Meet my new employee

This my new best friend and co worker , the Zebra Thermal Label printer . He doesn’t have a cute name but I really felt he needed some googly eyes. I’ll entertain any name suggestions…


He sits on my out of control messy desk/ work station connected to his friend, the Stamps.com scale, and spits out beautiful cheap labels for our packages. We finally made the leap to online postage and it has been awesome. It saves us money and time and makes me feel professional. I’m in love with shipping our orders now.

Taking it Easy

Sometimes you just have to sit down, cuddle and wait.

The universe seems to be pounding the message into me that every day is a gift and and to appreciate every moment.

Message received.

Mommy and Me Mother’s Day Jewelry

With Mother’s Day quickly approaching I thought I’d add some nice Mother Daughter (or Son) sets to our shop:

Mother Daughter Celtic Tree Silver Pendants

Mother Daughter Celtic Heart Pendants

Mother and Daughter Celtic Cross Necklaces Set

New Endless Eternal Hoop Earrings in the shop

We had a flurry of requests a couple of months ago for our designs to be made in the “eternal” or “endless” hoop style earrings.

This design lent itself perfectly to that style earring. But it actually turned out to be a little trickier than I thought it would be.

I discovered that I need to make the side that goes through the ear a little longer to compensate for the thickness of the earlobes.

When I made it all even the design on the bottom wasn’t centered and hanging in the right spot. So that’s why it looks a little longer on one side.

I searched the web looking for other similar styles to see if they had the same balancing problem and how they solved it. But I couldn’t find anything similar.

I’m still relearning how to use Photoshop on Windows 7 . I haven’t quite figured out the best way to kick up the contrast  to really make the picture “pop”.

Sterling Silver Endless Hoop Fancy Loop Earrings - Silver Wire - Eternal Hoop

The Great Egg Hunt and Mimosa Shindig 2012

The weather was perfect, almost dare I say too hot.

 

We had an abundance of candy filled eggs, cute kids, delicious treats and mimosa’s for the adults.

Max’s 7th Birthday Party

Complete with an Angry Birds chocolate Safeway Cake and fun at Wacky Bounce.

My baby boy turned 7 yesterday.

How I Lost My Blogging Mojo

and am trying to get it back.

It all began when Nick, my IT guy ,made a new lovely computer for me and then updated it to Windows 7.

Previously I had been totally in the blogging groove and had gotten comfortable with Windows Live Writer to quickly whip out a post and add pictures.

And now it is all different although somewhat similar and my non techy brain requires a steep learning curve before I can figure this whole thing out.

Next came the great flood of 2012 in which all but 1 road to our was cut off by flooding and that road was iffy with high water and down to a single lane because half of it fell apart.

Then Nick left on a 2 week journey east for his father’s funeral. You can read about his adventures on his blog –The Mechanical Philosopher

During this time I was the temporary single Mom. And then sadly a good friend’s husband passed away. So Nick and I were both attending funeral’s at opposite sides of the country during the same period of time.

I added a new Little Celtic Heart Sterling Silver Shawl Pin to our shop .

And a Little Celtic Tree Sterling Silver Shawl Pin.

And a Large Celtic Copper Hair Pin or Shawl Pin.

And a few other things that I am too lazy to add to this messed up blog.

We finally took the long overdue leap and signed up to Stamps.com so that we can do online shipping. It’s been a challenge trying to create a new shipping system and I already have sent the wrong order to the wrong person.But I think I’m getting the hang of it.

So that’s my exciting life’s update. Damn you windows 7 for taking me back to the beginning of learning how to blog again! (Maybe my next post will have my pictures all crammed together on the other side of the page.)