A day late and a dollar shorter now

Everything I purchased at Michael's was at least 50% off, then once I got my goods and got home they put a flyer in my bag that said the next day I could take 25% off my entire purchase including my sale items. What are the chances huh? Anyway I am looking forward to putting them to good use!

Making a new obsession

Just going wild about creating earrings. Learning any new craft becomes an obsession for me. Weird. Normally I am a huge clothing girl, but since I am not going to fit into anything for a while or whether or not I will after the babe I have been going crazy for jewelry. And of course silver is my favorite!

Making it myself...

I am taking a 3-D class at UGF and needed a sketchbook so of course I headed over to Barnes and Noble to see what they had. Liked a lot of the books but never fell in love with one. Just grabbed a spiral bound black one that said sketchbook on the front. Also found a book of old pin ups and two magazines I read (I love how they have a selection of NICE magazines) got to the line to pay and realized I left my wallet in my backpack at home. What a doink. So I asked them to hold everything. While I was driving back I thought geez, why don't I make my own sketchbook! Well here it is!! I bought a sketch pad from michaels for a $1.66, cut it to size and slapped it into the bind it all. I am still not comfortable with this little bugger when clamping the wire down. Any tips?? I also dangled a silver charm and fancy black bead that I had to attach with jump rings. Those little puppies are a pain in the neck. So I stopped off at my friendly bead store to say- I need help or am I just crazy!? She showed me this little tool that is the bomb! Jump rings you have met your match!

I took a beading class at High Strung Beads probably close to 6 months ago and learned how to make necklaces. I wanted to do a multi stand necklace, of course it had to be time consuming, and wasn't able to learn how to make earrings because we ran out of time. So ran in there last week and got the run down on what I needed to do. So since we have a pile of snow on the ground I decided to whip out these buggers! I am so excited about them!!

The end of a chapter

Thinking back I have had many last days. What is cool is that there is always a first day to follow to keep you upbeat about leaving. Mountain Title was not the longest place I have ever worked but it definatly was the most life altering.

I was divorced, recently got out of the military, moved to Montana, met my love Josh, had knee surgury, purchased my very first home, became an aunt to my sister's second child, Ella, joined the Air National Guard, decided to change course with my career, expecting a baby...if there is anything I am missing it is only because there has been so much going on. MAN what an eventful 2 years I have had!

I am grateful for my experiences and was very sad to go. I have started with 15 credits at UGF and ready to finally find myself in their art program. So many changes, but I am ready for anything! I made these cards for each of my co-workers and the patterned paper reflects their personalities, or how I see them. What a wild collection of people in one place huh!?

Oh baby I'm a genious!

This only took me three attempts to complete. And two to post. Oye, I am really trying to get a handle on the digital world. It doesn't come easy for me! Elise had this tutorial on her blog that I had to try. I want to be able to do super cool things in PSE 7 with ease.

Well there were some struggles, mainly my lack of computer knowledge (thanks for ALL of your help Toni! )and seeing as though it was the first complex thing I have ever done in PSE 7. But I am glad to say that I accomplished it! Today I feel like a computer genious! I conqured my Everest!!

I feel like once a baby arrives I can say sure I can show you how to put text on a photo using software that doesn't exist anymore. The "oh baby" is my handwriting- Josh was interested in what I was struggling with and said that's your handwriting right? I was just so pleasantly surprised he recognized it!

July 20th, 2010 my life will change forever. It's amazing just hearing that I was officially pregnant my priorities shifted immediatly. And I am sure I am just in for a BIG BUNCH of change everyday FOREVER now! Yikes that is pretty scary.

This quote (from one of the magazines the OB doc gave me) brought me some peace.

"The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutly new." -Rajneesh

What's your "oh baby" for the year?

More than a replacement

Shannon was my secret santa at work. I got her a gift card to JC Penny's and made her this little altered business card tin and a card. I really like how they both turned out. It was nice to get down and work with paper and glue again. As I was working on it I knew I had made the right choice to move on into art as a career. I don't think I will ever look back, just maybe to wonder what took me so long to go on this path. Shannon is the new "me". She will be the marketer at Mountain Title and is already doing a fabulous job. It is so refreshing to train someone that just soaks up what you have to offer and genuinely sees the foundation you have created and finds it important as well. It made it so much easier knowing that I would leave all of my hard work in her hands. Good luck Shannon!!