks of "summer" before autumn hits us. It's just always seems that as soon as I see school buses on the roads, and the Halloween stuff out in the stores, that's what really marks the end of summer. I <3 summer, the warm days, the green grass, the flowers, days at the beach, etc. I know we really didn't get much of that in the Edmonton area this year. But I suppose no sense dwelling on the past, now we must just hope for a mild fall, and a winter with plenty of good snow and days that aren't TOO COLD. :)

Anyways.......I have been a bad blogger already. Here it is a month and a half later and I am just doing my second post. I've been busy...forgive me? I am now resolute that I will update at least once a week. I am setting it for Wednesday night. The reminder is set up on my Itouch, and my Outlook so hopefully that will give me a kick in the bootie. Something new for my blog, I will have little links within the post. Most likely it will be just a single word, and the link will have to do with that word. :)

So I have been working on a bunch of new art projects, but nothing that's ready to show. Yet. I have been starting to make beads to fit Pandora bracelets. Here are a few of them. I'm hoping to make a bunch this weekend, along with some more cabinet knobs.

Starting Fresh!

2010-07-15T20:55:00.000-07:00

Well here we go! I am starting fresh. I have been neglecting my blog for so long that I decided to just delete my old posts and start new. :) So starting this weekend, I will be back to regular postings. I also have another fashion/lifestyle blog in the works. I will post that link once I get it all set up.

This is something new I am trying out. It's a viking knit. This is one I made in class (beads are not mine), I have a bunch started and I will hopefully be finishing those off in the next few weeks. :)

Peace.