"Like 'O' like 'H'"

Sorry I've been absent! I was lounging around sunny Osoyoos, BC: Canada's only desert. For reals! It was lovely. I've gone every year of my life with my family. I picked up a dress (I ♥ dresses!) and some yummy herbal/homemade-y body stuffs, and flavoured honey made in Keremeos for some friends... So delish!

In other news, I have so many things bouncing around my head lately I hardly know what to do with myself.
Here is an itemized list:

○ My shop: I need to get more people coming through it (and purchasing), and I need to dedicate more time to making & listing more pieces. Hopefully that will help?

○ My jewelry: I'm thinking of trying to get my stuff into a local store or two. I would need to invest more money into supplies so I could make a bunch of nice stuff to bring in and show in hopes of them taking it on (thinking of naming the line "Mixed Company," what do you think of that?). This will have to wait until I'm done school (and my BA!) in December.

○ School: I currently can't afford my tuition. I'm hoping to get some help without needing to take out a *shudder* student loan.

○ Boys: What else is new.

○ Work: it's getting boring. I like it there, but it's so dang slow, and I really need to be making more money. Le sigh.

○ Family: the politics of living together. Moving back home is difficult! Who knew! Ha.

○ Money money money. I hate that is matters.

The list goes on.

Speaking of the fam, my brother needs my computer. We currently have 3 foreign students in our home - things are getting a little overcrowded! So goodnight my lovelies. Sweetest dreams.

I want to live on an island...

I've finally made a piece of jewelry with some of the beads I picked up while I was in Italy this spring. In the next couple days look out for a bracelet with some glass beads from Murano, a pair of purple summer-y beach-y earrings and possibly another goody or two. Yay!
LOL stuff coming soon, I am just missing some supplies.

Also, check out one of my new favourite Etsy people's shop - Star is super sweet and so is her art!
Loves & goodnight.

Sleepy-eyed

I am full of beer and emotions. Maybe a dangerous combination? I was beading, but decided that trying to tie small knots while drinking beer was a bad plan of action.

I realized that I haven't updated on my plants lately. Well. My mints are happy happy, my basil was looking super sickly with the bad start to our summer but has been picking up its spirits lately. My seedlings, on the other hand... the sunflowers had just barely sprouted when the tops were eaten off by some critter, and haven't been heard from since. My carrot seedlings were trucking along, but a couple weeks ago some peat-pot-crazed animal attacked them and, well, there were a number of them but there is only one survivor. So maybe I'll be lucky and get to eat one carrot I grew this summer?

I will now put myself to bed, as blogging while inebriated is surely an equally bad idea as beading UI.

I can has cheeseveggyburger?

I sold the two pairs of LOL cat earring that I had in my Etsy shop, so I will be listing some new similar pieces soon. [for my shop, look to the left, to the left...]
Look at the sweet wrap job on them! A lovely gal from Germany is having them sent to a friend in the UK. My work is going abroad! Yay!
That's all for now, folks.
Kthxbai!

Sugar spell it out

I spent a few hours the other night making up some gift tags, earring cards and business cards for my shop. I think they're pretty cute. I also got some sweet ribbons today I may use for wrapping purchases. They're summery and colourful.


Today I am getting cranky with waiting. I both love and hate being excited about something; a guy sort of something. It's nice being excited and hopeful, but I hate the not-knowing and waiting to receive e-mails/phone calls. You know the drill.
Le sigh.

I took my friend out for lunch for her birthday today, and I gave her a print from John Clark. I put a piece of shimmery charcoal grey scrapbooking paper behind it as I had to frame it in an 8x10" frame (the print is smaller). I think it looked pretty good, and I think she really liked it. Hope so!

Yesterday I finally planted my two lovely dahlias in a pot. I kept putting it off.


It seems that's all for today. Happy Wednesday night!