happy mail day!

My prize from Elsie came today - what fun mail! Can't wait to put this stuff to use - especially the great clear stamp alphabet. I also received my big box of Arbonne products today. I was converted during my visit with Steph in D.C. - she's a consultant for the company. It is great stuff - all natural products and gorgeous orange packaging, too! Looking forward to it's transformative effects...
Listening to Sara Bareilles tonight. Just found her on iTunes - I'm sure if you're an iTunes user you've seen her name there. I'm loving her voice and the songs are sing-a-long-licious.

Eeeek!

Can't believe that I won one of Elsie's giveaways on her blog. Totally bizarre to see my name up there when I clicked it today! I am way excited to use the Toby line on my Washington DC trip photos.

Today is a good day - we also made another sale in our Etsy shop and I got a new haircut. Happy Thursday!

Scrapjacked - Kristina C.

Whipped up this layout this afternoon for the latest Scrapjacked challenge - jacked from Kristina Contes, one of my absolute favorite scrappers. A few photos I took of my art classroom last May before school was out. Even though I made the right choice to change jobs - I will miss having that room as my 2nd home.

Hello, pumpkin!

So, several weeks ago, I noticed a new plant sprouting up on the front edge of our porch. Since I am still learning about all the various plants that live in our yard, I decided to let it grow for awhile before deciding it was a weed and pulling it. Fast forward a couple weeks - it had these great big leaves and yellow flowers and I decided it was a pumpkin vine! It makes sense for it to be growing here - most likely there was a pumpkin sitting in this exact spot last October and it left one or more of its seeds in the ground. Today I can not believe how huge the vine has grown - and check out this little baby pumpkin! I wonder if they will all be white like this one - and if it will stay white as it gets bigger - and how big will it get?? Wow - pumpkin adventure! Stay tuned for more updates. ;)

Opinions, please!

I made these earrings yesterday with a pair of metal findings I bought in D.C. I'm planning to add them to the Etsy shop, but trying to decide on a price. Wendy and I are thinking about consigning or wholesaling some of our jewelry in local shops, but what that means is basically pricing the Etsy items at "retail" (wholesale x 2) or twice what we would be willing to sell them to a store for and still make a profit. Luckily our materials are pretty inexpensive, but I don't want to overprice our jewelry either.

If you have a minute please leave a price or range of prices that you would be willing to pay for a pair of earring like this (or just say if you like them or not! :) Thanks!

We're in an Etsy treasury!

So excited! Wired added our Autumn paper bead pendant to a "newbie treasury" on Etsy - they are a good way to get seen, so I hope it will translate into at least one sale!

Hangin' in Detroit

On my way home from a great vacation in D.C. with Steph. She was able to go in late to work today so we stopped at a great bakery on the way to the airport. Long layover in Detroit, so I've been amusing myself with eating sushi, snapping some photos of the mini-book I made last week in Shelley's class, uploading more photos from my trip to the flickr set and joining the "What's in your bag " flickr group. Looking forward to getting home and seeing Bill and Cleo! And to having a couple more weeks of vacation to clean house, make more things for the etsy shop and hopefully make some progress on a few decorating projects.