Eat, Shop and Sleep, eat some more

Happy Thanksgiving! I hope you have good times with loved ones, lots of food, lots of rest, and lots of fun shopping for Christmas!

Are you a Black Friday or a Small Shop Saturday kind of person or maybe both?

My Etsy shop is loaded with a 20% coupon SMALLSHOP20

http://www.etsy.com/shop/CarrieSilverDesign

Yum stuff

treats for Thanksgiving week!

If I could be another person for a day I would choose someone like Martha Stewart, P. Allen Smith, or someone like that but without the TV hosting parts. I just want to make stuff, cook stuff and and grow stuff with a little designing or decorating thrown in. No dramatics, just quiet little artistic flair in everything I do. I guess the answer is to aspire for those moments of creativity, adding a little extra pretty to things as we go along. No awards, just the loved ones saying YUM STUFF will do.

Pot roast with herbs-was delicious!

Who would you like to be for a day?

Serendipity

 

I loved this story....and the song. It made me think of my favorite word too.

 

ser·en·dip·i·ty/ˌserənˈdipitē/

Noun:

The occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way: "a fortunate stroke of serendipity". http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/friskies-awards-oskar-first-toys-cat-video-180132915.html The kitty Oscar became famous and the band got so much recognition and fame too. Here's their story from a year ago: http://www.starcityblog.com/2011/12/local-band-smiths-cloud-and-blind-cat-find-each-other-internet-celebrity.html Although my definition serendipity is more like two wishes or prayers dancing together.

Stormy moody creativity

Loved the weird weather here this past week. Almost 80 degrees a couple of days and then WIND brought in a cold rainy Sunday.

I am not sure why but my creative juices have kicked in lately along with seasonal moodiness of the daylight savings time change. So every night I am in the studio for an hour or so. I can always tell when I am losing it though because I get tired sloppy and cranky-yes another mood. Work with what you have, that is my motto and right now I have some interesting urges to create. Here are some of the pieces.

the copper piece is actually one of my first from classes--he's just getting polished.
 

this came about during SuperGirl's beading expedition this weekend.

dichroic glass in silver

serpentine in silver

sunstone and moonstone I think.

 

 

Thank you for reading my post today. I hope you are well, safe and experiencing all the good in life. Have a great week! 

thanks and giving in a rant

I have seen many wonderful things happening online lately. On social sites I keep seeing posts daily this month on what you are thankful for, a whole month of thanks-giving! I googled and picked up some pretty cool finds online too:
http://identityrenewed.wordpress.com/2012/11/01/a-month-of-real-thanksgiving/
http://sojourningsojas.wordpress.com/2012/11/01/a-month-of-thanksgiving/

After Superstorm Sandy I have seen many donation options to help those dealing with the aftermath in the NorthEast. I use yahoo for email so I always scan the front pages and caught this one about ways to donate. http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/hurricane-sandy--how-to-help.html

Here are some direct links, not that you can't google it yourself :)
for people http://www.redcross.org/ for animals http://www.humanesociety.org/
and my personal favorite is local to me, global to you: http://www.convoyofhope.org/

Thinking of my own options I don't want to set up a donation item to sell online with proceeds going to a benefactor of my choice. I'd rather just do my own donating and you do yours. Not sure if that's a bad attitude or my realist side showing up. I have often thought that of fundraisers at school too, instead of buying that overpriced candle or candy I would rather give the kid's program a little cash. Am I taking the fun out of fundraising? I guess so but that's my honest opinion about it.

There's a lot of opinion out there right now on politics isn't there? I have been listening with one ear and avoiding it with the other, thank God for DVRs hehe. I had one thought on the campaigning though, why is so much money spent getting one person in a job that pays a fraction of that amount in wages? Why do we have a 2 billion dollar president? Is your vote worth that much or is your spending dollar worth more? HMMMM.

Thanks for letting me rant. Have a great week, and get out and vote Tuesday and buy something too while you're at it and also donate a little to your favorite cause....just choose right for YOU!