Love that you had the ingenuity to use them on Shrink Plastic - frikking genius! My favorite is the charm you did using the bow/pearl - is that a jewelry blank or did you actually solder it?

Sorry it took me so long to get back to you ladies about this, but my MiL took a very bad turn with her cancer just after I posted this and I forgot I had posted a Give-Away. The winner is Marge & I have sent her a MSG thru Facebook. Thank you all for your comments! Jen

These look delicious!

I love your heart and mind so much. I hope you know what a difference in my life that first phone call from you made. You set me smack dab in the middle of a very scary road. A road that has led to friendships I now cannot imagine my life without. You have been such a wonderful inspiration, and continually push me to evolve and grow. I love you Jenny Doh, lumps, bumps, insecurities, and all that immense bravery you hold inside your beautiful soul! xox me

This makes me really REALLY happy for you both. Having been with Larry for over 25 years, I know how hard it can sometimes be to like the one you love ... and even harder to love yourself when you don't like where life is taking you. I'm glad you realized all those things above before it was too late! Big huge enormous love & hugs to you both - cause sometimes your heart has to tell you brain to shut up and just listen for once :) XoX me

A year from now when you're trying to figure out where the heck you're going to put another chair, you will look back on the no furniture times and laugh. It ALWAYS seems to fill up faster than we thought during the empty period. Make the kids sit on the floor, be happy you can see every surface, and just remember to breathe! Cause before you know it the kids will have covered every available surface with stuff. :) WELCOME HOME! xox

It would most certainly lead to an all inclusive pass to the multi-colored barn tour (which you know would be full of cupcake & cookie stops to refuel)! I think what I'm loving the most so far about You Rule! is the way your voices and personalities shine through on every chapter. It's definitely one of the things I respect and enjoy most about you and our growing frienship. Congratulations to you both, and a hearty THANK YOU for including me in the fun!

I am so completely happy for you and your family! There is nothing worse than watching your spouse deteriorate in a job/situation they hate. Makes your heart hurst in ways you cannot soothe! We had a slightly smaller scale, yet similar incident happen 12 years ago that brought us to Mason. My husband left his job of 10+ years to take on a partnership halfway across the state. I had a really hard time adjusting to the leaving my family, leaving a city of art & food & shopping that I had wanted to live in my whole life {a town my parents are both from} ... so much so that I begged Larry to commute until I could process it all. A horrible thing for a supportive wife to say, but I don't do so well with big change, and was grasping at straws. Well ... I watched him do a 3 hour commute for months ... watch him loose time with our kids ... with me ... with hobbies. It completely sucked! In the middle of winter I sat him down, and said I was giving in, and we would move to farmland so we could all have our family time back. I cried every drive I took out here - couldn't find a house to save my life, and was a completely mess. {granted I was also really suffering from postpartum depression, but that's a whole nother post}. Finally, we met at lunch about a month or so into our house search, and I broke down crying that i just didn't think I could do it. That very day, my husband's partner told him about a house his BiL wanted to sell, but didn't really want to list. As we drove down the street my heart instantly became peaceful, and I knew that it didn't matter which house on the street it was ... this was the place for our family. A fact that even escaped my lips in a whisper. We stopped at the most adorable cape cod with ferns growing all over the front yard, and I just knew it was all gonna work out. Which of course it did :) I could never have given my kids the life they had here living in the city, would never have become the artist I am now, and never dreamed I would be so happy here I don't ever want to leave. All this from a small town girl with big dreams of city life :) Our five year goal is now a hobby farm where we eventually want to try and run farming/cooking/art camp for inner city children (my lifework's background & Larry's secret hobby). It's amazing how it all just comes together when we least expect it. Here's to big dreams ... big moves ... and big wonderful life changes!