Clinkscales Arts

Well, another month has passed and I didn’t manage to finish a piece to enter in the Etsy Beadweaver’s Challenge for November. The theme was netting and I ran out of beads and by the time the new ones arrived, it was time to go home for Thanksgiving. One of these days I’ll get all of these unfinished projects finished and my shop is going to be overflowing!

Here’s a preview of the November entries.

Visit the Etsy Beadweaver’s Blog to vote for your favorite! You only have 2 days to make your decision so hurry!

While roaming around in the Treasury, I found that daniellexo had included me in her wine themed list:

You will be able to see the live Treasury until Friday and then it will disappear into oblivion. Thanks for including me, daniellexo!

EDIT: The wine theme list was featured on Etsy’s front page on Thanksgiving Day!! My wine colored earrings found a new home in Europe. That was the last pair of the discontinued style that I had available.

I need to be packing my stuff to go home for Thanksgiving tomorrow, but instead, I’m messing around online. Actually, I need to get my patootie to bed - it’s getting late! I’ve been staying up entirely too late the last few nights and the lack of sleep is catching up with me.

A Happy Thanksgiving to all! We all have so many things to be thankful for. Of course, I’m so thankful for my family and for B, but this year has really brought into focus how thankful I am for another friend of mine - D. You know who you are. This person has been a beacon of light in my life for many years. I’m so thankful for all that you are. So, here’s a big Happy Thanksgiving to you, D, and to everyone else out there.

Today didn’t start off all that fabulous. Monday mornings always mean payroll at work and too many hormones floating around my office this morning got on my nerves. But then I came home for lunch and B was here. He didn’t have to work today. We had lunch and as we sat there eating, I was struck with the feeling of how lucky we are to have what we have and how hard we have worked to keep it. I smiled at him and said, “Do you realize how lucky we are to have each other?” *Smile* Answer: “Yeeeees, I know.” Dripping with the sarcasm I love the most.

And then…I got back to work after lunch and Carol had sent me a message saying my earrings were on the front page of Etsy. I was featured in a beautiful Treasury List made by SimplyTess. You just can’t buy the kind of advertising that being on the front page can bring. I got well over 300 views on just those earrings, and picked up about 31 hearts for my shop and 25-30 on individual items.

Then I got home this evening, took a little cat nap because I couldn’t keep my eyes open, and cooked supper for B and me. I bought some gumbo mix and shrimp at the grocery store Saturday and that’s what we had tonight. It was pretty good if I do say so myself. But then again, all I did was follow the directions. Reheat some leftover green beans from last night and toast up a big pan of garlic bread and it’s all good around here.