Emily is college bound !!!

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Monday August 16th was the big move in day! What an experience it was!! Charlie, Nicholas, Emily and I all headed out at 6:30 am. Got to UNCP at 8:45. The place was PACKED with people moving in all at once. We went right up to the desk and got her room key. No lines! We had no idea where her building was so we got in a line of cars that SEEMED to be miles long. It would inch along for awhile, then stop. We started to unload the car and I stayed in the drivers seat while Charlie, Emily and Nicholas unloaded the car. Finally, about 8 girls came up to us and said "Do you need any help?" Of course we did. They were like angels showing up!! LOL They took a ton of stuff up to the room for us. Nicholas and Charlie continued to get the big stuff out while I inched the car up one car at a time. Finally, we didn't move for awhile when we had noticed someone in the front of the line had parked and left her car there for about 20 minutes. We sat there in this line not able to move. We had decided at this point NOT to bring up the loft bed. We felt the room was too small for it to fit so we left it in the car and will return it back to Walmart. So ... finally, we took everything (all but the bed and the 2 ladders Charlie had built out of wood!) out of the car and I made a u-turn and found a place to park. The lines to the elevator were super long so we brought up what we could up the 4 flights of stairs. I remembered Emily had a case of water in her car so I found this boy, Andrew and he helped me carry it up the stairs. Thank goodness for Andrew!!!

We had everything in by about 11 am I think. Then we put everything away, made her bed, Charlie hooked up her cable tv, her computer, her printer and her fridge. We went to the bookstore to get her a lock for her apple computer. They had one for $30 so we didn't think that was too bad at all. I decided then and there, it was time to leave. I tried real hard not to cry but all of a sudden the tears started and then Emily started. We each just cried a little bit and then we left. She seems very happy and is staying very busy.

Her roommate Katie is from New Hampshire. She is super nice and the girls are getting along just wonderful. They found each other on Facebook!!

We are so proud of her.. Here are a few pics I took. The before and after pics of the car packed is just what it says - Before means before we left. After means on our way back. It looks like the car has MORE on the way back, don't you think? HA HA HA

I just realized I never posted what I sent Debbie for her early birthday present this year

Some of you may or may not know that Debbie, my sister, is CRAZY about CANDY CORN. Every Halloween, she brings out many, many, many candy corn items that she has collected over the years and I feel its my duty as a big sister to give her more candy corn things each birthday. This year I wanted to send them to her early since I made her the CUTEST candy corn necklace!! I also managed to find candy corn soap at Bath & Body Works so i had to send that too. She also loves pumpkin pie like me so I sent her a pumpkin pie necklace too. I can't wait to wear mine around Thanksgiving!! LOL

Happy Birthday Aunt Charlie!

I made these cards for my wonderful Aunt Charlie. She turns the big 7-0!! For the first card, I used a digital image by: Bugaboo Stamps. Her name is Stella and they have some really funny images on that website. On the 2nd image, I decided to leave most of the image in black and white and I colored her dress lightly with chalk. This stamped image is by Cornish Heritage Farms and is no longer being made by them. I have always loved this image.

Less than a week to go till Emily goes away to college

As you can imagine, we are busy, busy, busy. Packing, cleaning out, buying even more stuff for her dorm. She is also taking with a loft bed which is the top part of a bunk bed. We thought she was taking Nicholas' old bed but it was too low to fit her desk underneath so we bought another whole new loft bed at Walmart. It was only $107 so that's a pretty good deal. The stairs climbing up to the top are really hard so Charlie decided he would BUILD some steps out of wood!! He is actually building 2 sets of stairs. One for Emily and one for her roommate. He spent most of the day today doing that and now he will paint them black tomorrow to match the bed. I think we will start packing Sunday and then head out bright and early on Monday morning around 6 am. How we are all going to get out of here that early is beyond me but I want to be there around 8-8:30 so Emily can pick up her key and then we can get everything moved in before it gets too hot.

I have gotten a few more washer necklace orders. I made a few US Marine Mom necklaces and a US Marine necklace. They are drying now so I will take pics before I send them on their way to FL and Washington state.

Washer necklaces for sale ...

This is what I have been making the last week. Necklaces out of washers. You can see them here:

"Washer Necklaces for sale"

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I am charging $5.00 each plus $1.25 to ship in the US. If you are outside of the US, I will be happy to get you a quote. I will also be happy to do custom orders. Just tell me what you want and I will do my best.

Getting ready for Emily to go to college in less than 2 weeks so no time to blog!!!

Happy Birthday Lesa!

You take the cupcake!! This is a digital image from Pure Innocence and I got her on etsy. I added micro beads to the frosting and glitter to the cherry. I paper pieced her dress too.