Snowed In!
Snowed In! 22 inches
All my packages are in the mail.
Snowed In.
Chocolate chip cookies on the way to the oven.
Snowed In.
Digging out was lots of fun.
Snowed In!
Snuggling by the fire....
Finding Grace
Grace. I'm finding it to be the best word I know and simply the best way to live.
It's generosity of spirit, a capacity to tolerate, accommodate and forgive, elegance, a smoothness of form, dignified, decent behavior, infinite love and mercy.
xoSherry
Tieing up loose ends
I've had a weird sleep pattern lately. So, while up in the middle of the night I decided to clean up the 1000's of emails on the two computers I use. I'm embarrassed to say that in the last year I've been tagged 3 times, received numerous blog awards(thank you) and ignored them all. Sorry.
So without further ado, I'm going to tell you 7 random things about myself and hope you'll still come back and read my blog.
1. When the ATM asks what language you'd like to proceed in, I always choose something other than English. Vietnamese has so far been the hardest.
2. I could live on pizza and fleur de sel caramels.
3. When I ride in black socks instead of white I think I go faster.
4. After 20 years of marriage my charming husband can still make me blush.
5. I am unable to throw a photograph away. We have boxes and boxes in our attic.
6. I read "To Kill A Mockingbird" every summer. I collect different editions.
7. One day I'd like to visit (for a very long time) Hobart, Tasmania. But that deserves a post of it's own.
xoSherry
Production Work and the Silver Lining
One summer while I was in college I worked at a silk screening plant. We screened panels of cloth that eventually became shirts. We worked the same designs for weeks. One of the stations had a very hot dryer from the ceiling blowing on the inked panels as they came off the line. Every two hours we rotated stations, but it was the same thing day after day.
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When I was fortunate to reap the benefit of the twilight saga,I knew I'd have to hunker down and do production work. Even though I designed a few different styles, I was making earrings 40-50 at a time. Soldering and blowing resin bubbles 'til my lungs needed fresh air.
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Where's the silver lining you ask? It's the freedom of thought that production work brings. I found myself working new designs in my head while I punched out hundreds of map circles. I'd stop a moment and sketch something in my moleskine. Before I knew it, I had pages of new designs. I probably won't get to them for a few weeks, but just knowing they are there makes me both excited and grateful for all the types of work I do.
xoSherry
all day, all night, twilight....
My talented friend Cat is hosting a giveaway for me this week. I'm offering a pair of twilight earrings selected by People magazine. If you'd like to win the earrings stop on over to her blog this week for lots of ways to win.
Yes, Cat and I are both grown women, sporting a twilight countdown clock on our blogs. She's from North Jersey, I'm from South Jersey, and we've got the whole geeky state covered.
I don't think I'll be making any "grown up" jewelry this week, so I may as well have fun at twilight!
xoSherry
Pigs Fly
I think it's so great that the employees at Goldman Sachs and Citibank were all able to get the swine flu vaccine. After all, we wouldn't want rich people inconvenienced by sick people who couldn't attend to their millions.
Can transit workers, teachers, doctors, at risk regular people get the vaccine? No, I'm afraid not. It's just not yet available. You lose. Fail.
xoSherry
Traveling to Timbuktu
So happy.
Something new from the bench.
Photographed and in my etsy shop.
Not Twilight.
This calls for a walk, kicking up the leaves, kissing my guy and a smile. A great big smile!
xoSherry
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