Tuesday Treasury

I have been away for a while. I have no excuse other than I have been sick and did not feel up to posting. First came the flu and now I have a sinus infection...but I am on the mend so here is the Tuesday Treasury.

Today I was thinking about rainy days. I thought how I missed out on the last rain we had becasue it was a rainy night and I was sleeping. Now don't get me wrong, I love sleeping when it is raining out, but I would love a rainy day when I can stay in and just do nothing.

The treasury I created for today is all about rain. Please venture over to Etsy and check out this treasury of incredible artists. Please leave me a comment there on what you like and your thoughts.

As a sampling, here are three items you will find in this treasury:

The treasury can be found by clicking here.

Thanks for looking.

Ashley

Contest Winner on www.LisaSmithBlog.com and Promotion

So you may have been to Lisa's blog today to see the winner. Congratulations to Nana's Nuggets! As soon as I receive your address, I will ship the necklace off to you.

As all of you know, I created this necklace to help Lisa with her medical bills...you know the ones that her insurance refused to pay. For every necklace sold, I donate 20% to Lisa and her family. To finish off this giveaway, I want to give everyone a chance to help me donate more.

If you would like to purchase a Lisa necklace, I will donate 50% to Lisa and her family. I will run this promotion for one week. Please order your necklace(s) and help Lisa chip away at that surgery bill that insurance refused. The promotion will end on 2/9/2011.

Any questions at all, please contact me here or through my etsy shop.

-Ashley

Tuesday Treasury

Well, since most people are having snow days, I decided to find blizzard pictures.

I think this picture says it all:

How would you like to be in here?

To see the entire treasury please click here.

I would love for your to look at all the pictures and leave me a comment on the treasury.

As always, I love your comments here and try to respond to everyone.

-Ashley

Treasuries on Tuesday

I am so happy to list my items on etsy.

I feel that I am among some of the most amazing talent. I am not certain if you have ever looked around etsy; but if you have not, you should.

I decided to do a treasury every Tuesday and post it here. Here I will feature my favorites, a theme or who knows...it could be anything.

This Tuesday is my first and in honor of the blog giveaway that started yesterday, I decided to find so pretty animal prints. I think Lisa is partial to animal prints. :) Want to participate in the giveaway, click here.

If you have a theme you want me to search around for, leave me a comment...I am happy to do your requested searches.

So please go check out these fabulous etsy sellers...and the best part is, I do not personally know any of them.

Tuesday Treasury...Grrr...Animal Prints...click here! (part of the way treasuries get to the front page as a feature is when people click and comment on it. So I encourage you to do so.)

Here are four items you will see and a dozen more:

who doesn't need a new make-up bag?

how adorable are these baby booties?

protect your kindle...

cook in style...no one can have too many aprons

Enjoy!

Ashley

Featured Giveaway on www.LisaSmithBlog.com

A dear friend of mine is sitting at MD Anderson in Houston today having scans to make sure that the very rare breast cancer she is fighting is still in remission. Me and many fother riends and family members are praying for clear scans.
January is her anniversary month. Her anniversay of finding out that the lump she felt was not a good one. So this is the month she chose to feature one of my necklaces in her blog giveaway.


Here is a little background....
Back in March of 2010, I was on facebook and I saw a lot of high school friends joining the prayer wall for another high school classmate. Oh dear, I thought...what could be wrong. I did a little research and found her blog. I began reading....reading until I found out why she had a prayer wall. I found out that she was diagnosed with a very rare breast cancer and that she was fighting with her insurance company for a much need surgery....a surgery to save her life.
How can this be, I thought to myself. She is my age...a mother of 4 young children. I ask why to a question there are no real answers for. But as I log in every.single.day. to see how she is doing I find out exactly why. Lisa is the strongest, bravest woman I know. She gives so many people hope and inspiration. She is a bright light at the end of the tunnel.
I am not a religious person, but I was religiously reading her blog. Silently, mind you...never commenting and letting her know. You see, although Lisa and I went to the same high school, I was moving to Arizona around the same time she was moving to Dallas...to the high school I went to. I knew of her, but don't even remember ever chatting. So I could just start commenting on her blog...I didn't know her well enough...
Then on March 22, 2010, I read her blog entry that really upset me. Upset me to the point where I had to reach out. I emailed her....
Since that day, we have chatted often. I still read her blogs regularly. Some days I can still see afterwards, other days I have to wait for my tears to clear.

As you know, I design and make jewelry. That is the reason I started this blog...to help promote the pieces I make and talk about my love for designing and making jewelry.
When I read that Lisa was fighting her insurance company for surgery, I was shocked. Insurance companies that don't pay...we have them to pay, not fight paying. She lost the battle with the insurance company. She had her much needed surgery and she has a huge hospital bill to pay. I wanted to help in any way I could. So I designed a very simple and delicate necklace that I like to call Lisa's necklace. I vowed to her that for every necklace sold, I will donate to her to help her pay her hospital bill or for whatever she needs.

Please visit Lisa's blog here to participate in this giveaway.

Enter to Win I Found

Does your blog need a makeover? I was surfing around blogland and found this contest.
You should definitely check it out.
http://adventuresofabettycrockerwannabe.blogspot.com/2011/01/something-new-is-here_14.html

Enjoy!
Ashley

Resolutions

We are over half way through January....how are your resolutions going? Did you make any?

I don't normally make resolutions, I just go about life as normal. This year, I made some statements to myself about things I wanted to do or change...so it looks like I made some resolutions. I am succeeding at some and not so much on others.

What I am succeeding at:

Cleaning out and getting more organized. Some members of my family will tell you this process is so painfully slow that they don't see any difference. I am here to tell you, I know what has gone into the trash and what has made its way to the recycle bin and there is a difference.

What I am still yet to start:

Eating healthy on a regular basis and going back to the gym. I really want to do these things, I just am so tired and lack the motivation to get started. A quick (processed food) meal is just easier when you are tired. And as for the gym, all of those other resolution people are there so it is probably very crowded. These are the things I tell myself, with maybe next week I will start.

So what are your "resolutions" and how are you doing with them?

Do you have the energy and motivation to complete everything in your day as you would like?

Ashley