Just Some Silly Thoughts

Sometimes I feel like this. But it's from laughing.

The tooth fairy has to be a girl. Guys can't be the tooth fairy, it just doesn't sound right. How did Santa get to be a boy? The men in my life never liked to hand out presents in the past or in the present, they really don't like to shop, and every time they give something away something in their head says "cha-ching" more money out the window. Humph. And what's the deal with "Father Time" Geoff is very laid back and doesn't run on a schedule when he's home. However I do have to say in his defense that he has never been late for work, not one day in his life. And I think it's because he can't wait to get outta here LMBO!. It should be Mother Nature and Mother Time. Instead of Santa Clause maybe it should be Shanta Clause....the Easter Bunny has to be a girl because I can't see Geoff carrying a basket. And look at poor old Mother Hubbard and the @#$! that left her with all those little babies to live in what has to be the most wretched place...... I want to believe the Sales Fairy is a girl just because there is shop visiting involved in it but our Andy needs to keep his Sales Bat a boy. His sales bat probably has a pipe hanging out its' mouth. And it's probably got "Henderson" stamped on the bottom of it in size 1 font.

TRYING MY HAND AT RECYCLING

Seriously, I know what your thinking...why does LaShelle have a pile of rocks pictured here? Well I work for a company that is always looking for better, less expensive ways to remanufacture our components. One way was to upgrade to a bigger, better "vibe" machine that polishes components after the wash cycle getting them ready for further processing. Well when we went to the upgrade we needed to dispense of the old media for a different type of media. We call these "stones". I'm not sure about what they are made of to tell the truth but a light bulb went off in my head the day they asked me to empty the machine out and get rid of them. "May I have them?" just came pouring out of my mouth and I'm not much of a pack rat but for some reason I thought, hey I think those would be cool if I could use those in mosaic foot stones for a neat path in my yard. I'll just make those into big round mosaic foot stones and maybe I can color/paint them somehow and well, my mind just wandered. So someone I work with took them to my car and we loaded them up after work. The majority of them are still in my trunk about 170 pounds of them.

The next day I asked our skilled trades guys what it would take to drill a hold in each one (now I'm thinking "hey I'm going to bead with them") and they told me they could but it would take a ceramic drill and they might have time to do a couple or so a day. Well I hate to impose on people so I dropped the idea of putting holes in them and came home thinking "oh great now i have a bunch of rocks in my trunk and am I really going to make them into stepping stones"? I have a terrible time finishing anything major so I put the whole thing to rest and just have been carrying a trunk full of rocks in my car; until yesterday!

I began looking at my little pile of rocks on the table in my studio and the wheels began turning in my head. Now grey can be pretty but I wanted color. I went to a nearby craft store and found some paint but not knowing what I have as far as material in this "rock" I wasn't sure which kind of paint to get so I purchased a bottle of the prettiest pearlesque paint I could find. Purple is one of my favorite colors so I couldn't go wrong. "I'll use it on something" I thought.

So I took one triangle stone and began painting. It dried very fast and I used my nail and tried to scrape it away but it was very set and hard to scrape off so I put a second coat on it. After it all dried I wire wrapped it with 22 gauge silver wire to make a pendant out of it and crocheted a multi color ribbon for the necklace. This is the final outcome and I really wanted to share it with anyone that had an interest in seeing it.

I have a few more

to do. :)

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Easter Means...

So I'm sitting here getting a new treasury ready, another one for the team and it appeared:I couldn't of planned this better. I don't think I did. These are all of the team member listings I've collected so far for the treasury and I wasn't thinking about making this design until I sat back and then got goose bumps all over, and I thought, wow, there Jesus goes again, reminding me what's really important :)

Here and now I proclaim that Jesus Christ is my personal Savior.

If you want real joy and peace in your life accept Him as well if you already haven't.

You'll never be the same.

10 Things That Make Me Happy

1. The color purple makes me happy. Although I don't own one piece of purple clothing. What's up with that?

2. Big fluffy snowflakes.

3. A colorful sunset over Lake Michigan.

4. My grandsons; all three of them and listening to them laugh.

5. Listening to the waves at the beach.

6. Birds that are singing.

7. Giving something to someone when they are in need.

8. Celebrating a success with a friend.

9. The Big "O".

10. Sales are good but someone telling you that your latest creation is awesome (and you know they are not just saying that) is very rewarding.

We're in Etsy's Gift Guide

This is so exciting for us because our honey is featured in the Etsy Gift Guides right now under the sub heading of "Slow Food"!!!!

I've met a seller on Etsy who turns honey dippers and we are going to team up and link each of our listings to the other!

Here is a link to her shop

http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=7036742

And here is the link to the page of the gift guide where our honey is!

http://www.etsy.com/gift-guides/slow-food/136?&page=2

My Little Peanut Chick Magnet

I spent some much needed time with my daughter and grandson yesterday. Landon is such a joy! I often wonder what the world will have in store for him but one thing I know...

chick's dig him!

Etsy West Michigan Sexy Artisians

Oh do I love a good treasury! And I love the people on my team. Etsy West Michigan are a group of great men and women, some of which I've gotten to meet personally and you won't find a better bunch of people! These are just some of the findings I chose for the Sexy West Michigan Treasury I got up at 4am this morning to grab LOL I'm a complete addict. One day one of our treasuries will be on the Front Page at Etsy but then I wonder, "do I really want that"? Some of the "toiled over" and "labored over" items that I've seen on there are so simple and our team and their creations are definately not simple. These artisians take their time choosing just the right piece, just the right fabric and make it a labor of love. Yet we don't find many of those kinds of pieces on the front page. I don't and probably will never understand it. Instead we find eye brow raising items that may have taken 3 minutes to sew, usually by hand, add a button and a string and you have something front page worthy. So honestly I guess I don't want anything of mine on the front page because then I'll know someone thought it was simple.