Weekend Wrap Up

It's Monday! My birthday weekend (and week) just flew by. It was fun to hang out with friends, eat good food, enjoy some drinks, and have a fire. It was absolutely perfect weather for all of these things. Thank you to all of my awesome friends who helped me celebrate sometime this week. You

guys are amazing.

I got this amazing gift from J. It's a new DSLR to replace my 10 year old DSLR. I'm in love with this new one. It's quite a step up from my Canon Rebel XT (I think I might have mentioned this before, oh well). It's quite a bit larger and it has so many crazy functions. I can control it from my damn phone. FROM MY PHONE. Technology, it's crazy. I love it and I'm one lucky girl to have gotten such a great gift from my love.

I've been taking a lot of photos trying to get use to all the new functions and options. I'm in love, I really am. I've been mostly using the animals as my models, because I don't have much else. I will be able to take some pretty flower photos soon, but there is really not much blooming in the yard.

But a new camera also means new product photos. I've already started working on new photos and I can't wait to get a few new things listed. Hopefully I'll have some time this week to get new items up on Etsy. I think I can accomplish that.

After all the birthday celebrations (and our anniversary - 11 years), we did do some work around the house. I got the garden all ready to go. We installed new carpet on the porch, yay. J cleaned up the garage. See it wasn't just all fun and games around here ;-)

So what did everyone else do this past weekend? Did you fill the weekend with creative things or did you get out and enjoy the weather? I'd love to hear what everyone else did.

May the 4th be with you my friends.

Friday Freebie

Wow, it's Friday already. This week has been crazy! It seems like I've been busy every single day, oh yeah that's right, I have.

It was my birthday on Wednesday (Don't forget to use coupon code BIRTHDAY to get 20% off anything in my Etsy Shop). It was also my last class and the class decided to throw me a surprise birthday party (I knew about it, but it still very nice). We had cake and punch. We laughed and enjoyed ourselves. It was lots of fun. I really am going to miss all of them. I'm probably going to forget that class is over and just show up next week. I'm sad it's over, but I'm so proud of them. They accomplished so much in such a short period of time. They will rock it.

Speaking of birthdays, J got me a new camera. A Canon EOS 70D. I'm in love. I've only had it 48 hours and I can't put it down. It's quite the upgrade from my 10 year old Rebel XT. So expect a ton of photos, not just on here, but on my Instagram and Facebook pages. Right now they are only of the animals, but I promise to take some photos of beads. ;-)

But that's enough about that, let's get to today's freebie (I'll share more about this weekend on Monday).

This is such a neat freebie.  This pack contains one quick page.

Don't have My Memories software, don't worry about it.  You can use my promo code, STMMMS11215, to get $10 off the My Memories Software and then an additional $10 off any purchase in the store. That's a pretty cool deal. The My Memories folks have some really great scrapbooking things. And even if you don't scrapbook, the software and extras are really awesome. I don't scrapbook, but I love the software to make interesting blog post pictures. I even used it to make some labels for my homemade granola bars, so J wouldn't have to guess flavors anymore. Just use STMMMS11215 to get the discounts.

I hope everyone has a fantastic weekend and stay creative.

Weekend Wrap Up

Oh Monday, here we are again.  But I can't really complain, I kinda like Mondays.  I seem to get a lot more work done on Mondays then any other day of the week.  And I'm gonna need a day to catch up, this was the most unproductive weekend in a long time.

First off, as most of you know, it was Halloween.  We're not really into going out and partying any more on Halloween.  It's fun at times, but most years we celebrate at home while handing out candy.  I know, we're lame, but I'm okay with that.

The best part about staying home is little Yoda get's all dressed up and get's to help hand out candy.  This year she was a little bee, with light up wings.  She's always such a good sport.  She wore that costume until 11 o'clock at night.

We also made Halloween cookies.  Well, I made the dough, and J took over from there.  He cut out the cookies and decorated them.  I'm pretty proud of him, not many men would do that.  But, they were his idea, so I guess he probably felt obligated.  I'm not going to complain, who wouldn't want their significant other making them cookies.

Let's see what else did we do?  Oh yeah we stopped by a friend's house to see their new kitten.  Oh he is an adorable little cutie. I didn't get any photos of him, he really wasn't that into sitting still for more then half a second.  That's a kitten for you.

Unfortunately, my body didn't really react that well to a new kitten and I was down for the count all Sunday.  It's amazing that just a couple hours spent with a tiny little kitten would make me have such a sever allergy attack.  But he did and I didn't really move off the couch all day Sunday.  The allergy attack morphed into a severe migraine and it was all over for me.  Luckily I feel much better now and I'm ready to get all the things I should have gotten done yesterday, today!

So how did everyone else spend Halloween?   Did you dress up and go out on the town?  Did you stay home and hand out candy?  Or did you shut off all your lights and wait for this holiday to be over?

Check back tomorrow for some updates on beady goodness.  I have one project done, one almost done, and one started.  I know, that's pretty vague, but that just means you'll have to come back.