Selfless

You know that person who gives, and gives, and gives?  They give to everyone with a smile and I often wonder how they are able to do it.  I run out of steam eventually.  There are those gifted though with the ability to give generously to those around them in many ways and we are all blessed by their generosity.  The silk, hand dyed necklace with a lampwork pendant and matching earrings was a custom design set for such a woman.

May we all be inspired to use the gifts we are given each day.

Frilly Toothpicks

Lunch definitely tastes better with frilly toothpicks in case any of you didn’t already know that.  I thought I should pass that along to you in case you wanted something to brighten your next lunch, dinner party, dessert, or snack.  Really, it has been the highlight of dining around our home.  Who would have guessed! 

Some days I do, some days I don’t

Some days I can tackle the world and get all most of it done, and then…some days, I can’t.  Today was a long day for some reason.  I was out of it from the moment my feet touched the floor and I’m glad to be going to bed soon.   We had fun and went to a park so the girls could ride their bikes, throw rocks in a river, play on a playground, swing, and go down fast slides.   The highlight for me was watching the hummingbirds come to our new feeder at our front window.  They are so tiny and precious.  I did get a few items onto the website so that is an accomplishment, right?  Right. 

 

Five Years Younger

If I use my muscles in my forehead to hold up my eyebrows, I look five years younger!  Really!  I don’t know when it happened but my eyelids have started to make me look tired and older.  I know it is age.  Come on now, I’m not that silly but still, I don’t care for this.  So, I’m just going to look perpetually surprised now and help me look younger.  I could use any tricks out there right now.  LOL

This piece is already sold but I thought I would share a recent custom design that had shades of lime green, bright yellow, light yellow, and black.  The customer wanted more crystals than lampwork beads so I only included a few.  It is a cheery piece and we also put a Mom charm on it to make it personal.   It makes me smile and I thought it was just “Too Fun.”

Name Game

I finally decided on a name.  It seems like most of you envisioned water when you saw this so I think it is fair to name it along those lines.  Thanks to Connie I’m choosing to name it Ocean Edge.  I really enjoyed hearing from you all so maybe we should try that again some time.

Give it a NAME

I’m enlisting your help if you would like to join in.  I recently made this double-strand lampwork bracelet and can’t quite seem to come up with a good name for it.  Would anyone care to help name it?  Leave me a comment and I’ll name this lovely on Tuesday, August, 18th.  Give it a name will you?  Nothing too long or too crazy.  I’m picky, aren’t I?

In other news, things are going well.  Just regular every day life but one of my girls is getting ready to start new adventures soon by heading off to pre-school and ballet.  Oh boy!  Fun stuff coming in a few weeks.  I’m sure I’ll post more about that.  How could I not?  I mean, REALLY! 

Put your thinking caps on and give me your best names.  To be continued…

Up, off, and running

Another day full of potential!  I told you about a new website recently and it is finally up and running.  I thought you might want to check it out and be (in)courage(d) in your walk. 

Be blessed today!

Point, click and send

Howdy!  I want to put up some pictures on my website of you lovely ladies in your “Robbon” jewelry.  A customer of mine said that she owns  more than one “Robbon” and she now considers herself to be a “Robbonite.”  I thought that was SO funny (maybe it was the way she said it that made it entertaining to me) and that gave me an idea!  Let’s see the pictures of YOU in your designs.  Would you care to do that?  I won’t plaster the pictures all over my website.  I think one simple page of pictures would be fun.   OH, please do send them to me, I’d love it!  Point, click and send them to me.

So I heard back from some of you about picking up a stranger.  Most of you agreed that it would not have been prudent to pick anyone up and try to help them.  I just kept thinking that what if that would have been me walking in the blazing heat.  Would anyone have stopped to help me?  Yes, I have a cell phone, and yes, I probably would have gone about it differently but it still made me think. 

I’ll be back later this week with a few new bracelets and earrings so check back in with me.  Till then, enjoy your week!

Three in Pink

For some reason I tend to dress me and my daughters in similar colors about once a week.  It is totally by accident and it is not planned because I pick our clothes from what is clean.   Today,  I was walking through a parking lot with both girls near me and realized that we were all in pink.  Bright pink!  Eek!  I seriously didn’t plan it.  It happens all of the time. 

Could it be that certain days have a color feel to them or that I just happen to be in a color mood that day?  Who knows, but it happens frequently.

It was hard getting a picture of all of us but here we are in….PINK!  Fuchsia.  Whatever.   Yes, I look tired but, oh well.  :)

Happy Friday

Mia took this picture of Ashley yesterday and I found it on my camera!  I thought this made a lovely way to wish you a happy Friday.