I'm desperate!

Greetings friends and lovelies,

I have an exciting opportunity on the horizon, and need your help! Fortune cookie fortunes are such magical little pieces of paper, and I know people often tuck them away somewhere. My favorite holding spot is my billfold- you know, the place where other normal people keep dollar bills? Well I use my debit card, and keep fortunes there instead. On September 13, I will be sending some necklace charms to an event in Minneapolis, including 10 fortune cookie fortune charms.

If anyone out there has any number of fortunes collected that they wouldn't mind sending for a very last-minute project, I would be forever grateful!! I will probably even send you a colorful piece of mail and maybe even a sparkly surprise in return.

My address is: Nicki Honner, 1212 Nez Perce Way, Fort Collins, CO 80524

To those who have fortunes- THANK YOU, and to everyone else- wish me huge jewelry-making vibes as I have a lot to do in a little time frame. Not that that's anything abnormal, mind you.

PS- Just wanted to add that going down to the local store and buying a box of fortune cookies sounds great in theory-- but all the stores I've tried have resulted in bad batches of fortune cookies. Seems like the ones I get at restaurants have so much more character- better messages, lucky numbers, etc.

This is one of the frames I have completed! The glass is an iridescent orange - yellow sort of color. Very hard to describe and capture on camera.

I think the cute puppy pictures are just never going to cease.

Okay- maybe they'll cease when he's 100+ pounds. We'll graduate into cute dog pictures, perhaps.

This is a picture of Koda and his sister Abby. 10 points goes out to anyone who can identify them properly. Not too hard if you scroll on down a bit, I suppose. Ha!

My blogging these days has consisted of puppy photos. He's just so adorable! Lucky for him. He's also very energetic and is teething and pees on stuff a lot. I've not been spending as much time online. We moved into our new place, and have been doing lots of settling in- rearranging the garage, weeding the front and back yard, and just getting adjusted to our new surroundings and schedule in general. Everyone's blogs have been sooo quiet this summer. I keep checking the Light Fantastik in hopes of seeing more pics of sweet Jack, but I suddenly understand more how much a new little being in your world changes things. Perspective changes. Sleep patterns change. The concept of sleeping barely exists, unless you count sleeping until 7:25 a.m. on a Sunday morning as "sleeping in." You thought you were going to have a lazy quiet Thursday night of watching movies? Wrongo.

In other news, I miss cable. I used to get 3 channels, and now due to our proximity to the foothills, we only get 2. One is FOX. Anyone who has ever watched FOX news in the evenings knows it's a fraction of a step up from A Current Affair. So sensationalistic. We don't get the paper because the paper in town stinks (my favorite recent stinky story involved a recent breaking news story on toe rings- the latest "hot trend"), so it's our main news source. Unfortunately. You can only watch so many Malcom in the Middle reruns, you know?

I have a bunch of custom orders still out there from the July trunk shows. If I have one piece of advice for y'all, it's "Don't do 2 trunk shows in one weekend, move the following weekend, get a puppy the following Tuesday, then go to NYC the following weekend." I loved all the experiences, but there IS such a thing as packing too much neat stuff into a 3-week period.

He bites and bites and bites...

then he does this.

*sigh*