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So I havent had a chance to make any new jewlery since the last set of earrings. Need silver... BAD! Its soo boring. I get paid Saturday so hopefully I can order some wire and get some other beads I have been wanting and get to creating. I really want to make another set of earrings like the last pair but with my amethsyt rondelles. I need more twisted earwires, and silver wire, and some more of the black onyx rondelles..... Time to make shopping list.

A month to go until Thanksgiving....

This year we are gonna shake things up for thanksgiving.   Mike is planning on smoking turkeys (ours and some neighbors always send some over...) and we are planning now to have some firends over for dinner.  Those friends are a family of 6!  So we will be cooking for 9!!  Wow.   Usually its just us 3 and we go to Mikes paretns for lunch so nothing too big.   I am excited and a little worried.  Ive never cooked for that many before.   YIKES!    I will need to make lots of food!   Wyatt will like it though,  one of the boys is his age and they just have a ball being little dirtball boys together.  I sure am glad we have all the extra toys.   It will be crazy butr fun.  Nice to have another set of parents around that we enjoy spending time with.

Gnight!

S

Yummy Yummy Lemon bars for my tummy

I have been craving lemon bars for a while,  bought a mix and burned it to a crisp...(hey I was sick and fell asleep)  the only reason I bought a mix was I was lazy... Today while my now sick hubby is lazing around and watching the new Indiana Jones movie I am making lemon bars from scratch using this recipe from The Homesteading Housewife.

The crust smells darn good.  I cant wait until they are completely done!  YuM!

Something done finally!

Ok so I've been sick again.. a nasty nasty cold that had me  out of commision for almost two weeks.  Today I finally feel almost normal,  though still easily tired.  But I got a set of earrings done!   Large black faceted onyx rondelle with sterling silver beads,  topped with a cluster of rutilated quartz smooth rondelles on twisted earwires. These turned out REALLY nice!   I plan to slip outside and take pictures as soon as I get done watching a my movie. The Water Horse.  A pretty good movie so far!  

ok here is one pic... I'll have to take more later, the camera battery died on me taking these. 

Why do I loose my focus....?

The designs were in my head... they are still sitting there....  the beads are purchased and ready to go. and now I just cant make myself do it.  I loose my umph... I sure hope this is just a Friday energy crash...  I invested a chunk of change in the supplies for two necklaces.   Now that its all home I am justnot feeling it.  I wonder if maybe the designs arent really me..  and thats why now that I am home im not feeling it.  Grr.....  I will wait until tommorow to try anything and see how i feel after a good nights sleep.   Its been a long week.    I got some new rondelle/button strands, a light amethyst and two rutilated quartz,  Im kinda excited,  got the rutilated quartz outside and the inclusions are kinda GREEN!   

YUCK SICK...

With the first cold front.... came the first bug! Wyatt turned up his nose completely at dinner and turned into a cranky monster... Woke up at about 11pm crying and throwing up... and snotty and coughing.. yuck. Poor baby. No one got any sleep. Guess what! now I feel like crap, coughing, sore swollen throat and achy and tired soo tired. I sure hope I can kick this. Wyatt is staying home today with daddy and loving it and feeling better. Now I just have to bounce back.
The Chilli was excellent though. Perfect! The salsa is jarred up and processed and ready to store, I am going to beat my husband if he burns through this batch. That was 6 jars of salsa in a months time. We normally dont use that much in 6 months! But he liked it which I am VERY proud of. I am eyeballing the rest of the tomatoes and bell peppery hoping they ripen and thinking of spaghetti sauce.

S

Chilly Misty Weather.....

Cold Front cooling us off to 60 degrees,  highs in the 50's tommorow!

Home made chilli simmering on the stove....

Tried something new last night.   Made salsa, (fixing to cook and can it up tonight.) took all the scrap of tomatoe, jalapeonos, onions and bell peppers and green chillis and put them on the stove in a  litter water and simmered them.... Strained them and had a nice spicy tomatoey broth(way spicey) which inspired me to come home tonight and make chilli....   So now chilli is simmering on the stove, hamburger meat, the broth, a can of rotel tomates, an onion and some other seasoning and I think this will be a nice belly warming dinner, since hubby is getting of late tonight it has time to simmer... yum.     Swung by gemstone junction today.. grabbed the single Rose Quartz heart she had...  I was fast too... Dani and her two friends came in at the same time as me and they both wanted it... and Amberleigh said if it didnt sell she was keeping it for herself... I snapped that puppy up... think i am going to pair it with pink opal and blue opal...  not sure yet.    Have another necklace in mind with picture jasper, turquose, black onxyx and then a black onyx cross pendant... so far shaping up.  Why am I plotting necklaces?  I hope to be going to Quitique (did I spell that right?) NOvember 1st with Dani and them and splitting a booth.....    Gotta get my bootie in gear and get some stuff made.  I think the beads I am getting are going to be enough for me to do two necklaces... one for me and one to sell...    Tommorow I am going back and doing a little consulting on the silver heart with rose qurtz and rubies I am working on.... Yeah I need to post some pictures but I have a lot of cooking to get done....  

Hard to believe its almost the holiday season.. I need to get a move on gifts... and if anyone is interesting in what little ol me wants for Christmas... Gemstone Junction Gift Certificates,  Prepaid Credit cards...  or 8 or 10 gauge silver wire to make some rings....(MOnsterslayer.com) and 20 guage wire of course....  I really want to get some half round heavy wire and make a ring for my husband for Christmas...    

Ok gotta check dinner and get the hot sauce going and the jars ready for canning...

LATER!

S

Sleeplessness...

Ok I cant sleep... Im too wired.... why I dont know.. my bed here is more comfy...sigh.. so here I am at 11:45pm on the internet...  and I wander over to a blog I love that I havent visited in a while.  

http://dailycoyote.blogspot.com/

and I discover she now has a shop on etsy!!!!  hmm and as I type that I notice a the site is changing to  http://www.dailycoyote.net/   

but... the link to her shop is http://dailycoyote.etsy.com

I want some of those squid rock things of hers... grr... broke from trip blues kick in again....

I have followed this blog for a while,  having lived with coyotes out my back door for the last 10 years or so...(and have a few strange close encounter stories of coyotes....)  I too live in an area where coyotes are viewed as bad... but I like them, we enjoy listening to them sing... and when I had all my livestock,  coyotes were never the predator problem I had,  they could have just trotted across the field to have dinner,  but noooo it was loose dogs that wandered from further away to come cause destruction and mayhem... but thats another story...  but check it out..  the story of Charlie the coyote is pretty interesting and some awesome photography to boot.  

Ok and for those interested in Jewelry.... I will eventually be posting some jewelry related stuff....  but I still have to unpack and all that and I dont want too!   And sort through 700 digital pictures from our trip...  and I think I will now attempt to go to sleep like a normal person...

Night!

S

Blah... bleck grr.....

ok we're home... blah blah blah....

Its hot, its dusty and you cant smell any trees... waaaaaa.......   

I was ready to come home.. until I got here.  *sigh*  now that I'm here?????

Ok there are some good things... gas.. 3.13 a gallon... yay!  We paid 3.49 on the way out of Taos.  Umm what else.. hmm... hmm...   whatever... bah humbug...  I go back to work Friday... yeah dont say it.. I already know...  I have to go do 500 pounds of laundry now,  and clean my house that was badly needing cleaning before I left...  After living a week with just the basics I think this house needs a serious purging.  I have warned my hubby that if he comes home tommorow and half our stuff is gone dont panic.    Wyatt really doesnt need all these freaking toys... he was happy as a clam with a handful of matchbox cars and his dvd player....( AFTER it was too dark to terrorize the mountainside!)  I understand now why so many parents park there kids in front of the tv....  and its soooooooooo relaxing for  ME!     OK so I might be a bad parent for it,  but geeze... if you know my little tornado of destruction you can understand WHY!   OK so I have to go take 4 tubs of pudding snack packs away from said tornado....   Adios!

Taos checkin

Alive and enjoying the peace and quiet in TAOS!   LOts of cool pics..  visited Thunder Lizard beads store yesterday...  AMAZING STUFF,  but wow holy freaking wow expensive.  I spent $16 and got 6 damn beads...  Reminder to myself... tell amber those carnelian pumkins are $40 a strand here.  ouch.  I miss Gemstone Junction for sure!   

But the boys are ancyand about to leave me behind... off to the Wool festival.  I will see if I can convince him to bring me back to this cafe tommorow too....

S

Me Procrastinating!

So its 11:15 and nothings packed,  I still need to wash some clothes...  

and here I am online...  LIstening to that new song that I keep hearing about.  Johnny June.  Pretty awesome.   I like it.  

So I dont think we are getting out of here early...ha.  never happens.

I am the master packer so these lazy boys will just have to wait until I am ready lol.   ok I really better go.. gonna listen to the song one more time and then go get stuff ready to go.   

yeah. didnt get more pictures posted.  I suck.  but I dont care!  Im officially on vacation!  

Counting down to departure to TAOS.. peace and quiet, the wind in the aspen trees!