Building My Bank Account

I get alot of emails. I get a ton of jokes and quotes and generally funny stuff from my Aunt. I love it because it gives me a smile each day but I pass very few things on because I know alot of people don't want their email cluttered up with this stuff. Today though she sent me something that I really wanted to share and decided instead of emailing my small list of contacts and share with all of you because I think it has a really powerful message. Thank you for reading and thank you Aunt Kathy for sharing something that touches my life.


A 92 year old, petite, well-poised and proud man, who is fully dressed each morning by 8:00 with his hair fashionably combed and shaved perfectly, even though he is legally blind, moved to a nursing home today.

His wife of 70 years recently passed away, making the move necessary. After many hours of waiting patiently in the lobby of the nursing home, he smiled sweetly when told his room was ready. As he maneuvered his walker to the elevator, I provided a visual description of his tiny room, includint the eyelet sheeets that had been hung on his window.

I love it, he stated with the enthusiasm of an 8 year old having just been presented with a new puppy.
Mr. Jones, you haven't seen the room, just wait.

That doesn't have anything to do with it, he replied. Happiness is something you decide on ahead of time.
Whetaher I like my room or not doesn't depend on how the furniture is arranged....it's how I arrange my mind. I already decided to love it.
It's a decision I make every morning when I wake up.
I have a choice: I can spend the day in bed recounting the difficulty I have with the parts of my body that no longer work, or get out of bed and be thankful for the ones that do.

Each day is a gift, and as long as my eyes open, I'll focus on the new day and all the happy memories I've stored away. Just for this time in my life...........

Old age is like a bank account. You withdraw from what you've put in. So, my advice to you would be to deposit a lot of happiness in the bank account of memories.

Thank you for our part in filling my Memory Bank. I am still depositing.


How awesome!

1st Attempts

well I have been researching and thinking and surfing to come up with ideas to create a line of jewelry for my daughter for the tattoo shop. I needed to get an idea of what the difference was between my jewelry and "Gothic" yet, it needed to be my own. This is my first idea. Now mind you this one is junk, a prototype just to get my idea into something physical to look at and work from there to make it right. I used really junky seedbeads and thread. The polymer clay cab was a reject. The perfect supplies to play with. I can look at it now and see what to change and do when I have the proper beads but I made this, put it onto my grandaughter to see what it truly looked like. She is very into this gothic stuff and loved it. Wants this necklace. Good, wasn
't a waste of supplies even if they were junk. I wanted to tell you to, I used a peice of ribbon, threaded it through the loops of the necklace and left the peices long , just tied a knot on each end so there is no fraying. By doing this in one way or another on the necklaces, any necklace can fit many different neck sizes without having to have 6 of one item in 6 different sizes. Yeah!
So this one is a go, when I am using better supplies the end product will look much better,
Now I have a second style I am working on. Will post it for you when it is finished. One more prototype on the way.!

What shall we do on a lovely Sunday?

Well I went and worked today. When I got home this was in my email. My daughter has decided the tattoo shop had to be repaired, cleaned, and painted. Pulled the whole thing apart on a Sunday, the only day the shop is closed and then talked my son into coming in to do the painting. I guess she thought he was a good choice since that is what he does for a living but why did I feel the need to show this picture to you? Look at the color!!!!! Sweet Pea green in a tattoo shop! If it was anyone else but my daughter I would question the color but....a few years ago she decided to surprise me and paint my kitchen while I was at work. My kitchen is the biggest room in the house, the only room that is bright, open and sunshiny. She painted it Burgandy. Yup, ya gotta love her:)

Some things I need to think about

Hi everyone. Sorry I have not posted anything new since last weekend. I have to admit, I am feeling at the moment a bit like I am failing. I am starting on my 3rd week at my new job. I still love it. But, when I get home I am so tired out, by time I do the chores I have to do each day, I am not accomplishing much of anything else. I am spending less and less time on the computer promoting my new shops. I am getting very little new work done to list and now is the time to start listing for the upcoming holidays. I am now nervous since I just recently started the Zibbet shop but I have had no sales there sooo. I am also trying to do the custom order that I have for the 20+ keychains, I love the customer who ordered them and I am never this slow getting her custom orders done. While I know she is not worried because they are Christmas gifts, still it bothers me. Now I am trying to create a line of jewelry for my daughter, I have talked to you before about our involvment in a friends tattoo shop, He has given Heather a section of the shop to sell jewelry to not only help her paycheck along but bring more walk in traffic into the shop itself. Not getting far with it. She will be ordering a whole bunch of body jewelry but she really wants my handmade peices to create the atmosphere she wants for her area.
I guess right now I am glad my Avon business is still small enough where I can handle it on my day off. Any way, I know this will get easier with time, in the meantime please be patient with me if I don't post something more often than once or twice a week.

The picture at the top of this post is of the carousel in the park. As a teenager this carousel was part of an amusement park which was open for many, many years. Eventually the amusement park was closed and the land was sold. Of course they built condo's on it. The city of Saratoga Springs bought the carousel and stored it while they had each peice of it restored to it's original beauty and she now sits in the park still offering rides for 50 cents. Love it!

On one last note, yesterday the 8th anniversary of 9/11 I spent my day talking to my boss about it and reflecting. Of course there was no avoiding it because it was on tv all day. I lost several friends in this horrible massacre and I know many other people did too. So I give my prayers that the families of all the lost loved ones of 9/11 are at peace now and will continue to offer my prayers and keep them in my heart.

Happy last summer holiday

I just wanted to take a minute and wish everyone a great last holiday for the summer. I worked until 10 last night, getting ready to be back there at 10:30 this morning. Yes I will spend Labor day laboring. And last night they asked me if I was willing to pick up an extra shift tomorrow which is my day off. How did this happen so fast. I have already found I am neglecting my beadwork and my blog and all the other little things I was used to doing. I don't mind, I know it will get easier once I am more used to the new routine but I guess I just did not expect to get so busy so fast. Any how, have a great day everyone. I know in my part of the world the weather is already changing quickly so before you know it we will be cleaning up snow!

Wyndryder Studio's

I would love to introduce you to someone that I am proud to call friend. Her name is Debbie same as mine and she is one of those people that alway's have a smile on her face and kind word for everyone and exudes happiness even when she is having a tough day. She is one of the few people I have met in my life that I can truly say has a pure heart. So, I wanted to share a bit about her today. She moved away from NY a few years ago so we have contact through email and facebook. Some day we will get together somewhere in this world:) Any way she is a most amazing artist in my eyes. When I first met her she was doing these gorgeous native american inspired paintings with wolves and her paintings of nature, still life and animals is so awe inspiring. In 2003 I said to her, Deb, I want to do something special for my daughter for mothers day from my grandchildren. Can you do something on canvas around dolphins (my daughters favorite) that I can go behind you and add beading detail too. Well Deb said yes and a few weeks later came to me with this picture that you see above. I looked at it then looked at her then looked at it again and said....
Debbie, I can't touch this. This is so beautiful I can not put anything on to it, I framed it and gave it to my daughter as is. I would love you to know this beautiful person and if you would like to see some of Deb's awesome work, she has a great website. Go ahead and take a peek and I had better go email Deb and tell her I am talking about her behind her back!
www.wyndryderstudios.com

Welcome to the internet

The funniest thing has happened to me this week. I am still learning alot with this computer. I have come along way in the last few years but still learning every day. Awhile ago I signed up on face book. But it was one of those things I really couldn't figure out. I have had a myspace forever and whenever I want to make changes or update pictures I have to have my daughter do it for me. Any way, before my illness I worked with a group of people I got very very close to. We were all good friends which is sometimes the only way you can work under some circumstances. Any way we all drifted our own way's one friend went to Florida, another is still working at the store, more found other employment in town, any way, one by one we have found each other on facebook. Yeah! even if we can't see each other in person we can catch up and stay in touch through this mighty little machine. Staying in contact with people you become close to can be such a rare thing so I am so very blessed to have this happen. Just wanted to share that little moment of excitment.