The Family Jewels

Decorating Update!

So most of you know I'm in the process of settling into my first post-college living space...

Well, it's time for a picture update!  Here are the links to the post about painting process and the "before" pictures: August 27th's "And, I bring you the painting pictures!"  And here is the post when I last updated, though I changed some things since then: September 13th's "Decorating Update! Bed & More..." 

Basically, it's a 24x30 big room, and I've got my living room, bedroom, and dining space in it.  Formerly, it was a teenage boy room with this motif:

Still a Work in Progress:

   
   
I obviously still haven't finished the Vintage Photo Project, but I'm hoping The Boy will help me with that next weekend.  We didn't get around to it on his last visit, and it seems like a 2-person job.  More adventures in decorating sometime soon! :) 

Have a great weekend!

Victory?

Good morning, world!   As you all know, I've been In Charge over here while the parents are out of town from Saturday to Saturday of this week.  If all goes how it's looking, all the kids will make it to school on time all five days!  Considering this has required my wake up time to change to 5:30am to get all five kids going, this has been no small feat  :)

We've made it to practices and had meals together, and crossing my fingers, there have been no major "incidents" this week.  Tonight's homecoming, so there will be shuttling of high schoolers to and from, but hopefully that will be fun and good.  No big behavior issues at all, the kids have been pretty great.   I hate to claim victory too soon, but with only one day left, I'm feelin pretty optimistic, hah...

I hope you all like the turquoise sale below!  Don't forget it ends tonight!

Turquoise Blog Exclusive

EDIT 5:40am: Addition the the Reds Reds Reds Email Sale - RED TIGER EYE!  Oops!  To make up for leaving that lovely Red out in the email, I'm putting all the Tiger Eye, including the red, on sale.  Type in BLOG at checkout, and you'll get 50% off all Tiger Eye now too!  Thanks, Diane!

So I listed and launched some new chinese turquoise today, and I thought they might make a nice Blog Only Sale :)

Until Friday night at midnight EST, these beads will be 50% off when you type "BLOG" in the promotional field at checkout!

Click here for the coins and here for the ovals!

Click here for the squares and here for the barrels!

Sleep & Birthdays

I think I'm going to send the email out in the AM tomorrow rather than tonight?  I'm so tired but it's still so early, and if I go in and make the new email now, it will delete the images already uploaded for today's sale email.  And that will mean anybody who reads today's email in the next few hours of the sale won't have pictures.  When I do the email really late (like usual), that's not too much of a problem (as the sale is -over- by the time the pictures are no long embedded), but I just don't think I can stay up late tonight.  I'm not sure this entire paragraph made any sense, but there it is.

Relatedly, today was my brother Jerry's 18th birthday.  I started the day by waking him up serenading him with "Happy Birthday" outside his room at 5:30am.  Being the big sister is fun  :)

Don't forget that today is the last day of the Swarovski Pendants Blog Sale below!

People should not be awake.

That is how I feel.  The End  :)

Big Blog Exclusive - Swarovski Pendants!

To make up for not getting the sale up sooner today, I'm putting ALL the new Swarovski Pendants on sale 50% off!  This sale will be over Wednesday night at midnight EST, so get them while you can!

These and more Swarovski pendants 50% off until Wednesday at midnight EST!  Just type in "BLOG" in the promotional field at checkout, and the system will take the discount!

Big Week & Sunday Blog Sale

Well this week is going to be interesting...

Mom and Rick left today for a retreat in Albany, NY, and I'm In Charge here on the home front of my four younger brothers, age 17, 15, 14 and 14, and sister, age 7.  This means, among other things, getting up every morning at 5:30am to get everyone to school on time, and busing everyone to their various social engagements and sport practices.  I'll let you know how all that goes  :)

Here's the crowd, as gathered in Friday night's family karaoke. 

Totally different note, for the Sunday Blog Sale (Cassie's Sassy Sundays, if you will), I'm discounting all our Wood Beads 53%!

Just type in "SASSYSUNDAY" in the promotional code field at checkout, and get 53% off everything in this folder.   This promo will only be good until Sunday at midnight EST!

Cassie's Sassy Saturday

Back from Caroline's soccer game and I already feel like I need a nap  ;)

Today's a non-email day, so I'm putting up a big special on the Blog!  If you happen to read today, you're in for a treat!  (Don't worry, since my weekend specials are usually on Sunday, I'll put another one up for tomorrow!)

But TODAY only, take 50% off ALL our European Quality Gemstone Beads!

Type "SASSY" in at check out, and get 50% off everything in this folder! This sale will only be good until Midnight EST Tonight!

Babies and Swarovski Stars!

Today Steve, our great customer service guy many of you know, is becoming a grandpa (or as he's going to call himself, a Pappy)!  I'll let you know as soon as we know more!

I've picturing and listed some new Swarovski pendants in the past couple of days, and I want to put one on sale-- Take 50% off these SWAROVSKI CRYSTAL TOPAZ 20MM FACETED STAR PENDANTS!

As we get more listed in the next 30 minutes, check this folder for more new Swarovski pendants.  This sale will be good for two days, just type "BLOG" in the promotional code field at checkout, and a 50% discount will be taken.

As an aside, those things are REALLY HARD for my non-professional-photographer self to picture well, so I apologize for the not-so-awesome pictures.  I promise, they're stunning pendants!  :)

Morning Ramblings

Okay, Mom and I sat up really late last night laughing and talking, which was lovely.  Rather than have me do the email after a glass of wine, she talked me into going to bed and then doing a two-day sale this morning.  That seemed all well and good, but now it's morning, and I've got to come up with a great sale for today and tomorrow, and get a new blog exclusive up!  I know I'm putting Turquoise back on sale to make up for Marketworks downtime, and I'm probably doing Coral as well to poke fun at a certain competitor who seems to always send strategic mass emails that echo the sale I'm running, hah..  Shell too?  Other than that though... Metal Beads?  What a random sale that would be:  Turquoise, Coral, and Metal Beads!   I think I may do it though, I am somewhat known for my randomness.

...And my rambling  ;)   Sorry about that!