Friday I hung out with some of my family at a place called John’s Pass. First, I met up with my Mom. Parked my car at a convenient Target parking lot and then we drove to my sister’s. Picked her up. Then we went to my Aunt’s condo. (She lives in NJ but they got…
Category: Photography and Pics
Restocking PhoenixFire Designs Shop
I’ve been busy this week restocking items that had previously sold out in the shop. All of these items were sold out but are once again remade and ready-to-ship. All of these – and many more! – are available for purchase at PhoenixFireDesigns.etsy.com right now. Don’t forget, I also gladly accept custom orders. Want a…
New at PhoenixFire Designs
Been hard at work making new items for the shop and today I got five new pieces photographed and listed! Between two new trees – a multi colored Opal and a watermelon tourmaline – and two pairs of sterling hoops (rainbow gemstone and emerald green aventurine) and even a new pair of 14k gold threader…
January and February
Both my Garnet “January Tree” and
The Face of ObamaCare?
How crazy it is to me that my “I am ObamaCare” image has gone so viral. Especially three months after initially posting it! The other day, it made it’s way onto MoveOn.org and today, it’s on DailyDot.com You can read the article here. I’m amazed and excited to find my simple image is making such…
3 Months Post Op Hysterectomy
I haven’t done a post-op entry in awhile and after finding my I am Obamacare image on MoveOn.org (craziness!) I realized I should do an update again. If you find this information helpful, please consider shopping my handmade jewelry etsy shop, PhoenixFire Designs! I make my living creating unique, one of a kind, handmade jewelry…
Christmas Recap
In the excitement of getting my ring, I haven’t even talked about anything else from Christmas yet. We got up at 6am. Took our turkey out of the brine we had it in overnight. (Using, of course, Alton Brown’s recipe.) Got it prepped and in the oven. Then, we did out Christmas gift exchange since…
It’s a Yes
In case you missed the twitter or Facebook update this was my Xmas gift from Love. And yes it is what it looks like: engagement ring! 13 years in the making. LOL White sapphire so tons of bling for the buck! Love love love it! We took it in today for sizing and I get…
Christmas Eve
Shopping is done. Presents are wrapped. All the bills are paid and there’s even a little left in the bank. Life’s not too bad, especially given how insurmountable it all looked a few short months ago. We’ll start the turkey brine as soon as I post this. Tomorrow morning, we cook the 20lb bird, have…
Baking Cookies
Getting a late start this season on my cookies but the first batch is in the oven right now! Find the recipe here!
Christmas Village Kitty Invasion
I get up this morning and walk to the kitchen to get a drink of water. As I walk back, I glance at the tree. Then I do a double-take because something catches my eye. (click for larger) …is that? Yes, it’s a little Gracie cat curled up in a little kitty ball, snuggled in…
Tree With Monorail
Finally set up monorail around tree today! Our Disney village I'd complete (for this year anyway! ) Posted via email from memoryanddream’s posterous
Christmas with Mickey
We headed out to Disney for a few hours on Saturday since the last time we went, I was getting sick and we wound up having to leave and missed the fireworks, the Osborne lights, etc. Then, we couldn’t go because of Love having surgery on his leg. But! Love was a trooper and nine…
Oh Christmas Tree
Tonight we finally got the tree decorated! (Still need to put up the monorail around it but I started getting some of the village up under it but not all.) Looks pretty darn good if I do say so myself. 🙂 This is the first year with the led lights. Man are they bright and…
PhoenixFire Designs Updates
Love’s doing well, sore but healing. What’s not doing so great is the finances since we had to spend $187 Thursday for the surgery that no one told us about ahead of time. Part of that money was earmarked for our past-due power bill but now…ugh. So, I’ve been hard at work trying to get…