Jen’s Blog

You know, if you’re ever in the mood to make your own jewelry, instead of buying it? Have I got a deal for you! I’m an incurable bead buyer - so sometimes I sell some extra goodies to make room for, well, buying more Go on over to my Etsy shop and look around! You’ll find some wonderful jewelry goodies - and some wonderful bargains, too.

Verdigris Patina Brass Centerpiece.   

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That’s just one sample. And of course you can buy just the number you want - no need to get huge numbers of thingies unless you want to.  

It’s a win-win situation. Mention that you saw my promo here in my blog - and you get a free gift.

P.S. A warning: Etsy is addicting. I mean it! 

 

I live in the midwest, so the cliche of Spring floating in during early April and May being moderate and lovely, June warming up a bit…. all that kinda goes wacko around here. We may get 95 degrees in March. Or snow in April. This year it kinda went from Winter to storms, and then storms, and then storms, and then… well you get the idea. Cold and rainy and crappy.Then there was the tornado. Then one of the trees in our backyard crashed into the (live) power line and telephone pole. And then we waited a week. With a live power line tilted crazy about four feet over our back deck. Then they fixed it - pulled out the telephone pole, got rid of the slack in the still-live wires, cut the tree away from the wires. Of course they left it there, but hey, that’s why we have a chainsaw.

Like all of us I’m super aware right now of the rising cost of energy - our last electric bill was WAY higher than last year’s. My DH stationed himself in front of the meter and we tried an experiment - turned off one appliance, checked the mater; turned it back on then turned off another one, checked the meter. Rinse and repeat. We were trying to see what cost the most, energy-wise. Not surprisingly, one of the worst offenders was the clothes dryer.So the question is - is our dryer inefficient because it’s 8 years old? Would it be cost effective to replace it - or just not use it? I’m definitely going to try the “hanging the wash on the line” routine. Will update here if anybody’s curious - when we see if it really does make a difference.