Feeling Positive

I have been going through a sort of metamorphosis in  both  my personal life, and business life.  Shedding my  skin, and becoming the person I want  to be. 

 The people that were bad for me have faded away or changed for the better.  My work has become something that moves me and gives me such pleasure .  You could probably tell by the way my shop has changed that things are going in another direction.

Here is a book on my bedside table.

I will be around more next week!   Enjoy your weekend. 

Shop Updates

What I have been up to

So as creative people you guys know how it goes.  When it flows ...it flows!  Making necklaces for my shops is my July New Years Resolution!  I feel really great that I have accomplished it by mid July .   

They will be put in my shops in the next few days.  Hope your weekend is going great!
I am heading back into my studio!

Some things I added to the shop this week.  It has been a long time coming!

January Ring a Week

Yes I waited to the last second to submit!  I have had a crazy month with the kid being home so much.  Between the snow and the holidays,  I have got little done.  Here are my submissions for the month of January.  Better late than never!

And some cute kitty pics!



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Two quotes I saw and loved today.  I received a wonderful call from my sister last night telling me she had a large order of jewelry for  me!   So  my weekend is going pretty great so far! 

Shop update today.  Pictures are being edited now!  Money clips, Tie Clips, and necklaces.

I hope you are feeling inspired and having a wonderful day!





Few things that make me happy

Here are a few things I have absolutely loved this past weekend . 

One are  these pancakes!  I have tried many brands and methods to making my own, but these have stood out.  Something to think about this coming weekend!  (yes I know the week just started!)  

Two is I have been hitting a lot of favorites lately on Etsy and wanted to show you some things I found.  I had  not been a fan of the Activity Feed until I really started looking at it and saw some of the cool things that friends have added as their  favorite's!



This makes my neck warm just looking at it!  Classic look.  I love that it is paired with a leather jacket.

I think this is going to be my purse for summer!  It is always hard for me not to buy black purses, but I think this purse will  stop all that.

Lastly I will be doing a shop update tomorrow.  I thought about adding things today and this weekend.  Had high hopes and dreams it would happen, but with my daughter still home from vacation break until tomorrow.....it is sort of impossible. 

SO I have some copper , silver, updated pictures of items already in the shop,  and a new web page developement  going on  at this moment.  So exciting!

I added a few things to my shop and will continue all week!  Images for postcards I had done.  
here is one of the images they came up with :

I also saw this on facebook and loved it!

Baklava and Jewelry! yay

I tried this tonight and OH MY GOD!   It was really good.    I found a new site that I have been hooked on http://closetcooking.blogspot.com/  so far everything I have made has been pretty amazing.  Take a look around.


Baklava

Ingredients:


4 cups walnuts (chopped)

1/2 cup sugar

1 tablespoon cinnamon

1 cup butter (melted)

1 pound phyllo pastry (thawed)

3/4 cup water

1/2 cup sugar

1 stick cinnamon

2 inch slice lemon peel

2 inch slice orange peel

3/4 cup honey



Directions:

1. Mix the walnuts, sugar and cinnamon in a bowl.

2. Brush the bottom of a 9X13 inch pan with butter.

3. Brush butter onto the top of a sheet of the phyllo dough and place the sheet into the pan. Repeat until there are 8 sheets in the pan.

4. Sprinkle 1/3 of the walnut mixture onto the phyllo in the pan.

5. Brush butter onto the top of a sheet of the phyllo dough and place the sheet into the pan. Repeat until there are 2 sheets on top of the nut mixture.

6. Sprinkle 1/3 of the walnut mixture onto the phyllo in the pan.

7. Brush butter onto the top of a sheet of the phyllo dough and place the sheet into the pan. Repeat until there are 2 sheets on top of the nut mixture.

8. Sprinkle 1/3 of the walnut mixture onto the phyllo in the pan.

9. Brush butter onto the top of a sheet of the phyllo dough and place the sheet into the pan. Repeat until there are 8 sheets on top of the nut mixture.

10. Slice the baklava with a sharp knife.

11. Bake in a preheated 350F oven until golden brown on top, about 25-35 minutes.

12. Bring the water, sugar, cinnamon, lemon and orange to a boil, reduce the heat and simmer for 10 minutes.

13. Add the honey and simmer for 2 minutes.

14. Remove the cinnamon, and peals from the syrup.

15. Pour the syrup over the baklava when it comes out of the oven.

16. Let the baklava cool for a few hours.
 
 
New Jewelry-
Some new things that have not made it to the shop yet, but they should be in there tomorrow.   There are a few more pieces and I will post them tomorrow. 
 
 
 

Some rings that are sculptural wire (Fingers look so sexy up close!)  It looks like I have chicken skin.

Snowflake Necklace

                                                                                     Snowflake Earrings

Give away Information and New Jewelry

                                                                                              ( Katnip1225 site)



I have been really busy filling some special requests and also stocking my Etsy Shop with my elves.    I am really happy so far how things have been going.  I did want to pop on here and remind you if you didnt see there are two really nice givaways at the moment on other blogs.  Here are the links and Good luck Sweet Peas! 

http://sunnyrisingleather.blogspot.com/2010/10/contest-and-sale-and-love-oh-my.html

http://candacemorris.blogspot.com/2010/10/its-my-party-and-ill-give-away.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MusingsOfAMelancholic+%28musings+of+a+melancholic%29