Shipping every day now. Yep. Really. Guess what else?

Free shipping in the US.

Uh huh.

Now, someone buy something so I have a reason to go to the post office! Here’s eye candy, go get you some!

40% OFF everything in the etsy store:

http://flamekeeper.etsy.com

unless it is already in the clearance section. Sale ends July 5, 2009.

The last performance by the 6th grade band tonight. This is too cool

Right there in the front, my Colby! :D  (hope this works- I need to get a plugin to play WMV files, and the video is 20mb big…

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And an upgrade for Wordpress. Wheeeee!

Not a whole lot has happened since my last blog post, but I did start my clearance sale at the Etsy store, and have a couple of sets listed on the Bay again (yes, I know, I rant and rave, but I needed a boost! ).  The kids have finished Awana for the year, and I’m not sure they’ll be going back next year. Colby has a few clubs he likes to go to after school, and Lili has cheerleading in Rochester, and with homework, it’s a mess trying to get up to town in time on Wednesdays.   (As I sit here and get prompted by Vista that my activation key doesn’t work, and try typing it in AGAIN) I upgraded my laptop, too! New big shiny 320GB hard drive and 2GB of memory- now I can Photoshop AND check mail at the same time, yippee! (yay, retyping the key worked- whew!)

We’ve been fishing, I finally finished spinning that laceweight Maerchengarten dyed top from Cloudlover69 on Etsy:

That’s 1300 yards there. Holy cow, says I!  I still need to take a class!

The kids have had birthdays, I have not

Let’s see, what other news have I? Not much!  Bead pictures?  Ahhh… How about we do this instead?  A little handy EtsyMini and then links to the new eBay sets

Next up, two sets on eBay. I spent forever pulling murrini canes, but it was SO much fun, I think I’ll keep doing it, and I’m saving up for some graphite optical molds Flowers! (You can click the pictures to go to the auctions )

Calaveras Del Jardin (the backs are SOOOO cool!)

and an Aurae experiment that I LOVE,

South Seas

I’m going to finish my coffee and get ready for Mother’s Day with the kids- we’re picking them up soon, and taking Brian’s mom out to dinner!

First one of spring- of course Brian beat me to it the other day, but I was busy making dinner :P  So, the fishing is on! Yay!

On the beady note, I posted new beads today- I’d hoped to torch today, but with parent teacher conferences and early dismissal today and tomorrow, no torching for me until at least Sunday- the kids are going to Gramma & Grampa’s this weekend, and I have a grown up girl party to attend Saturday! Another YAY!

So, beads are here:

And I’m off to get something to eat before the kids get home. Today we’re exploring fruits. I have prickly pear fruit, hairy cherries, pepitas (I think) melon and a few other exotic fruits for us to try. Hopefully I can talk them into walking with me after lunch, too! Oh yeah… the sale continues! Keep posting the BlogSale comment, keep getting 20% off