Archive for October, 2007

that jewelry making can drive one insane? Apparently it can. This pendant gave me fits. Everything that could have gone wrong did. I barely survived its creation. But I’m glad I did, I think it’s pretty cute. *grin*

I sawed the flower from sheet metal, then soldered on a fine silver center, textured the yahoo out of it, oxidized and called it a day. Or two. It took me two days to make. I think I want to make a few smaller ones for matching earrings and a ring.

Have I mentioned that I love working with sheet metal?

I only met him once, but we connected immediately. Those big, kind dark eyes and that hair so soft and full, Keegan was a sight for sore eyes and a good old soul. He was the kind of guy that would sit and let you talk for a while, just listening. Just watching. Just letting you be you without any judgment at all. A loyal companion was he.

Living until the ripe old age of 14, Keegan the Keeshond lived a good life surrounded by people who cared for him. He is survived by his family in Pennsylvania and Texas who all miss him dearly. Memorials started yesterday shortly after his passing and shall continue indefinitely as each loved one grieves in his or her own private way.

We love and miss you, boy.

Rest in peace, old buddy. Rest in peace.

No joke, I just cleaned my desktop about an hour before I went to her blog! The Rock Chick tagged me for a desktop screen shot showing meme. If I would have been a good bloggy friend and visited her last week when she tagged me (I didn’t know!) I’d be in some trouble. My desktop was full. FULL, I say. Not just cluttered, FULL. Jewelry photos, web pages, newsletter edits, and other such business junk were taking over the world. But, apparently, being a bad bloggy friend isn’t such a bad thing after all.

Here is my beautiful, clean desktop. Do you love it or what?

I have to tag people, and the unlucky ones are:

Erin at Glimpse of Pink
Sandy at The Daily Poop
Kim Thru the Looking Glass
Laurel Wreath
Amber at My Journey in Faith

If you play along, let me know!

My desktop computer decided to crash today. My LIFE is on that thing. Our budget stuff, all our photos, my business records, invoice blanks, my pricing sheets, everything! I have also written over 30 songs (and a few I’ve recorded) and all those files are on there too. *sniff*

I can’t access ANYTHING at the moment. We’re pretty sure the hard drive is fine, it’s bad memory and something else that’s not working (and I do have backups of some stuff)- but ugh ugh ugh, I feel like my entire life is on hold. Thank goodness I bought a laptop earlier this year, or else I wouldn’t even be able to function, but it’s not my main computer and I want my main computer. My laptop also hates my printer, and I had 4 orders I needed to get out this morning, and I needed my invoice file and I needed to print that and labels for my packages. Thankfully I was able to download a driver that seemed to make it work. But…

WAAAAAAAHHHH!!!! What a HUGE pain in the rear (and checkbook).

My hubby and dad can both build computers, but they’re saying with the parts we need to replace, I might as well just call Dell and buy a whole new one. *big, huge, loud sigh*

Bye-bye swanky, new camera that I wanted to get as my Christmas present to myself. I swear, the fates are keeping me from that thing!

I had a visitor this morning. I guess it’s a praying mantis. I have an uncle that is terrified of those things. This one was tan and skinny. I thought they were green and a little bigger. Don’t worry, I didn’t lysol him. I had pity and captured him in a cup and released him on the back porch for the huge frog-sized red wasps to carry him away. Life is so interesting living in front of a large open field in Texas.

Did you know they fly? I didn’t. But I do now.