Some more Jewellery

Here's some more jewellery that has sold very quickly. I've been experimenting with beading.

Sold some jewellery

The good news for March is that I've actually sold some jewellery, which I'm really pleased about. I made 5 more necklaces the other night and have listed them on Ebay too, so hopefully the majority of them will go. I'm looking forward to my jewellery making class on March 29th.

Everything is coming along nicely. I've done the first week of Uni already and I think all the subjects are good for me, so I'm pleased about that. I'm really looking forward to getting stuck into them as the semester progresses.

Today my girlfriends daughter cut Stephanie's hair by cropping the front fringe. Her friend is only 5 and we're all glad that she didn't progress to around the back. An emergency fix up by the hairdresser may have helped but I think overall we'll just have to wait for her hair to grow! Never mind.

Things are progressing well, and I'm looking forward to seeing what good news April will bring.

Jewel of the Tides

Discover nature's vanishing gems.
Natural seaglass.

This is what has been keeping me occupied recently. Over the past 6 weeks or so I've become an almost professional beach-comber. After seeing someone collect some seaglass at a recent visit to the beach, out of curiosity I wanted to find out how old the pieces are, particuarly the really round and worn ones and was blown away with the fact that some pieces could have been made in the mid-1850's! I've found that red, orange and yellow seaglass is rare world wide. Black is rare everywhere except Australia and is probably our oldest glass, it is really a very, very dark olive green when held up to bright sunlight. Blue is common in other places but very rare in Australia. I've found 4 blue pieces and 1 red piece. The red is likely to have come from a boat light. I've also found out there are almost 800 shipwrecks off the South Australian coast.
Seaglass is disappearing. As pieces get worn down to nothing, or people collect them, or they become buried forever under deep piles of sand the glass is not being replaced as people are more wary of litter and plastic has taken over as the preferred container to hold liquids as opposed to glass. So seaglass really is nature's vanishing gem.

The more I read, the more interested I became in the different types of seaglass and I started collecting it. I found some sites that make some gorgeous jewellery with it. So since then I've also embarked on teaching myself how to make jewellery!
Here are my first creations. I've sourced some itty bitty bottles and have filled them with teeny tiny seaglass and I've experimented with wire wrapping.
I've also incorporated my scrapbooking too! As I've done some off the page items for my seaglass storage and my jewellery findings.
Life is still as fantastic as ever!

It's all go, go, go!

Everything is happening! It's all positive.

Stephanie started pre-school and she loves her 'kindergarten' as she likes to call it. I think her first day was a bit un-nerving for her, not knowing what was going to happen because on her first day she had to go to day care and they do a 'kindy run'. It's a great system, they walk the kids up through the back gate, through the primary oval and in through the back gate of the pre-school. So she had to do that on her first day and she told me later she was a bit scared. But after that, well, it's a breeze now! She goes for 2.5 hours 4 days per week.

I'm all enrolled and registered for lectures and tuts at Uni. Got my ID card and also bought my books too! The elective (Psychology) subject had over $150 in books alone, good job the other topics I've chosen aren't all expensive books. That starts on March 3rd.

I'm also fully registered to begin Lifeline training on Feb 11th.

So it's all go, go, go and go some more. The future's so bright I gotta wear shades...lol

Lifeline Telephone Counselling Training Coming Up

And the good news in my life just keeps accumulating! 2008 is shaping up to be a tremendous year. Boy, January and now February have already realised some goals. Can't wait for the rest of the year to see what good stuff is in store.

I have been accepted to start Telephone Counselling Training for Lifeline. What an opportunity! I can hardly wait for the weekly sessions start, well, they're not long away, Feb 11th is the first.

This is the stuff that silver linings are made of. After 6 years of a lot of 'crapdom' that I had no control over being dished out on me, finally, I can use my experiences (with some training) to help others overcome the obstacles in their lives. What a wonderful opportunity.

I'm excited! Do I sound excited? I sure feel it.

It's University for me!

It's official, I've been given a main round offer for enrolling into Flinders University. I've applied for a double degree 4 year programme of Socal Work and Social Planning. I plan to attend full-time but I'll have to see how that works with Stephanie etc. She'll be needing to go do day care a bit more often, but I don't think that will be a problem as the day care do a pre-school 'run' twice per day to drop the kids off and pick them up again. So that means she'll be going to pre-school with the same friends she attends day care with. I think she'll be ok.

It's just me and Stephanie on our own now. I've separated from David and while we still have some details to sort out all seems to be going well, which is good.

I'm excited about University, I hope my grey matter isn't too 'matured' in that it will forget how to retain information, but it's a new career change for me and the future looks pretty good.

I'm 4 today!

Stephanie is 4 today! It's amazing how the time has flown. We had a great party yesterday, with several friends around and everyone had a really good time. Stephanie got lots of presents including a new bike with training wheels, a Doctors Crash Cart Kit and puppy and vet kit, My LIttle Pony musical jewellery box, Bratz Angel doll, My Pet Shop Puppy and a gardening set. She was really over the moon.

The photo is of her in the 3legged race with Jack and a couple at the blowing of the candles ceremony. I was so proud of the way she looked when we were all singing happy birthday as last year she went all coy and hid behind her hands and started to get really embarrassed, but not yesterday, she was a gorgeous charming little lady preening in all the attention of her special day.

{sigh} They grow up too quickly.