My first item for sale on Ebay!!!

So this is my first time doing all of this but i just posted a necklace for sale on ebay to see how it does here is where it is at:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=
STRK:MESELX:IT&item=320316902956

Just copy and paste this link into the search window and hit enter to go directly to my posting!!! check it out!!

Girls night out

So i finally was able to find my camera cord so i can upload these pictures from our most recent girls night out. Kelsey jardine, Kari otto, and OF COURSE Emma jardine:) and I all had a girls night out. We drove to IF and went shopping for beads to fill our beading addiction, then went to a Primerica meeting with Kelsey and then we went out to eat at olive garden. I know spoiled right:) we bought two of the chicken alfredo pizzas and split them between the three of us, they were so good, and we were stuffed. It was awesome. We decided to kinda make it a monthly thing to just go out us girls. It is a healthy fun way to get out, do girl stuff and have fun together!!! I can't wait for the next one.

Not exactly a piece of cake.....

So over the October 3rd weekend Nick and I went to Oregon for my little sisters wedding. It is crazy to think she is married now but I guess that is just the big sister talking... The wedding went very well. It rained, but hey that is Oregon for you.. Regardless of the rain though everything went well and all the pictures turned out super cute. The one thing that I think surprised me the most was how calm everyone was. Sorry heather if you read this, but I totally expected you to be much more stressed out and be a total bridezilla! :) but after spending the weekend there with all of the wedding stuff going on I came to realize that you were far from being stressed out or even a little bit anxious. I was way more of a bridezilla than you were!!! I just got stressed out so much more easy than she did. I thought the way that Heather and Keith handled everything was very calm and cool, they were fun to be around. Well I am glad that things went that way because they should be calm on their special day while everyone else runs around like chickens with their heads cut off trying to get everything done and done perfect... Much love though, I had a great time regardless of the craziness and lost sleep. I got the opportunity to make heathers wedding cake for her. I took a class at BYU-Idaho two semesters ago. Although the things I learned in this class were very helpful, I still had a hard time with his cake. I was up till like 3 the morning before because the bottom layer was being less than cooperative:) But Nick was very helpful and was a great stress coach especially at 3 am..... but he suggested that every place there was a little imperfection that I just stick a flower or something there. It worked perfectly and as long as no one looked too closely at the backside it was picture perfect:) All in all it was a fun project and I learned a lot and had a great time at her wedding.... to bad there was enough cake left over to feed a small country afterwards though if I would have known that I would have made some layers out of Styrofoam or rice krispies or something that didn't crumble quit so easily. Ha, well it was hard work not exactly a piece of cake but totally worth it.

My secret Gangsta LIfe

So yeah i have a secret. well not totally a secret, but something that most people don't really know about me that is totally out there..... I am secretly a little bit gangsta.... NO not the crazy gang member type but just a little gangsta.. you know i love my hip hop, and big city. I mean, if a new law was passed that banned all of the disgusting and wrong dancing that went on a clubs, and if there was a dress code that actually encouraged more clothes instead of less i would be dancin' in them non-stop :).. So you may ask that's your gangsta secret??? NO.. there is something bigger... I love break dance. I am way into break-dancing and surprisingly enough have gotten to get involved with a group at BYU- Idaho that i practice with.. i know kinda out there but it is so much fun.Now all i need is a good breakin' name like B-girl Amandizzle :) well maybe ill work on that one... in the mean time ill keep breakin' it up !

I never used to read...

Well I really never used to read that much. I always thought that there was something better that i could be doing.That was before the days of the TWILIGHT SERIES!!!!! I tried to read the harry potter books when they first came out and they were good but i was a very slow reader. They just didn't hold my interest very long and before i knew it the movies were coming out and i was only in the second book not even close to finishing it... So naturally i stopped reading and started watching the movies instead. Well recently i heard about these books and how amazing they were and i didn't really give it much attention till recently and bam i am the new reading champion, i started reading the first twilight book about 4 weeks ago and i am almost done with breaking dawn, the last book! I know, I know there are those of you out there that read these in like 4 days flat, but this is phenomenal for me. I have never read so much in my life before..... i LOVE THEM! The weird part is though, and maybe it is this way for everyone, but i start to think in my head as if i were writing a book too. Just like the story is through bella's perspective i have started to write me own little novel inside my head just going throughout daily routines. I know this sounds a little weird maybe, maybe not... maybe this is how people who read all the time always think and i have been missing out all these years.... anywho all i know is that it makes me see things in a new perspective that i really didn't even get a glimpse of before... I made my imagination do it's part though and not watch the trailer to the movie, which is stellar by the way, until i had at least read the first book so i could envision what everything looked like.... but better believe that i will be there midnight on November 21st!

Beading it up...

So I am fairly new to this whole blog thing and need to get down in dirty with all of the other details bought me and the hubby, but for my first blog i just wanted to gab about some stuff that makes me :) So yes i have gotten into a few new things lately. Although i would say that i have been a fairly crafty person for the majority if not all of my life there are ALWAYS tons of new ideas for crafts out there. Well i had been a big fan of the whole hemp necklace thing growing up, at girls camp, and with my sisters, etc. but i was and am not a huge fan of the smell of that real hemp stuff. It is nauseating... So i would just settle for the other fake stuff to try and reduce the smell and get the same effect, but for those of you who know it is not the same effect, just really scratchy... anyways i didn't do jewelry for a while after that.... until recently. I love to bead and make necklaces, bracelets and earrings now!! I just kinda experimented with the wire and crimp beads until something semi- normal and wearable was born and i have been a fan ever since.... Although it is a great new hobby it is also an expensive one.. therefore i opted to find a cheaper way, as i usually do with everything( no seriously everything...), and I began ravaging thrift stores for second hand necklaces. Not to wear though but to cut up.. yes i buy those ugly ones that nobody really wants because it could never match with anything... and then i dissect what each bead could look like as a part of something else... then i cut it up and make better, prettier things.. for cheaper. It is AWESOME. Although i wish i could get all of my beads and supplies this way it is not possible, but it sure does cut down on costs. DI has deals sometimes like two necklaces for 50 cents... which is better than the $5-10 you would spend for half the amount of beads at porters:) N E ways after i post more you will soon learn that i do a lot of things this way, take some thing thrifty and turn into something nifty.... :)