and all the trees in the field clap their hands

This month I have been through a lot, to say the least. I spent a lot of time with my cousins and drove around in the fog, in a fog. I bought two pairs of jeans off the internet that fit great, especially one pair was hemmed up by my illustrious momma. I went to Disneyland for seven hours and two baby showers. I saw Black Swan and ate a lot of Handi-Snacks. Readjusting my life has taken some… readjusting. I’m working on it.

I bought this on one of my mall trips:

Stretchy, plastic beaded bracelets, for about five bucks or so. I like the For Love 21 store, the accessory store for Forever 21. It has a lot of cute, cheap, junk that I don’t mind taking apart and making into things that are better:

Furthering my descent into plastic-mania (a long no-no in this household, but a rule I’ve been breaking lately), I bought some plastic flower things from Michael’s in the scrapbooking section and started gluing them on things:

Inspired by that success (I am using Aleen’s Jewel-It glue, which is pretty strong and seems to work just fine in terms of bonding plastic to metal) I ordered a bunch of resin cabochons from Snapcrafty on Etsy.

Those are so getting the glue treatment, believe you me. I love how they make easy statement rings.

I also got a bunch of bezel rings from Michael’s from the Industrial Chic line, which for the most part hasn’t interested me much (I’m not into found object stuff, to each their own), but I had purchased a resin kit at BABE! in November that I still haven’t used, but thought would be cool to try in the rings. I am not sure how that’s going to work at all, but I’m going to try it out later in the week.

This weekend I will be in Sacramento visiting with my friend Margie who is in town for training from San Antonio, and I plan to stop at U Bead It, my favorite bead store, for additional brass supplies to set the cabochons in.

Margie and I went to San Francisco this weekend. I don’t normally go to the city if I can help it, but we had fun. I hadn’t ever been to the Golden Gate Bridge recreational area, so we stopped there and then headed down to Fisherman’s Wharf and Pier 39, where we went to the Aquarium by the Bay. That was a little pricey but if you’re a fan of the underwater tubes where sharks and fish swim all around, I definitely recommend it.

It’s kind of amazing the sheer amount of things I packed into January. I can’t believe it’s February already.