Monday, September 29, 2008

Last two pieces of jewelry



These two were created by Julie Lowery. It was her first year at the festival. I hope she's at many more in the future. Not only is her work beautiful, they're extremely well priced.
I can't wait to wear the set on the left with a brown sweater tomorrow. I wore the set on the right to work today with a pair of jeans and a polo.
Julie's company is JEWELRY BY DESIGN.




More jewelry finds this weekend


The next two pieces I'm not sure who the two artist are but will find out and update the post asap. The necklace and earrings on the left I wore Saturday after I bought them! The looked great with my outfit.
The necklace and bracelet on the right I had an artist create for me, she had ankle bracelets done like these - I wanted a necklace and bracelet. She had it ready first thing Sunday morning so I wore it around Sunday! I've been looking for a multi-bead sterling silver necklace (at a reasonable price) for some time now.
Both pieces are great to layer with additional necklaces which it typically how I wear necklaces.

Glass Beads



Here are the first two of my jewelry purchases this past weekend.
These necklaces are made from hand blown glass beads. I have several pieces of her work and love them all.
The artist who created these is Rhonda Lemay.
Check out her WEBSITE

Busy, busy, busy

I'm going to ramble for a moment. It was a very busy weekend.

It was the 9th annual Art & Wine Festival at the SoIL Artisan Shop. The weather was almost perfect (could have been 15 degrees cooler to suit my taste, but I'm very hot natured) and the turnout was wonderful. I "volunteered" once again to work and spent all of Saturday and Sunday leaning over a table applying arm bands to those partaking of the wine tasting. In addition the the wineries, which Bruce was ever so nice to provide the ticket workers with a comp bottle of Red Raz (my favorite!) on both days, the artists in attendance did very well this year also.

There were several jewelry artist this year whose work I loved. I'll try to take some pics tonight of the pieces I bought. I ended up with 6 new necklaces, 3 bracelets and 3 sets of earnings!! So, from my point of view it was a successful weekend! A girl can NEVER have too much jewelry.

After the festival on Sunday I ran home as quickly as possible to take pics of an adorable little 18-month old boy and his parents. Promise I'll get those pics up either tomorrow or Wednesday. Unfortunately since I worked the Art & Wine Festival I missed the second week of flag football, which I still haven't posted the pic's from the first weekend...I had issues with Picasa the other day which is why the pic's aren't up yet. I have a board meeting tomorrow as soon as it's over I can hopefully get some other things done - first of which will be flag football pics.

This weekend I intend to get a least one more set of senior pics taken, possibly two. The temp in SoIL is only suppose to be in the low 70's which in my opinion is PERFECT weather for picture taking. I'm also going to try to get some pics of nieces and nephews done. The second weekend in October is the outdoor wedding which I'm planning, coordinating, decorating, catering, & photographing (how do I get myself into these things??).

In addition to the outdoor wedding which will consume most of my day, my cousin (Tyson) is getting married, another cousin is having his retirement party and two of my favorite cousins (Arielle & Bethany) are the senior attendants for Sesser Homecoming Queen! Hopefully one of the Seniors will be named 2008 Homecoming Queen - Go Seniors!! October 11th is just going a packed fun-filled day. I'm not quite sure yet how I'll make it to everything, I'll worry about that next Friday!

The third and fourth weekends in October I hope to be taking lots of pictures, I have several sessions booked already with others waiting to lock down an exact date/time. I'm super excited to be taking so many pictures! Needless to say I'm going to be busy, busy, busy until the end of the year! Hopefully I'll find time to keep everyone up to date on my blog.

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

I guess nothing is ever really free


As I've already shared with you I signed my father up for a "FREE" continuing education class in "Beginning Digital Photography" and gave him my old Nikon D80 to use in the class. In addition to the class being FREE for him due to his age, it got him out of the house and is teaching him the in's/out's of digital photography. He has a film Nikon but doesn't know the first thing about what to do with a digital pic once he takes it......


Well, I learned last night that nothing is ever really free. He found a magazine/order book from an online site I order most of my lenses from and has picked out a few nowhere near FREE lenses that he "might just need" hint-hint. I'm happy that he's found a hobby that he enjoys and is able to do but I have proved the old adage that nothing in life is ever really free! Oh well, looking on the bright side - I know what to get him for Christmas!

Go Tony Go!


FYI, I'm for the orange #20 car!

Tony's in 7th place but only 113 points from first.
I love the chase, especially when my guy's in it!!

Saturday, September 20, 2008

Photographer in the making





I've found my future photography partner!

Thought this was too cute not to take a picture of, Matt was taking a picture of Blake playing football.

More football pics to come. My computer connection is so very slow tonight. The pictures will have to wait until tomorrow.