Busy busy busy...

Sorry I have not posted lately, been working and hitting the trade shows...Charlie and I went to the gem and jewelry show wendesday and I picked out my 20th wedding anniversary band, we were able to buy wholesale so we saved a ton on it! I am having it sized and appraised and will have it on my blog June 10th! It is beautiful!!! I fell in love with it when I saw it!
So stay tuned!
Thursday found me at jewelry class and friday I went with some of the girls to the bead and jewelry shows, one at palace station and one at the convention center, we had a fun time hanging out and buying beads and other items! I found some neat turquoise peace signs and bought gemstones to make silver rings, will post pictures tomorrow as I have to get going, I am scrapping all day at one of ginger's crops!
See you soon!

UPDATED -The Room!

I re added the photos I think you can click on them to make them bigger, and I did not have a photo showing the wall with the window and my marvin gaye quote so here is the full version!

Well, here it is my new craft room! I still have a little more tweaking to do but this is 98% done. I still need to label all the boxes so I can find stuff and I still need to do some sorting and organizing. I love my music quotes on the walls, I may add one or two more. Overall it is a nice place to work! My tools are on the workbench so my table is free for lots of scrapbooking!

I love my hide away trash can! pulls out while I work and goes away when I am done, i think that is my favorite item so far!

I stamped my "Create" letters, but I think I will paint them solid black, so just more little things to work on!

Happy Birthday Honey!

Yesterday was Charlies 52 birthday!

I bought a dress and took him to the new M casino and resort for dinner and some gambling. It is a fancy smancy place, very nice, love the feeling and it was not all stinky and smelly like older casinos, too far for us to ever go to again and the buffet was not that great the stuff charlie eats was all dry, chicken, turkey...but what I eat was very good, seafood salad, prime rib, mash potatoes all very good, you get beer and wine with your meal, and they had creme brulee at the dessert section, nice!

I bought him a hose reel for his air hose in the trailer, a new fossil watch and a shake maker so he won't drive to sonic and waste money on 5.00 shakes, if he is going to eat them at least I can save us hundreds of dollars by making them at home!!

Wizard of Oz Charm swap!

Saturday was the charm swap day, Amanda was our hostess with the wizard of oz theme...Wow very cute charms!!

Tanya made me one about the urban legend of the munchkin that hung himself, she even strung with a noose, too funny!

I love all the charms and can't wait to hang them on my charm jacket!!

Next swap due in August is Las Vegas theme, gee, bet you wonder who the hostess is?? Well, we all know how much I love Las Vegas, so yes...it's me!!

Sneak Peek!

Some elements in my new craft room...Jewelry for sale...Peace sign drawer pulls...and frogs with crowns! Oh don't worry there will be monkeys too! I have to wait for some items to come from the mail...so maybe next weekend I will be able unveil it! Ok back to work!

California again!

Happy Birthday Joe! The big 50! We traveled back to california this weekend to go to Joe's 50th birthday party and I got to see my mom and my son, and I got to go to anaheim stadium and get my Napoli shirt, it has number 44, My age! And Napoli is doing great this season! Had a blast at the party laughed and laughed all weekend!

My Napoli shirt and my flowers from Travis!

A Weekend of firsts!

I made my first drive ever to california, well, I drove to Las Vegas in a moving van following charlie in our truck back in 2001 when we moved here, but this was the first time I ever drove to and back by myself...I went to silverado, california which is the hills of orange county. Nice area, actually Modjeska canyon rd, houses up in the hills, I went to scrapbook in mary's house, saturday morning you get up to coffee and rabbits outside the door, then we took a 3 mile hike to the sanctuary, round trip, wow, what a nice walk!! 1 1/2 miles to the sanctuary and then back, stopping to pet goats and horses along the way!! I am so gald I still got my exercising in and my scrapbooking all weekend!! Mary's house is fabulous and I was treated like royalty! Thank you Mary for a great weekend retreat! I made it back from california in 3 1/2 hours!!

Ok lots to catch up on so see you all soon!!