Happy Anniversary

Today, August 27, 2010 is my wedding anniversary!!!
Yea!  33 Years!!!
I remember this day very well, my husband I got into our first big "misunderstanding", a few hours before saying, I Do!
 (I realize now that it is not a good idea for the bride and groom to spend the day together!) 
All I could think of was what was I going to tell my parents, If I did not get married? 
Call the wedding off?? 
His parents, and family, would have done cartwheels to their cars, popped the champange!
Mine had gone to a lot of hard work and expense, so as I sat in my yellow Mgbgt (19681/2), (with the doors locked), I decided that I would just do it!? Go through with the ceremony...
File for a divorce after a respectable time limit?!
A friend of ours recently told my husband that her daughter got married on the "two year plan", they signed a contact, that if they don't like each other in two years they will go their separate ways, my husband replied, he must have signed the long term contract because his hasn't run out yet!

I think Face Book is an Addiction?

I am new to Face Book, I resisted for a long time, my younger daughter told me it's for the kids, and young adults, but finally I set up a face book account.
I can't believe all the people I have come in contact with, from the past years.  It has been alot of fun messaging people from High School, messaging people who were at one time very good friends and very important to me, but like all of us, we move on with life as we had Children, and moved to different locals.  Oh also, my daughter(22) finally friend'd me!
 My time is getting closer till my adventure to Hawaii!!  I am getting ready for Fall, even if I will be in a summer climate when it starts.  new designs for fall.

Have you noticed how the days are getting shorter?

This week I noticed how the days are getting shorter, The nights are a little cooler.  It's still summer but all of sudden fall is sneaking up on us.  After such a hot summer it is kinda of a welcome relief.  I got busy in my studio after missing two weeks of working on other projects, and decide to stick to a theme on the piece's  I am making this week.  I created necklaces that will cascade your neck line and go with all colors.  Some a little heavier for fall, Turquoise green, and blue, Hubie, oval, nugget, cut.  I am leaving for Hawaii the first week of Sept. and will be gone three weeks.  I will have to ship all my tools, and start having my stones shipped over there. I can't wait to shop for shells and pearls.  I am getting excited about all the fun Emily(my daughter who lives there)will have exploring all the shops on the Island!

REFECTION'S!!!

These are photos are from my husbands three week trip to Hawaii!!

I think I want to live there!

105,107,109,!!!

I have spent the last three days in this horrible heat, I just can't stay inside, but Saturday almost got the best of me.  My husband who is visiting my daughter in Hawaii is enjoying temp's of 79 and 80, while swimming in the waterfalls, and Beach's with coral reefs!  (I will post some photos when he gets back, he has another week!)

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Vintage Supplies & Chess Cake

If you live on the East Coast around Va. Beach, you know we had a rainy day.
My husband and I headed out for our show this morning(5:00am), but turned around about hour into our trip because of the rain.  On the way back home we stopped off at a few places looking for vintage things, I am not looking for anything in particular just looking for what I can find.  Above is my treasure of the day!
Look next week for the finished necklaces, that I will make from these vintage necklaces.  My husband is leaving for Hawaii next week, to visit with our daughter for three weeks, he is taking an empty suite case(all you need is a couple t-shirts, shorts, a bathing suite,under ware,flip flops, good to go)  so he can fill it up with vintage Hawaiian print shirts, which my daughter assures us is plentifully! (I am going in September, Yea!) 
Back to the Chess Cake, The receipe, and it is very easy, even if you don't cook, because your day job is being a lawyer or a doctor, or an artist.  This is a great receipe for summer, with family get togethers, but come fall any church or school function that asks you to cook something up for a bake sale your ready!
Chess Cake
you will need:  one box of yellow cake mix, Three eggs, one box of confecionary sugar, one box of cream cheese, sheet cake pan, the larger the pan the thinner the cake squares
heat oven to 350 degrees
melt stick of butter in your sheet cake pan in the oven
mix a box of yellow cake mix with one egg
sprinkle over melted butter evenly in your pan
mix in a bowl, cream cheese, two eggs
slowly add confecionary sugar, you can mix with a whisk, but it is faster to use your mixer, I don't have one anymore so I just use a fork,(wisk) works just as well.
Pour this mixture of cream cheese and eggs and sugar on top of the cake mix layer, spread evenly.  cook till light brownish yellow, it only takes 30 mins, I check it often,  allow to cool,cut into squares, enjoy, I am a pureish, so I don't add anything else but you can add chocolate.