Beijos

My heart is beating right outta my chest.
Going to see my Milli Girl!
She's been on Rotary exchange since August.
Counting the milliseconds til our eyes meet and I start breathing right again.

Not sure if I'll be able to get on here but we'll chat when I get back!
Peace Love and Light Dear Friends
x o x

August 8, 2009
Eu Te Amo
<3

Where Women Create!

I was going to Blog this week about my jewelry and show you where I create.

The only studio I have is in my dreams and throughout my nest.

My blogging ended up going perfectly with new issue of Where Women Create coming out!

Well, I think it's not on newsstands 'til May 1st but I got my issue week!!
...our local Creekside Books and Coffee will have them soon!

It's absolutely beautiful and I'm grateful to Jo Packham from the bottom of my heart.

x o x

Also to my dear friend Patience Brewster who sent WWC into my life.

Last May on my way out the door to have coffee and CELEBRATE the lasttt day of High School FOREVER, Patience called and asked if I could shift plans a bit so the Creator and Editor Jo Packham and photographer Dana Waldon could stop by and meet me for a "minute"..."Just a minute" she said.

They had just spend several days doing Patience WONDERFUL article and were headed to the airport.

...thinking back I ALMOST said no....???!!!

It's just that I was soooo doneee with my girls and HS and I had been waiting for thattt LAST day for 14 years! FOURTEEN years!

A long time ago I read The Celestine Prophecy and vowed that I would be open and say YES to as many things I could that came my way in life...'cause ya just never know how life changing they can be!!!

In the 15 minutes I had before they arrived I shoved my mail and stray papers in the oven...my mom used to do that, cleaned the toilet...women alwaysss have to go pee pee, and swiped a few cob webs here and there.

...After all they were just staying a minute.

Andddd...what would they want with me anyyyyway? I don't even have a studio!!

They ended up staying over 2 hours and I found myself posing and smiling for photographs and falling completely in-love with Jo!

<3 

The day was surreal and I kept pinching myself after they left.

I could not even explain to Dave when he came home for lunch exactly what had just happened to me.

I didn't even know what the hey I was wearing??? I was justtt going for coffee!

I kept telling myself that they probably wouldn't put me in the magazine and that the day was just a FUNNNNN Yes saying Life memory.

!!!!!

 (Looks like I'm touching my bippy but I'm really not. I'm just holding my finger.)

My friend Gail says I alwayyys do that.

Some of the photos just would not insert here properly noooo matter how manyyy times I tried. 

They ended up posting sideways!

I swear it's the WWC Fairies keeping them a secret so you go and get a copy of your own!! :)

Part of being creative is change and being able to flow where it takes you.

My house looks different from when WWC first took photographs.

I'm constantly shoving cupboards and rearranging.

...it mayyy even look different by morning!...Dave flows. A LOT. xox

This is how our living room looks now and it's where I do my glass ball jewelry.

My Chiropractor husband HATES that rope chair!

Itouch. Check. 

Cellphone. Check.

Netbook. Check.

Facebook. Check.

My name is Cindy Petters and I don't have a studio and I'm kinda sorta addicted to Facebook.

There. 

I said it.

I had a BRILLIANT idea this Fall to add a kitchen couch right in front of the woodstove!

It kept us cozyyy alllll winter long.

(WONDERFUL U.S. made furniture from The Colonial Housefitter in Jamesville NY)

We moved the old stepback cupboard that was just a giant decoration on the side wall to behind the couch and in front of the sink and reeeally use it like it was meant to be!

THAT was life changing!!!

Dining room through the right and living room through the left.

My dining room is where I do my Farmgirl Sass necklaces and bracelets...earrings to come!

Farmgirl SASS

'Kickin' FUN Goin' to Town Jewelry'

...the colors were so bright and happy but didn't really go with my primitive drab farmhouse surroundings so I thought of a name to make it all mesh nicely in my soul. Ahh.

Yummyyyy gemstones of all colors, shapes, and kinds!

(...the PLASTIC containers drive me cRaZy but are kind of necessary for this)

This is really how i made it allll these years through High School and Life.

To all

x o x

Too many to pick from.

So the truth of the matter is, the reason I have a blog is because I am going to be in the coming May issue of a most WONDERFUL magazine 

Where Women Create

During my interview they asked for my blog address.

"Blog address?"

"Ohhhh yeaaaa myyyy bloggg addressss"

...YIKES how the hey do you start a blog?!!!

Feeling sooo not magazine worthy to begin with...especially thisss magazine!...I didn't even have a gosh darn blog.

After two days of stomach knots I figured it out.

But

Had NOthing to write.

Feeling moreee unworthy.

I sat and stared for over a week.

Where do I begin? Do I start from the beginning? 

My birth??

I took a deep breath and started writing bits about that very day.

Now

All week long my head thinks blog. 

Ooooo I'll blog this! 

No, THIS!

NOOOO THISSSS!

THIS week way too many FUN things happened so I decided to post them ALL

I can't believe I reeeally have a blog now.

 But

...shhhhh

The messed up worry about everything feel unworthy Italian Catholic born me is really secretly doing it in case I loose my mind someday or have something tragic happen...(Italian Catholics alwaysss worry about tragedy)...and the therapist needs material to jog my memory so when my family visits I smile. 

Really. 

It's my Father's side.

Easter Sunday

Angel Baby Julia on Easter Morn

I told you.

Popperoni

Don't these just make you wanna pop and explode?!!

Julia and Grandpa

this is killin' me

xox

Uncle Byron singing like an Angel

I know I know it's probably a sin to take photos the whole time during church.

But just look at that!

And that!
Seeing this from the balcony made my heart leap right off the edge.

Father Daughter <3 <3

Beauty. 

Inside and out.

Aunt Lizzy <3

Bellville discovered on my after church walk.

Welcome to Bellville Countryside

So cute!

In the early afternoon we walked down the street to the annual Easter Brunch at our friend Tracy's house.

A highlight is the homemade music later in the day.

The weather was perfect for a porch performance. 

 Peggy and Sweet Caroline

Later towards evening we took desert down the street to more friends.

Lacy made a Lemon Poundcake without the pounds! 

Nooo butter...Yogurt!

BEST darn cake ever! Anddd sooo pretty :)

She's my cooker girl xox

Monday

Doug's Fish Fry rolled back their price's to when they fist opened

April 1,1982

2.50 Fish Sandwiches!!

The line was just like this allll day long!

Dave and I around 6:30 pm

Owner Mark and a fish lovin' pooch.

BIG pooch.

Friend's Vanessa and Mike

:)

Mr. Doug himself and Mark

Willis getting his picture taken

Cute Cute

Dave and I and the Big Guy

It was dark by the time we made it to the door.

Soooo worth the wait.

Not just GREAT food but FUN happyyy people and pooches all night long.

Wednesday

Two of my FAVORITE coffee shop customeres.

Betty and Paulette

Back after being gone since January

Poor Paulette broke her leg skiing. Her femurrr! :( :( :(

All's well in my Creekside world again xoxo

The back parking lot entrance to Creekside Books and Coffee

15...FIFTEEN Duck Eggs in a nest behind the little tree!!

Yep, I already cried over the smooched one :(

Working on a "Duck Crossing" sign for the parking lot...Pleeease be careful!

Later in the day I called my Lacy to see what she was up to on her day off.

She was right down the street at the Bowling Alley!

Welcoming her friend Dana home from Iraq

Lacy and Dana

He likes to kiss me but that's another story.

Thursday

 Kevin shows up with his coool car just like I used to have!!!!

1964 Rambler

My BEST car ever!!!

Girlfriend sits next to boyfriend seat

 <3 

Art

Great lights!!

Simple engine even I could understand 

Why oh why do they have to change what's already good?

Like Oreo's.

Peanut Butter. Mint. Yellow Cookie. Fudge Covered. Double Creme. Triple Creme.

White Cookie and Chocolate Creme.......

 

Now cars just look like sneakers on wheels to me.

I really want that ipad though. Really bad.