For Sale

I know, the title is riveting... I'm sick...

I just listed this on etsy

that's all....

I'm on a jelly roll....

Well, don't ya know... I'm on a roll photographing all my artwork and jewelry and then, the sun crawls behind a rain cloud and I'm stuck!  I went back and looked at some of my old pictures and boy oh boy, the inside shots are REALLY bad!!  I didn't even have green tomatoes back then...boo!

Here's what I listed on etsy today:

My Button stacker pendants and rings are UNDER $10 and that INCLUDES 

S&H!!

They're a deal, tell a friend!!

To get right to my shop(chinamommy), just click on my etsy link above... easy-peasy!

My papercutsarecute store is running way low... but I did just realist this:

My darling girl and I are off to see the new movie

Ramona and Beezus.

I loved these books as a kid!!

I hope to pass on my love for all things Beverly Cleary to my daughter.  Now that she's reading I'm finding it so fun to re-read the books I loved as a child with her!

Have a FABULOUS weekend!!

Welcome Monday... hey, I don't work so what do I care!?

Ok, I DO work, but it's at home and it's called cleaning my house and all that goes with that!  I blog and I work in my art studio... Oh yeah, i waste a lot of time reading blogs too... :)

This weekend was fun- No big plans, I love that!

Darling has been so sick for so long but now she's back at it!

Sunday she had a roller skating birthday party!  Love to see my little one learn something NEW!

Here she is with Dad and one of her 1st grade friends.  The first several laps we walked her around. 

(I just noticed the Mister's shirt looks like it's flipped up all Fonz like, Aaaaaaa....

I promise you it wasn't, I keep an eye on him to make sure he's not doing anything weird like wearing his shirt unbuttoned with 6 gold chains- You've got to watch those guys that grew up in the 70's!)

After a while she wanted to do it herself and man, do kids catch on to stuff quick, or what?

Last weekend skiing, this weekend rollerskating!

there she goes!

She's afraid to look into the camera, every time she did... she bit it!

Sunday evening we had NO super bowl plans or super BOWEL as one of my facebook friends wrote.  How much fun did a potty talker like myself have with that?!  I couldn't let that one just ride off into the sunset with NO comment!!  BOWEL... oh that kills me!  I told him a super BOWEL sounded like a personal problem to me!  Lucky for him no one had noticed until I was kind enough to point it out- you ARE welcome!!

Anyhoooo....

We stopped at the grocery store because i was hungry for toffee... random, i know!  I'm not a big dessert person, but toffee sounded so good I had to have one of those candy bars.... I don't even know the name of it, the toffee one!

Well, because I was starving when we went in for the .79 candy bar we ended up with:

You're right... NO candy bar! They actually had the toffee candy I was dreaming of in my head and .50 cents off!  The mister was like "$5.99 for candy??" but he KNOWS:

what baby wants, baby gets!

Obviously baby also wanted guac, pickle pringles and Creme Brulee!

Darling daughter picked blue jell-o and the mister wanted some smelly Artichoke asiago dip.

Mmmmmm, Mmmmm!

I'm not a foodie at all, but don't get me started on Creme Brulee...

It is the ONE dessert that makes my mouth water.  The one in the box left a bit to be desired, but... I'm not into fancy-cookin'!

Oh and the toffee... I had part of 1 little piece.  After I ate 27 lbs of chips and guacamole, a creme brulee and a glass of wine I couldn't even shove 1 whole piece of MY candy down my pie hole- there's always today, don't worry!!

Snore-ville, sorry this post is NOT exciting...

I've got to get these pendants done:

I finally got what I needed this weekend, so I want to get them listed on etsy today!

See you later this week for more riveting posts...

and by the way, these are both listed in my etsy store:

Happy Monday Gals!

I'm a good person, people like me!!

If you've been reading for a while (which you probably haven't been... since so MANY of you are NEW- hellooooooo and welcome aboard the crazy train!)- you know my dream of being ★famous★!  Not famous like Pat Robertson, or Dolly Parton, more famous like Martha Stewart and Lady Gaga (minus that whole bi-sexual thing).  Ok, so I just re-read that and don't worry, it makes no sense to me either!

wait, where was I going?  Oh yeah... I have 54 followers, 54!!!  Oh, if only you knew how happy that made me!!

Sitting here in my hot pink gingerbread girl PJ's feeling like a straight Lady Gaga with Martha Stewart skills!

Well now that my whole Friday has been made... I'd like to show you what I listed on etsy today:

*lime green*

Awww, a baby blue fawn!

I used my new light box... can you tell?  I need to work on it, it's pretty wrinkly and shows every piece of dust... tips anyone??

Miniature paintings on small wood pendants!

Hope you like them and even more than that...

I hope you BUY them!

Ok, darling daughter went back to school today- Whewww, I love that girl, but playing hunch-back servant to that child is exhausting.  Any idea how mad I am that blogger took away my spell check?  Can you imagine the anxiety I have as I hit "Publish Post" and wonder how many of my smart readers are rolling their eyes... Hey, people, I have an art degree- not that that makes me dumb, but I was too busy staring at dandelion fluff during spelling....

Ok, this post is making me dizzy.

Have a great weekend & write a comment if you REALLY want to share the love!

Oh Dear, my Deer, I'm fawning over you...

This is quick and my pictures might be crappy, but i have this poor little girl to take care of:

She missed the whole week of school last week... I put her to bed around 7 every night, made her drink tons of OJ and take vitamins, soaked her in a warm tub and hugged her endlessly, but

she's home again today and going to the DR!

She was in bed with us at 3 am with her ears hurting...

So, quickly let me share what I got in the mail yesterday- 2 VERY wonderful things!!

a REAL  light box with 2 of these little lamps!

 Isn't it funny that this is so I can take Great?... BETTER pictures and my pictures of it are SO SO SO very crappy!  Ha, I kill me!

and then this from the wonderful Little Miss Crafty:

go check her blog AND see the new beads she made!  

Cute overload!!

so much prettier in person, because of course I didn't put it in my light box... duh!

and some new goodies I'm working on....

OH DEER!

I'm in ❤❤❤ with this little fawn!!

I've been making clay pendants and then found these little wood shapes and started stamping/painting away on those too, I'm rather fond of them if I do say so myself!

Do you know of Jennifer Perkins (Naughty Secretary's Club)?  Well, her daughter is Tallulah Fawn... I should totally send her one of these pendants and then she'd feature me on her blog and I'd be famous and I'd get a Range Rover and adopt 20 more girls from China and have tons of designer jeans and only eat organic food... Oops, sorry about that... Anyway....

I've been plugging along on my etsy store... of course I've got a ton of things to list because I was waiting on the above fabulous light box (bought on ebay for a TOTAL of $36!).  I KNOW great photo's are a MUST for sales and I just don't feel like mine scream "Greatness" or maybe my stuff is just crap?!  Well, either way, I'm sticking to my new years resolution of "working" my store!

Can you tell I've been busy?

Random jewelry makin' stuff! Oh.. and a BIG BOX of crayons with MY name on it!  I don't use them, I just look at them and have been known to sniff them on occassion!

The TV that must always be on a true crime channel.... I have a serious problem!

I ❤crime stories!

a clean spot...yes, it's blocking a door, but it's only the door to the furnace and I never feel the need to visit that!

a painting I'm working on... the face.... just can't get it where I want it, I can see it in my head but my fingers won't move the brush right.

The little oval reads:

"It's better to have loved and lost than to spend the rest of your life with a psycho"

IF you only knew how true that was.... UGH!

Ok, must go pick tissues off the furniture and get darling to the Dr!

Happy Tuesday gals!

Collections...

Do you collect anything?  I told the Mister this past weekend that I think I need a "collection", he looked at me like I had 3 heads!  My studio & storage room do NOT count, ok, maybe my glitter collection, but I mean a REAL collection... Check out some of these I found on flickr:

Pendants

Enamel Pins

(the one below is from Jennifer- the Naughty Secretaries Club)

Silver Vintage Purses

SHOES!

books by color... if you've seen my closet pics, you know I love this idea!!

cameras...

Dolls:

Blythe!  I have one, but never got bit by the bug...

Pose dolls

Little Twin Star and Hello Kitty by Sanrio

Vintage Salt and Pepper and egg cups

Ho-Ho-Ho!

owls... big again?! 

 I remember all those macrame plants holders with owl beads in them... anyone else?

Vintage dish sets

PEZ!

Oh, I LOVE how she's displayed these!!!!!!!!!

When I was a kid I had a ton of collections: Hello Kitty, miniatures, stickers, rainbow stuff...SO many tiny little things!  I still have my sticker collection and a lot of my now VINTAGE Hello Kitty collection.

Tell me about your collections: what you have & what you want to have...

I'm thinking vintage telephones in pastel colors to do a wall display...

Happy Tuesday, I must go tend to my sick girl :(

Tomorrow I'll have a peek at the fawn pendants I've been working on the past 2 days :)!!