the week in review

Heh, this blog is becoming weekly! Okay, for the last week...

The in-laws got here on Friday. My niece is so much bigger now and talking! She is so cute. We had a great time. Brenda and I went shopping at the outlet mall on Saturday. I got a rug from the pottery barn store. Check it out:

Sorry the picture is kind of crappy. I am finally learning how to use my camera when it is not connected to my computer. But, I am so proud of the rug! Zaphod ruined our old one and we have not been able to find one we could afford and liked.

I spent a lot of time hanging out with family over the last week. My niece really impressed me when she thanked me, without prompting from any adult, for a necklace I had sent her months ago. She wears it a lot. I made it out of junk jewelry to go with the princess dresses I know she likes to play dress up in. Her good manners earned her more necklaces! I brought over a bunch of junk jewelry and made her a bunch of necklaces, clip on earrings and a charm bracelet. I let her string a necklace as well. She was so into it. She was lying on the floor rolling around, putting beads on the string and singing a "la la" song she was making up as she went along. My mother-in-law asked James if that was what I did when I was making a necklace. I think I will have to try it out as a creative exercise. Anyway, I really like making play jewelry with all the junk jewelry I will never be able to use on my pieces that I put on the site. I want to make more play jewelry for all the other little girls I know.

On the last night they were here, we got a call from Glen to go rescue Brenda! We took her out for margaritas and tex-mex at gueros. It was a lot of fun. Then we met up with Glen at the four seasons hotel bar. Good times.

Yesterday was James and my 5th wedding anniversary. He is so sweet! We agreed the rug would be our wedding anniversary present to ourselves but he also brought home some beautiful flowers with a note that almost made me cry it was so sweet.

We went out for sushi and had champagne. It was a super great evening. Forest spent the night with a friend so we had the house to ourselves. We came home and hung out for a while and then watched Howls Moving Castle. It was a pretty perfect date!

Other than that I have just been spending way too much time on MySpace. It is so addicting! I made Wednesday and Thursday my weekend because I was so exhausted from the family visit. Yesterday I ran about a thousand earrands and got tough with one of my consignment places on late payment issue. That was empowering. I got a consignment request from Taos and I think I am going to do it. They have good policies. I took Melissa to the airport on Wednesday morning - She is in Mexico this week, living it up! I think I am about to make another wholesale order to an existing customer and that is exciting for me. I really need to spend some quality time at my workbench soon! My mom is coming tonight so we can go to citywide tomorrow.

Now I gotta go do some laundry and get to the gym! I have seriously been slacking on the exercise this week. That is bad!