Week from hell

Yeah, this has been the week from hell, and it's only thursday! Starting on Monday, had to get my son in school, which meant taking him for a checkup... yeah I thought it would be a lot less than it ended up costing. So I went ahead and paid, not as if I had a choice. The that night I woke up at midnight with a horrible toothache, kept me up ALL NIGHT. Went on tuseday to have it pulled... $400.00 later, I am not in as much pain physically, although the bone broke a little as they pullled it, so that is REALLY sore! Then yesteday the car dies, luckily it was at the end of the street, and not somwhere farthur away. Still... we jumped it and got it hime last night, but this morning it still will not start, and now I can not get the hood to pop open either to even look and try to figure out what is wrong! And on top of that, my meds have made me sick, and we have been ased to move from our house in 6 weeks... right after we spent everything we had on Dentists and Dr's. I really hope this is the worst, cause I am at the edge of a breakdown, I can not take a whole lot more!

Well that sums up my week from hell! Hopefully before the weeks end, there will be some light.

Okay WOW!

Well, things in my life have a way of being intense... fram all the information I gather from others, not everyone has a life like this. For me, I feel like I live in a movie a lot of the time, because things have a way of being so, how to put it... out of the ordinary. The twists and turns are never ending, this highs so very high, the lows so very low... I can not explain it, except that this is me. High, low, intense, and unpredictable. As I get older, I long more and more for some kind of predicatbility, but never have I found much. Maybe I should stop looking, and just ride the ride of life for all it's worth. Poeple have made me believe that I need to follow the path of so many, but that path never made me happy. I am one who likes to make her own path. I find pleasure in solving things... probably why I have chosen to learn more through trial and error than with school, for everything basically. Everything I have mastered, I have learned through trial and error, including my jewelry. I have not taken a single jewelry making class, yet my pieces have graced the front page of etsy more than once. I think it is because I don;t have anyone saying, you can't do that... or you have to do it this way. I try things, some work, some don't, the ones that don't... well I don't do that again. The ones that do... I keep and add to my preverbial bag of tricks.

Also figured I will post here about my running... this week I took my son with me, he begged me to go, so I took him on his bike, while I ran. I thought the stop and go of running with him would make it too easy of a workout for me, but the next day, my legs said otherwise... maybe I was running faster? I don't know. I have become less concerned with how far I ran, exactly how fast... how many miles I ran this year, week, month. I know I am a runner... it is ingrained in me now... I do not need mileage or splits to prove to myself that I am working hard, or that I am a runner. I know that if I go for a run... I will naturally run at least 2.5 miles or more, not because my garmin says to, but because I just want to. I still do have a desire to run a marathon one day, but that day will come when and if it comes... I am not gonna injure myself, just to be able to say I ran 26.2 miles... I did 13.1, while still a newbie to running... only 5 months into it or so... now I am coming up on two years of commitment to running... My business keeps me from worrying that I am not running 25-30 miles a week... besides, I am sooo hungry all the time on those kinda miles! :) Regardless of how fast I am, how slow I am, how many miles I ran, if I took walk breaks or not... I AM a runner... we are unique in ourselves. I now know I have more endurance in me than I ever thought. I also know that just because someone with credentials tells you, "You can't" doesn't mean you can't. Maybe you just need a new approach. Things are not always as cut and dried as that.

Okay my studio is calling... need to get to some real work in there :) till next time!

Eureeka!!!!

Well I'm told that blogging somehow helps, so here I am again. I'm sure it can't hurt anyway.

Today I talked to the guy who schedules classes at the Cultural Center says he is interested in my teaching some workshops there... so that's a start, and maybe it'll lead to other things as well. There is a really great bead shop, that does not have a wire wrapping teacher, so who knows, maybe I will end up teaching something there as well. I did talk to them before, but they seemed to be too busy at the time... although it WAS right before Christmas anyway. So I think this year I will try sooner, like right before season starts, so hopefully I can get a class or two going for season there too.

Anyway short post today, because I got lots of orders to get made and mailed out... I am working tonight and tomorrow so they can all go out tomorrow afternoon.

New things comming up and random thoughts...

So I can't get the idea of teaching wire wrapping out of my head... then yesterday I ran into a lady who teaches other things locally on ETSY in the chat rooms! Heh, small world! Anyway she said now is the time to talk to the guy in Port Charlotte about taching a class this fall... So I am working on supplies tomorow so that I can take a day and talk to him and do a few other things related to business that day.

So where does this lead me??? Well I am wrapping more and metalworking less (?) maybe just working more totally LOL. I am also tossing ideas around for some tutorials I can sell on etsy. I did a pretty fabulous necklace today and I think the clasp is something that could deffinately work in a tutorial... I even made it the centerpiece of the necklace, cause it is too gorgeous to go in back! It is time consuiming and not really viable to make to sell as a supply, BUT as a tutorial... I think it will be GREAT! And I can make them for certain pieces of my own jewelry.

And now I am off to wrap something else :)

HOLY COW... I have been neglecting my blog!!!!!

Okay I KNOW I have said I would be better about blogging. and thus far I have only a few posts. I am not gonna say that i will blog daily, but I do want a place to update poeple on what is going on in the world on Higher Chakra as well as with myself as a business owner, musician, runner, mom, artist, designer... yeah, that's quite a list... no wonder I neve seem to have much in the way of free time anymore!

Anyway.. in my last post I talked about opening shop in Higher Chakra Supply... well this venture turned out to be even greater than I could ever have expected. Not only that, but my jewelry making ability has grown existentially. My sales in Higher Chakra Supply right now sits at over 700 sales... and Higher Chakra Creations has been on the front page of etsy twice that I know of... different items each time, both metalworking pieces. It seems that metalworking IS my niche afterall!! Who would have known? I can say that the beginning of my hot metalwork was frusterating at best... but with perservearance... I am now getting to take the visions out of my head and make them into a reality! I still have tons to learn about metalworking... I still havn't used a jewelers saw for instance... I havn't casted, but for the things I see in my head right now, my skills are allowing me to make at least some of them come to friution. This makes me extremely happy!!!!