Video: I Has Shark Stuff

The Grand Opening of Sharks & Stars!

     this week I have been working very hard to open my Etsy shop!  I have been making jewelry for years.  Since 2005 in fact!  Back then I took plastic toy butterflies, painted them and attached chains.  It was a lot of fun.  I took them to a holiday bazaar.  I remember sitting at that folding table in my uncomfortable folding chair wondering if I would sell anything.  I had 16 colorful butterflies in tiny plastic bags all lined up in a small square in the middle of my large table.  Two extra butterflies out of their bags on the table next to the packaged ones, to show off the chains.  I was also wearing my favorite purple one over my black long sleeved shirt.  I bought the shirt to silk screen my logo on but hadnt had time.  I had high hopes.  I sat there all day.  I had a few friends visit.  The bazaar was held at my boyfriend at the times work.  He sat with me most of the day.  I sold all but a few butterflies, I am pretty sure it was because he was so well liked.  The next year I tripled the amount of butterflies.  I was a machine, cranking them out.  Sadly I didnt sell very many.  Over the years I have done lots of different bazaars!  Mostly I share a table with my mother, she sells pocket scarves, and sitting near my friend Melissa.  Every year adding something different.
     Last year I learned how to hand cast resin into jewelry with Melissa.  It was ahMazing!  I loved it!  I immediately ordered over 100 bezels for the interwebs and got started making!  I still make weird stuff like painted bugs and animals and I even added sharks on shrinky dinks.

     So I am now sharing my shop with you.  It is always nerve wrecking to put yourself and your creations out there.  I have put off filling my shop for years...  But I did it and I am pretty proud!  What is there to lose?  From now on that is going to be a theme in my life.  Life is short so I might as well make the most of it!


Thanks for looking!  Let me know what you think!

PS  What do you think of the new name?

Dont call it a comeback...

      hello friends!  Remember me?  I totally dropped off the map...  School was nuts and then I got a promotion at work and then there was summer.  Summer has been amazing so far!  I cant believe it is Septembers...  Time flies when you are having fun.  This summer has been, camping, camping, camping, floating in inner tubes with bags of wine, sunburns, learning a new job, my birthday(!!! I am 29 now...), boys, bbqs, volleyball, watermelon, bonfires, beach trips, new friends, gluten free fun and most recently a craft bazaar!

I took last Friday off work for a Quilt Show that my mother and I had a booth at.  It was an interesting show, our first, but not last this year!  Not many visitors and not many looking for scarves!  

My mother and I in our hiding place, we didnt get much space so we had to sit next to our stuff.  The scarves are hanging on a "ladder" we made out of PVC pipe.  It turned out pretty awesome if I do say so myself!

Front of our booth.  Pretty bare, but I didnt make anything new for this show cause I didnt get the bezels I ordered till a few days before.  Not enough time to cure. 

After looking at these pictures I am wishing I had put the blue scarves on the right not the left..  Live and learn.  My mom is so cute and proud!  She is the best little sales lady ever!  She was even bragging on Melissa's rings!  Ps her set up was awesome!  Its makes the shows more fun to have someone fun to sit with!

Since it is Sunday here is a salad I got at the show.  Each day they had lunch you could get for a donation.  It was soup, salad and buiscuts.  All homemade.  I couldnt eat any of it!  The salad they had out had cheese in it, but one of the sweet volenteers made me a special salad!  She even added blueberries.  I have never had blueberries in a salad, but I loved it!

Blog Missing Level:  8, I cant get busy and stop again!

Productivity:  I watched the Ravens game (we lost... sad day...) with a mud mask on and made some chopped salads.  Trying better to get ahead for the week.  Did not do laundry.  Oops...

Excited for:  Camping!!!  My last trip of the summer and we leave Friday!  

Create:  I totally forgot about these goals but I need to start up again!

How was your summer?  Did you miss me?

027: Dino Skulls, Waterfalls and Enchanted

     Two work stories. Number one. A Japanese guest came to the desk and showed me a picture of Multnomah Falls on his phone. All his friend said was "address". I pulled out directions and sent them on their way. Right before I was done for the day, they came back and showed me a picture he had taken of the real Falls. It was so cute. They just kept repeating "beauty, beauty!"  Next story. One of our long term guests came in for breakfast, near the end and everyone was gone. He always wears Harley Davidson shirts and is from the south.  He asked if I could change the channel. I went to give him the remote but he knew what channel he wanted. "24. Enchanted is on. I started watching it in my room". I could have hugged him! It was just starting and he stayed till it was over so I got to watch it too.  I love that movie...  Good times!  :)  And I drew the hearts on our chalkboard.

My Create was painting little dinosaur skulls I bought. They started out an icky brown orange color.  Tomorrow I am going to add black to highlight the details and drill holes in them to make them necklaces.  I am pretty stocked!  They turned out way shinier than I had anticipated.  I had a bunch more that I started painting but they need a second coat.  

Episodes of Earth 2:  four...  It has been a cuddle day!

Surveys completed:  3 from receipts from my major shopping day.  Freddy's, Ulta and Ross.  Ross was the longest.  Hope I get some gift cards!  :)

Smoothie:  Orange, half an Apple and a hand full of spinach plus ice.  Super tasty!

What did you make today?