So how was your day? - Page 8

Thank you! My favourite is the second one in with the pink rhinestones.  When I mix these with various other bracelets I have you end up with a pretty, almost antique look. Part Bohemian and part Vintage!  I love them!  So I ordered a few more. I sold 2 decks and made over 200.00 late last night.  I have so much to do today, but all good stuff. And will be putting more goodies up.  And remember that pretty rhinestone bracelet in TiffanyD's video from JCrew? I got it! And the topaz one and the diamond one.  Hehehe.  So yesterday we bought me a big jewelry chest.  And I am having fun. Will post pictures!  Everything is getting moved around again!  Hence the reason I was up until 2am this morning!  I am going to need a nap!!

Okay, I am running around trying to do a million things, so bear with me! The camera asked for a flash, but now the glitter on some of these really ruined the picture, so another day I will try a daylight picture or something (cloudy today).  This isn't everything. I have another jewelry box I am working on, my pearls and my Coach jewelry are tucked in their boxes and bags underneath, my beaded cheaper funkier stuff is on a jewelry hanger, so have to get photos of that, too. And all my post earrings are presently in two leather containers.  So more photos to come eventually. But this gives you an idea of what I have stressing bracelets and necklaces! 

The Box I got the other day! I need to Windex the glass!

The necklaces. The gold locket is my wedding gift from my husband.  xo  I gave him a pocket watch!

The Bracelets!!  And some glittery hair barrettes and clips!

The first drawer of my other jewelry box, an antique reproduction.  Just some stuff, like lesser worn earrings. Subject to be changed!!

Now you all have me lemming jewelry... It's probably the one thing that I don't have a lot of. I did pick up a nice hat today, something for summer to keep me from roasting like a suckling pig. It also replaces one that my babies killed last week I keep hoping that hat-wearing in general will come back in fashion since I love them. 

When I was growing up, my mother and I always had pet names for half the things in our house. It's so nice to know that I'm not the only one who did things like that. And I love the photos of your house, Debi- so warm and welcoming!

Today we finally had a really beautiful day outside. It felt so nice to go for a walk and wear a sundress. I was starting to feel like it was never going to warm up. 

omg guys!  blogger is down LOL.  i'm trying to update my beauty blog but urghhh.  does anyone use anything else (aside from wp or lj)?  aside from that, my day has been pretty monotonous.

Katred~Thank you!  I know what you mean. Our local stores have been starting to carry more fashion jewelry as well as some nice sterling pieces so it is a bit dangerous being so close to me, but I've been really good so far!  I also love hats. I love the fashions of the 40's, 50's and early 60's, when women wore suits or pretty skirts, pearls, matching gloves, hats and purses, and red lipstick!  Everyone always looked so finished compared to now.  My only thing is that I have bangs that are bouncy and some hats squish them down!  

heart~Sorry to hear your blog was down.  That must be frustrating when you are ready to be creative and share and everything gets put on hold.  Techy things are great when they work, but we freak out when they don't!  And remember, a day is only as monotonous as you make it!  You have all the power inside of you to make it extraordinary!  Watch a really good movie, paint your nails a colour you love, walk or drive somewhere safe where you can enjoy nature at its best, have a candlelight dinner at home, pulling out your best china and play classical music in the background. Drink out of crystal, even if you are having milk!  I do things like this almost every day and it really makes life romantic and fun, even in the everyday little things! 

Lou~Almost every necklace is from specific moments. The locket from my wedding, the citrine necklace was a gift from my husband when we were dating.  Others and my rings are from birthdays, Christmas or Anniversary gifts.  Not every year or every time, but when we can afford to splurge a bit.  See the perks of being married for 19 years?  Ya get more stuff!.  My husband says I have as many crosses as Buffy does.  I am also someone who finds something she likes and wears it a lot, but now I enjoy mixing it up a bit more!!  And I am a bracelet and ring freak. I don't wear a lot of dangly earrings because my ear lobes are thin and I am afraid of the pull and ripping.  They have to be light and I only wear them for short periods of time.  On the whole, I am pretty picky about my jewelry!  Gosh, though, Nordstrom has some gorgeous fashion jewelery. We walk by it every time we park there when going to the mall. And I start to drool!   This coming Christmas/birthday my goal is to finally find a nice bracelet or two of real gold.  I have a lot of sterling silver, but I love gold and would love to find the perfect gold bangle or two.  Gold is so high right now, though, and that is what makes me hesitate for now. 

Yesterday was such a busy day, but I got a lot done and hope to get more done today.  My husband has to go into work today (he hasn't worked from there since November) and they are closing the office in a month, but his new boss is coming up from Florida and meeting everyone.  Already he is finally realizing that they have way too much work and all the layoffs have him and his co worker each doing the work of about 5 people. He cannot believe we never get vacations anymore because there is too much workload, no raises, no time to come up to breathe.  So today hubby gets to tell him all the woes of work.  Apparently he spoke to the other woman yesterday in VA and said he was going to try to get more people hired to lessen the workload and promote my husband and the other woman.  So please, everyone say a prayer.  My husband works about a 12 hour day, doesn't know when to walk away from all of this and take a break, and it has become an obsession.  He used to take 2 weeks of vacation time during the year so we could do home/yard improvements and tour houses, go out to eat, etc.  We never have time anymore.  It is really a bad way to live. All work, no play.  So I am crossing my fingers that something good will come of this change. And on a happy note, I ended up selling 400.00 of decks yesterday, so I am very pleased and still have so much to get through.  It has come to the point where I only want about 50 decks and even trickle away at that.  Still a long way to go, so this isn't happening by June 1st!  Hopefully by September 1st!  I want it done before the holiday season!  And I am running on 5 hours of sleep. I am sooo taking a nap this afternoon, or crawling back into bed this morning!!!  :)

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Debi i shall keep my fingers crossed and send positive thoughts to your hubby today. I hop the meeting with his new boss goes well and that they do hire some people to lessen the work load. even if it doesn't happen for a couple of weeks he would know that things would be improving :)

Absolutely. Even if they hire one full time worker it would help a great deal. He spent the entire day yesterday with my husband's co-worker in VA and he was shocked at the workload they both have and the long hours they are working.  Hopefully my husband will shock him some more! 

Hey, my cupcake arrived safe and sound!  I have no idea what they cost originally but I got mine for 40.00 and I am happy!  Here is a picture of it, the one my husband bought for me that is a vanilla candle inside and my jewelry tree, plus another drawer that I keep a few odd pieces and my key chains from Coach, which I now am totally into collecting, so long as they are cute or pretty!!

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your cupcake looks great Debi! and i love how you have all your coach charms all neat and tidy like that - the ice cream one is my fave! 

Thank you! And thank you so much for finding that cupcake out for me so fast!  I am so excited!  Cupcakes seem to be in my blood right now!  My favourite key chain is the ice cream one, too! I love that it is gold and so cute, but my next favourite is the silver and pink cupcake that my car keys are attached to. I love the glitter in the sun on those!

Today I got someone else's mail. An envelope from a college. A big one. The ones that say you are accepted and here is our catalog.  So I called the home up but neither the mother nor person was there, so left my number. No call yet.  It would be a pity if they don't call to come and pick this up.  She won't know this info until Monday now.  I've done my considerate part. I can't even deliver it myself because it is a new street somewhere in town that isn't even on the map yet!  And in the meantime I keep wondering how my husband's day with the new boss is going.  I wish he could come home with a big bonus check and make his weekend!!  But that won't happen. In my dreams!!

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oh no problem at all! i remembered it well because i wanted that cupcake badly myself but sadly it is too expensive for me - i need to sell my things like you do your decks!

 

and i hope they call really soon! not knowing if i had been accepted into uni or not would have killed me!! it's such a stressful time anyway - any delays would not be welcomed! and i really hope that your hubby is doing ok - and you never know about the big bonus! :)

 

Hehehe....unfortunately I think the boss has to talk to his boss and so on before that would ever be put through. More than likely they would just laugh!  I need to go do my Shop my Stash.  I think it is the only productive thing I did all day.  I was going to take a nap. I was going to do a lot of things.  Never happened!!  lol 

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omg guys!  blogger is down LOL.  i'm trying to update my beauty blog but urghhh.  does anyone use anything else (aside from wp or lj)?  aside from that, my day has been pretty monotonous.

I feel your pain. I have no idea what happened, because I've used Blogger forever and I've never seen anything like that. I mean the whole network was down for a day. You could only read- no comments, no posting, you couldn't even edit past posts and at one point, they'd deleted everything before Wednesday. Seems to be back up and kicking, anyway. Good luck with your posts... I did three today... Felt like I was an addict who'd just scored a pound of coke...

Today was an awesome and very busy day with still lots to do!  In the afternoon we got out to the shops!  First I got a new watch by Seiko, which I adore, and has little diamonds on the side of the face so really sparkly and pretty!  Then we went to the mall where I zipped into Sephora. I only got the new NARS e/s trio in Lou's tutorial after falling in love with the swatches. I swatched the new pink highligher and actually fell in love with it and can think of some fun things to do with it, but they were out so I have to order.  Sniff...sniff...:(  Then to JCrew for 3 necklaces (see photos below). They don't do them justice. They have a real antique/vintage appeal.  They remind me of something you would see the ladies wear in the movie The Age of Innocence! The first has crystals that look like smokey quartz, delicately dropping down. The second one has tons of rhinestones that have a yellow pink tone to them.  The third has little clear stones sparkling through the vines and some sparkly flowers.  They match earrings I bought from them via the mail and just realized this a few minutes ago!  Yay!  There were loads of venders in the middle of the mall including one adorable Japanese woman who does your hair up in all sorts of twists and buns and sticks gorgeous glittery things in it, so she taught me how to do a look and I bought the comb...purple butterfly and flower rhinestones....will show it next time my hair is up like this!  She was great...I will definitely be going back!!  We picked up some Chinese food and ate at home and now I have a million things to do plus sneak in some TV!  Hope everyone is having a good day!! 

Thanks!  It is super nice to have a watch that is actually working again!  I tried on a few and had it narrowed down to this or a slightly sportier one, which I also love and if I had the funds I would buy that one too!  But I don't!   I like that this has both gold and silver tones because I wear both and love mixing it up.  I was smart. I was wearing a bunch of my bracelets when I went and wear them on my right hand, my watch on my left, so was able to give it a nice balanced look!  Yay!  And the necklaces are so pretty...I just love the real antique look to them!

Today has been fairly quiet, so far.  I am a little crampy.  It is pouring out and is supposed to rain all week long. Ugh.  I put up another box of tarot, but this is the slowest selling day of all, so won't put anything else up for a few days.  Slowly but surely I am getting there.  I would love to just open one drawer and see all my favourite decks and nothing more.  That would be perfect. This collection and selling it has been so overwhelming. I can't wait until it is over.  I love reading and it is really dipping into my quality reading time.  Other than that is it puttering around, a few chores, good tv tonight.  Both Game of Thrones and then the Borgias are on so I look forward to a rather relaxing mellow day and plan to burn a scented candle!!

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well i hope your cramps go very soon! and enjoy your evening. i am about to get ready for bed to watch a horror movie with nick! i'm just on specktra while wearing a face mask! lol! i filmed 3 tutorials today and my face is feeling a bit sensitive from removing so much makeup over and over! i find it easier to film in bulk!

 

also due to my ass manager now saying he will not be in work all week due to stress (like i am not stressed myself?!) i shall be working 6 days so will not have any time on my normal day off. i even had a 3 hour nap today which i never do because obviously me not sleeping right has caught up with me :(
 

 

Is the face mask to scare Nick with before the horror film has even started? LOL

Sorry your 'ass' manager (appropriate abbreviation perhaps?) is causing you to have to work more days and get more stressed out yourself.  I'm glad you managed to catch up with a little sleep today, though.

My day didnt start too well today - I woke up to find we had a blocked toilet.  I tried with what I had available, but couldn't do anything with it.   Luckily my parents got back from their holiday yesterday, so Dad was able to bring some things over and fix it for me.  It was also lucky that the kids slept in so weren't in desperate need of the loo before it could be sorted.

I love your new necklaces, Debi, especially the first two.  I actually have some very similar in design to those. 

Lou~So sorry to hear about the co-worker.  All I can say is that he must have something seriously going on with him, though why he doesn't come forward with it is beyond me.  Maybe he needs to be reminded that he is replaceable or bring in a doctor's note proving he cannot presently work and needs a leave of absence but will plan to come back?  Not sure of the situation or how things work over there!  Let's hope something very good comes out of this in the long run.  Maybe a new assistant manager that will work well for you and not play games.  Then again let's hope that something super serious isn't going on with him either, which can always be the case.

Thank you,, rocikn!  I love my new found necklaces. They sparkle and look good on me! I will have lots of fun wearing them!

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well i hope your cramps go very soon! and enjoy your evening. i am about to get ready for bed to watch a horror movie with nick! i'm just on specktra while wearing a face mask! lol! i filmed 3 tutorials today and my face is feeling a bit sensitive from removing so much makeup over and over! i find it easier to film in bulk!

 

also due to my ass manager now saying he will not be in work all week due to stress (like i am not stressed myself?!) i shall be working 6 days so will not have any time on my normal day off. i even had a 3 hour nap today which i never do because obviously me not sleeping right has caught up with me :(
 

 

So sorry to hear about "ass man". I'm assuming that he has to get some kind of medical permission to take off that much time? I've had friends go on stress leave from work, but they've always needed to provide a doctor's note in order to have the time off approved.

Wow, Lou. Sounds like a mess at work and I am sorry about all the stress and extra work load this is putting on you.  Be sure to pamper yourself throughout the week with fun nails, good movies, scented candles and lots of husband/feline snuggles!  Nothing makes one feel better than playing "stalk the kitty" on you hands and knees!  I want a cat again. lol  Hehehe....Day 2 of rain is here.  I am going to spend some time moving my decks around and figuring out the last few bunches for the next round.  And maybe get around to ordering New Order from Sephora.  I love that glittery stuff.  If nothing else I can use it on Halloween!  The really scary pink glitter fairy! 

New Order will be gorgeous in the summer .... and it gives the option for those who like glitter to be able to add this quality as much or as little over top of any of their existing blushes since it's quite sheer.

I will have to watch your new tutorial, Lou!!  Today is another wet and windy day, but the whole week is going to be like this, so I have to get used to it. It certainly does not feel like May. It feels more like March.  This is going to be a very short summer.  In less than a month we have the longest day of the year and then they start getting shorter and shorter and...am I depressing you all?  Hehehe....  Seriously, though.  I can tell it is going to fly by and it will be fall before I know it.  A very sobering fact.  It is too cold to even have the windows cracked open.  :(

So, I am all gross and crampy, with 5 boxes of tarot waiting to go out, so I won't plan anymore until these move and reach their destinations.  I'm watching loads of movies today, everything from Agnes of God to Little Women and anything in between!  I just want to sleep.  And I have to get New Order. Is that permanent to their line or just a summer thing?