Jitterbug's Beat

Junk in the Trunk. Only not Junk.

I can't believe I let all this time pass by and forgot to mention my very first trunk show, which my good friend and co-worker was kind enough to host 'round the middle of December.  Molly sent me some fantastic jewelry trees for my display - they were a hit!  And JW enabled me to locate a table cloth large enough to cover a pingpong table.  Who woulda thunk it would be so hard to get the dimensions of a pingpong table.  

 

After procuring giant double-bottles of wine from Costco (god bless you Costco) we were ready to get people tipsy enough to spend some money!  The show was a hit - we had a good turnout, and thankfully, the snow didn't start until the next day.  

Mom had the idea, when I was visiting over Thanksgiving, of using colorful card stock for earring cards - it was fantastic - pairs stayed together, and I made a whole bunch of $6.00 gemstone pairs.  

One of my co-workers who purchased a gorgeous blue y-necklace told me that she picked her daughter up from daycare to discover her daughter wearing her necklace!  Apparently her husband let their daughter pick out her outfit for the day, so she headed straight for her mom's jewelry box and picked out the new piece.  Not too shabby - if my work can withstand an entire day on a toddler - and what can I say, that kid has great taste!  

Everybody seemed just delighted with the show - we're planning another one for somewhere before Mother's Day.  

AND I've finally got my stuff up on Etsy and Big Cartel.  Check it out yo!  Coming up?  My web page!  

Not again. And so soon...

Another big moment for me this week.  Being so proud of myself for getting back on track with food and exercise, I was rushing out the door of the office ready to go to a class at the gym.  I didn't have much time, nor space, as I was tossing clothes willy-nilly in a tiny bathroom stall.  But I made it - got to the gym, into class, got my step all set up and ready to roll.  The instructor turned on the music and I was about to make one last adjustment - tying the drawstrings of my pants.  Only when I reached for them, there weren't any.  Odd?  Not quite.  They were there, in the front of my pants, which were facing to the rear.  Yup, I put my pants on backwards.  To my credit - they weren't button fly.  

Ahem ... your blonde is showing.

Doggone it, Kelly.  So about three years ago or so, I was watching Bones, which I love, and they had the most wonderful song on the episode - I had to find it.  So after a lot of waiting, finally it was up on the show's website.  The song was "Bring on the Wonder" by ... who I thought was a woman by the name of Susan Enan Feat.  Until yesterday I still was desperately trying to find this song, searching google, searching Itunes, searching Pandora... finally yesterday I found the Bones soundtrack in Itunes and LOW AND BEHOLD, there it was.  The song "Bring on the Wonder" IS by Susan Enan... however the "Feat" was short for "featuring... Sarah McLaughlan.  The damn website cut it off, all those years ago... and all this time I've been looking for a lady named Feat.  Well.

Bah humbug.

At our office today, we were instructed to go around to our absent broker's desks and do away with all of their Christmas cards because we were instructed to remove every remnant of Christmas by the end of the day.  So in the spirit of being an exemplary employee, and a serious buzz-killer, I've even given myself a theme song - crediting The Simpsons, and the Grinch Who Stole Christmas...

"You're a mean one, Kelly S.  You're a nasty, wasty skunk!  You're a double-bacon genius burger, and just a little drunk, Kelly S....!" 

Now I'm off to steal Christmas cards.  Bwaaahahahahaha!