New Projects....like Babyshower Games!?

Hi friends and family!~ While Kim is still partly living in "Delirious-Land" fantasizing about our future move to Vermont's Green Mountain Forest for a year, I've moved on to making myself busy at HOME in San Diego with new creative projects....First, this is the first time in 20 years of making jewelry and ten years selling it, that I'm on time with production for the holidays!!

I usually wait for fall and winter inspirations to start creating jewelry for Christmas and Holiday shoppers, but then I'm rushing around with the regular hustle and bustle and the added stress of impending jewelry shows and awaiting boutiques!

This year, the planning began two weeks ago. I've scheduled babysitters to give this mommy time to create and ship at least the autumn jewelry in time for falling leaves and cooling weather.

The Crystal ornaments and WRECKOLLECTIONS Jewelry Wreaths have been laid out all over the floor of our shared office (mostly Kim's office...and she tip-toes through them to her desk patiently). I'm preparing final touches and choosing which wreaths get which junk broaches and beads. In other words...I'm ON TIME!

But this isn't enough busy for me! I need other projects, and when I resigned from the "moving to VT" project, I found another!

Baby Shower Bingo! Random, right?! Not so!! My friend, Lelli Hazard created Registry Bingo, and while she'd love to make Registry Bingo her full time passion, she's a busy working mom of a running toddler! So I'm going to help her market this fantastic Bridal and Baby shower GAME! Why not...most of my social gathering include showers...in fact, I'm co-hosting my cousin Natalie's baby shower with my mom and grandma in September, and I'm hosting one of my sister-in-law's baby showers after Christmas...so THIS PROJECT and ADVENTURE is APPLICABLE! While writing Natalie's invitations, it became imperative that I blog about this new creative outlet! I'll let you know how the games play out at the next shower...I have a feeling it will be so fun...especially if the BINGO!-winning guests win my jewelry!!

If you have a bunch of showers celebrating your friends, too...check out: registrybingo.com

Origami Mobile

Hi friends! While on our desolate and heart-warming Vermont Vacation this summer, my college best friend Lauren came to the woods to hang out with me! Lauren is an art teacher in the Hudson Valley, NY, and brought Origami papers to host "arts and crafts" with me. We folded fancy papers into dolls...and the dolls became a mobile for Justine's Baby Girl, whose shower we were attending that weekend in Maine!

I dug through the previous home-owner's wood collection for the hanger, we cut up an iridescent, lavender, hippy-dippie skirt for dangling branches, and finally sewed on lime-yellow faceted beads.

FUN time! I LOVE arts and crafts...and to know that our friend's new baby girl (due in November) would set her eyes on this project made us happy.

I'll post pictures of Justine opening this whimsical homemade mobile at her alfresco baby shower next....

Probably not going to move to VT for a year...

I'm in my most "favorie-tist" HIPPY restaurant in Rutland, VT...(post-meeting, "Acceptance" being the topic, and pre-picking up Lauren Walling...coming to Vermont for a visit!) Lauren is my best college friend, and we get to celebrate another best-friend's baby shower in Kittery, Maine this Sunday.

Right now Lauren's train will pull into Rutland in 25 minutes...so I knew to bring my laptop to my favorite restaurant here!! 'Back Home Again'...a member of, "The Twelve Tribes" group....I gather they're a communal living/spiritual group dedicated to homegrown foods...and tonight I ordered a pizza with Sauerkraut and Red sauce! YUM!

And yeah...I don't see us living in Vermont in our little Granville house for one year....at least not there...maybe in the Northeast somewhere sometime...but this mommy needs at least a small town of sorts, and Granville seems more like a zip code than a town...Gorgeous, though.

We're having amazing days in steamy, stormy, sunny, rainy, breezy weather. But, I haven't made a piece of jewelry in days..I lack some tools and findings, and I'm just too lazy this summer here in the woods to creatively challenge myself. Although, Angela Stevens just visited and brought me old jewelry I've given her the last few decades as well as some fading JCREW pieces...so now i have little more junk to work with...my favorite!

God I love this hippy joint! I'll upload pictures asap...and guess what?!?!? They just told me they opened "The Yellow Deli" in Vista, CA....you must go see this crazy great food for yourselves!