Road Trip

So we left on Friday at 6am to drive to Winston-Salem, NC to stay with Marnie, my sister-in-law, overnight. It was great to see her, Kevin and their two boys, Jake and Josh, who by the way are grown up now at 13 and 15. Wow!!! Marnie hosted a jewelry party Friday night which turned out to be quite nice. All of her friends are lovely and went home with some of my favorite pieces. Jan, my mother-in-law came and spent the evening. Unfortunately our visit was too short, we were hoping to have Jan come to Florida with us but it couldn't be arranged. We got up at 5am and continued our drive to Orlando. It took about 9 hours. We were all glad to be out of that car!!!

We are in Lake Buena Vista at Blue Tree Resorts. It is really beautiful here. Joey is thrilled because wherever you walk there are anoles hanging out in the hedges. You know her weill try to catch one and want to bring it home. I have already set the ground rules on that one!

Rain, Rain Go Away

The Wharton Canal Day that was scheduled for today was canceled and is being held tomorrow, problem is I have a different show tomorrow. Oh well, this is what happens in this business. So I've been busy creating as much as I can because it will be a very busy season. I've been molding polymer clay pendants with crystals in them and wire wrapping my own beads(love them) so my fingers are sore but they've been selling so I will forge on.

We leave on Friday for Florida, Joey will be 12 and we are taking him to Discovery Cove to swim with the dolphins. We are driving and stopping to see my mother-in-law and sister-in-law on the way so it should be fun.

Well, back to the studio I go.

Cancelling a Show

Well the rain didn't stop and we had to cancel the show, the good news is that the rain date is this coming Saturday and the forecast looks good. Of course the forecast usually changes every day. We'll see! The problem with cancelling a show is that the is a wealth of phone calls to make to the band, food vendors and other special entertainment. As far as the crafters and artists go they know to call the special phone number and the message will tell them if the show is on or not. Now we have artisans that can't make it because they have other shows booked on our rain date so I now need to fill those spots. Wish me luck! How cute are Joey and his two cousins!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rain, Rain Go Away

The bad news is that my vegetable garden is drowning. I've lost one tomato plant and 3 of the pea plants. Everything else still looks ok, although the eggplants are in a few inches of water. All I can do is hope. The good news is that the herbs I have in pots on my deck are very happy-so am I, I just had some whole wheat pasta with fresh parsley, thyme and garlic chives--YUM!!!

I'm working with the Phillipsburg Downtown Association to put on the Crafts In The Park this Saturday, now a decision has to be made about cancelling the show due to the weather, there is a rain date for next Saturday. If it is decided to cancel we have to get in touch with all of the crafter's, the food vendors and the band. What a mess! So I'll be praying to the rain gods all night to move to another part of the country. We'll see!

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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