New Job = Tired Brain = Some Times Grumpy Wife...

Hello long lost blogger friends! Sorry I haven't posted in freakin forever. I have been so busy with my new job that I haven't even had time to think. The learning curve when I start a new job is huge and there is so much information to take in  I can barely stand it. I am really really liking my new apartment community our residents are wonderful and the people I work with are so great. It really feels like a family, which I know is so cheesy but its nice to be happy and comfortable at work. One of the draw backs to starting my new job is my brain is really tired, which makes me a bit grumpy. Not so much at Zack but pretty much every one else. Sorry to anyone around me. That being said I have a rant! I love animals, I love people who adopt shelter animals even more. How ever I dont love people who adopt 2 huge dogs in one day as a surrogate for the children there husband wont let them have especially when said person works full time and is lazy! Who am I talking about do you ask? My neighbors, they adopted an adorable puppy and a HUGE Doberman(they returned to doberman after a week). Which has been nothing but a terror since they got it, here is a list of the things it has done... so far: dug 2 holes under my fence big enough for it to fit threw, came into our yard and pulled rotting food out of my compost bin, then rolled in the rotting food and played with my dog, ate all my dogs food, pulled out the drawer in the shed with the dog and cat food in them ate most of both of those, chewed up some of our fishing stuff, and scratched the heck out of my door, but other then that we love the dog! Now I understand that its a puppy, how ever, they dont discipline the dog and nothing is changing, just a little frustrating. Now on to happier news. Zack and I are almost 100 percent sure we are coming home for Christmas! Watch out Utah here we come. So anyone who would like to see us let me know cuz we will only  be there a week and i don't know if you know this but we are kind of a big deal so we will be pretty busy! Love you all!

Happy days for me..

Happy days for me!  My and Zacks life has been so wonderful as of late. I got a job finally doing some thing i like and happen to be good at. I officially start August 1st at The Oaks at Broad River apartment community as a leasing consultant. We are enjoying our new kitty who we decided to name Cleopatra,  Cleo for short, she has so much personality and is so funny. Zack has only slightly given up on kayak fishing, he is getting discouraged, but i told him i am glad that he dosent go out and catch 4 fish every time he goes cuz i dont think i could keep up with cooking that much fish. i finally tried my hand at reupholstering / refurbishing, and in case your wondering, its a lot of freakin work! i redid an old chair of zacks. its pictured below.


Quite an improvement if i do say so. Best part is, it only cost me about $10. Gotta love being cheap. One of things i think i will miss terribly when i go back to work is reading, i know cue laughing now, i used to hate reading, but in just the last month i have read 3 books. ya i am weird. i have read 3 out of the 4 Harper Connelly novels. Plus i finished a wonderful book called The Art of Racing in the Rain, if your looking for a good book i recommend this one over any book i have read in the last 4 years!

There is also new earrings, bracelets and necklaces up on my website - cpjewelery.com- as always i very much appreciate your comments and feed back on my stuff, if you hate something please tell me! .



Thanks again for all of your support!




      And a special congratulations to one of my good friends Kristy! She and her husband just welcomed a healthy and beautiful baby girl into the world!

Still Alive...

Sorry sorry sorry. Never fear i did not die, i have just been busy wife and friend! So run down on what happened in the latest bit of forever. I was blessed enough to be able to go home to Utah for my sisters graduation and also for my sister in laws graduation and birthday! Both of those were really exciting and so fun. i am so proud of my sister she gets more and more amazing every day. She leaves for Southern Utah University at the end of summer, it makes me feel so old that my baby sis is going to college!  Zack and i are still loving South Carolina, i am mostly adjusted to the insane weather and crushing humidity. Zack goes kayak fishing every Saturday and Sunday, he caught 3 sharks all about 3-4 feet long! i though that it was amazing he then informed me that those are just the "babies" and i told him he is crazy and if he gets his hand bit off i am gonna kill him! i am still making jewelry like a mad woman, sadly enough my stuff isn't selling well. So that means i get to start looking for a job... yay... i am trying to get a job as a leasing consultant again, ill keep you all updated on that. We have a new addition to our family, no i am not pregnant, though i wish i was. We adopted a beautiful black kitty- she is as of yet unnamed, we are open to suggestions! That is pretty much all i have for now. Thank you to all of my followers who have purchased items of my website and thank to everyone else who supports my bizarre creativity in other ways! love you all! till next time!!!

Lovin The Good Life...

We love South Carolina! The are so many amazing things to do here; fish, kayak, go to the beach, enjoy the local way of life. Its pretty wonderful. That being said... I have a rant or five. The state bird of SC should be the mosquito! I kid you not they are everywhere! But they aren't what is bad, the worst things here are these little flying demons called nats I am sure they have some cool scientific name but i don't know it nor do i care what it is. All you need to know is they are Satan's minons sent here to drive us crazy till we do evils things, like punch children and kill small animals. Other interesting SC wildlife fact is... I have discovered  raccoons like dog food.... anyone wondering how i know this? The answer my adorable friends is that raccoons ripped apart the screen door on my patio and opened the drawer containing 30 pounds of said dog food and ate it... ALL! To my beloved friends and family in Utah, I am aware we have raccoons there but they are not the size of a small horse or a large dog. and they do not rip apart your patio for dog food.OK that is that. Now on to happier/funnier news. We have a Mocking Bird nesting in a tree outside our house and i love listening to it through out the day is sings so pretty. If you notice a pattern here its because SC is so full of crazy awesome creatures! Zack always jokes that the outside of our house sounds like the indoor bird rooms that all zoos seem to have, where you have 8 millions birds making noise plus the wildlife sound track they play in the back ground. Its pretty amazing. Minus the nats and mosquitoes we are for sure livin' and lovin' the good life!

For those of you interested in what Zack is up to. He is has taken up kayak fishing. I swear the love of my life cant just have a cheap hobby! lol. Thats alright though he really likes it and keeps him happy and busy on the weekends. Kayak $250. Seat $140. Racks for the car $200. Having happy husband... Priceless! He still likes his job most of the time but gets sick of the politics of the Marine Corps,all of you Marine wifes know exactly what I'm talking bout! I told him almost any job had politics, I don't know if that encouraged or discouraged him. Zack is finally able to ride his motorcycle! Its a very happy day for both of us, we missed ridding the bike everywhere!

I am so delighted I get to go home to Utah in just 9 days for my baby sisters graduation! I cant believe that she is graduating. While I am home I get to go to Zack's sister graduation also and I get to see the best in-laws in the world. I am so lucky that i was blessed with in-laws that are sane in all the right ways and crazy in the all the other best ways. I have put several new things on cpjewelery.com if your interested! I have to admit I am getting slightly discouraged with my website, its not doing well. People tell me all the time how pretty my stuff is and how they love it and want to buy it and yet I just cant seem to sell it. I have even lowered lots of my prices. Little bit frustrating that is for sure.

Thats about all for right now. I'd love any feed back you guys have for me about my website, good or bad.

New Start... Again...

To my many adoring followers(all 9 of you), never fear I have not died or fallen off the face of the earth, I have simply moved 1000 miles and had no internet. Needless to say I have been quite busy and have had several adventures. So just a heads up this is probably going to be a very very long post.  How shall i begin? I vote chronologically.

We have left biloxi MS. Thank heaven, I hated that place. I am however very sad to be going our separate ways with a lot of great Marines hopefully we can meet up again at some point.  The drive from Mississippi to South Carolina isn't terrible its quite pretty actually.Tthere are a few places we drove through that I am pretty sure is the winter home for big foot, said big foot could have been in the trees doing yoga and I never would have seen him or her cuz the growth is so thick.

We arrived! To a super cute 1950s era house in beautiful Beaufort, South Carolina. Its 3 bedrooms and 2 baths. One of my favorite things about it is that we have a huge fenced yard so Zy can run around like a crazy dog. We also have a cute screened porch and several old growth trees in our yard. I  love to watch Zy try his hardest to catch the squirrels. On a side note, I have decided that there is definitely enough squirrels here that if they ever mobilized and decided to attack, we would be Screwed! There are like a million of them. Being the hippy that I am, I am quite pleased to announce that I have already built a compost bin, I will very soon be putting in my veggie garden and I've painted almost every room. I have a terrible phobia of white walls. Also I think I finally have all my crap that has been spread out all over the great state of Utah for the last year and a half, things included in that are my holiday decor, and my pottery wheel and kiln. Don't forget I did warn you that I am a hippy about 2 sentences ago.

Zack has started his job with his unit here. He likes everyone thus far, he is kinda low man on the totem pole right now but thats pretty much standard at any new place. The hours here are a bit longer but what can ya do. He is on cloud nine right now due to us finally getting his motorcycle and his weight set here. Typical Marine work out and go fast what else could he need.

see the focus in his face, he is watching the birds

We went to the beach for the first time, its lovely it reminds me of the Oregon coast but slightly warmer. Its currently jellyfish breading season and because of that there are huge dead jellies every where, they are roughly the size of a soccer ball. A really great thing about the beaches here is they allow dogs so we are able to take Zy, he adores the beach. We also went fishing!! We love fishing, actually we hate fishing what we love is catching. Unfortunately we haven't caught anything yet. But we are just learning the area so thats to be expected.

i found this crab eating a dead jelly, sav calls this my critter face.

Pretty much we love this place thus far.

New Start... Again...

To my many adoring followers(all 9 of you), never fear I have not died or fallen off the face of the earth, I have simply moved 1000 miles and had no internet. Needless to say I have been quite busy and have had several adventures. So just a heads up this is probably going to be a very very long post.  How shall i begin? I vote chronologically.

We have left biloxi MS. Thank heaven, I hated that place. I am however very sad to be going our separate ways with a lot of great Marines hopefully we can meet up again at some point.  The drive from Mississippi to South Carolina isn't terrible its quite pretty actually.Tthere are a few places we drove through that I am pretty sure is the winter home for big foot, said big foot could have been in the trees doing yoga and I never would have seen him or her cuz the growth is so thick.

We arrived! To a super cute 1950s era house in beautiful Beaufort, South Carolina. Its 3 bedrooms and 2 baths. One of my favorite things about it is that we have a huge fenced yard so Zy can run around like a crazy dog. We also have a cute screened porch and several old growth trees in our yard. I  love to watch Zy try his hardest to catch the squirrels. On a side note, I have decided that there is definitely enough squirrels here that if they ever mobilized and decided to attack, we would be Screwed! There are like a million of them. Being the hippy that I am, I am quite pleased to announce that I have already built a compost bin, I will very soon be putting in my veggie garden and I've painted almost every room. I have a terrible phobia of white walls. Also I think I finally have all my crap that has been spread out all over the great state of Utah for the last year and a half, things included in that are my holiday decor, and my pottery wheel and kiln. Don't forget I did warn you that I am a hippy about 2 sentences ago.

Zack has started his job with his unit here. He likes everyone thus far, he is kinda low man on the totem poll right now but thats pretty much standard at any new place. The hours here are a bit longer but what can ya do. He is on cloud nine right now due to us finally getting his motorcycle and his weight set here. Typical Marine work out and go fast what else could he need.

see the focus in his face, he is watching the birds

We went to the beach for the first time, its lovely it reminds me of the Oregon coast but slightly warmer. Its currently jellyfish breading season and because of that there are huge dead jellies every where, they are roughly the size of a soccer ball. A really great thing about the beaches here is they allow dogs so we are able to take Zy, he adores the beach. We also went fishing!! We love fishing, actually we hate fishing what we love is catching. Unfortunately we haven't caught anything yet. But we are just learning the area so thats to be expected.

i found this crab eating a dead jelly, sav calls this my critter face.

Pretty much we love this place thus far.

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.