Brooch and card received

Very cute card from Phyllis M from my group...thank you and love it.
Brooch pin from Lynne in a UK group. thank you Lynne..Now just waiting for 2 more...I have a feeling one is lost as I remember she said she mailed it out a few weeks ago..can not rely on po anymore....sheesh!!

Finishe My Charm Bracelets

Here is my Christmas Charm Bracelet for 2006 so far. These are my charms I made..I will add, as you can see I have already added the split rings, lol, I can wait to receive the rest. At least one of the hard part is already done..lol
Here is my 2006 Charm Bracelet all done now. I will not add any more. I have 41 charms from all the groups that I did an exchange with, one of each persons. and 2 of mine. It is so full..all the rings plus 3 have been double..How cool is that.

Photo of Nathan, chat of charms, jewelry and website

Isn't he just precious...Hi Nathan..I always love it and get excited when I received photos..even on the Internet...rather have them the old fashion way but that is the "old" way anymore..so I take what I can get or receive...now waiting for your sister's photo..soon I hope, I have not seen what she looks like and can not wait...
Today I just worked on getting all the charms, extras that I made for sis, me and my website to sell..boy they are time consuming, feel like I did not do much. Than of course, wanted to catch up on adding all the charms I have received to put on my charm bracelet and than made another for Christmas charms both are awesome...I will have over 30 charms on the other one...it is so full but looks great when done I will take another photo..on both of them I also am almost finished with my 20 cards and hopefully will get them out in tomorrow afternoon mail run.
Tomorrow I will bake more cookies and make more dough for other cookies...take a run to the jewelry store to pick up Mom's ankle bracelet I had fixed..I took a bunch of watches to have batteries put in and one it my brooch/pendant and has scarabs all around it...I have had that for so long I can not remember where I bought it at...with the business I had I always was reaching for items in containers and wearing a watch, after I had lost one in one of the earlier show that my son's bought for me in Hawaii, I did not wear but this as a pin and I always had the time..lol I really did not think they could put a new battery in it because it was old..they can do so much these days...
I now have a website that I am selling my fun stuff-jewelry for the holidays and etc..but it won't be ready till Pay Pal sends a statement with a certification number and it will take a few days..but than I have been so busy and soooo tired that I do not have everything up...This website will give me something to do on my spare time. if I find any..but I will have to keep records and inventory.....something I have not done in awhile..My son Mike did a wonderful job on the home page I am so proud of it. He also keeps up with what I am putting in it at home, he has all the info there...

Baking goodies for the last few day.

I have been making the dough for cookies and baking them as I find the time for them..mmmm good. above is my chocolate cookies..made 16 doz of them ...split them with my sons..
Hers is the two loaves of banana bread...oh does the smell linger on...into my bedroom...this is my favorite bread with butter...I actually love coconut bread my mom use to make in the small coffee cans, but she does not have that recipe anymore..if anyone knows of sure would love to have it.
My two pumpkin loaves...another favorite in my family...always make this and the banana bread before Thanksgiving and again after...the cookies too.
I have the peanut butter cookie dough in the fridge and peanut butter balls to do yet but I am going to wait till tomorrow.
I still have my bunny cookies, mochika, a Filipino custard dessert... pumpkin pies and cherry pie to make for Thanksgiving. I am like a chicken without its head, as the other night I found out Thanksgiving was this week, I thought I had another two weeks..and I had not done anything I usually do before this holiday...too busy.. lol
In between all this I have finished my charm swap, making more pc for another group I signed up for but did not read on how many, it was 20 lol I get in a hurry sometimes and do not pay any attention. Also my son has been here for 2 night and my website is almost ready to open. I had to get a yahoo website to sell my goodies as the blog did not have anywhere to use pay pal..so now I have my own. Later my son will add me to his mall. web mall as he calls it. I will put a link to my web as soon as it it ready, it will be above my profile. so whew, I am tired..but still a lot to go...

Card received from France

I received this pretty Santa card from Brigitte C from Angers, France, this is from another group I have joined in on. thank you so much Brigitte, I love the card..

Charms for a swap and special ones

These are my special ones I made and had so much fun doing them even if they took longer than I wanted too. .The star and glitter candle was for the other swap but lost one somewhere so last night I had to make 5 different ones, snowman/tree ones...The other was experimenting with and came out pretty goo...I had a ribbon that had Merry Christmas on it and cut it out and sewed it one with silver holographic thread..than on the back I added the blue sequins and beads. the lower one is a shaker charm, lol on both sides. now talk about how to execute it without getting the glitter, snow ice, from my snow babies..beads and sequins from coming out when sewing.. Both have a novelty Christmas fabric as the base and than sheer novelty over on top..They are really pretty in person. I made 10 each of these..I might add them to some Christmas cards for family and friends and of course on of each will be on my Christmas charm bracelet.
These are the charms group that I am in. They all were fussy cut into one inch squares so I could get the designs I wanted. Than beaded and glitter on some of the backs..If you are using these for ornaments, glitter is the best thing to use as it glistens really well the Christmas lights..so is bugle beads and silver line beads...Hope they enjoy them, they will have a ribbon attached to them and not eyelets..The ones about will have eyelet on them when I receive mine from this group at one of them I will add a eyelet for my bracelet..I love showing off what others make.

Cards received

Thanksgiving card received from my sister, Mary A..I wasn't in this swap but she always sends me special cards for different holidays. thank you and I think it is wonderful..I love to fussy cut and make a collage of some sort too...
This card is from Phyllis M. for our Christmas tree swap..It is so pretty in person..thank you.