No Time for Fun

I have had no time to make jewelry for weeks now. Work has continually gotten in the way. It's hard running a business when the only day of the week you have to do so is Saturday. I have some orders for a couple of pieces that I think I can knock out tomorrow, though...along with trips to the bank, bead store, post office, and FedEx. I also need to find a printer for new business cards, since the printer I use has switched to flimsy cardstock. Joy.

In case you're wondering, I've had exactly one person sign up for my monthly giveaway for March. Here's your chance to win a pair of earrings...the odds are totally in your favor. :) While you're at it, join the Dragonfly mailing list. Your details are never, ever provided to anyone else, and every so often I send out emails announcing new products, giveaways, "cash", and coupons. What have you got to lose? :)

So, I haven't done Friday Finds in a while, huh? Let's take care of that now, shall we?

I actually do dream of cake, frankly. I gave up sugary goodies for Lent, and it has been Hell, people. I do not mean figuratively, either, as my new job sucks the wad in a major way and is insanely stressful, and I use chocolate the way other people use cigarettes, alcohol, or valium. Like a junkie uses heroine. I'm not kidding. So to have endured all the Machiavellian nastiness at my day job without benefit of a Hostess cupcake and caffeine fix every day has been sheer torture. When I die, if I go to hell, I will spend eternity stuck in LA traffic, craving Ding Dongs and Diet Coke, listening to Walden on tape.

Dude. Seriously.

Oh. And if those aren't the prettiest cakes you've ever seen in your life, I want to see the ones you'd rank higher.

And because I clearly have sweets on my mind, for those of you who have sworn off other food things because of allergies or whatever, and figured that gluten allergy meant you were non-caking it for the rest of your life, be of good cheer. Cherrybrook Kitchen may just save your sweet tooth from the permafrost of most wheat-free, dairy-free, gluten-free "desserts".

I just like the story behind Abby Jean Press. Anyone who likes to burst into song spontaneously is the kind of person I want to hang out with. You never know when a Rodgers & Hammerstein musical might come out of it...or an episode of Buffy.

If I were, like, a successful Manhattan business woman, I might carry one of these. More specifically, the Reese, in all black and with the blue polka dot interior. :)

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Jenie