Trunk show time!

Twice a year Ornamentea invites me in to have a trunk show. This spring's is scheduled for March 16th and 17th. These are always exciting times for me as I typically get inspired to create new shapes and explore new colors for these shows and this spring is no exception.

Here are some new shapes for our visual pleasure:

And here are some old shapes in new (and old) colors:

An old shape with a smaller hole size:

Keep watching - there is more to come. See you there!

Well, I guess I should first say that for the past many, many days I have been grateful that I can change my mind! So, I have discovered it is simple to be grateful everyday, but not so easy to blog about it everyday. Throughout the days there seems to be hundreds of things that I am grateful for, but when it comes time to write just one down, organization of thought just doesn't appear. So today I am grateful for flexibility and the ability to change my mind.

What are you grateful for today?

Treadmill small work station

Today I am grateful I was able to complete this small work station for the new treadmill. Simple and no additional cost. I took it for a spin walking (no running) and realized I can browse through facebook, look at blogs, read the news and do a bit of simple typing while I walk, but found a few times I needed to turn it off so I could lean in to closely look at ceramic beads. Curse you bead porn!

That is our cat Pickles ready to give it a go. She will be 19 years old in April!

What are you grateful for today?

Today I am grateful for my new (used) treadmill. The time has come to improve my health and drop a few pounds. My heart and knees with love me for it. We are fortunate to have a Play it Again Sports shop close by. They let me plug in and try out the treadmills to choose one and even though it is used it comes with a one year guarantee. I'm sure you have heard "sitting is the new smoking" so I'm also planning on equipping it with a work station, this will be especially useful for me as I'll most likely be walking, not running. I'll let know know if I write a blog post from there! Pictures to follow when complete.

What are you grateful for today?

Today I am grateful for Friday evenings. Our 3 kids are out of high school and in college right now (one will graduate this spring from NCSU). This frees up so much of our time that was before spent doing school related functions with our kids. Those were really wonderful times and I wouldn't trade them for anything - but - I'm liking this freedom of time we have now also. We try to do something fun on Friday evenings before the weekend chores set it. So far - so good!

What are you grateful for today?

Today I am grateful for Google Docs. Actually, I really like Gmail also. And Blogger (though I don't use all the bells and whistles so I'm sure I'm not using it to it's full potential). And Google Sites - which I have used for personal, business and volunteer mom reasons. And I just started uploading all our family photos to Picasa. I don't use Google+, but I'm getting tempted by the lure of online conferencing with video. And I'm a bit embarrassed to say that I get a bit emotional when I see the new Chrome commercial. Ack!

What are you grateful for today?

Today I am grateful that blogger has a function that allows me to put any date I desire on my posts. Without this I would be better at posting each day, which would more match my "intentions", but this function allows the flexibly to miss a day or two and still go back and write a post for each date. So, needless to say - I use this function and am happy to do so.

What are you grateful for today?