Hi everyone! I just wanted to let everyone know I’ve updated the online store with a lot of new products. There are over 80 handmade items to choose from.
Christmas is right around the corner and you might just find the perfect gift for that someone special!
I have everything from necklaces, bracelets, earrings, brooches, charms, and hair clips to stitch markers for knitters.
Please visit me over at Jen Tucker Creatives to see what’s new.
Jason,
I don’t think there’s anything I can write that will truly convey how happy I am to be your wife. Words fail me.
You are without a doubt my very best friend. You’re my rock, my fortress, my joy, my knight in shining armor.
I’ve can’t imagine a life without you in it.
We’ve been through major highs, and very low lows. I know that together we’ll make it through whatever life throws at us.
Thank you for an amazing 5 years. I can’t wait to see what our future holds.
Yesterday morning I came downstairs and sat at the computer like I do every morning. Occasionally I’ll find a group of pictures on the desktop that my oldest transferred from her cell phone. I have no idea what she actually does with these photos. Anyhow, I’ll occasionally find one that is questionable, and yesterday was one of those days. It wasn’t racy. She wasn’t scantily clad or anything. So what was questionable? She was flipping the bird. I made an improvement to the picture and want to share it with all of you.
Have a great day everyone.
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I love the 4th of July. It’s my 3rd favorite holiday, right behind Halloween and Christmas. The funny thing is Jason and I rarely do much for it. Another thing is we just never know what the weather will be like. Some years it’s cold, others blazing hot. This year the weather was darn near perfect. It was in the mid to upper 80′s and had been for a few days. That gave the pool time to warm up, and what better way to celebrate than with a BBQ and a pool party?
Instead of writing all about it, I figured I’d show you snippets of our day. Hope you enjoy the pictures.
Can’t wait to do it again next year!
I was chatting with a group of friends this morning, and we were talking about various hazards for each of our locations. Being in SoCal, we’re under constant threat of “The Big One.” Yes, earthquakes. Many people I talk with say they don’t think they could handle living someplace where the earth shakes beneath their feet. I just say that in my area, we haven’t had a really good shaker since January 1994. We’ve have a few small to moderate shakers since then, but I could probably count on 1 hand the number of memorable earthquakes we’ve had since then.
I say I don’t want to live where there’s a good chance your house will get picked up and moved to another location every year. Or just blown apart by wind and pounding rain. I mean there are people that call tornado alley home. Craziness! They call it that because there’s GOING to be tornados. Where as here, there might be an earthquake, you might feel it too. Then again you might not.
Anyhow, I’ve digressed. I was telling these friends that during the last decent earthquake we had, while my kids were diving under tables and getting in doorways, I stood up from my desk chair and prepared myself to catch any falling shot glasses.
Shot glasses are the only honest to goodness collection I have. So I snapped a picture and though it might be interesting to show you the collection. I’ve numbered each glass and will take you on a tour of where I’ve been.
Here’s what it looks like in all its glory.
And now for the detail:
Top Row
Bottom Row
21 Plain glass from When I stayed with friends in Vegas rather than a hotel
22 Gameworks, Vegas
23 Monte Carlo Hotel, LV
24 Luxor Hotel, LV
25 The Orleans, LV
26 Rio Hotel, LV
27 Star Trek Experience, LV Hilton, LV
28 Mandalay Bay, LV
29 Tropicana Hotel, LV
30 Vive Cuervo glass from Gameworks, LV
31 Imperial Palace Hotel, LV We stayed here 1 night, but I won a $1000+ Jackpot at this hotel on our first night in Vegas for this trip. It was CRAZY awesome.
32 Mammoth, CA
33 Mammoth, CA
34 Disney’s California Adventure
35 Disneyland 50th Anniversary glass
36 Disneyland,CA
37 Knotts Berry Farm, CA
38 Hollywood, CA Walk Of Fame glass
39 San Diego, CA
40 San Francisco 1
41 San Francisco 2
42 San Francisco 3
43 Ontario, CA (Got this one at the podcast expo a few years ago. I had such a great time and wanted a memento to remember it all)
44 Lake Arrowhead, CA (Went there for the 4th of July a few years back) Ack 44 is actually the bear on the side of the glass so my numbering is messed up a bit.
45/46 Two little Feigling bottles from Oktoberfest a few years back. It’s this goofy fizzy fig shot and it’s not good!
So there you have it. If there are any that you’d like to see in detail, Let me know and I’ll go ahead and smap a picture of it.
I’ll explain the rules. My rule is if I haven’t been there, it doesn’t go on the shelf. I’ve received shot glasses from people, and rather than display those, I put those to work. None of my shotglasses are used for actual, you know, shots. They’re purely decorative.
What about you? What items do you collect? Do you have any rules that go along with the collection?
