Thought I'd share what's on my table today, and it just so happened to rhyme: Bead, Read and Eat. Four words just works better, though, so I added one more since eat doesn't rhyme quite as well with bead and need.
BEAD: I realized how much I love working with Amethyst, and how quickly it seems to sell. I have nothing gorgeous in Amethyst in my finished jewelry inventory so the next few days I'll remedy that situation.
Last night, while watching The Juror I made an Amethyst necklace and bracelet. I wanted it to be all amethyst, but decided at the last minute to add the lavender freshwater pearls. I'm still debating what kind of clasp to add. I SO love the facetted coin shapped beads.
READ: What I'm reading lately is Torch Fired Enamel Jewelry: A Workshop in Painting With Fire by Barbara Lewis. I love the look of enamel, and since I don't have a kiln but I do have a torch, this method is one I could easily do. As soon as I buy some enamels! I have to admit that I'm not at all into the style of jewelry created in the projects section of this book. But I have some of my own ideas of what I'd like to enamel and how I want it to look. C-Coop makes gorgous jewelry components (and the owner lives in Duluth, Minnesota!) and I'd like to try my hand at making similar pieces like the pendant on the left. EAT: Not really a healthy lunch, but I bought some Cheese Curls (or Cheesy Poofs, as Cartman calls them) the other day when I stopped at Cub for my Cappacino. This is why grocery shopping while hungry is a bad idea. Oh well, once in a while we have to eat something bad, right? I love the Cappacino that comes in a red plastic container. I'd have to go upstairs to read the label so I'll leave it at that. The French Vanilla flavor is my favorite. I love it because I can heat some water in the microwave and stir it in. No fuss, and no cooking, is my motto these days. Yesterday I had a breakfast bar for lunch. Yes, I'm lazy. Not sure when that happened, but I can't deny it.
NEED: There are so many things I could write about under this heading. There are so many things I should be doing, like cleaning the house and cooking a decent meal. But should is not Need, is it? Lately all I do is what I WANT to do. Sounds like heaven, right? Except that I don't think we were built to be so self-indulgent.
I get nothing done during the day except washing a few loads of laundry. I do have my sales tax ready to file, and just need to run a few reports to get my business income taxes done. I spend too much time on the computer. Everything I need to do relies on using the computer, but when I turn the computer on, it sucks my brains out. Even the laundry sits in the washer or dryer for hours at a time.
So what I need to do is write a task list for the week or day and make sure those items get done before I can take any time for what I want to do.
Of course, I've made this resolution many times before.
