2:34 am and still awake......

i am like a babe with its days and nights bassackwards......i stayed up too late the other night, and after the kids were off to school i crawled back in bed and snoozed until hubby was home, planning after a few minutes of snuggling and catching up with each others 'days' that i would get up and going with my normal routine......and several hours later, i am a bit red in the face to admit, i arose and could have kicked myself for sleeping so late and swore off late nights....well, i could not sleep again due to the fact i was so well rested from my extended nap and so goes the circle.....round and round the cycle. so tonight....uh...um in the wee early morning hours here i am blogging! i am so excited though....after at least a year of not arting for the stupid reason in my head that since i enjoy it so and the bliss i feel when creating seemed wrong because of all of the ick stuff going on in our life i just quit. i felt guilty for creating art because it brings me such joy and i felt selfish for doing just that, i then became stressed from falling behind on projects, dodging life as it was being hurdled at me, my studio became a disaster. well, i am almost done putting my studio back together and i can see light, a huge monsterous light at the end of the tunnel! i am almost there! i have even created some art and some new pieces of jewelry!
well, i really need to go to bed, have to get the daughter up in less than 3 hours, at which point i will crawl into bed and catnap until an hour and a half goes by and then wake the boys......and hopefully stay up, wear myself out during the day and then go to sleep at a normal decent hour!
before i go, guess i should explain the pics.......the first, 2 baubles soon up for sale on my other sight.....2nd, just some pretties and goodies hanging around, and 3rd, 2 new goodies i bought at a little mom and pop antique shop....we went there hoping the one vendor still had his vintage halloween post cards....they were not in his case, but the owner said she thinks he still has them and to check back.....so it would be a sin to leave an antique shop empty handed so i brought home the little spice holder...i thought it was a little purse at first, and will probably turn it in to one, and the necklace that i will take apart and use in either anther piece of jewelry or a decorative pillow that i will put of for sale........off to bed i go.....i sure hope the vw beetle size zit on my face has decreased in size by morning......this thing is right in my line of vision on my cheek and i keep trying to swat at it or wipe it off! if it gets any bigger it will look like i have got to heads! gotta love it...i use zit cream, and oil of old lady to maintain my youthful appearance....but when going for the upkeep of a youthful appearance i did not want the zits of my youthfulness
back!

BEad gAsM

so i have never really shared much, if anything about my shopping trips, ohhhhh but today i must play show-n-tell! i went to the bead store to buy some faceted and teeney pieces of laboradite, i might have spelled that one wrong, but we will live for now, and some crimps. i bought them to go with the chunks 'o laboradite. i bought them to go with a gray cardigan and a dressy sweat shirty thingy. well laboradite looks gray, until you put it up to gray, they seem to take on a bit of a green hue, but i will find something for these beads to go with! water trapped in the beads while they were forming gives them shimmers and glimmers of color under the surface just like opals.
there is nothing like a bead gasm. everyone has their 'thing' that makes them feel like they have taken a bite out of heaven, this is my thing, well, there is a list of things, but this is at the top.....for now! so, now off to make one pretty for me, one for my daughter, and one to sell.....

it is amazing, i am sick as a dog still, but it is almost 1 am and i feel like i could art till dawn with all of my new goodies!

you will have to come back and see what these turn into!

a healthy handful of these

white pearls

peachy pinky whitish stick

pearls

mother of pearl....red adventurine

which is orange.....

oh my.......

we will be eating dog food for the next week due to the cost of these........ooooooooohhhh but they are so worth it! this picture does not do the pearls justice. halo rose gold, or copper if you are the lady behind the counter that felt the need to say so.....

halloween colored pearls

and i could kick myself in the butt, i bought 2 strands and left the last one behind.....might have to go back for that last strand....hmmmmm. don't these look almost yummy?