It's Friday I'm in love... (with friday of course)

I have to say this week has been the roughest week for me, between watching the three kids (instead of just the boys, I had their big sister to contend with, who ever said girls are easier..lies I tell you!) school work, and cleaning Im not sad to kiss this week goodbye. Today I have left over cleaning and laundry, and then im done. Ok enough of that glimmering part of my life, ha ha.

I got er received my garnets yesterday from Lily's bead box, and drool.. Ive never seen a more richer red in my life. See post below
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Ok skip over the last one, and then there's the post, anyway, that maybe the last strand of beads Im going to be buying for awhile as you need this thing called money and since im taking a bit of a paycut I have to do this sad thing called..not shop.

So my sister Janice lives in New Orleans and she told me last night that she may have to leave and come to New York for a bit, Im scared for her but its been so long since ive seen her when I visited her in march. Geez New Orleans cant seem to catch a break, Im really hoping this Gustuv (not fay!...its too early) doesnt do as much damage as Katrina. It seems that they just got hit, craziness.

And then after that, my mom calls me last night round 11pm, and starts yelling(not at me, but you know..) about how her husband took the plates of her car, and some other things. And honestly I didnt know what to say, she should have left him a long time ago, but she would rather stay with him,then be lonely. I hope I never get to be like that. She was going to even call the cops, but she told me to go to bed ( yeah.. cause after she drops that bomb, sleep is the very first thing I want to do) at that time I was talking to mi amiga Tarah, and even she was like..."um.. she needs to leave him already" Ive said this to my mother more times then i care to admit, she needs to figure this out for herself. Anyways, enough of my drama Im seriously glad its the weekend. And even though I have to do a bit of traveling today, Its so worth it, but as crazy cat lady from the simpsons as my witness, if it rains I will become crazy too.
Ok, i have some much needed laundry to contend with so I leave you with this, this is why I love "The Soup"

Seriously who saw the real video, How awful was that?
Ok, Im going now...

Organizing some mo'

I was watching the movie " The Jane Austin book club" the other day, me and my chick movies, haha. And go figure me, the one thing i notice in the movie is the box the daughter carries around with her, that has her jewelry supplies. Now im obsessed with finding a box like that. I have these trays, and yeah they do the job but I wouldnt exactly call them travel ready. So of course me, im online for a million years looking for decent priced boxes. I even looked at tackle boxs! and holy geez, they are so pricey! I was like, whatever i give up. But i still want one, i know im hopeless, ha ha. This is something that i want or im going for:


Its artbin, clearly made for art supplies but I want... its not to bad in the price dept. but as a person on a budget, I may have to ask for it for christmas. "Hey mom, can you get me this big gray plastic box for christmas..thanks." Of course she will think im weird. But i like weird. So its ok. Im still trying to get all my beads to look somewhat decent, and i didnt get to make anything. I was trying to strive and make something at least once a day, and that didnt happen. Ugh im so tired.

blah, sale and stuff

I had a pretty long talk with my mom yesterday, and when i say we, it was mostly me talking. I was ranting a lot, but it felt good to get some much needed crap of my chest. Our family is going through some stuff, so i kinda let things pile up in my mind grapes, ha ha. Ive put myself on a budget, and im sticking so far. Im reading confessions of a shopaholic and i see little traces of myself in becky. So that was a big wake up call, i bought my last big thing, a refurbished ipod touch. I was iffy on the whole refurbished thing, but Ive heard good things, and i saved 100$. So that was my last omg pricey thing.

My shop is having a 15% off sale till friday and no one is biting, i think that is a pretty sweet deal,( Ha ha now i have the end of the world voice dude in my head when he's talking about the sweet round earth) I feel like throwing in the towel sometimes, i mean its not exactly a self esteem boost when youve been on etsy for 2 years and you've sold 6 things. I promote myself till i cant promote no more, and nada. Ok now im just feeling sorry for myself, lets change the subject. Im going home this weekend, Yay! Seeing my besty Renee, who needs to start her blog already..cough. and then seeing my family. I just cant wait till friday, this week has been super stressful and I need a break. I was bad... I ordered these
from Lily's Bead Box thats her photo by the way, I told you I was on a big garnet kick! And now Im done.. i still want that other strand but I have to be strong, I dont want to be a becky bloomwood!

What do you do when you cant sleep?

Well later in the day yesterday I was majorly stressing over something not even remotely worth stressing over. I wish I were one of those people who could brush things off, but no I am one of those people who agonize over every little thing, so last night I had a hard time sleeping. My body was like "erika, go to bed, you weirdo" and my mind is all "Erika, lets go over this stupid thing, over and over" So, after about 2 hours of lying in bed, i was all eff it and got up and made a necklace. The fruits of my labor and my crazy mind:

I wasnt going to list it till today, but I listed it like super late. Surprisingly it got 13 views in like 10 minutes. Its no 100+ but not to shabby. Maybe one day ill make the front page again..and then ill go in my mansion and drive my new beemer. It makes me kinda sad, ive been on etsy for 2+ years and the one time I made the front page it was in the middle of the night, when i had the nerve to sleep. It was so long ago too, there are so many awesome people on etsy, I think that will be my one and only time on the front page :insertpangofjealously: Now I have jealousy by the Gin Blossoms in my head..
I really want to make a necklace like that again, but it reds or perhaps in browns. I also want to have the money to buy the things to make that necklace. Ok back to work, and when I say work I mean yahoo chat.

Getting things done

So its been a pretty productive day, ive already finished most of my school work and now im online chatting. What I really need to do is to clean the dump i call my room. Last night i stayed up till 1am organizing my beads and stones, yeah i party like a rock star. And after all that, it still looks horribly a mess. Here is an after shot of my sweat and tears, minus the blood:

and Im not even done, not anywhere near..:cries: also this is what happens when you let a 2 year old in your room and have the nerve to look away for 5 seconds



See all those mixed ones, they used to have their very own compartments. Im not gonna touch that one for a very long time. That one will take ages to get back to what it used to look like, which was an ass kickin thing of beauty... Ok, back to work.

So...

Well here I am trying to give the whole blog thing a chance, Ive kinda put it off for a very long time. But here we are upon the fall, and what the hell, here we go. Ive gotten into fall colors a lot. I think I spent about 4 hours the other day on etsy looking at supplies, mostly garnet. For some insane reason Im on a big garnet kick! I found these from the seller nutraj and I am in love! But alas, I must actually sell some things to get them :insert sad eyes here:

I did list these beauties the other day, another pair of earrings I wanted to keep but fought with myself, and lost! So I listed these


Sighhh, arent they dreamy?
I love the black cherry garnets, I got those lovelies from the seller Norah62 she seriously amongst a few others has the best selection of gems, droool. Now I must be getting on to making some more things, I'm trying to make some fallish (thats not a word is it?) type jewelry, lots of lush reds, browns, purples, and oranges. Now if I could only find some topaz in the 1$ range... hmm a girl can hope. Ok, I have school work to do, and there is no rest for the wicked, and when I say wicked I mean tired and bored.