Chocolate Mushroom Shoes
Originally uploaded by Shara Lambeth

These shoes are SO adorable from Shara Lambeth on etsy: http://www.jolibebe.etsy.com or http://www.jolibebe.dawanda.com
Handmade stuff like this makes me wish I had a little girl to dres up!! Although these would be equally as cute on a baby boy - {sigh} I think Sawyer is just a bit too big for them now....

Turquoise Stack Rings

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Originally uploaded by Lunasa Designs

Someone from Finland just ordered these as wedding rings... It was a bit nerve wracking making them, knowing that they would be so special to them! I never considered making wedding rings - because I mainly work in Sterling and just assumed everyone else in the world wants gold. I think I may have to reconsider that - especially since my own wedding ring is sterling! haha! Now why would I assume that there is no one else out there like me??

Kissing those dirty lil baby cheeks!

Kissing those dirty lil baby cheeks!
Originally uploaded by Lunasa Designs

Sawyer is SO excited to be playing outside in the dirt, and very annoyed at mommy for stopping him to kiss him!!

I just can't help kissing those chubby little cheeks!!

Dirty or not, they are adorable! :)

Sunny day

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Originally uploaded by Lunasa Designs

Spring is finally here! My eyes look green here just like the grass and the leaves starting to come out....

With the warm weather it has been increasingly more difficult to work in my studio....

Maybe I should consider taking the summer off??

Flames

Shhhhh.... Don't tell Scott (my husband) that this is his valentine's day present. It's not a very good picture as it was getting dark out by the time I finished it.... The ring looks much better in person!! :)
I'll be giving it to him tonight when he get's home from work. I hope he likes it!

I'm busy preparing for an upcoming show!
It has been a little crazy - with 3 sick kiddo's, orders to get out and a show to prepare for! Thankfully its all stuff that is made already - just have to make sure its presentable :)
Should be fun!
If you're in the area, come by and say hi! I'll be there provided all the kids are feeling better.

apARTment:
exciting evening of art, fashion and design! apARTment will open on Saturday, October 20th, along with the opening of “Actual Size Biennial” in the Ladybug Gallery and at the Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit. CAID will also open the “Detroit Diamonds” exhibit in their installation space, The Carriage House, on Warren Avenue, with shuttle bus transportation connecting the three locations.

Opening night festivities run from 6-10pm, with a print, radio and TV media preview and photo opportunity beginning at 5:30. Between the two non-profit groups organizing this event, more than 500 benefactors and patrons are expected to attend.


The Whitdell Building is located at:
1250 Hubbard Street
(Porter & Hubbard Streets)
Detroit, MI 48209

http://www.thecaid.org.


Apparently it already made the front page of the Detroit Free Press!! Yay!

Again with the "very beautiful girl"!! I'm starting to feel like a plate of chopped liver! hehe!

So - a few weeks ago Connor and Elijah convinced me to buy a pineapple at the store. Once we got home and cut it up, Elijah wouldn't touch it (of course) but Connor sat at the table and savored his bowl full...
He looked deep in thought for a moment and then said,
"I will get the children a pineapple".

Me: "what children? The kids in your classroom"
Connor: "no"
Me: "so what kids are you getting a pineapple for"
Connor: "when I get older, I'm going to marry the very beautiful girl, Natalie.
When she has kids, I will buy them a pineapple".

Love is so simple at his age. :)

As usual, I've been neglecting my blog...

I promise to get better!

We've been busy here! After much consideration, Connor decided he wanted to go to kindergarten - Getting up early (6am) has been tough on our usual late afternoon riser but he LOVES school! So, the normal things that go along with having a kid in school are happening now... Me feeling like I have to volunteer for every little event that comes up (I have to be a dedicated parent, after all), Connor bringing home every virus and cold under the sun... Picking up bad habits and teaching his younger brothers (how to stick out their tongues at each other).

Along with the not so good, there is a lot of GOOD - Connor LOVES his teacher - when asked, "why?" he says, "she has a nice voice". He also has fallen in love for the first time.... I'll never forget our endearing conversation about his newfound crush - A conversation I wasn't expecting for another 8 years at least! {sigh}

After the first week I was asking him how his day was - This is how our conversation went:
Mommy: "So how was your day today?"
Connor: "I don't know"
Mommy: "Did you have fun?"
Connor: "yeah"
Mommy: "What did you do?"
Connor: "I don't know"
Mommy: "you don't know what you did?"
Connor: "moo-oooom!! I don't REMEMBER!!"
Mommy: "oh. Do you have any friends?"
Connor: "yeah"
Mommy: "what are their names?"
Connor: "I don't know"
(long pause while Connor thinks about something)
all of a sudden he gets a little smile on his face and says: "but mommy, there's a very beautiful girl in my classroom!"
Mommy: "oh yeah! What's her name?"
Connor: "I don't know"
Mommy: "What does she look like?"
Connor: "I don't know."
(pause)
Connor: "Do you think I could marry her when I get older?"
Mommy: "Well, if you want to marry her I think you should find out what her name is first"
Connor: "how do I do that?"
Ahhhh..... love... true love.
So for over a week we've been calling her the "very beautiful girl" and its the only way to get him out of bed at 6am ("Connor, get up! Time to go see the very beautiful girl at school" - and he's up in a flash)
Yesterday it was her "special day" (like show and tell) and he FINALLY learned her name! OH he was so excited!
He came home and first thing said, "mommy! I know the very beautiful girl's name now!!"
Mommy: "oh yeah! What is it?"
Connor: "Natalie!"
Mommy: Did you talk to her today?"
Connor: "no, I heard someone call her that"
(my cute little stalker)
Mommy: "Did she talk to you today?"
Connor: "yes!"
Mommy: "what did she say?"
Connor: "sorry."
Mommy: "She said, 'sorry'?
Connor: "yeah."
Mommy: "Why did she say sorry?"
Connor: "MOM!!" because she stepped on my hand!"
Mommy: "oh. why did she step on your hand?"
Connor: "MOM!!! because it was right there by her foot"
Mommy: "um.... why was it there by her foot? Where you taking a nap?"
Connor: "NOOO-OOO!!!!
Mommy: "well, ya gotta help me out here - I wasn't there, remember??"
Connor: (big sigh and rolling of eyes) "She stepped on my foot because I fell down in the playground and she
accidentally stepped on it and said sorry."
Mommy: "Oh.... Was she coming over to help you?"
Connor: "NOO-OOOO!!!"
Mommy: "oh. well why was she right next to you then?"
Connor: "because she was following her friends".
(loong silence)
Mommy: "What you should have done is say, "that's ok - but will you kiss it better?"
Connor: "MOM!! (trying to supress a smile)
Mommy: "what? Don't you want her to kiss it better?"
Connor: "MOM!!"
Conversation disolves into a tickling fest.....

A blog? What's that?? Oh yeah... I have one.... and I've been neglecting it for over TWO MONTHS!!!

Yikes!

So... Blogging's not exactly easy with a newborn - an almost 3 year old and a 5 year old.... Oh yeah, and a jewelry "business" to run. hehe

Fun!

Things I've been up to lately:

1. trying to keep my sanity


2. trying to keep my sanity


3. trying to keep my sanity


4. trying not to repeat myself


5. making, making, making (technical term for creating)


6. enjoying my 3 very active and very inquisitive children (ok, one isn't so active yet - although he has recently discovered his toes and likes to slobber on them quite a bit)


7. not enjoying my two very inquisitive dogs (they like to chase the neighbors cat)

Whew! even though I didn't write anything interesting I feel so much better that I "blogged". Mark that off my 2 month old "to do" list!!

Spring is almost here! It was actually "warm" today! The boys played outside - took their sandbox toys and shoveled the snow... They said they had to get rid of the "garbage"... hmmm...

I can't believe it but Connor turned 5 on Sunday! I'm starting to feel old! I never ever thought I would have a 5 year old - Soon I'll be saying, "I never ever thought I would have an 18 year old!" haha!

I'm working on my "spring line" of jewelry - trying to get some creative work in whenever I can. I have a ton of vintage beads to play with and have been working on some long dangly, delicate flower earrings. A lot like my poppy earrings inspired by Sheri Burhoe's work.

I'm a BAD blogger! Sawyer Alva Meddles is here! and in fact has been here for a whole 6 weeks now. Whew! Where does the time go? He is the chubbiest, most content, smiley baby I've ever known.... :) He sleeps through the night... smiles and coos all day.... eats, poops and generally just has a good time.

I'm quite thankful for this peaceful little baby as my last son (middle child) was, and is, quite the handful (in fact I don't think I've slept more than 3 hours a night since he was born almost 3 years ago!!

We're enjoying the new baby smell in the house.... and my blogging skills will weaken further as I try to catch up on my Etsy orders. I have all kinds of creative thoughts swirling around in my brain.... Just looking for an opportunity to use them. I wish I could hire someone to do all of my paper work. Between photographing my jewelry, uploading it to etsy, writing descriptions, pricing things on my costing template, ordering supplies, processing orders, packing stuff up.... well - I have no time to actually make anything! Who can I hire to take care of all of this stuff (plus do a little babysitting once in a while) out here in the middle of nowhere, in a messy house, for next to nothing pay. haha! hmmm.... guess I have to keep doing it.