Its Official, CPJewelery is Up & Running...

I am so excited to announce that www.cpjewelery.com is now online and fully functioning thanks to my amazing and genius husband who designed my website. I dont have a lot to say about it other than its going and you better go check it out!! Here is some of the stuff I make.

Bronze Chain with Ash Pearl Bracelet.

Lobster Claw Clasp.

Length- 8 inches long

 Bronze Accent with Ash Colored Pearls

Bronze toggle Clasp

Length- 7 inches.

Copper Mesh and Pearl Necklace.

Metal- Copper

Length- 21 inches.

Clasp- Lobster Claw

Many Shades of Green and Moon Stone Wrap Necklace.

Length- 23 and 1/2 Inches.

Metal- Sterling Silver.

No Clasp- Wrap Necklace

Black Crystal, and Leather Earrings with Silver Accents.

Length- 6 and 1/2 Inches.

Metal- Stainless Steel

Purple Ceramic and Swarovski Crystal Earrings with Copper Accents

Length- 2 and 1/2 Inches.

Metal- Solid Copper

Thank you for humoring me and looking at a few of the things I've made. I will keep you updated on how things go. 

Captive Audience…

Saturday, March 19th we went to the air show at Keesler Air Force Base. I have to admit I love air shows I think they fun and so cool. I find huge crowds of different types of people very interesting.  One thing I hate about pretty much all things like air shows and conventions and events like that, is what I call the captive audience syndrome, wondering what that is? It is when events don’t allow you to bring food or drinks or air in with you and then charge you an arm a leg and your first born child! I don’t get it, a cup of water 4 dollars, really, I am pretty sure I just watched you fill the kid size cup from a garden hose! You want to some nachos o well first you have to apply for a loan then if you are approved we can begin to haggle over the price of your stale chips with cheese flavored goo on them. Stupid stupid stupid! Well that’s enough of that, thanks for listening… er reading.

        


  On a happy non-complain filled note, we went to the beach on Sunday, March 20th and it was lovely!! Football, volleyball, the Blue Angels flying over doing tricks, great friends, trail mix, cute puppy, warm sun, cool water, and a beautifully handsome husband to look at, find something wrong with the day I dare you!

Also Zack got his official in hand paper orders today, we leave on the 7^th of April and have 7 days to report in at Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, South Carolina! So excited to finally be settled and start our lives. We have been in this sort of bizarre holding pattern for about a year now, and its old!! So very very soon he will be a Stinger!

Happy St. Patrick's Day... I Guess...

I didn't even realize it was St. Patrick's day until I got on Facebook an everyone was talking about being pinched and not being pinched, at first I was confused, I don't feel like it should be far enough into the year to be St Patties yet. This year is going by so crazy fast I cant even keep up. As I sit here in my warm bed refusing to get out till the house warms up a bit, I was thinking about St. Patties days past and what they consisted of. Most people here St. Patrick's and think about 3 things the color green, leprechauns, an drinking.. very very heavily. Though I do have an appreciation for a good glass of Guinness. But my personal experiences are very different and I grew very home sick thinking about it. St. Patrick's day in my house consisted of my moms amazing corned beef and cabbage, which is a traditional Irish meal, and lots of family and wonderful friends, and try as I might I just cannot seem to cook that meal as good as my mom. So tonight instead of trying to make corned beef and cabbage and failing and missing my mom more then I already do, I think Zack and I will have pizza, that traditional Irish right? Its so funny looking back when I was younger and in in Jr. High and High School, i was so excited to move out and get away not have parents to tell me what to do and blah blah blah. Now i would consider killing just to get a plane ticket home because i miss my family so bad. Don't get me wrong I love traveling and living new places but just like Dorthy said there is no place like home. All right there is your cheesy blog post for the day, now we have that taken care of we can move on.

Just a quick update on things. Zack and I will be moving to Beaufort, South Carolina on the 7th-8th of April. My jewelry website should be up and fully running with in the next week, you can get on and look at it now but you cant buy anything yet the web address is www.cpjewelery.com so please feel free to get on there and look and tell me what you think, constructive criticism is always appreciated!

Never a Dull Moment. . .

This morning I was woken up by the loudest thunder i had ever heard. I am deathly afraid of thunder, go a head make fun of me but I am an have been for as long as I can remember.

First, a little back story before I explain my very interesting morning/day. Once upon a time I was a little girl in beautiful American Fork, UT and there was a really really bad storm and I had very recently seen the movie Twister and was quite worried about tornadoes. So me being the worried and inquisitive child that I was I asked my mom " is there going to be a tornado?" and my mom knowing that we lived in Utah and that tornadoes pretty much never happen in Utah said to me "no Catherine you don't have to worry about tornadoes unless the sky turns a very strange and obvious green color" to which I replied pointing at the sky "like that mommy?" my mom then turned and looked at the sky and very calmly said "yes Catherine exactly like that" then we very quickly drove home and hid in the basement for a while.

Now for the current story, as I am laying in bed this morning woken up very suddenly by very loud thunder, I open my curtain and looked at the sky to find the sky that wonderful and very scary green color. At this point I panic mildly and grab my computer an pull up the weather and much to my surprise there not only a flood warning there is a tornado warning! The breaking story as I log on the internet is that a tornado had touched down about 7 miles east of my house. so at this point i grab my 72 hour kit an my puppy and kitty and hide in the bathroom. About this point Zack calls me tells me whats going on with him and I report whats going on with me. He was locked down and didn't really know what was going on out side except that it was bad weather so I was giving him updates. All in all we are OK but it was actually really scary. Like we always say there is never a dull moment.

Came to a Conclusion...

I am an idiot! Why you ask your self? The answer to your question is that I am only now reading the blogs of all of my beloved friends and I feel like a horrible person. So many exciting and wonderful things have happened in everyones lives and I have been selfishly oblivious to them, to those of you who have been all but ignored I am very very sorry, I promise I will try to do better. Well thats enough apologizing. As some of you read my blog you may notice that occasionally I may forget the letter D in places, that is surprisingly enough not due to my complete lack of spelling ability but due to the fact that my adorable little puppy felt that my smoothie sitting on my bedside table was also his smoothie an so he attempted to share with me, and in doing so spilled it all over my laptop, killing my letter D, unless I violently stab at it. Luckily for him he happens to be incredibly cute and lovable other wise he may very well have ended up out side without a collar. Just kidding... mostly.

One of My Favorite Quotes

We are all a little weird and life's a little weird
When we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours
We join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it Love

Finally Got a Blog...

I finally gave in and decided  to do a blog. So i guess here is a little about me and my life. I am 23 years old and very happily married to Zack who is a Marine, which affords us all kinds of adventures. We are currently in Biloxi, MS soon though we will be on our way to Beaufort, South Carolina, thank goodness! We have a moved 3 times this year from Utah to Pensacola, FL Florida to Mississippi and then Mississippi to South Carolina, needless to say I am getting quite good at packing a moving truck. We have two adorable pets Zy who I rescued from a shelter and he is a 50 pound ball of insanity, then we have Ming who is what Zack calls the cuddle beast, she is 5 year old tortoise shell colored kitty. We are a very happy little family. I currently have no job in the sense that I earn an income, I feel how ever that I do indeed have a job -look pretty- clean house- stay hot and skinny- put yummy meals on our table- its a hard job but one of us has to do it! Zack is a full time active duty Marine he is a Calibration Tech, and amazingly smart. In my spare time I make jewelry I will post pics soon all of it is available for purchase off my website which is nearly complete. Thats about all I have for right now more will be on the way.