New Stuffs!

Coming soon in my
Etsy shop:
suBringas.etsy.com


Left:
Ipu heke (double gourd): 10mm grey oval freshwater pearls and 4mm dark peacock grey freshwater pearls with silver "lei".
















Above:
Blue glass daggers casually wrapped with sterling silver. I'm still working on the story ;) .

BTW I did some sewing, and made gift boxes for my Etsy purchases. I'll be posting about those soon!

Aloha, ~Su

Easter Dessert

Homemade blueberry topping and mini cupcake-sized cheesecakes with chocolate cookie crusts:

CRASH! and The Tax Man Cometh

Sorry folks, I know it's been a long time but my iBook finally died. Apparently the logic board wasn't meant to last more than 6 years. Sadly I cannot justify a thousand dollars to get another Mac. *sniff*

The good news is that PC netbooks are the much better now - portable, small, and still powerful. Actually ANY netbook would blow away my old G4 that didn't even have a gigabyte, a gigahurtz, or a giga-anything. It will definitely be an upgrade for me, and with all the Google apps out there I don't think I'll be missing my iCal or my .mac account for that matter. I am dreaming of this ASUS here which is the next step up from what a friend of mine bought recently which has the N270 processor.

After today's visit with out tax guy, I am even happier to find the necessary funds to get a netbook, soup it up and get back to my online word of this blog, my etsy shop and millions of other neglected hobbies.

Stay tuned!

Aloha, ~Su

Snowflakes in the window...

Quick pics: some shots of our front window - not very good because of the glare. Well actually more like an almost-mirror-like reflection. I tried to do an arch to frame our Christmas tree when the blinds are up, and I used white copier paper and light blue translucent paper. I pretty much winged it, so some of the first ones are square.




Here are some close-ups. Some are folded so there are 6 prongs, some are 8. I put the tape on the holes and not on the outer edges so they would look like they were floating.

Hope this inspires you to do something crafty for your Christmas decorations!



Aloha, ~Su

And in line with the snowflakes...

My newest blog I'm following had this tutorial on snowflake garlands. I want to make tiny ones to put on the tree! You can make them too by going here to download the pdf. Thank you Holly!