Friends

I had such a great time at Fulton Street ARTisian Market today. I got to be next to a good buddy of mine, Michele, she's a riot and a half, we laughed and had a very interesting day, with the wind blowing our stuff all over haha it was still fun. She was so generous; she loaned me some bungees, helped me prop my trunk lid up and was just there for me in general. What a blessing she was.

Visit Michele's shop at http://www.craftinator.etsy.com/ or

http://www.secondsight.etsy.com/ for beautiful creations of magnets, hand pastel drawings and more!

It's always fun to see my team mates and get to meet new people, do some networking and with the bodacious fairy beauties there are just laughs never ending at my booth. It makes it worth it for me, just to bring them and watch people laugh, smile, and sometimes even try not to laugh. Those people the ones that want to maintain their "proper" crack me up because you know they want to laugh but don't because of the company they are with.

I had to go down and try the asparagus; I hate asparagus, haven't eaten it in over 20 years. My ex mother in law used to serve it on purpose just to piss me off. But I want to let her know that "it's all in how you prepare it sugar!!!" because the asparagus I had to day just rocked my world! Blue cheese crumbles, warmed over grilled tender crisp asparagus, marinated in some kind of salted wonder, was just heaven in this grandma's mouth.

While I was picking up my greens, Sarah Roemer was calling to me trying to get my attention....in her hands was something that I'd been hinting about for a few weeks but never ever did I expect that she would go ahead and make one. It was the most beautiful, yellowish gold headband made with her rawkin' pop tabs, and I seriously almost cried. What a moving display of loving friendship, thoughtfulness and selflessness! I really didn't know what to say. It is just beautiful. Thank You so much Sarah. It's just beautiful.

Visit her shop at http://www.sjroemer.etsy.com/ for more of her creations using recycled pop tabs made into purses, bracelets and more!

I am Thankful

Sometimes I forget to be thankful. Today I have been given the day off with the rest of my company because we are ahead in our orders. So I'm staying home, doing laundry, cooking, shopping for food, taking care of my doggies, cleaning, dusting, sweeping and mopping the floors, doing more laundry, listing things in my clearance section of my shoppe and if I get a second I might have a peanut butter sandwich. But I will say that I am blessed and thankful because there are those who don't have jobs and are hurting financially and emotionally right now. I've been thinking about taking a portion of what goes into my paypal account and putting it aside for team mates that made need it worse than I do. It will build up over time but this will give me a little fund to draw on to help my friends. They've given me so much support over the months that it's well and good to do something for them.

Designs By LaShelle

I try to bring beauty into everything I do and sometimes I run out of materials. I have to tell you about what one soul did for me.

We were laid off at my company for a while and I was running out of supplies and couldn't create anything more. One day I came home and to my suprise there was a bag on my front porch. It was FULL of wire, beads and other findings. It was like Christmas!

I came in the house, got online to check my etsy store and I had a convo from one CatherineMarissa.

You can check her shoppe out at

http://www.catherinemarissa.etsy.com/

She was the one who I found out left this delightful and very needed bag of wonderful "overflow" from her own craft supplies.

I began making things right away, trying to create through tears is tough. But there was no stopping me. The need to bead! Through the kindness of this dear woman I was able to list more things in my shoppe and to this day I still can't believe it. But that's the heart of CatherineMarissa.