My Best Friend's Gift

Rose Quartz and some glass and silver....hope she'll like the set.

I've been awake since 4 A.M.!

Not sure what's up with me. But here I am wide awake, making coffee at four thirty in the morning! Oh well.
I work for a good company, my bonus payout wasn't suppose to be until our next pay period which is next Friday but lo and behold! Bonus deposited today! YAY! I wasn't broke but close to it!
And I elfed myself, you can too.......take a look at this, funny to me! You can do it too! I sent it to my granddaughter, she should get a kick out of that!
My mom and I are going to the movies tonight to see The Nativity Story. I'm excited about that. I hope she'll like the movie. I've heard good things about it.
Oh well, coffee is almost ready and I'm hungry. I am off today thank goodness, so a nap will probably be in line around seven.......but then I've got loads of stuff to do!

I got it all done

Ok, after working all day (and not on my job) I got it all done and have everything packed up and ready to take to work with me. I have four employees and for each of them I have a Christmas bag filled with two little loaf breads, chocolate nut and poppy seed. My mom saved Crystalite containers all year and so they each have a container of REally Good Butter cookies. And they each have a cute little gift box with two bracelets inside. I think those are pretty good presents and I hope they like them.
We drew names and I got my gal a candle set, sea breeze, and it's wrapped and put in the trunk of my car. And cooking along side of my mother.......well, that was the challenge. But I made it through and I'm glad. Oh, and we'll give our Doctor a gift card from Home Depot, he LOVES Home Depot, so there you have it!
A day's work done and I'm exhausted!
Goodnite!

The people in my life!

Nearly everyone in my life seemed to be grounches yesterday. My son depressed because he can't find a job. My mother, because, well I'm not sure. I don't have an oven so I baked at her house last night, and I couldn't do anything right,didn't use the right bowl or pan or spoon!.......Instead of leaving me alone to bake she was right there beside me. It was not a nice relaxing evening. WHo knows! The good news is I get to have to today off! We're having our little Christmas thing in the office tommorrow so I've go to get things ready for that. And yep, got to use my mom's oven again. Hope she's in a better mood.
I also HAVE to remember that I have a conference call at one thirty today. We ususally have it on Tuesday morning but not this week.
Ok, I smell coffee! See ya!

Another productive day, I'm impressed!

Ok, another bracelet, and......even though I have to work today, I am not going in until late afternoon to close, and so this morning I got a batch of Divinity made and some of the butter cookies, (just a trial really to see if they are going to be as good as I want them to be)the cookies are good, I got to make them a little thicker when I actually get going so they won't be hard. I made the dough and refridgerated it so it is ready! I maybe can get off early tommorrow, if not I still have tommorrow night.
Sweetie, my little dog, got to frolic all morning outside in the 70 degree weather.....geez, Merry Christmas!

Productive Day

I got my shopping done for the baking I'm going to do, bought a few more gifts, and..........TADA!!!!!!!!!!! Got jewelry made.

Good Morning

I slept good last night, once I got to sleep. Trying to decide if I want to do some baking today or not. Not sure when I'll have the time again since Steph is sick and I'm not sure when she'll get back to work. I was planning to be off Mon. Tues and Wed. to get the rest of my vacation days before the end of the year but not sure if I will now. Oh well, I'll get it figured out I guess.
I really need to work on Jewelry, OH yeah! That's what I will do today. Be prepared for pictures!
I'll be back!

A full day ahead

Work today and then I'm going to see about my best friend who has the flu. She has a five year old and a husband who has to work tonight and he gives her little help or sympathy at all when she is sick so I can at least take care of little Robbin tonight and make her honey and tea and maybe some chicken soup.
My son went to visit his wife this weekened (they are separated but I suppose not for too much longer) and my mother is driving me nuts wanting to know when I'm going to help her do Christmas baking. I guess I am kinda of running out of time as Christmas will be here soon!
Anyway.........that's about all I've got going today, pretty boring stuff. I've also got more jewelry to make but maybe I can get some of that done tommorrow.
Happy Saturday!

A Good Day

Work was good today. Maybe not as busy as we'd like but busy enough. My son, J has a job interview with UPS tommorrow. That would be nice even if it is for a Driver's helper and is temp. and part-time. Any money in would be good for him at this point.
This is cool! Click here: MERRY CHRISTMAS

Goodnight all!

Turquoise for Someone on my list

Ok, not sure who'll get this one. People tend to either hate turquoise of love it. But it did turn out really pretty. I've had these big stones of turquoise for quite some time so glad to finally show them off a little. Bali silver spacers also mostly.

Tangerines Smell Like Christmas to me

No matter what time of the year I peel a tangerine it smells like Christmas to me. I guess people have different smells that remind them of Christmas, gingerbread baking, Christmas tree smells, whatever but it's always, ALWAYS tangerines for me. I suppose it must have a lot to do with the big box of fruit that Santa always brought me for Christmas. It was only for CHRISTMAS that I got tangerines so they were very special to me. The box was a big box covered in tin foil filled to the brim with tangerines, oranges, a few grapefruit, apples, bananas, grapes and always an exoitic fruit, like a coconut maybe or a pineapple, or mangoes, or kiwi fruit. And sprinkled throughout the box was nuts in the shell, walnuts, brazil nuts, never pecans cause we had them out in the yard. Nope, these were special things straight from Santa.
I started with the tangerines because they were my favorites! My mother enjoyed doing this so much that when I had my own kids she did this for them too, to be delivered by Santa of course, but somehow it never excited them like it did me. I guess maybe because they could have that stuff whenever they wanted throughout the year but to me.........man it was magic! In my mind's eye I can see that box in that shiny foil paper and though I didn't pay attention to it until I'd opened all the wrapped presents, I always expected it to be there and it was I think until Santa stopped coming to see me. What a shame.

Kind of different

This is a Bracelet I made tonight and happened to snap the pic on a magazine. I was gonna crop it and get rid of the eye but I sort of liked it.

Monday, Monday

Today was a pretty good day. Customers pretty nice, employees pretty much ok, son in good mood and went to his threapy session. All is well in my world tonight.
A little T.V. and I'm off to sleep.

Some Creations for Christmas presents

This is just all glass beads in black with a little round Swarvoski pendant I made. It's really pretty on, not sure who'll get this one yet.

And then the Rose Quartz, a carved pendant. It's quite elegant as well.

An Evening Well Spent

This is the little almost six year old munchkin I spent the evening with tonight. She is my namesake and the daughter of my best friend. I don't think her tongue quit for more than ten seconds the whole time we were together but that's ok, she is quite entertaining! Her father took her mom out tonight for her birthday and so she and I spent the evening together.
She and my own granddaughter are three weeks apart in age. That year I saw two little girls come into the world, upclose and personal too, thank you very much! And both of them have brought into my life lots of love and smiles and for that I treasure any time I get to spend with either of them.
I'm tired, she wears me out......lol. Goodnight!

In Search of the Best Butter Cookies

Ok, I'm in search of the World's best butter cookies. I've decided to make some for gifts this year. When I was a teenager I remember someone I worked with bringing in some Butter cookies for Christmas, they were yummy but she refused to give us her recipe. To this day I've not tasted any as good as these. So this year I'm looking for recipes to try out and hopefully by before Christmas, and before I gain twenty five extra pounds I will find some. Here's a start
Today I made my best friend a chocolate cake for her birthday and I made two bracelets, dang it! I forgot to take pics and I've got them wrapped already! Oh well, they are pretty, you'll have to take my word for it. So I'm all set with her.
Other than still being cold today, there was not much news. Tommorrow I go back to work, and I'm ready actually!
Alrighty then! Goodnite!

One more Day of my little Vacation

I've pretty much accomplished nothing during my time off but it's been nice. Tommorrow I'm baking my best friend a Birthday cake and I've made her a couple of bracelets. Maybe I'll post pics of the jewelry tommorrow, my camera batteries are dead right now.
Because of the ordeal with my son, I'm a little strapped for cash so I'm glad she likes my jewelry, she is in fact one of my biggest fans.
It is gonna be chilly tonight, actually darned COLD, burrrrr! South Georgia is not known for cold winters but we may just have one this year.
Nothing exciting in my boring little life today, just enjoyed doing my own thing.
My son has an interview tommorrow, let's hope he gets the job!
Nighty night!

Got two Christmas gifts bought

Before I went to Atlanta for my work meeting, I'd done just a little bit of Christmas shopping online, and until today I'd actually forgotten it. But the two I bought came today so there! I've officially started.
One of the items that I bought for my hard to buy for Step-father. Years ago somebody came him this little glass house that you put incense cones in and the smoke comes out of the chiminey. The thing about this is he is such a bear about any kind of scent we were all blown away when he began to burn the Lavender incense that came with it. He fusses if my mother burns candles or uses air freshner so this thrilled her only to discover Lavender incense "cones" aren't that easy to find, at least not in our area(Not an unusal thing about most anything)......SO anyway, I ordered him some from somebody on E-bay.....so yay!!!
And then the other thing was the purfume that they've almost quit making for my mother. It is Forever Krystle. She wore it for years and then couldn't get it anymore and I've actually tried forever to find it on the internet only to find it was out of stock but I lucked out at last and found that.
So here I sit, with Forever Krystle on my wrist, smelling my mother.......lol.
SO..........now, let's see who's next on the list.
Only 19 days left!!!!!!!!!!!

A Bit Depressed

Ok, I went to Atlanta for a meeting over the weekend, came home Monday night and have holed up in my little house ever since and I've got to get out today if for nothing else to go shopping. I'm off until Saturday, trying to get in vacation days before I loose them.
I think my body is experiencing, (and my mind) menopausal things and although I branded myself as a warrior and decided to look upon menopause as a rite of passage, who am I kidding? This sucks! I don't feel like myself. I never seem to feel good physically anymore(that could be helped if I'd get off my ass and do my walking I was so good at doing for three years) and I just feel like my world is in a mess.
I feel like nobody loves me or wants to be around me (I don't want to be around them, so we're even!)
It's just not a good place to be but here I am.
Here I am. Not too much good for anything.
My mind is boggled, my body hurts and betrays me, my spirit is shot and I don't know where to go from here.
So there you have it, welcome to my pity party. Feel free to go at anytime and PLEASE take me with you!

My Life turned inside out!

Well, it's been months since I've posted but I intend to get back to blogging now and hopefully I can.
Back in August my oldest son's life took a turn and he needed help badly and so that's what I've been busy at. His wife left him, he was left with nothing, no place to live and badly in need of treatment for depression. Things are looking up a bit for him now and of course his wife had re-appeared but that's something I can't help and even though they are not back together yet, I've no doubt they will be soon. But they are grown people and all I can do is hope he can get his life together.
A few years back he was dianosed with Bipolar but never got good treatment but for the last few months he is seeing a threapist and getting the medication he needs. His family which consist of me, his brother, and his grandparents came together and helped him get an appartment, (he's not working yet) and just this week I helped him get a car (he has nothing) and so we'll see what happens next.
Mental illness is nothing new to my life. I grew up with a mentally ill father during a time when it was not as well understood or treated as well as it is now. My son is much like he was. When depression sets in it is painful to watch, and when mania sets in, it is impossible to get along with him. The meds thank goodness help that for now.
So, anyway, that's my life for now but things are calming now a bit now. One of the dreams I've put in this cedar chest is for my son to know some happiness in this lifetime. I hope he is on his way to that now.
I'll be back, I promise, even though I have no readers, I'll be back for me!