My 5 month old had his second of 3 open heart surgeries a few weeks ago. He is home & doing well :) Aside from being a bit cranky & no longer sleeping through the night you would never know that he just had surgery. Babies are so resiliant it is amazing!

Now I am trying to catch up with so many things...like life mostly. I have my biggest show of the year coming up in 1 1/2 weeks & I am hardly prepaired for it, but hopefuly I will kick butt & have another great show!

I took this picture a few days before his surgery...it is too cute not to share :)

I signed up for another writing website. It is called ehow.com. Its is a How to site and pretty simple to write for.

This is my first article I got published with them

How to survive life with 4 young kids

http://www.ehow.com/how_2375675_survive-life-young-kids.html

I am going to submit it to my other writing sites too. This is the first one that accepted it.

This is on Associated Content and is still my favorite

Conquering the Learning Curve

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/346046/conquering_the_learning_curve.html?cat=9


I am trying to get all of my articles that I started when I was pregnant finished. There are about 2 dozen coming...

It is really odd not vending every weekend...

I haven't spent much time online lately. In the beginning of May my baby was born with a Congentital Heart Defect & had to have his first of 3 Open Heart Surgeries. It was pretty scary for a while. He was in the hospital almost a month. I was updating my friends and family from my livejournal site:

http://hsilversprite.livejournal.com/

His whole story so far is there along with pictures :D

He still needs 2 more surgeries, the next one will be late this summer or early the fall.

I am so proud of my strong little boy!

I guess I have been neglecting my journal here for a few months & I was just informed that I never told anyone I was having another baby. I was talking to my friend Shane the other day and I sure thought that he knew I was having another baby, but nope. I forgot to mention it to lots of my long distant friends and I didn't post it here. I have to admit that I am amused by the fact that Shane acted like he knew what I was talking about & I think it is pretty sweet that he decided to take on the roll of the flaky friend when it was me who was being forgetful. In my defense though I do get to be a bit scatterbrained when I am pregnant.

So for those of you who don't know this yet I am pregnant with baby number 4! Holy Moly!

And for those who should have known by now I am sorry! LOL!

I am just about 7 1/2 months, so I guess I have been a bit busy as well as scatterbrained. There were a few occasions that I thought that I was loosing the baby so we wanted to wait until I was well into my third month to tell every one and then I guess I got busy with my holiday shows and forgot to tell everyone.

So anyways there is the latest update in my already hectic life. We had just figured out how to fit the three young ones that we have already comfortably into our home when we found out. Our 4.5 year home remodel is just about finished up & now we have really outgrown our little home. We have designed several additions for our house & I think that we may have come to a decision...maybe, heehee. I think I am driving my husband crazy with all the changes. The nice thing about the addition is that I get a new studio...yippie...that will be big enough for all of my supplies and my kiln, glass & tools.

I got my studio organized after the holiday beading frenzie and have been taking pictures of my new jewelry, so I will be once again adding new jewelry to my website. I have lots of new designs & I can't wait to get them up on my website for sale! I have lots of new Fairy Cluster Pendants© and have some fused glass that I made this past fall. I was hoping to get my kiln fired up this week, but got into beading & taking pictures and ran out of time. But everything is ready to go and I will be firing up the kiln early next week! So far I have only made earrings, the next batch I have set up and ready to fire will be full of pendants & I am so excited to see how they turn out!

I usually surf the web or go through wonderful boards like this one looking for artists, artisans & crafters to exchange links with. My link pages are pretty much a huge list of sites I have come across & need a place to store them so I don't forget about them or loose them.

Since I am feeling a bit under the weather & lazy I will just ask for link exchange here instead of sending out personal emails for the request. Lots of times emails get lost in spam folders & over looked.

Here is my main link page

There is some weird glitch that has disorganized a few of the links on the main page & I am trying to get that figured out, all the catagories are all where they should be though. It really drives me crazy...just a touch of OCD, but I will eventually get the main page straigtened out.

So just a few simple guidelines for my link page nothing too major:

Your site has to be fairy, fantasy, pagan, veggie, organic, holistic, (you get the picture) and all items that you have for sale must be handmade by you. No resell sites. If you follow the link above to my link pages you can see all the catagories. Your site has to truely be family friendly, tastful nudity is fine, if it is over the top I will not be able to add your link. Also, I am very sorry to say that I do not accept other jewelers unless they are close & personal friends...I am trying to feed my family & don't really have it in me to advertise for the competition, but I do have a TopSite list that jewelers can join called Enchanted Realm & Artisans Gallery

We all know that good link exchanges help our websites & I have to admit I have followed links after links after links & found some wonderful sites with out ever having to do a Google search. So leave me a comment, or send me a message with your web address & we can do a link exchange.

Thanks!