In honor of school starting...

Well, Bailey starts kindergarten today so in honor of that I thought I would show a few pictures of the oldest school house in Arizona. We saw this on our trip to Strawberry, Arizona. The picture above is Bailey's outfit that she picked out for her first day of school. Please note the jeans and the belt, she told me she looks 'cool'. I don't think she knows what that means.

No this is not her new school room but it was a big step back in time. When I went to grade school I lived in such a small town that I went to a one room school house with all 8 grades together. Just like 'Little House on the Prairie'. I have more pictures to show you but that will have to wait for another post. I have to take miss priss to school! Have a good Monday!

H

Mary, Mary how does your garden grow?

I know that's not a very original title but it works! Well that just has be the cutest thing ever! That is a little baby basil plant trying to poke its little leaves out of the dirt! I needed to embrace my inner chef (I did graduate with a degree in culinary arts - really I did!) and at least grow some things that my family could eat! Bailey and I just started with herbs for now but we plan to add more as the planting season comes around again. She also has a little tomato plant growing and she is very proud of it. There is nothing like the taste of food fresh from the garden. Tomatoes are my favorite! I will be sure to post more picture of our little garden. You are of course all invite over for dinner. I've also decided to start making some bread on a regular basis because well its just too easy not to! I'll post about that too.
I'm not sure what this has to do with jewelry or jewelry making but since all these things inspire me I thought I would post about the fun we are having here!

basil, parsley, and chives

Have a wonderful weekend!

H

Not New But...

I thought I would start putting down on 'paper' so to speak why I make some of the items I make, even if it just so I have something to look back on later. So today I'm going to write about the tiny heart ring.




Well it should come as no surprise that Bailey is my inspiration behind this little ring. I don't remember all the details but I do remember thinking that I would like some other rings to go with my sets of stacking rings. So I asked Bailey what she thought - sometimes I get some really great responses so I just had to ask! For some reason she is in LOVE with Valentines day. It wasn't near Valentines day but she still loves it! Anyway she said that I should make a ring with hearts on it for her to wear on Valentines day. Well I was already making the tiny heart post earrings so a tiny heart ring seems perfect! (That's her chubby little hand in the 1st picture.)
So I guess I need to ask my muse more often what she thinks I should make! I hope you're all having a good week.

H

Monkey's and Pink Little Girls

So my little monkey got to wear her monkey costume today. She was so excited to have a tail! We we're doing pictures for her upcoming dance recital. She is in 2 dances. The 1st one is a monkey dance and the second one is 'Pink is for little girls'. I can't tell which one is the favorite yet but I do know that I have Halloween taken care for this year and maybe next year!

She loves to pose. On the pink dress I think she looks like one of the 'ladies' from an old west picture place. You know when you go in a dress up like you came from the 1800's, well and it doesn't help that she walked around with her hands on her hips and knee up. But she is quite an actress! I can hardly wait for the teens!

H

Bailey rides a Harley

I knew someday that she would run away, maybe on a Harley but not so soon!

My uncle was actually in town for about 24 hours. He's a motorcycle cop in Texas going cross country and stopped in Scottsdale on his way through. Miss Bailey got a ride on the bike and she was so happy!

Hopefully I won't see that again anytime soon!
(her riding away on a motorcycle, like when she's 16)

I hope you're all having a good week. Its been getting warm here but still beautiful!

H

A Conversation with Bailey

She likes to chat...about everything! I just thought these we're kind of cute. I just kept the camera clicking away while she chatted with me about...well everything and nothing! I wish I could tell you what she was chatting about but I really don't know. Maybe I'm just getting old but sometimes I just can't keep up with her chatter.



I know I'm bias but dang she's cute! She drives me crazy with all the chatting and questions but she sure is cute!

H

Life is funny (part 2)

Just lost 2 front teeth (Sam)

Okay so I don't have any stories to write up here but pictures of my family. I find them all very funny. So this is what I find funny this week!

Holly & Hayley (They are just not right!)

Jaxon is air born! He is dancing to the music that's playing.

His Aunt Heidi gave him this! Fantastic!

Jax is pretending that he's being attacked! NICE!

My father - maybe this is where we all get it from! That's a hat with a blonde wig attached to it!
Real pretty Dad!

She has grapes in her cheeks!

Well as you can see my family is crazy but so very funny! Have a wonderful funny day everyone!

H

Life is funny (part 1)

A challenge has been put forth and I'm not sure I'm up to it! Wendy has asked us to write about what we find funny. At first I thought this was going to be easy but after much thought, way too much thought, I'm not sure I can do this.
Its not that I don't find funny things in my life all day long because I do. I mean just the other day my 4 1/2 year old came up to me with hands on her hips and toe tapping and asked me 'Mommy why is your breastests (that's her way of saying bra, no I'm not sure the spelling on that because she is only 4 1/2!) hanging in my bathroom?' Well as I'm sure you're wondering as well as I was at this point what in the HECK she was talking about! Then I remembered that I had just washed all my bras and I hung them up in there to dry so they would be out of the way.
So after I picked myself up off the floor from laughter I told that those are BRAS and that they needed to dry hanging up, and please don't concern yourself with my undergarments anymore!
I would have to say if that is what Wendy was talking about for 'Life is Funny' then I could write a book because I get stuff like that all day from her! And I'm not really sure where she gets it from! Anyone? ;)

H
Wendy, this was actually way too much fun! Thank you for thinking of it!

Just for Fun!

What are they going to hatch?

Oh, well it looks they hatched!

Princess of the desert, Bailey!

Sam, looking way too relaxed up there!

And last but not least the fashion poster girl of the week, Bailey in bedroom slippers. Her Auntie Holly gave them to her and she likes to wear them everywhere! Yes, she wore them around town and had to bring that fantastic purse too! I think the thing I dislike the most is the sound those shoes make. She likes to stop and pose with those on too! Lovely!

I hope you're having a good weekend.

H

All the pictures except the last one we're taken at the Phoenix Zoo.

Beautiful Day

Just a beautiful day here in the valley of the sun! The pictures we're taken a couple weeks ago but today was just as clear. We went hiking on Papago Park near the Phoenix Zoo. It got a little warm today but still beautiful!

The 1st picture is looking out toward downtown Phoenix and the airport. The 2nd picture is looking toward the East Valley/Scottsdale, my house is somewhere in the middle of that picture. And the last picture is Bailey hiding in the spooky cave. That was how she described it to me! I hope you all have a lovely rest of your weekend.

H

Edit to add the link to more pictures of Papago Park.

Peaceful Alphabet?

Well the picture should say it all but just in case you don't know what it is I'll explain. Those are almost finished pendants and earrings going into the kiln to be fired. That's 2 wholesale orders and quite a few retail orders too.
The 1st wholesale order is the calligraphy pendants (with a few of the Cora Paige Project Letter Pendants in there too!) and the second is the 12 pairs of Peace Sign earrings. That makes for a very busy day!

Other things going on today too. Miss priss has sports day at school today, so this is how she dressed for the day. She seems to be having fun dressing up this week. Yesterday was crazy sock day. No I don't let her out of the house looking like that everyday! She has also been doing her breathing treatments again. (Sorry for the bad picture on that one!) So I've been trying to make them a little more fun, which isn't easy! Well I must get back to the orders because they need to go out tomorrow.

H

Crazy Week!

I've got a super busy week shaping up here! I'm working on about 20 retail orders and 2 huge wholesale orders. I just got a load into the tumbler and now I'm getting ready to take miss priss to dance class.
Brian won't be home until really late so not much work is going to get done tonight!

Isn't she cute? That picture was from the recital in December. She wanted to wear all her princess stuff, and trust me its a lot! Anyway, we are off to do that right now. How is your week looking?

H