Sunday's are the best!

At my house Sunday is our favorite day of the week! Sammy and I work such long hours through the week that we look forward to Sunday's because it is our day of rest. Here is a list of why I love Sunday:
1. My daddy, who lives next door to me, fixes breakfast every Sunday morning. He fixes my favorites and this is the only day of the week where I eat a big breakfast.
2. Sunday is the day my family goes to the church house. I teach Sunday School for the 5-7 year olds and I love it. I don't have any kids of my own so it's a great way to be able to stay connected with the kids at church.
3. In my eyes Sunday's were made for naps! I take a nap almost every Sunday!
4. I have been on the Weight Watchers plan since January and Sunday is what I call my free day. I eat the Weight Watcher way all week and then on Sunday I take the day off and eat whatever I want. So normally we go out to eat at my favorite restaurant on Sundays.
5. Football.....need I say more?



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My new favorite show!!!!

http://www.mylifetime.com/shows/project-accessory

Ok so I have a new favorite show. Lifetime presented a new show last night called Project Accessory and let me tell you....It was AWESOME! If you love purses, shoes, jewelry, etc you will love this show. I think that this show is going to be great for the beading business because the jewelry they made last night was Fabulous! If you haven't watched it yet you need to head over to the link above and watch the premiere episode. I got lots of great ideas for new jewelry last night. Here is my favorite look from last night:

Sometimes things just don't work out!

When new magazines and books come out I ooh and ahh over each of the patterns and I try to get the time to work on them. I finish most all the projects I start. Every once in awhile though I find pattern that I think I am just going to love and then once I start it the project looks nothing like the picture. This happened to me this weekend. There was a beautiful necklace pattern in the new Bead and Button Magazine that I thought I would just love! I pulled the beads and started on the "large medallion" first. The large medallion was not large by any means! I then thought I would continue so I made one of the smaller medallions. Well guess what......I hated it! Thus my pretty necklace has now became a pendant! Sometimes things just don't work out the way you think they should. I'm sure that somewhere out there someone will make the necklace and they will think it is the prettiest thing they have ever made or seen but to me.....it was a thorn in my flesh!

What you can make out of $25.00 in beads!

I have been busy today getting Fall Inspired Jewelry made for the store. I got 4 strands of beads that totaled less than $25.00. I wanted to see how many pieces of jewelry you could make on a limited budget. Well here's what I came up with....I made 2 necklaces, 3 bracelets, 3 wire wrapped rings, 3 pairs of earrings and still had beads left over! Once made and priced, if I sell all the pieces, it will total $125.00. Pretty good huh? Below is a picture of the beads I had leftover. I can still make a few more pieces but I was sick of working with those color of beads.

Here is a picture of the earrings I made.

The Rings

Rockin Red Velet Pancakes

Here is a new recipe that I found in the Hungry Girl cookbook and I had to share because it is decadent!

Rockin Red Velvet Pancakes
Entire Recipe makes 2 Pancakes with Glaze - 273 Calories, 3g Fat, 46g Carbs, 7.5g fiber, 17.5g Protein

Ingredients:
Icing: 2 tablespoons Fat Free Cool Whip Thawed
          1 Tablesppon Fat Free Cream Cheese - room temp
          1 No calorie sweetener packet
Pancakes:
          One 25 Calorie Packet of Hot Cocoa Mix
          1 tablespoon sweetened cocoa powder
          1 teaspoon mini chocolate chips
          1/3 cup whole wheat flower
          1/2 teaspoon baking powder
         3 drops red flood coloring
         2 no calorie sweetener packets
         dash of salt
        1/4 c. fat free liquid eggs substitute
        1 tablespoon vanilla soymilk

In a small bowl combine all icing ingredients and mix until smooth. Set aside.

In a tall glass combine cocoa mix, cocoa powder, and 1/2 teaspoon chocolate chips. Add 1/4c. very hot water and stil until ingredients have dissolved. Set aside.

In a bowl combine flour, baking powder, sweetener and salt. Add cocoa mixture , egg substitute, and soy milk. Mix thoroughly. add food coloring and mix well. Stir in remaining chocolate chips.

Cook 2 pancakes

Microwave icing until warm, spread over pancakes.

Fabric Flower Crazy!

Ok so a few months ago I bought a great tutorial from aSundayGirl on Etsy.com on how to make fun fabric flowers. Since then I have become fabric flower crazy! I started out making just a few and made necklaces out of them. I priced them and put four out for sale. The day I put them out I sold three of them! I have been busy since then trying to get more flowers made so that I can made more necklaces. I have my assembly worked out pretty good. I take one afternoon and cut out all my circles, iron them, and then pin them together. Then I put all my pinned pieces in a bag and while we are at the ballgames. Then once all flowers are made then I take one day and put all of them together for necklaces, pendants, or hair clips. I love these flowers!

Ring

A lot of my favorite blogs are doing 365 Blogs where you blog about a certain topic for a full year. One of the blogs is a blog about rings. The lady is making a ring for everyday of the year.  Those of you who know me know that I am obsessed with rigns. I love them with a passion. In my opinion a girl can never have enough rings. In honor of her blog I wanted to show you a pic of my favorite ring. I used an 18mm Rivoli and peyote encased it then embellished it with 3 and 4mm bicones. This is a statement ring and I wear it all the time!