Happy ho ho...

Well I've been a busy little beaver getting ready for the holidays... okay... I started decorating a couple weeks ago but only took pictures of stuff today...
I also made a swarovski snowflake sterling silver necklace (lots of S's there :) for a friend's birthday gift and I liked it so much I will be making a couple more of them and of course one for myself... the picture didn't turn out very well but as I'm sure most people know - swarovski always looks better in person anyways.

Not so crafty...

I don't know what my problem is lately... could be the cold weather... but I am just so damn lazy these days! I've hardly made anything at all - so now I'm not even doing my little Christmas Craft Show anymore. :( I just have too much other crap going on right now to even think about it. I'm still making stuff for Christmas presents and things like that, but I haven't touched my lonely little sewing machine in a couple weeks. Although... that hasn't stopped me from buying fabric and a bunch of other things for it. *Sigh*
That being said... I did manage to post one new piece onto my little shop today:
Hopefully I will get around to posting a few more this week. My goal is to have at least 10 new items posted by December 1st!
Today I get to go to my sister's little Grey Cup party - go Bombers go! I usually hate football but I'll make this one small exception because Winnipeg is going for The Cup. We'll be having dry ribs, nachos, hot wings 'n beer... a buffet of artery-clogging goodness... a perfect fit for this kind of occasion really. I'm bringing some of the chocolate fudge cupcakes I made yesterday - instead of crafting.

It's been a while...

Oopsies! I didn't realize I had been away from blogland for as long as I have... time sure flies!
I've been working on a few new pieces which I really should add the shop, and am also planning my first annual Fall Open House!

I'm pretty excited about everything right now. I FREAKING LOVE this time of year - the cooler weather, the smoky scent in the air, pretty colours, pumpkin-spice everything, the sound walking through dried leaves on the sidewalk, searching for fallen acorns on the ground... yup, I love Autumn!
I made some yummy pumpkin-spice cupcakes with creamcheese icing over the weekend, but unfortunately my kitty licked off most of the icing overnight so we had to throw most of them out before I could take a picture of them (never mind eat them)! :(
Bad Josie! (But how could I stay mad at that adorable face?)

Something about the start of football season makes me want to be productive again...

Hubby is busy watching football so guess what I've been up to???
I was a little productive today and actually uploaded some new pieces to my Etsy shop!

Also, I made a couple of necklaces but I still haven't decided if I will part with them or not... this is my only problem with making jewellery - I want to keep it all for myself.

Ooh, and here's some yummy pictures of what I made when my sister and I had a "Baking Day" on our day off together.
I just love chocolate chip mini-cookies (my grandma's recipe) and a latte on a lazy Sunday afternoon :D

Fancy Pink Stuff

Well I have finally got around to starting to make some new tags for my jewellery. I got to use the cute new hole-punchers that I got at Michael's a few weeks ago... but all I had to print them out on was pink cardstock... however, I still think they're pretty cute:


The above tags will be used for necklaces and bracelets. The tags below are for earrings - not quite as cute but I had to punch each and every little hole with a tiny pin so I figured the all the effort was worth a picture too (although the pic was pre-holes, just with marker dots for where I was about to pin through them):


Oooooh, and speaking of fancy pink stuff -
I have found my new favourite drink!


Delicious sparkling wine in an adorable little pink can with a fun little bendy pink straw AND named after one of my favourite movie directors... what's not to love?

I'm baaaaack....

Well I'm back from my "vacation" and feel like I still need a vacation! Whew boy was it ever a busy one. And hot!!!! It made me wish it was Fall already... and I found some fun charms & beads whilst on holidays... so I felt inspired to make this Autumn-inspired pendant:

(Yes, I realize the pix are crappy - but I'm too tired to fiddle around with my crappy camera to take better ones.)
I just haven't decided what kind of chain I want to make, to hang it on, and I may decide to use one of my few precious owl charms to add to it as well... maybe... I think I'll keep this one for myself.

I was actually a little productive tonight...

I shocked myself and have actually got some more of my little crafts posted to my little online boutique-in progress. Yay!

Hopefully this period of productivity will last :D

hubby's are funny

when he tries to take my picture and i run away he gets all pissy... but when i try to take his picture while he's eating a PB&J he hides his face behind his hand... what's up with that?
on another note... i am working on some stuff FINALLY: