Month: March 2008

  • I don’t care what the calendar says, it’s SPRING!

    The past few days it’s been warmer (above freezing for over 24 hours straight), all of the snow is melting, I can see the pavement on my sidewalk and parking lot, it’s raining instead of snowing, and today– for the first time since October, there are birds in the ivy that grows on the garage.  HOORAY!!  I told the birds as I was walking to my door that it’s smart for them to stake an early claim on those vines because they are a hot piece of birdy real estate in the summer.

    My cat also thinks this is a good idea.  (Glances over to see him peering out the window towards the garage)  I can hear them chirping! 

    Oh the joy.  This is like the best time of year for someone with seasonal affective disorder.  I relate birds and spring with THE END OF THE PITS.  Although, this winter wasn’t too hard… I blame that on Vitamin D3. :)

    Been working on stuff for my show.   I’ve listed a few new items this week (check it out over —> there) and I’ve completely redesigned and printed all new business cards.  From this design I am also commisstioning a banner to made to have at my art fairs, to hang on the front of my table.

    I’m excited! :D

    Getting a little burned out on creating stuff, seems like all I’ve been doing for almost a month is MAKE MAKE MAKE.  And I still have tons of new ideas flooding my brain every day, I’m just too tired to try to MAKE anything more! :D   So tomorrow I’m taking a mental vacation from raven’s craving and just doing stuff completely unrelated to jewelry. :)

    That’s it for now!  Have a great weekend!

  • Mondays off are like baby vacations

    It’s nice to have Mondays off from work.  It’s like one day of the week where I can spend the WHOLE day doing whatever I want.  Which usually means I create some jewelry, photograph some jewelry, and play around on etsy.  It’s so nice.

    Today I got my shipment from The Ring Lord, where I buy my sterling silver wire, and where Dan gets his rings for chainmaille.  Hooray!!!  Now I can make earwires for the numerous pairs of earrings I have made this weekend.  I am trying to stock up for an art fair I registered for.  It’s in April in Whitewater, WI.  My first real art fair.  Very exciting.  I have spent over $200 on stock-up-supplies so far, including the 2 ounces of sterling wire from The Ring Lord, and the rest where I work, a bead store.

    Yesterday Dan and I hunted around for a 6′ folding table to take to the art fair, found a crappy fold-in-the-middle one for $70, a decent one at Sam’s club for less than $40 (couldn’t buy it, though.  not members.)  and finally a $35 one at Menard’s!  I love Menard’s.  So that’s one more thing I needed for the art fair and I’m running out of tax return money so I better not need much more! :D

    Aside from that, I have spent this morning paying bills, filling out rent certificates to send to my landlords for the Homestead Credit, and pretending that I’m talking to my cats even though I was really talking to myself.

    :)

  • Happy Monday everybody!

    I started off this week with a bang! I hope.  I got linked up on junkstylediva’s blog as a favorite artist, and have submitted by banner to two different blogs for free adspace!  Woohoo!

    The first one is for springcartdesigns’ blog here:  http://thahotness.com
    The second one is for butterflychic’s blog here:  http://www.butterflychicboutique.com/

    I want to thank everybody for their generosity, it has potential to inspire me to actually BLOG :D