Happy New Year

Wow, another year is gone, hard to believe. I've been enjoying these last few weeks. The kids are off from school and its been nice to sleep in. Sleeping in means about 7:15, thats when Bud, my dog comes in the bedroom and starts licking my face because he wants to go out. I've read 5 books and have been gutting closets and cabinets. Trying to get all of my materials and jewelry findings in order to begin work. My show schedule starts again in three weeks so there is much to do.

The sad part of my holiday was coming home from a show the Saturday before Christmas and finding my beautiful cat Ginger (her picture is in one of my older posts) had fallen asleep under the Christmas tree and died. She was 17 and she had a wonderfully long life. We certainly miss her. All of our animals are such a big part of our family.

Happy New Year to all of you!

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September First Already

Wow, where did the summer go? Way too fast if you ask me. Today was a nice laid back Labor Day with some friends out by the pool. Saturday we had Joey's 11th birthday party, he had a ball. It was a lot of work but well worth it. Sunday I did the Wine Festival at Allaire State Park, what a fun festival, great people, music and lots of sales. So now I have to hunker down and work all week to replenish my stock.
Steve's grandmother-Helen will be celebrating her 100th birthday on September 15th, how about that. She is a fabulous woman and we all love her dearly. I need to get an e-mail off to Willard Scott so he can put her in the birthdays for the month.
Well, happy September everyone, may it be a wonderful one for us all !

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Busy, Busy, Busy

Well, we have my husbands work party, between 40 & 50 people, in five days and there is much work to do. I have cooking, landscapng and shopping to do. I'm also in the process of helping plan two craft shows so the applications must go out for both, I need to squeeze some time in there to do jewelry work.

We spent many hours yesterday and today searching for my son's Crazy Bones (this was a crisis, you know), his room got cleaned out in the process and Steve did finally find them, thank goodness.

I started making my own ear wires, they are sterling silver and a heavier gauge

than the ones I get from the distributer, so I'm very pleased.

I started a new book-The Last Oracle by James Rollins. This is book #10 and he is one of my favorite authors.

Goodnight friends!!

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Another Hot Day

It reached 100 degrees again today. I kept cool by laying on a raft and floating around our pool. I have to thank my wonderful husband for that. He spends so much time working on keeping the pool clean. Its one of my favorite places to be. I like to set up shop under the gazebo and make jewelry. I can do that and keep an eye on Joey and his friends while they're swimming.

I'm signing off to continue reading "Black Widow", I'm to the point where I don't want to put it down---really good book!

Till tomorrow!

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100 Degrees

It was so hot today, it got to be 100 degrees. I worked in the house and went out to the garden at 6pm, it was bearable then, of course after pulling weeds for an hour I was drenched. Once I get all of the newspapers down the weeds will no longer be able to come up, YEA!

I'm reading this awesome book by Randy Wayne White "Black Widow". This is his 15th book, I've read and loved them all.

There are so many great web pages on ETSY, for all of you online shoppers this is the place to go. There is some awesome vintage stuff for sale, great for Christmas gifts.

Well, I'm going to read for a while, Goodnight Friends!

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Back Home

Hello Friends!

Well, I'm home, what a great vacation, I'm totally rejuvenated and ready to get to work.

Check out these new beads, hopefully tomorrow I can get started.

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Goodbye Myrtle Beach

Here we are packing and

getting ready to say goodbye

to Myrtle Beach and the

House of Blues, we love it all.



We do get ot go home to all

of our friends and family

in New Jersey and get back

to our very special pets-this

is Ginger, one of my beautiful

girls. Talk to you all soon!



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