What a great day!!

I woke up this morning with the flu....ewwwwww......how does that become a great day? Very good question. I decided to check out my email in between teaching my kids school. (oh yeah did I mention I home school my 5 children) I received an email from a wonderful lady I knew almost 20 years ago while I was an exchange student in Sweden. She and her husband were like a life line to sanity during a very eventful and many times stressful year. Sissel if you read my blog...thank you for your message today you really made my day!!
It is amazing that after so many years you can meet your some of your greatest influences in life and feel like you have never been apart. I love it when that happens.

Saga of the carpet layers

So after a crazy morning of exams with my oldest son the afternoon has arrived. The carpet layers are here!! Yeah!! I will finally be rid of the echoing cavern we call a basement. Beautiful ocean blue. My hubby is a green person normally but I think he is slowly being converted to more oceanic colors. We tried last year to move out East (where I am from originally) but alas our home would not sell. So now we are making this one work for us again. I will post a picture when the furniture which now adorns my ever cluttered front room gets moved to the new family room in the basement. Ahhhhhh space glorious space.
I finally got a couple of listings up in Etsy. Not my favorite pieces but they were the ones which photographed the best. I hope to have a few quiet moments to add my favorite pieces later tonight. I'm still really nervous. I love to make jewelery. I really would like my hobby to be abe to pay for itself. It doesn't need to make money just pay for itself. I'm kinda nervous that what I think is beautiful will be stomped on by the public at large. Each piece is a part of an artists soul, a baby of their psyche. It has taken me a month to even te my Mom about my plans. I tried this once before with my candles and I was squished by a friend. It was harsh and so contrary to what I had been hearing from others about the quality and marketability of my work. I will work on my self confidence ...... I will work on my self confidence.

After trying to do some work on my store and talking with a few other etsyians I decided to add to Jeff Foxworthy's statments:

If it's cheaper to ship a parcel to someone in Japan than to your grandmother in the next province. You definately live in Canada!!

I was nothing short of amazed that it would be less expensive to ship something to someone in the UK or Florida than it would be to send something to my Grandmother in Nova Scotia Canada!! How crazy is that.

Well....my kids are sick with the flu so I am trying to get my cyberspace act together. This is my first attempt to enter the world of blogging so we shall see where it leads. I thought I would share a funny mail that my Father sent to me as it is very pertinent today.
Now I am not normally a Jeff Foxworthy fan but this made me laugh.

Subject: Jeff Foxworthy on Canada


> Forget Rednecks,
> Here is what Jeff Foxworthy has to say about Canucks.
>
> If your local Dairy Queen is closed from
> September through May,
> You may live in Canada .
>
> If someone in a Home Depot store
> Offers you assistance and they don't work there,
> You may live in Canada .
>
> If you've worn shorts and a parka at the same time,
> You may live in Canada .
>
> If you've had a lengthy telephone conversation
> With someone who dialed a wrong number,
> You may live in Canada .
>
> If 'Vacation' means going anywhere
> South of Detroit for the weekend,
> You may live in Canada .
>
> If you measure distance in hours,
> You may live in Canada .
>
> If you know several people
> Who have hit a deer more than once,
> You may live in Canada .
>
> If you have switched from 'heat' to 'A/C'
> In the same day and back again,
> You may live in Canada .
>
> If you can drive 90 km/hr through 2 feet of snow
> During a raging blizzard without flinching,
> You may live in Canada .
>
> If you install security systems on your house and garage,
> But leave both unarmed,
> You may live in Canada .
>
> If you carry jumpers in your car
> And your wife knows how to use them,
> You may live in Canada .
>
> If you design your kid's Halloween costume
> To fit over a snowsuit,
> You may live in Canada .
>
> If the speed limit on the highway is 80 km --
> You're going 90 and everybody is passing you,
> You may live in Canada .

> If driving is better in the winter
> Because the potholes are filled with snow,
> You may live in Canada .

> If you know all 4 seasons:
> Almost winter, winter, still winter,
> And road construction,
> You may live in Canada .
>
> If you have more miles
> On your snow blower than your car,
> You may live in Canada .
>
> If you find 2 degrees 'a little chilly',
> You may live in Canada .
>
> If you actually understand these jokes,
> And forward them to all
> Your Canadian friends & others,
> You definitely live in Canada .

Yep I soooooo live in -35 degree celcius frozen wonderland Canada!