Salty Mommy

so i went to ny with joy this weekend and we had a great time! we shopped in china town, took a lot of cabs, ate good food, saw a movie, walked around a bit, and went to church at the journey . i really liked the church but the best part was seeing how they do everything and thinking about how we can use it at our church in cape may. i took one of every paper handout i could get my hands on. then we went to the kids dept down stairs cause i wanted to check it out and they are doing the same program we are doing for our kids a video series called kidmo. that was pretty exciting.

off to play practice...wish me luck.

11am open art & soul 11:05am piece broken 11:15am crying little boy cause he doesnt like his car 11:20am painting little boy's stinky foot for tile 11:25am painted little girl's not stinky fooot for tile 11:45am family gone to beach to fly a kite i guess you can fit a lot in when your kids attention span's are short!! they were 3 year old twins and he was double her size.despite the breakage and tears we had fun and they were such a nice family.

ok friends...the scarecrow is sitting on a bale of hay (which is on top of what i keep the glaze on normally ...it has wheels so we can bring it in at night) and he is so cute! i promise once david uploads the pictures i will post them. other then that we have still had customers everyday that we are open and we are getting more cuaght up each day. on a side note last week i had 2 heart mugs both painted by sarah's and i accidentally shipped them both to the wrong house. lucky for me both families were very nice and they are going to ship them to each other and i am going to send them each $$ for the difference. do you think i should send them some giftcards to art & soul??

so friends we built a scarecrow for a little contest on the island here...in cape may. It is for the CCA and the winners are announced on sat at 4pm. i will get some pictures posted and i will let you know if we won! Oh did I forget to mention it is built entirely out of pottery?? It is soooo cool...David & Kathryn & Ginny painted the parts and then David, Big Dave and I put it together today! It is sooo awesome!

Thank You to Ginny, Jeff, Kathryn, Shannon, Billy,Melissa Joy, Jason, David, Jim, Liz & Andrew !! We never could have gotten all those boxes packed with out all of your help!! I am still in shock that we packed 43 boxes!! Thank you!!

so today is slow because a lot of tourists are on their way home. And i took my book home last night and forgot to bring it back. So i should do something more productive with my time anyway..right? like check blogs or read emails?? ok so i think i am going to organize my drawers behind the counter that are full of junk...but first i have to unload and load the kiln...FUN!!

art & soul has been great all summer! Now this is the last weekend and we are going out with a bang!! We had our busiest day ever yesterday!! 100 painters whoopeeee!! Now i should be back into blogging more often sorry for the lack of updates!! Thanks for always checking back.

Ok so just so everyone knows there is NO WAY i would ever forget about Oliver, Noah & Myles..they are just about the cutest boys ever!! and i am so excited to get to see them too. I cant wait to see how BIG they are all!!

been busy with art & soul...its going to taper off after this week. We actually have no more room for pottery on any shelf. We are using a table in the store right now. Once we get the kiln unloaded tomorrow i have no idea where we are going to put stuff. its ok we will figure it out....this is a great problem!! so next week i will be shipping a lot of boxes and then after that i will be sitting all alone at art & soul. we already changed our hours to 9-6 cause Tim & Jamie are coming up for visit!! I am so excited!!

so on a whim my friend joy and i went to an audition about 45 minutes away....for "The Diviners" it was a lot of fun!! A little crazy and really scary. ( i was the first one up on stage to read) But it was such a great night and boy do we have some good storys about our time. And at 11pm we could call a hotline to get the cast list and for some crazy reason I am now cast in a play 45 minutes away that i dont know anything about but I am soooo excited. I havent acted since highschool unless you count church plays! If anyone is interested in coming to see me it is Oct 13 & 14 and Oct 20, 21 & 22. Check out Cumberland Players for more info.

so i am keeping a list of every book i read this year and i just started my 40th book! pretty cool!

so last night we got home from hanging out with joy and tommy and jimmy and david decided to turn on the air conditioner in the living room while he played guitar and i read. it was probably around 10:30pm and after about 10 minutes the air conditioner made a droaning and slowing sounds and then BAM the lights went out and the air went off. the breaker had tripped and when david went to fix the breaker by clicking it back over to on...it was completely blown....so my reading came to an end and we decided to try to go to sleep with out air or a fan because all the plugs in the house are on one breaker except the fridge. falling alseep in the 98% humidity of our house wasnt working so we ended up unplugging the fridge and running an extension cord for the fan...talk about ghetto. so david and his dad are fixing the breaker today. FUN!

i am so pround of my husband! the two paintings that are are both blue and have no one in the picture are the ones he sold. and he donated all of the money to Brendan's Fund. It was a great night and I cant wait for next year.

so have you ever wanted to scratch your leg off? that is the feeling i have because of a few very large mosquito bites that are making my leg itch like crazy! so today consisted of unpacking 69 boxes of pottery. and itching my leg....like crazy!

so friends i have been busy which is good. then at the end of my busy week david let me have the day off! i went to the beach with my friend Joy and i got a little sun burn..but it was worth it. today brad, nick & marcelo helped us bag and pack up pottery so we got it all done in a hour when if it was only david and i it would have taken all day. thanks you guys!

i just decided to read the bible in a year...starting today august 7th. i am reading it on Bible Blog and it even has commentary links. please pray for me to continue this and not give up.

so i was just contacted to teach a pottery project in the fall for a womens retreat. i have to figure out the cost per piece and the shipping cost because all of the pieces will have to be shipped since i wont be able to get 50 plates into one kiln load. i am excited for a prospect of money making in the off season. now i need to finish the proposal.

so friends when i have a $1,000 day the reward for all of my hard work is ice cream. sadly today i fell $50 short of getting ice cream. but its okay because tomorrow ginny is opening for me and i get to sleep in..do my compex work in peace with out having to worry about ignoring a customer and then i am going to swim for an hour or so...tomorrow will be a wonderful day for me. a bit of a break in the routine of 9am-9pm inside the blue walls of art & soul. i am thankful for ginny and i am thankful for all of the customers who helped me almost get ice cream today :)

so david is leading music for the teen group this week at Erma Camp , and his uncle Joe is here from colorado bringing "the word" every night. so last night we stopped by for a visit after working and i heard about some of the women who are over 60..they have a nice place to keep thier cell phones and keys and money in their BRAS!! and have no shame in digging or lifting thier shirts to find what ever they might need. so friends when does it become ok to store things in our bras?