New listing -Light Sapphire Earrings

Here is my newest listing"Light Sapphire earrings" I hand forged them from a square wire and formed this shape. You can click on picture for more info. All made out of sterling silver wire and earwire.

Ames flooding

We had our worst flooding in history this past Wednesday. Since 2:30 pm on that day we could not use our water in the whole city because it was contaminated. We had to boil water before we could drink it. Many of the restaurants had to be closed. We had to conserve water for several days so no laundry to do or no dishwasher to use. Our city has done a great job and yesterday we finally received the okay to drink water from tap again. Yeah! Thank you to all whole has helped Ames get back on their feet. We are still in the process of cleaning up the areas that were mostly flooded. That will take sometime. Thank you for everyone and the states who are helping out!

Here is a video of the flood:

I finished a special order for a bride

I finished a bridal request order. Here is the necklace. I posted earlier the bracelet. Next time I will post earrings that match the order and I probably will have you guess which earrings she choose. So stay tuned because there might be a special giveaway on it. Here is the necklace she requested for her bridesmaids to wear. If you like this and want to request for your special wedding let me know.

Storm-83 hours without electricity

Last Sunday at 3:00 in the morning we had a storm blow through. I thought nothing of it. Hard rain hit the windows. I thought it was like any other storm. I just wanted to sleep. Then I knew the power went out so I got up to called the power outage. Decided to go back to bed. Went to bed and woke up around 7:00 am and thought wow the electricity is still out. I went to my back window and this is what the back yard look like. No wonder no electricity. I found out a few hours later on the radio in the car that we had 70 miles per hour wind. 2,000 people were without electricity. I thought we would get the power back on that day. No we ended up being the 200 people left to have power off. 83 hours without power. We did have the neighbors give us a genator temporarily for our freezer and frig. Thanks to great neighbors. Then they ended up getting their power on and we had to wait another day. Thanks again to the backyard neighbors they hooked us up to their house for juice to our frig and freezer again. Without that we would have lost everything in our freezer. We did lose some things in the fridge. Here is what happened. The neighbors tree branch blew off and knocked down the powerlines in which knocked down the pole and broke it in half. So this was going to take them sometime to get our electricity on. Infact it took the guys 7 hours to get this all back together. They ended up digging in our yard to put a pole in. I was hoping they would find oil, but wishful thinking. I really appreciate electricity now. I forgot what it was like without air conditioner, no TV or no radio. The good thing is I didn't have to clean house or cook! (the pictures are from my son cell phone)

Easy Lemon Poppy-seed Bread or Muffins

My son requested to have me make lemon poppy seed muffins. So I checked into my recipe book and found a great and easy one to make.

1 pkg lemon cake mix
1pkg lemon pudding (instant) use dry
1/4 c. poppy seeds
1/2 c. oil
4 eggs
1c. water

Mix all ingredients until smooth. Pour into loaf pan and bake at 350 degrees for 40 minutes, or pour into muffin tin and bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes

Hope you had a Happy 4th of July

Hope you enjoyed your 4th of July!! We decided to have a quite one this year. So it was nice not to go anywhere. Stayed home and watch movies. Did you see any specatular fireworks?

Wisconsin Vacation

Came back from vacation for Wisconsin Dells and the Door county area. So here are some pictures of the vacation. I'm waiting to get a video from our cousins about our zip line at the Dells. Then I will post a picture of that or the you tube. Our first picture is a storm coming up at Door County. We are at Door County in Peninsula State Park.


This is a gorgeous art gallery we stopped by. My husband just wanted to buy the whole thing. I was surprised! Just need more money.


Can you guess the stadium? We took a tour of the Green Bay Packers Stadium.


We are entering the ferry to take us to Washington Island.


This is a view in the evening at the resort we stayed at.