Tomorrow is a big day

I came back to add this picture. She had fun. Rachel is so excited to go to her competition tomorrow. They are not competiting, because they are hosting the competition. She is just excited to wear her uniform and perform with her new team.

I have been so busy lately doing jewelry orders from Etsy. It has been awesome, but I have been a little overwelmed. I love making jewelry, so it is not that. I do not know if I can keep working a couple of days week like I do now. I am working extra right now for someone so I have limited time to get the orders done. I usually manage my time well, but I just have a lot to do lately. I will see how the next couple of weeks go with orders. I am looking for some extra time to create new items that I have sketched on paper. I am also looking to write another ebook. I will be doing one for free to buyers as advertisement for my husband joining me to sell silver supplies online. We have alot going on as everyone does. Life just goes too fast sometimes. It is almost March.

I Had Baby Fever

You can have your own sterling silver keepsake photo charm by visiting my etsy store or my website.
I wrote this earlier this week. I am feeling better now. LOL! I wanted to post it because I can not believe it. My heart is racing right now as I am typing. I know you all do not know me real well, but I am known NOT to be the baby type. I am not one of those women that rush to see a newborn. I do not love being in the nursery at church. I look at my sister in law at her age with a toddler and I usually want to run. I also do not babysit unless it is a emergency until age 4 than they can stay as long as they want.

I think it started last week at church we had a baby dedication, although the baby was more like a toddler and I just think it started there. I also think it is my daughter is going to be 8 and she is so affection but not a little girl anymore. And I am having another birthday so it is definitely now or never. I mentioned it to my husband and he said before he was excited. I said oh my don't say that. He said he could have another one.

But tell me I am too old. This will pass. I will be enjoying grandchildren soon enough. I am just getting to the age that I can run out with my husband and leave my kids for a couple hours. And most important I will not fit my size 5 family into a friendly economy sized and special priced Disney packages anymore.

Okay so now PLEASE tell me to get a dog or something.

Beach Girl

It has been so warm the past two days that I got to thinking about the beach. I think it got up to 70 degrees here in New Jersy in February. That is crazy. Well before you know it our trips to the beach will start. I love going to the beach and so does my family. I do a few craft shows at the shore and I think this necklace would be popular. You can check it out here in my Etsy store.

Happy Birthday Month

Well between January and February we have alot of birthdays around here. My birthday and my daughter's birthday is on the same day. It is fun even more so because it is on Valentine's day. Anyway my life has been busier than usual. We had a sickness in my extended family, but all is better and they are leaving the hospital for a full recovery. Well this week we have our first competition coming up with the new cheer team. I have a lot of bows to finish before Sunday. I still have not had too much time to create anything new. I have had a few orders come in here and there and with everything else it is all I can do to. I have been taken alot of notes so when I do get time to create I will be ready with my ideas.

I did have a chance to make something for my friend who had her birthday on February 2nd. She is really involved in the cheerleading team Showtyme so for her birthday I made her pendant that matched their logo. I hand cut it out of sterling silver and soldered a hand stamped showtyme name onto the pendant. I am excited to give it to her and, I hope she likes it.

Where does the time go?

I always feel like I have to include a picture with each post. So I chose a picture of the beach in Key West from our trip to Florida last month. It was really beautiful there and warm too. I can not believe January is almost over. Where does the time go? I thought I would be well into my next ebook, but instead I am just catching up on some jewelry orders. I have not even gotten any time to make anything new. It is terrible. Thankfully I have been drawing some ideas on paper. There is nothing worse than when you do get some time to create and sit down at the workbench you are like Okay what was it that I wanted to make. LOL!

I have some more bows to make for an upcoming competition. It will be Rachel's first competition with the Showtyme all star junior team. I am excited to see her cheer. She is cheering with an older group of girls which is nice for her, because she gets to learn new skills. Christina also has been busy with the girl's basketball team at her school. So that means I have been VERY busy to say the least. I have been working during the school day 2-3 days a week and I feel like I am at full capacity. Each week I say I will get some time this week to put my paper ideas to actual creations, but really maybe it will be this week. I will than have some jewelry photos to list here on my blog. Now that would be nice.

Where have I been?

Well I have been back for awhile from Disney. Okay, let's talk about how much I love Disney. I am not super obsessed, but I can not wait to go back again. We had a great time this year. My sister in law and her family came a few days after us, and it was nice to share some meals and talk on the phone with her at the parks. Generally we went our separate ways. She has a little one so that leads you a different direction in the parks. We did have fun hanging out with my nephew Domenic. I bribed my daughter Christina to go on the Tower of Terror. She loved it and went on twice, and even got a Disney sweatshirt out of the bribery deal. My daughter Rachel was pampered at the Bibbity Bobbity Boutique. My husband was against it at first. He thought it was a waste of money. (He is so practical. LOL!) Well he saw how much effort I put into finding a small tiara like the one they give you that when I finally made an appointment at the boutique he did not say a word. Well Rachel was beyond excited and it showed all day long. I asked my husband again if it was worth it and he said Yes! How can you resist an appreciative smiling princess daughter? Well I am back in the groove again. It was a slow start to get back in the designing mode. So I am off to create some jewelry orders. I will be back more regularly and I will have some more Disney stories. I did not want to over do it in one post.

Okay I have been so busy, but isn't everyone. I have had quite a lot of orders from the holiday shoppers. I am finally caught up. I have been doing lots of cheerleading and I even made some bows for another cheerleading team where my daughter does gymnastics. This picture of my mom, sister, and my daughter is from last Sunday's competition where our girls won first place. I was beyond thrilled for them. It was a tough competition, but Yeah for the Lindenboro Chargers. We have our last competition for the season this coming Sunday. It is going to be a crazy week. We are hosting and there is lots of work to be done. I will be closing my etsy store and my website on December 12th until the first of the year. We are going to Disney and to visit our family for Christmas. We are beyond excited. Oh we saw Enchanted last night, it was such a cute movie. Disney has such a wonderful way of expressing that dreams do come true.