Away for a Week

The greatest new blog discovery this month is called "It Made My Day - Little Moments of WIN". Click HERE to read it. I can hardly wait until some little hilarious thing happens in my day so that I can post to their site.

Sunup Jewelry won't be at the Saturday Market this weekend. Instead, I'll be selling my jewels at a 5-day festival near Seattle - here's hoping for a bright turn-out!

I have started posting a few things to my little ETSY site, and will try to build it up more when I get back from my trip. Find it here: http://www.etsy.com/shop/sunupjewelry

I can hardly believe there are only 4 weeks left until a 2 month break! [No Market during Jan/Feb] Whatever will I do?!

See you in a week!

New Stuff

Friday proved to be a suprisingly wonderful day, anchoring a week of unending blah-ness. I met a friend for coffee and pastries before heading over to the Catlin Gabel Rummage sale at the expo center. It was several acres of Portlanders dragging behind them cardboard boxes filled with their treasures. It was thousands of square feet of possibilities. It was magical. I shopped in Housewares, I shopped in Womens, I shopped in Boys, I shopped in Electronics, I shopped for hours. And when I was done I only had to part with $25; 8 shirts and a hoodie. Score.
From there I went home and busted out a whole bunch of glass in one tiny little hour. Lately, I admit, it has become slightly mundane making glass. I have been clinging to certain designs so much that I have exhausted my motivation to find more color combinations of the same pattern/shape. But yesterday was different - I made new stuff, I let myself make whatever I wanted. And since the kiln was still a tad warm this morning, I spent all day at the market getting excited about opening it up upon my arrival home.

Ok fine, I also spent most of the day shivering. It is certainly starting to feel winter-y. Almost time to get out the propane heater for the weekends outdoors selling.

Write it Out

Here's a little jewel I learned during college. At the end of the day - or, really at any point in the day - write down 5 good things that happened that day. They don't have to be big things, something as simple as 'I'm wearing my favorite tshirt' is enough, or 'Made an artichoke for dinner'. I'll tell you what, you will be shocked and amazed at not only the amount of events that happened since waking, but also how many positive things are occurring in your life. Shocked and amazed, I tell you. So sit your little self down for 3 minutes every night, and pick up your pen. I often practice this exercise when I feel like I accomplished nothing, and I find that by the time I'm done writing the first item on the list, I've already thought of numbers 2 and 3.

Suddenly, everything seems to be going well.