« Ahhhhhh...I feel better | Main | Treats and eats »
August 20, 2008
Shawn Johnson - Golddust Woman
I was surfing Etsy and saw Hunter the Cactus monster and thought he was funny looking...his expression reminds me of that weirdo Gary Busey...especially the teeth...if you want Hunter to live with you, click the 'Etsy' link and go get him...he makes me laugh...
After reading on USA Today and MSNBC the results of who won what medals last night, I decided I could handle watching it...it was Shawn's turn to win a gold, she was performing and getting handed the silver (which is still pretty sweet), but after 10 years of practice and anticipating the Olympics, you wanna come home with a gold...especially when you're as good as she is...plus, I saw that Jonathan Horton had gone ballistic on the high bar and scored a silver, so I had to watch that...pretty freakin' sweet...it was nice to see the right athletes come away with the right hardware...tonight is exhibition and fun, and if it doesn't involve a hurdle, I'll watch...
Its been really busy here behind the scenes, although I don't have anything to show for it, exactly...but trust me, I've been busy doing stuff...and I have more days of stuff to do...after spending most of yesterday in Austin taking care of stuff, I'm back here at the house, spending the day upstairs again, organizing, tossing, keeping and purging stuff...I tossed all my stuffed animal collection over the stairrail the other day and the carnage of the little animals at the bottom of the stairs looked as tho they had all jumped to their fluffy deaths...but they all survived and are happy...do I really NEED a collection of stuffed animals? I have a few sentimental ones that I'm ready to part with (a buffalo from Catalina Island, some bunnies that I don't remember where they came from), and a whole slew of hedgehog animals that I might have to find a place for...but for now, they are giving me some much needed space where I can put new stuff...I've run across so much stuff that I haven't seen in two years - texturizing hammers, silver jewelry that I made in my silversmith classes, frits, dichro strips, wire, my entire earring collection from the past 20 years (I'm not kidding - and I've purged about 2/3 of them), its been really great getting up there and working on it...I have a huge box of stuff to toss, and some small totes of things to keep (in an organzed way)...I like just sitting among it all, once I let it wash over me, I tend to be able to let it go easier...its like the bond slips away and I'm asking myself "will you REALLY use that? no? then lose it"...and I like that...I've always been a purger - I prefer a non-cluttered house and if I haven't seen or used something in 2 years, I prob don't need it...now, don't get me wrong, I have PLENTY of stuff that I still am keeping, but I like to streamline...plus, it gives me room to bring in new stuff...heh...
Posted by Donner at August 20, 2008 08:21 AM
Comments
So the questin is, are you going to post them on your site to sell? I have a pair of your old earrings I bought from you, already worn, and I just love 'em. Round gold wires shaped by you, smooth lentils in tans, a lovely feel as they hang from my ears. Hey, maybe my 10 yr old son needs his ears pierced. He LOVES to run his ears - he dosn't know what he's missing, all of the fun earring shapes to caress throughout the day!
Posted by: KarenL at August 20, 2008 04:12 PM
actually I hadn't thought about selling these, but I guess I could...they aren't earrings I've made, they are ones I've amassed over time, some of them are probably 20 or 30 years old...no lie...silly, halloween ones, lots of beaded ones (I did make those, actually) but I guess I could post them if you think you might be interested...they aren't anything fantastic or fabulous, you might be highly disappointed..I need to take pics of LOADS of stuff, i can add these to the pile...
Posted by: donner at August 21, 2008 08:50 AM