St. Croix Vacation- return from paradise! :(

Hello all. I am now back in town after 1 month- yes 1 complete month off on vacation to see my honey in St. Croix U.S. Virgin Islands! I had an excellent time!!! I have so many pictures to share as well. I will post a few here and the rest will be over on my photo blog in a few days. I so did not want to come back! The down side- there were absolutely NO BEAD stores on the entire island!!!! I found one craft/ frame shop that had a very very very tiny set of seed beads and that was it! I nearly died from bead and gemstone withdrawal!!

I can not wait until he comes here and then I go back there. Christmas would be lovely in St. Croix! Maybe!! How awesome would that be!!!!

New banner

Part of my three pronged obsession is photography. I adore taking pics of everything from patterns in brick to jewelry to skies! My next fav thing to do is open up Paintshop Pro and digitally play with the pics. I wanted a new, more eye catching banner for my Etsy store! What do you think?

New digital camera on the way!

As you know, my digi cam died. It was fun to take pics with my cell phone when I knew I had my digi back up. When it became a MUST to cell-ie pic- well that was not as fun. It put a crimp in getting more photos and items uploaded to my Etsy site ( I need more sales).

Last night problem solved! Earlier in the day I was on line checking out digi cams. I wanted to see what was new out there and how much it was all going to cost. I had already set my mind to the fact that I would have to spend about $400 to get a new cam. Not exactly what I wantd to do. I was hoping to get a plane ticket to St. Croix for summer vacation! So...

Anyway, I looked at a few Fuji's and Canon's. Digital slr's have come down in price, but I still didn't want to spend $800 for them. Long story short (which is funny how God pays attention to the little things we want in life), about 6 hours later when I was making a bracelet and necklace, my mom (who never watches the Home Shooping Network) calls me and tells me to turn to channel 4. There on the screen was one of the slr type cameras I had looked at earlier in the day! How much was it saleing for you say?- $199.95! YES!!! LESS THAN HALF OF WHAT I HAD SET MY MIND TO PAY!!!! It was normally 499$ in stores! So my aunt ordered it for me. Then my mom tells me that she'll even pay for half of that! With taxes, shipping and a year extended warranty- $245 was cut in half to $125! Now how awesome is God to work that out!!! The additional funny- on the TV they had said it sold out right before my aunt dialed in. She still ended up with it ordered for me! I can't wait to get it by the 12th!

Fujifilm S1500 10MP 12X Optical Zoom

This afternoon I made a quick set from yellow mother of pearl discs, blonde wood, Czech glass, and gold-toned art wire. I call this set Sunshine on Sunday.

Cell-ie pics from April 4, 2009

I went to the post office this morning to drop off the pendent for my swap partner. On the way back through downtown the sun was shining and it looked spring time fresh. It is cold as blue blazes, but the sun- OH THE SUN! So I parked my car, an whipped out the cell phone. I took these pictures and decided to post them up oh Photobucket to make a slide show. Enjoy!

Dainty Sisters Pendents Tutorial

I have had two tutorials in the works. One completely finished. The second, I needed to take more photos for the step by step process. Last night I finished the second round of photos! I now have to do photo editing and a little rephrasing in the text and bam!- second tut done! I will be posting it up for sale by next week. I am so excited. Here are a few pictures of the finished Dainty Sisters Pendents (inspired by my sister of course!). Enjoy!