It has been a while since i have posted but let me make you aware that i am doing anything but hiding under a rock!!  I delivered some beads on wednesday to yelton’s and i am currently not torching until some time next week.  So this is the story….

I have around 4-5 places in my house where clutter acrues until i can move the clutter around to one of the other places in that 4-5 range.  Welllllll… um, i now have to declutter the whole house because our new real estate agent is having pictures done on monday and she is a stickler!!!  She will come in and stage our house for pictures and by golly there better not be anything on the counters of anywhere, so it all has to be stashed somewhere in addition to the the clutter areas that i have to deal with.  We are listing our home on the market due to a few reasons.  One is that the house is just way to big for us, another is that it is very hard to sell a home not only in todays market but in there area of town and we presently own two homes here.  We are hoping to sell the rented property (fingers crossed) to the people who signed a lease option to buy this year, maybe next depending on how their state of affairs are.  We have decided that we do not need this huge home, that we want to eventually move in four years once anna graduates, and amanda has moved on to another state.  We want to move hopefully closer to amanda and bribe anna into going to college somewhere close to there.  We want to make sure that we have our plans in action and that we do not own property here where we live, so we want to rent a house and start preparing plans for another home, we just do not know where yet.  I would love to live near some mountains, which ones, i do not know.  I do know that i want a log cabin and then another little log cabin behind it for my studio!!!  We are expecting to take a huge loss on this house, but in this market, well, we are fine with that!   Well, not really fine, but you win some you lose some and it will be ok! 

Amanda is having fun in europe and i wish i were there with her, anywhere but here in the house trying to part with cluttered items i have not used in years but maybe, just maybe might need in the next minute or two.  Anna is busy with volleyball and it is getting busier.  She received an invitation in the mail for her volleyball club again.  he decided not to have tryouts based on the fact that he went from 13 to 8 teams so he only has one for each age and hand picked the girls based on their skill and competitiveness and need for position.  Yay, you go my little 5′1″ powerhouse!!!!  Also, we had a jv tourney yesterday and won the silver bracket for her high school.  It is nice to see them play for the first time together and anna did well, so i am happy.  they played 6 matches (2 or three games per match), so anna was tired and sore from digging the ball out of the floor!

Tonight we get our iphones and i am so excited because i cannot wait to set up my applications.  Oh my goodness, it is all to good to be true.  i have never been this excited about a gadget in my life.  i have always had silly phones because it did not matter to me but hey, this i cannot pass up, it will make life a lot easier.  And, it will be fun to have! 

Have a great weekend and i will catch up sooner than later and have some bead pics for you!!

I will be delivering beads that will be available for purchase on wednesday of next week, so mark your calendars!!  I will have black and white beads, fall beads, and bright beads!!  Today was a day of rest for me and i loved it, tomorrow, not so much!!  We are putting our house on the market and i have to get ready for the realtors and also finish some beads.  I am truly ready to get rid of the large house, it is just too big but i will really miss my newly remodeled studio, it has been very inspirational to me.  HOWEVER, i will make a new home for it some where else.  Who knows, it might take forever to sell a house this size, afterall, it IS on the west side and not many people move this way, so i might be cleaning and cleaning and cleaning for a lonngggggg time, ugh!!  All say a prayer that it sells quickly so i can spend more time on beads.

 Watch this video from last nights So you think you can dance!!  It was very moving and emotional!  It is amazing that something can be conveyed with no words, sometimes i feel my beads do that for me.  If you have been touched by breast cancer in any way, please watch this, or just watch it because it is beautiful!!

I just took some beads out of the kiln, and i am loving the coral and olive together.  i did a similar set last year on my gallery, but this new olive is just fantastic.  enjoy!!

The birthdays are almost over, Amanda’s is today and she is in Finland!!  She is 21 years old, wow that is amazing how quickly that went.  Anna’s and mine were sunday and she is 15 years old now, i am a sluggish 43 and that is okay.  Afterall, i am going to the midnight showing of Harry potter, where i will eat popcorn and drink a large icee and be giddy and happy!!  So begone birthday, begone!!

Here are a few beads from the fall colors i am working with.  I love these colors, the pics did not do very well but oh well, you will want to come in a grab them up as soon as you can.  They will be at Yelton’s tomorrow late afternoon!  There will be about 30 beads so come in and check them out!

these are the same beads but i just loved my colors in the background and could not decide, indecisions, oh that reminds me, i must go play my brain age game for today, ha!

So, i have been torching a little bit here and a little bit there but i seem to be moving at a snails pace.  I believe it is because i am not having caffeine and have not had any for about a month.  It really stinks and i miss it because i was moving faster in those days (ok, but it DOES seem like forever).  I miss my pop, i miss my equal, my splenda and even the pink stuff.  Drinking unsweetened tea is not my idea of a good time.  The sugar does not dissolve and i am getting tired of lemons as well.  I bought this fancy schmancy green tea from Teavana at the mall and it is supposed to be the best green tea you can buy.  Welllll, let me tell you, it tastes like “liquid fish”, yes you heard me L-I-Q-U-I-D  FISH!!!!!  Drinking water just bores me to no end but it is all i have as well.  People keep saying that i should just have one or two diets a day but they do not realize i am out of control with the pop AND it is bad for you.  Yes, i know i should have stopped a long time ago but lets face it, I turned 43 yesterday and i have a 15 and 21 year old.  I am in maintenance phase, i need to work on my memory, my health and any thing else they throw at me.  Mark bought me a nintendo DS and the Brain Age game to work my brain every day to help with my bad memory.  It is a really cool game but i was hoping that my memory would get better because of the lack of Aspartame (equal) in my body.  The only thing i have noticed is that my muscle aches are not as bad and that i am a lot slower than i was due to the lack of caffeine and maybe the liquid fish i have been drinking, UGH!!!  I am so done with that tea i think i will take it outside and sprinkle it on my tomato plants.  It has got to be better at fertilization than it is drinking it. 

Oh well, that is my rant and i am sticking to it!  Pics soon, and beads i will let you know when i take them, i will post them right away (maybe a little slower than normal due to my sluggish ways)!!

moar funny pictures

The week has gotten away from me with some various things and appointments, it is totally crazy here at the moment and stress is high.  I will probably have the beads by middle of next week to Yelton’s so if you want to call them on wednesday that would be good, any sooner and they will not be there.  i will post when i take them!!  Peace (i need some some)

steph

Well, i have now not had even ONE diet soda with Aspartame or any sweetners of any kind in anything.  It has been 3 1/2 weeks and the headaches have stopped but it is almost as if life is just not as exciting as when i ran through the drive through to get my large diet coke, gotta have a fountain pop!  Now all i have is iced tea with lemon and nothing in it because i do not like sweet tea.  Emotionally i am not as stable, hee hee!  Diet soda has always been my drug and i leaned heavily on it to get me through the bad beads, the good beads, the nights that i could not sleep (T-R-A-I-T-O-R, that was youuuuuuu!), or just about any other thing in life.  You know, have to go to the hospital to sit with someone, well at least there is a pop machine!  I really feel as if my body is starting to feel better from less toxicity, i know for a fact my muscles are not as achy and now i know just how addicted to caffeine i was, it took 2 weeks to not have a headache, it was horrible.  I feel i eat a little more now, that is not so good but i am hoping to cut something else out of my horrible diet soon to press onto some life of healthiness!!!  Ok, beads in the next few days to Yelton’s and well, not much else!  This video reminds me of my dungeon of water i must drink while living without my beloved diet coke

I just had a nostalgic whim today!

Still thinking of Michael even though that is all that has been on since he passed.  I always wondered what if they were wrong, how would if feel to be accused of something so heinous?  How could an already misunderstood and damaged person internalize what they had been accused of?  I always hoped it was not true, but in knowing that it might be, it bothered me, but I seemed to be always sucked into the deep and passionate songs that he left us with ~  Here is one!

New colors for fall, just a couple i made yesterday, sorry about the glare!

Ok, Yelton’s received some beads yesterday and someone (Denise) bought 23 of them, holy moly!!  I took 36 but i cannot tell you what is still there.  I am busily making more and very happy about the wonderful Fall colors that are coming out of my kiln~  The picture above is a bead going to someone who specifically ordered this bead so this, i repeat, this is not what i am talking about in the way of Fall colors!  I think you will all love the new palette for fall, the gals at yelton’s did and Joanne especially!!! 

 Watched this great movie (name above) and loved it!!  a long movie but very good!!

I always loved this song!

steph