Humming Along

Life keeps humming along here. My 2 youngest kids finished preschool last week. My oldest is done with 3rd grade on Friday. End of the school year is always hectic.

I have some ideas in mind for teacher gifts. (Which have to be done by Friday!!! EEEK!) It's always hard to come up with an original idea for teacher gifts. Do they really want another scented candle?? I think probably no!

I'll take some pics and post them in the Etsy store. Some of you whose kids get out for the summer later might be interested.

I'll Be Back Soon

Sorry I have not posted for SO LONG! I had surgery this week and jewelry has been put on the back burner. Everything went well and I hope to be productive again by the weekend. Stay tuned! All this down time has me itching to create new stuff!!!

Side note: I just finished reading a great book for my book club: The Red Tent. Has anyone else read it? What did you think?

Website Finally Updated!!

My website, www.mjanedesigns.com , is finally updated and working!! The Etsy store and new email are both in place too. Time to focus on making jewelry and taking pictures so I can post more items for sale. Look for custom pendants soon as well as more fun stuff!!

More Stamping!

Still trying to perfect stamping on silver. It's so much fun! Here's some pics of what I've been working on:

Still working on revamping the website and setting up my Etsy store. A very long story that it's much too late to tell tonight!

Thursday Already??

Wow, this week is flying by! I finally got my business bank account straightened out. Not too exciting - but a necessary evil. What happened was, that when I originally set up my accounts, the bank used my social security number instead of my federal tax payer ID. This can cause all kinds of problems down the road. So, I had to close my accounts and open new ones. Why did I put off taking care of this since December?? Once I got started it didn't take long to get everything organized. The trip to the bank was pretty quick and painless too. So cross that off the list. Finally. . .

I'm really enjoying the stamped silver jewelry I've started making. The reaction from other people has been very positive too! I ordered more silver blanks and a 2nd smaller set of number stamps. More new designs to see soon.

Also, a major redesign of the long ignored website is coming. Look for a link to Etsy to purchase jewelry and a link to the blog too!

New Toys!

I haven't posted in the last few days. Unfortunately, I've spent a good bit of my time at various doctor's appointments. It's amazing the torture you have to endure for good health!

We had a weekend packed full of activities. Bought a new patio table - our old one blew over and shattered a few weeks ago. DH had his weekly soccer game, which he left early to pick up above table. After assembling we found out it was cracked! The new (hopefully undamaged one) is being delivered Thursday. Dave refuses to go out there again! Jessica went to a bowling birthday party on Sunday. I took Molly and one of her friends shopping for new clothes. Old Navy and a shop called Justice For Girls - little girl heaven I must say!

Finally today everyone was out of the house for a little while and Mom had a chance to make some jewelry! I just got supplies to start stamping on silver. I've been wanting to do this for a while so I'm really excited about it. So fun!! Here are pics of my supplies and first attempts. Not too bad. My mind is racing with ideas for all the fun things I can make. Molly already has several requests. The bad news is that I have no room on my already cluttered desk for the new supplies. Tomorrow may have to be an organizing day. . .

Snowy Friday

I'm not sure I'll ever get used to snow this time of year! Spring in CO is really a toss up. It might be 65 & sunny on Monday then 35 & snowing 2 days later. The last few days have been full of wet nasty show - but now the sun is shining. Maybe we'll still have a nice weekend!

Molly was home sick today, so she watched TLC while I worked on getting the blog together. This is new to me. I read several blogs on a regular basis, but have never tried to do one myself. Let me know what you think!

I'm posting pics of a couple of bracelets I made recently. They are charm style bracelets with Kazuri focal beads from Africa. One of them went with my mother-in-law to Spain. So its' Kazuri bead is a now a true world traveller!