From the Mind of AlphaBetsy

This month has been a test. The first two weekends held renaissance festivals. Then came Mother's day. Then an unexpected death. Then the Race for the Cure. This past weekend saw a road trip to Missouri, a couple of fun stops and a close encounter of the tornado kind. With all of this going on I also made the deans list at school and was invited to the Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society. I am definitely going to join. I secured my loans for the next year plus. And I got my next set of classes scheduled. Woo-hoo. I have a couple of papers to write this weekend and then my classes are done for the spring quarter. Time flies. My weight loss is still  going. Slowly, but still moving downward. The last two weekends with a funeral and a road trip did nothing to help. Most people do not bring healthy foods to the bereaved, they bring comfort foods. And while I did pretty good food wise on the road trip, I snacked a lot. More than I should have for sure. My new goal is to hit one-derland by...

These are some of the really cool items that I have purchased in the last couple of months. This is just a catch up so you can see some of my great finds. Another awesome silver tea set from Goodwill A vintage scale from an awesome little shop in Clintonville.  Vintage Buttons for my Wedding Bouquet!!  More Vintage Buttons Even more vintage buttons!!  And yet more vintage buttons!! I really like buttons. Beautiful tea cup and saucer from Anthropologie Beautiful shelf from a vintage shop for $5.  Old artist's tray and palette with old paints that I am going to use to decorate my craft room. Some of the old bottles in the artist's tray. More old bottles from artist's tray pretty white tea cup that was $1 Vintage books to use for wedding crafts  Cute silver tray from Goodwill. Cute bead or other little item tins that were only $4 Native American Day of the Dead Mouse Pad Stone chip necklaces and st...

I am planning out a whole weeks worth of posts today, because it is my day off. Including a general update because it's been a while, a bunch of photos of recent purchases that are too awesome not to share, more from the Missouri trip and more catch up. By the end of the week I will hopefully be all caught up. lol. Then I am going to work on setting up some kind of actual blog schedule, we shall see how that goes. For now here are the latest 4 pages for the 52 weeks of Pagan Art Journaling. Week 6: Goddess Week 7: Water Week 7: Water...cute fishy Week 7: Water ...mermaid  Week 7: Water Week 8: Realizations Week 9: Earth

The lovely Vanessa at A Fanciful Twist is once again hosting her amazing blog party... And this year I am joining the fun. So please stop by on June 25 to enjoy and celebrate with me. Want to join? Click the button on my sidebar or  Fanciful Twist Mad Tea Party 2011 . I just can't wait. I am planning and plotting. 

I have many things to share, but they have been trumped by the recent events in my life. Some of this is a little depressing and I apologize. I will have happy things to report this week too. Getting into this week, on Friday after work Seth and I headed out to meet my family in Joplin Missouri to see my older sister, Krystie, and my nephew, Hunter. Hunter was supposed to be graduating but ended up unable to walk due to a technicality, but we went out anyway to see them. Seth and I stayed Friday night in Indianapolis. We used that night to celebrate our 4 year anniversary of dating, so we had a fancy dinner, then worked out in the hotel fitness center (romantic right?), before retiring to the room. Outside our window in the morning was this view... interesting... It says Official Pace Car on the side.  The next day we headed out early to make the rest of the trip to Joplin. On the way we stopped at my favorite place along the way. It's a shop called the Driftstone Pueblo and t...

This is what I did today. Well along with seeing Thor. What did you do today? Look....it's me.  My Seth. red tailed hawk Harris' Hawk Peregrine Falcon Seth in his viking yarmulche Moira and her bee. Moira hits the knight with a sword...then flees.