Another Treasury

Someone else put another pair of my earrings in their treasury. You can find it at: http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4cbcbfb856068eef8e33096c/red-red-and-more-red It is so exciting when someone compliments me by including something of mine in their treasury. Take a look at the other items and their shops.

A Treasury

I got a pair of earrings in a treasury!! That's right! Little ole me got a purple pair of earrings in a treasury with all plum purple items in it. I am so excited! You can go see it at: cool treasury . The curator did a really nice job with the treasury. The thought of doing a treasury makes me nervous cause you have to time it perfectly to get it in the line up and all that. It is way to confusing to try to explain.

Anyway, do me a favor and go look at it and take a look at some of the shops and comment on it.

Thanks!

Update on Gracie

There is such a big hole where Gracie used to be. It is a relief not to hear her whining at night either for attention or because she is in pain. I get the feeling the other dogs feel her absence. I just miss her so much. I listed a watch today and re-listed a bunch of others so that is good. It just seems like there is this huge void that needs filling. Even Max the Cat feels it I think. He was always pestering Gracie for attention. I feel the biggest void at night when we are all in the living room. She was always with us at night. In the daytime she spent most of her time in the bedroom or dining room. I realize that this is part of loving a dog. They live shorter lives then humans. We outlive them. It is a sad fact most of the time. I am glad Grace was part of my life and that I could make her life happy and contented. She got to play in the ocean and she LOVED the ocean. She played in the ocean until her legs would not let her anymore. She was a well-loved companion.

Update on Gracie

It is sad news. Tomorrow, Monday, at 9:30 we have an appointment to put Grace to sleep. She has started to not be able to control her bowls and, worse of all, she is whining more at night as if she is in pain. We always said if she became incontinent or appeared to be in pain we would let her go. Both of these things are happening. It is such a hard decision. But we can't be selfish and we need to do what is best for our dear one. She has been such a sweet companion. It will be a great loss. I will be glad to know that she is not in pain anymore.

MEFDesigns

As part of Esty Bloggers we are featuring Margaret of MEFDesigns. This is her second shop which is a jewelrey shop and has angel earrings in it. They are light a remind me of fairies. I like fairies.

She also has another shop Splendid Little Stars. This shop is colorful and fun. I accidentally made it the first picture...it should have been the second. Darn it all! Aw well now you know I am not perfect. I have never understood how people get so specific with tye dyes and are able to do stuff like rainbows. I understand random tye dyes but not specific. (If that makes any sense.)

Go visit her shops the earrings are wonderful and the tye dyes are fun to see all the great colors. Thanks for sharing your energy with us, Margaret.

Hey out there!

I've been out of commission recently due to being on vacation at my sister's in Port Townsend, WA. Then when I came home my friendly plane passenger had given me her cold. Now I am trying to recover from that illness. I still have the dreaded cough. I was able to fill 2 watch orders so that made me happy. One was in Australia!

I wanted to give everyone a link to an blog article that you may be able to use if you have copper jewelry. It is on how to clean copper! http://heartsdesirebeads.blogspot.com/2010/07/caring-for-your-copper-jewelry-over.html I hope someone reads this and finds it helpful. Debra wrote it in a very easy to understand way.

A Favorite Book I Just Read

I know this is odd for me to write about on this blog but I just joined Etsy Bloggers and I am going to be writing about different things starting today. We have what's called Blog Carnivals. When someone picks 2 themes to write about and the rest of us pick which one we want to write about on our personal blogs. I picked writing about my favorite book because my favorite book is about dogs and my dog affect my creativity.

I have not read the entire book because, to be honest, I got distracted by another book on dogs. LOL Did I ever mention how much I love animals? I love them more than people almost. Any this book is, "Training People: How to Bring Out the Best in Your Human" And it is all written from the perspective of the dog. All the way from choosing the human (the dog is the owner of the human) to training the human to dealing with the death of a human. It is written by Tess of Helena. It is a very endearing book. I plan to read all of it.

I sometimes think that it is my 3 dogs that have my husband and I trained. I mean really, Chopper can look at me steadily while I am sitting at the end of the couch and the cat is at the other end of the couch. I will move over and let him sit in my place because I know that he does not want to sit by Max the cat. Just a fixed stare is all it takes and I will move. Now does that sound like I am trained???? OF COURSE NOT ! NO WAY! That's my story and I am sticking to it.