Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Valentine's Shopping Guide


Lesley from What Designers.com has put together this incredible Valentine's Day shopping guide.
It is chock full of fabulous and very talented designers including one of my personal favorites Rob and Lean from etsy.
I want this ring so badly for my man. It is strong, sexy, tough and bold, almost arrogant.
Plus it is crafted from titanium, something I am hoping he can wear as he has this weird ability to corrode all types of metal. Even stainless steel turns into something that looks as if it was dredged up from the depths of the ocean after Mike wears it for 2 months.
But I digress....
The shopping guide is very cool as it does not contain the usual hearts and flowers, in pink, purple and red. Rather it contains unusual, indie items you know mainstream would overlook.

A tip from Lesley - Stylehive has a lot of hits and pops up on google quite a bit in the first few pages of searches.
Take a moment to sign-up and fill out your profile using the links provided to promote yourself.
Even items I bookmark, (in other words hive) come up under my business name in google.

How do I know that? Because I learned you can create a google alert for any word/name you like and so I submitted my business name and every time I bookmarked something new in Stylehive the google alert would well... alert me.
Ah, the web circle widens.

Sunday, January 27, 2008

Quite

Just a few more pictures of the kids and then I'll start posting some materialistic stuff, I promise....

Tonight as I step to my boy's door and say to him " Hon, I have to buff for a little bit, you want to find a show to watch?"

Rex, the boy I swear I just stopped nursing, says to me " No, thank you, I'm quite entertained at the moment."

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

I tried, I really tried

I spent all weekend hunting down the photos from Halloween through New Year's, finding them on 3 different discs, trying to open them in Microsoft's Digital Image Suite, edit them, save them to my computer and then upload them to Flickr.
I still do not have any idea why the second batch wasn't uploaded. But I am so past the point of redoing it all.

The above photo is of the kiddos with their cousins on Christmas day.
G.G. and Poppy got them all some special chairs and painted their names on them.
Look at Rex's face... isn't he funny? He's thinking "Just get this over with. I have to complete level 20 of the Star Wars Saga video game."
And Pinkerton! Oh my gosh, the brightest smile you have ever seen! Look at her dirty knees... she's been dressed up for 1 hour, lol!
She loves her Baby Cupcake cousin(sitting next to her), tries to give her waaaaay to much love.
JahJah (Pinky's name for her boy cousin) is in the fishing hat that he never takes off, sitting next to Rex. He is the smartest kid, very precise and detailed oriented. Those are my sister's kiddos.
The kids love getting together and this Christmas was no different, except for the fact that they were spoiled-rotten!
It was a wonderful Christmas, the perfect end to a wild year!

Saturday, January 12, 2008

From Halloween to Valentine's


So I have these photos to upload with little comments. From Oct. on.
Kiddos in their Halloween costumes, Rex with his first day at school, Thanksgiving's, Pinky's ballet recital, Christmas, New Year's and now Valentine's.
Stuff I've bought and wanted to show you.
Songs I've heard and wanted to share.
New work I felt kinda proud of.
Changes in life and work.
Cool things.
But I think it would be exhausting to you and I if I were to go back in time and try to recreate the excitement. So I'll just start afresh.
But I can't upload anything now, blogger is having trouble with my pictures.
Maybe tomorrow I will upload to Flickr and you can have the choice to view them or not.
Now it is time for bed.
Goodnight and thank you all for checking on me during my absence!

Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Pendant Combo Give-Away!

Yay! Free stuff!
Offered through www.whatdesigner.com, Lesley has hand picked 3 of my own pendants and an 18" sterling silver chain to GIVE-AWAY to a very special winner! It could be you! It could, it could!

Sign-up here at whatmedia.blogspot.com to be placed on Whatdesigns mailing list and become eligible to win the 3 pendants you see above in addition to an 18" sterling silver pelline ball chain!

You know you spent to much money on the Holidays! Give your debit card a break and win some pretty things for yourself!