Been awhile!

I haven't been on the blog scene much these last few weeks because life has been crazy. I am the President of our Merchants Association and I have been busy planning our Antiques and Arts Fair which was held this past Saturday. It has consumed most of my time and what time I haven't been working on it I have been busy planning for our store remodel in May and reading a new series of books that I have found called Cirque Du Freak.  It is a wonderful series of books about a young boy who becomes a half vampire and it tells the tale of his life as a new vampire.  The series has 12 books in it so far and I have just started reading book #6. I guess you could say that I have become a little obsessed like I was when i read the Twilight Series. 

VICTORY~~!!!!!!!!!

Victory!  I have been telling my friends Leslie and Gina that they needed to read the Twilight Series and watch the first two movies since the third one is getting ready to come out.  I read the series right after Christmas and feel in love with the books.  Well I invited Leslie over to the house tonight to eat supper and I put Twilight in wile we were eating supper and she was instantly sucked in!  VICTORY!  Now I have someone to go and watch the thrid movie with.  June 30th...here I come!

Back Problems

Ok, so I have never had any type of back problem until last Thursday and it is killing me.  I now have a new respect for anyone who says that their back is hurting.  I did it while working out.  I don't know what I did but all I know is that it hurts.  It was starting to feel better on Monday so I made the stupid mistake of trying to cut grass and work out in the yard.  Well BIG MISTAKE!  I could hardly get out of bed this morning and I can't stand up straight.  Looks like it's going to be a long day!

I have went Resin Crazy!

So, I have went Resin Crazy! I have been trying out the new UV Resin that we got in a couple of weeks ago.  I have made quite a few pieces with the resin and have loved it.  Anyone who knows me knows that I love the Twilight Series.  My friend Leslie told me that I could go to etsy.com and purchase digital sheets of twilight clip art that are the size of a scrabble tile. I went online last night I purchased 8 different collage sheets and went to staples and had them printed out so that I would have some really good ink. Well...needless to say I have went a little crazy with them!

As you can see I have my UV light full with new pieces.  I am still trying to learn a few things about the Resin. The one thing I have yet to figure out is why certain shapes of the bezels create bubbles in the Resin as it cures. 

Here are a few of my finished pieces.

Mud Bones

Well yesterday was Monday and Sammy and I decided to go out and try a new Restaurant in town that we have never eaten at.  Last week was Barleys so this week we decided to try Mudbones in Spindale. I was really good.  The interior to the place was nice and the waitress was super sweet.  They had some great lunch specials.  Sammy got a pulled pork sandwich, french fries, and a drink for $5.00.  I got a hot dog, tater tots, and a drink for $5.00.  This is a great deal considering a chicken sandwich meal at Burger King right now is almost $7.00.  That's right....you can eat cheaper at a local restaurant than  you can at some fast food places.  Anyways, if you haven't tried it you really should because they had great food!

The bottom picture is a new pair of earrings that I made this week.  There is a new bead store in Spartanburg called Robins Bead Nest.  I visited it last week and purchased these plastic beads.  I stacked the blue flower on top of the brown one, put 2 different kinds of spacers on a headpin and stuck them through the center of both pieces to keep them together.  Even though these earrings are massive they are super light because of them being plastic.  Plus, I am the only human being on the planet right now to have a pair.  Ain't I just the luckest girl in the whole world?   :)

New Sandles!

So I hate hot weather but I love to wear sandles and flip flops.  These eare my newest pair. I bought them last week at Spindale Drugs new gift shop.  The medallions on the top are interchangable meaning that you can buy other medallions to go on top and store the others.  I love them!

I have been really busy the last couple of weeks trying to get the April Class schedule finished.  It seems like it takes forever to figure out what to teach.  I spend countless hours on the internet looking for fun ideas and hours coming up with projects of my own.  By the time I come up with one schedule, it seems like it takes me forever.  Not to mention that I am picky and I work and re-work the schedule to where I am happy with the times and happy with the fact that I think my customers will love the classes. I have written up all of the class descriptions and now Sammy is hard at work putting them all down on a calender and on the website.  Look for it later this week at http://www.offthebeadedpathbeadstore.com/

Barleys

So Sammy and I have tried to make a pact where we are going to try and eat at one locally owned restaurant a week instead of a chain restaurant.  Today for lunch we at Lunch at Barleys in Spindale.  They had some wonderful lunch specials for $6.00.  Above you will see my lunch special. You could get 2 slices of pizza and a drink for $6.00.  I, thinking the slices were going to be small, ordered the slices.  Well as you can see they were far from small. These things were massive!  I couldn't believe how huge they were.  I couldn't even eat once slice.  I had a whole piece left over so I took it to my mom for lunch.  You could basically feed two or three people with this meal.  They also had some other great specials.  Sammy got a sub special and he said that it was great.  If you get a chance I defently recommend Barleys.  I am not a drinking girl but if I was this was the place to be.  There bar looked amazing and I honestly think they had any beer you could possibly think of.  They also had a list of entertainment and it looked like they have a lot of nice bands coming in the next few weeks.  If you go on Wednesday you can get Green Beer!

After we left Barleys we went right next door to check out the new gift shop at Spindale Drug.  It is super cute!  I found a new pair of flip flops for the summer where they have extra embellishments you can buy to change the looks of your shows.  I also found a really cute headband with shiny's glued to it. You know I couldn't leave it there espically with my hair getting to the length where I can actually wear a headband.  I will post pics of my new shoes later on in the week. First I must get a pedicure done because I don't think my shoes will look good with my big toe still being a nice shade of black and purple from the log falling on it.  Until next time..bling me up!