Handmade Jewelry

As most of you know that stop by here or those that know me I create Handcrafted Jewelry. I must say I am far from being alone in this world. Please stop by:

http://handmadejewelry.artfire.com/modules.php?name=categories&op=targeted&query=handmadejewelry

You will be dazzled with the work my fellow artisans create with their hearts and their hands. With the upcoming holiday season you could find beautiful gifts for friends and family. You can even find some bling for yourself while you browse around.

I hope to see you there!

Artfire info

All members of ArtFire can list unlimited items for the Holidays. No cost, no fees, no kidding.

Back to school

Well today is back to school day for my girls. Up early and out for a new year they went. My oldest is now a freshman. She has been nervous and now sees that it is still school. She was glad to see many of her friends that she has not seen all summer. My youngest was also glad to see old friends and get her 8th grade started. She will be going on a camping trip that the school does for the 8th grader's every year. It is an awesome time to bring them together for their last year of middle school.

Summer found us

Well summer decided to show up and we have been a bit on the warm side of things. Thankfully we have been able to keep cool. I don't do well in the heat, I melt and fall apart. It is not pretty. I am looking forward to the cooler days ahead and being able to have my windows back when we remove the window air conditioners. They just make it feel so closed in. I love having my windows open and enjoying the fresh air. It will be here soon and then I will be mad cause it will be getting cold and I can't have the open windows again.

I have been needing to focus on getting more of my things up on my Artfire site. Finally started again last night. I need to re-work a few items and get others photographed or written up. I unfortunately can not do the craft show circuit any more. It wears me out so much that it is not worth it in the end. I have also been trying to find my style or voice with my jewelry. I have been feeling like I need a direction. Many of the items I currently have for sale were put together for the craft show circuit. I made them so I could get started and now I feel like they are not selling because I have made items that are just so generic or blah. I just have so many things I love and directions I could go and not sure what truly says me. The other hard part for me is our finances just make it hard too. I have always had to watch what I spend. I end up getting what speaks to me at the moment and that may not turn out to be a stellar or items I should actually getting to make into items that will bring in a profit. I have so many things I want to learn so that I can expand my abilities and what I can create. My hopes it that I can get some money flowing somehow to move things on but I have not figured out what I can do exactly at this point. My essential tremor makes it so I can not get a real job because I can not guarantee that I will be able to show up everyday and that creates a cash flow issue. Argh! It is just so frustrating some days. I want this to work for me but it is so difficult to make it work out in the end.

I hope everyone is having a good day and a pleasant summer. Catch ya next time...

So you say July is part of summer you would not know it here.

Well it has not been the summer that all of us are use to. It has not be really hot or oververtly sunny or humid as I am use to. Not that I like it hot and humid, I have a tendency to melt. This year July has been a mess. Three of us were sick for the better part of two weeks and when the kids went on their summer vacation over a family friends home no one was up to the regular fun that they have together cause they are all still getting use to the things teens deal with in their young lives. Everyone is now home and back to normal but it just stinks all around this year. My DH does not have sick time so that has messed other things up too. Argh! Well life moves on and we all will soon forget all of this mess.

I hope your summer is better.

Oh btw I just went outside and I think summer is trying to make a comeback. It is humid. LOL!