More orders!

Well, I delivered my orders and low and behold, she ordered 8 more. Double Yikes! Now I really have to get busy. I started working on them and realized I didn't have as many beads as I thought I did. Now I'll have to go out & buy more beads.

I've put in some pictures of the 3 I made already. I forgot to take pics of the 3 I already made 7 sold to her. Not such a good salesperson...am I.

Anyway, I guess I'm back in the jewelry business, and the handbag business and the re-fashioned clothing business as well. Busy Busy Busy.

Happy Thanksgiving to All and to all a good night....whoops..wrong holiday. LOL

Holiday Show

Yesterday was the holiday craft show at our church and it was a great day. Busy but not crazy. A steady stream of customers most of the day. At first I was getting nervous, as was my friend Cindy..although she was trying not to let me see. No one was buying anything. Just looking and putting down.

Then suddenly.....the tide started to change and we were selling handbags and jewelry. Yea! We really didn't want to have to lug it all home again. We sold about 15 bags and a few necklaces. We even took some orders for what we didn't have. Yikes!

Well here are some pics of how the table looked and if you look hard you can see Cindy as well. Thanks to Ginny for getting me squeezed into the fair at the last minutes and Cindy for helping me out that day. I've had to update the Unique Design blog to show which bags were sold. WhooHoo!

First Show

Well I had my craft fair show on Saturday. And yes... of course... it poured raining outside. Does that really surprise anyone? So between the rain, the economy and the not so great marketing of the event it was pretty much a dud.
I did sell a few things, and I got an idea of what people like, although no one wanted to spend any money. I also found out who my clientele really is. Now all I have to do is find them and sell to them. Not as easy as it sounds but do-able.
Anyway I got to meet some new people...crafting people, which is nice and maybe made a new friend as well. One can never have enough friends. We'll see.
I forgot to take a pic of my table. Stupid! I took the camera and everything, and then didn't take a pic. Oh well, take my word for it.. it was ok. I will change things in the future but it was alright for the day.
Well now I'm going to go and clean up the mess in the sewing room so I can get back to work in there. Needless to say, it's quite a mess.
Also I'm working on a slide show of my handbags. There's a link now, but it only has my old ones, and not all the new ones. I'll put those in shortly.
Lorraine

The weight of it!

So here I am 18lbs lighter. It was a lot of hard work and I still have at least 10lbs left to lose. I'm sort of stuck in a rut now. Back and forth with the same 5 lbs. I'm going to have to do something to shake it up. Less food...more exercise.

Here are some before and after pics.

Looking at the "after" pic, I might need 15lbs!

For those who are interested...I went on the Medifast diet on June 20th and to date have lost 18lbs, It's really pretty easy and I'm not really hungry on it, which is remarkable for me.
I also go to Curves 3x's a week as well.
I might add, walking to this regiment. Oh yea, I also play my Wii game.
So that's it for me for now.
Back to the diet.
Lorraine

What's new here.

Well things have been busy. I recently started working at a beautiful natural fiber/art to wear boutique in Charlottesville. It's really nice and I like working there. Very relaxing...at least so far.
I get to help decorate and do the display windows and the store as well as work the store itself. It's only part time but I really like it so far. The name is Minda's boutique and she's a sweetheart. She & her husband use some of the profits to help with their ministry overseas. Really nice people.
She also said she will give me a small place to sell some of my art to wear items as well. They will be setting up a web site soon.

Our new addition.

As some of you know, we've been looking for a new dog for a few months now and sure enough a few days after Rusty left us...we found one. I swear Rusty send him to us. He's perfect!

He was found walking around a landfill with another little dog. They were so pathetic. Long matted hair, dirty and skinny.

But now we got him and he's all shaved and cute as a button.His name is spanky and he's about 1-1/5 yrs old. He's a blackish gray terrier/poodle mix. Here are the first of many pics to come.

Back Again!

Hi to all,

Well I've been busy and haven't had time to write. That's not good so I'll try to be better at that.

In the mean time, my poor little Rusty ( 17yr old Corgi mix) passed away. He had gotten very sick and eventually his kidneys gave out. Basically he finally gave up. He had a wonderful life...well at least the last 4 for sure. We adopted him when he was 13 from the shelter so we only know those last few years.

But now he's with Rosie and Toby at the Rainbow Bridge. We'll see him again there.

Here are some pics of our Rusty.