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Friday, April 13, 2012

Wow Almost a year since I've posted.  Shame on me. Well I'm seriously going to try to beef up this blog.  I need somewhere to talk about life and this seems like a good place. I don't know if anyone is still paying attention, if you're not that's okay.  If you are,  I'm hoping to give you some interesting things to read!  First of all I hope everyone who celebrates had a wonderful Easter!

I got 2 loaves of soap made yesterday! YAY!  What? You ask what happened to the jewelry making? Well..... I still have my jewelry shop,  but with SO many jewelry items out there made in China,  honestly it's hard to sell the real deal online! 

Anyway these days I wear many hats.....
*Mommy ( Favorite)
*wife (another favorite)
*babysitter

Okay so photographer is a stretch,  but I love taking pictures and people tell me they're great. I like them so I thought I would try to do something with them!  

MY NEWEST ADVENTURE  I'm in LOVE with at the moment!


more on this in my next post,  but go check it out if you get a chance!

I'm a busy lady and have my hands doing a lot of different things at the moment,  but I'm happy and not bored!!  

I'll back soon.......I promise!

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

I MADE IT

In less than a month I'm posting another post!
So I MADE IT in under a month!

We just returned from the beach for our annual Thanksgiving
Trip,  we spend Thanksgiving with my cousin and dear friend, and her
family.  Her mother my great Aunt passed away this past year,  and it has truly effected me in a way I didn't expect.  
I miss her SO much. She would just pop by whenever 
during the day and spend some time with me, my daughter, and my nieces. We would "dish" about things and laugh and just have a really good time.  I guess you could say she sort of took the place of my grandmother in my life. We've always been close,  but got even closer in the two years after my grandmother (her sister) passed away! Anyway Thanksgiving was not the same.  I know I've talked about traditions and starting my own with my daughter,  but I miss the ones I had when growing up very much.  I am not and never have been a huge fan of change,  but it is a part of life that I can not control. One thing I did really enjoy this Thanksgiving was talking to my cousins whom we hardly ever see anymore,  and remembering all the great times we had when growing up and talking about how much things have changed. I think I could have sat there all night and talked if this old body of mine would have let me! Nostalgia hits me hard some times and I have to cry.  I LOVE the way I grew up and feel sorry for those who didn't have as great a childhood as I had! 

I still have not got my new jewelry shop in shape!  I'm having the hardest time trying to get the pictures I want! I just can't get them like I want to! Plus I have so much jewelry I really am overwhelmed on where to start! Also the bug to make more jewelry is gnawing at me something fierce,  but I feel I must get all the jewelry I already have pictures and listed in my shop so I can sell it!

My other ventures are going well,  I have so many need to do's and even more want to do's but am stuck doing the HAVE to do's and can't seem to get ahead of it all! I guess that's part of "working" for yourself.  I haven't made much money yet at any of my ventures online yet, switching from a retail store to online is VERY HARD! However,  I have to say I am so glad I am at home because I get hugs and kisses from the most beautiful little girl i know all day long,  and I can take breaks to get hugs and kisses whenever I want toooooo! That is priceless! 

Come see what all I'm doing at:









Well as you can see I have a lot to keep up with running these three businesses! I have so many ideas that fly at me I get overwhelmed and spend a lot of time thinking about what I want to do and not ever getting it all accomplished!

Oh yeah,  and here's my VOLUNTEER JOB,  I am the secretary of the Woodlawn Community,  and I take phone calls and organize the rentals of this adorable little one room school house! YES! Just like Little House on the Prairie.  I am fortunate to live beside of this wonderful little place,  it's been a part of my family for a long time.  Way back to when it was built,  my great grandfather donated the wood to build it! My grandparents taught 4-H here for a while,  and I have always lived behind it on family land growing up and now my husband and I have also built here! We love it!
Check it out at:


Please come visit me at all my Shops and Places! Please check out my natural bath & beauty items,  and Z Box,  if you purchase a Z Box you will not be disappointed with all the wonderful items from various Zibbet Shop owners in it! Please check it out and get to know some of the wonderful Zibbet Shop owners! As I like to say:
Shop Hand~Made.....GIVE LOVE!
Every hand~made item has a lot of love put into it,  these shop owners work harder at making this work than they ever do/did at a "real day job" as some people I know call it!  Shop hand~made as often as you can!

Gotta go do something PRODUCTIVE!
Until next time have a wonderful week/weekend!
                  

                               ~ Rebecca



Wednesday, November 10, 2010

NOVEMBER ~ IS HERE WOW!!

Wow ! November is here!
Well we've had a very busy October,  got to meet my husbands long lost biological father.  They haven't seen each other in 33 years,  and were very glad to find each other and be re-united! So now we have another family to add to our circle! I think it's just great, he's a very nice man with a very nice family! My hubby also found out he has another half-sister and half-brother. So that's made this October a very exciting month for us!

Also in my last post I talked about  adding to my jobs well since then I have added another "job" to my repertoire! A sampling program that is designed around the awesome new selling venue of Zibbet!
Lots of great Zibbet shops have gotten together and submitted samples to me and I will assemble them in boxes and sell them.  Also they get me promoting their shop on my blog Zibbeters: Show & Tell
and on the face book page Sample Z Box ! They help me spread the word by tweeting and sharing these also! Come follow us,  and be sure to buy one of these awesome Sample Boxes,  it is truly an unparalleled value! It has lots of jewelry and just the neatest things in it. I am contributing from both of my businesses,  Body & Soul Products  and  RWest Designs Jewelry !  Please go to my blog Zibbeters Show & Tell to read all about the Z Box !

I have been working on my jewelry shop also,  I have an Artifre Shop and a Zibbet shop,  and both of them need lots of love,  so if you go there just bare in mind they are works in progress that may not get a whole lot of attention until after the new year!  

I have been trying to retake the pictures of my jewelry and not getting the results I want.  That is what is taking me so long! My small digital camera died on me but my wonderful mother has sent me a new one, that is my Christmas & Birthday present,  which is fine by me! So now maybe if I can get the time to work on my pictures I can get a lot accomplished with my shops. I am traveling to the coast soon,  and am thinking of taking some of my jewelry to take pictures of it on the beach!
What do you think?  I think I like the idea,  not sure the hubby would like the idea of me "working" on our vacation though.  But if you've ever tried to work for yourself,  you know it's hard to stop, and hard to vacation when all you can think about is what you need to be doing! I really enjoy what I am doing,  so it's easier for me.  But my family would like to see me once in a while without a computer attached to my fingertips!

Well need to go tuck the little one for her nap! Until next time many blessings and have a wonderful week! 

P.S.  Don't forget to go purchase Z Box!  It would make great gifts for loved ones or to treat yourself! Purchase Z Box

~~~Rebecca~~~

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Wow Where Does The Time Go ??

Well here I am again,  another month has gone by,  well actually longer than a month.  I've been a very busy little bee.  My new adventures have kept me very busy....creating blogs, adding gadgets, widgets, and info to several different websites I'm doing, promoting my latest venture (s) ! Potty training my daughter, and raising her! Being a wife, mother, daughter, sister, and aunt!
Sometimes I think I'm going to get into trouble if I keep adding jobs to my day !  I truly love everything I'm doing and i have the hardest time saying NO...  even to myself!!

So I've started redoing my jewelry pictures and getting them loaded onto my new site for selling it.  Zibbet.  I already have my bath  &  beauty products at Zibbet,  and I thoroughly enjoy this selling venue and I believe in my heart it will surpass Etsy as a popular place to shop hand~made.  There are lots of talented Artists selling their items there.  

I've already purchased several things from there myself.  I got this adorable little Octopus named Flambe.....you can see how he got his name....  with all his beautiful colors!  He will be in my daughters stocking for Christmas!  






If you haven't been to Zibbet yet,  you should go and look around.
You can start with one of my shops!


If you feel like you might get lost in the sea of shops, you can go to my blog
where I feature different artists ,  and there are pages on the blog where some of the shop owners have posted links to their shops,  or to items they are promoting for October!


Soon I hope to have my jewelry shop up and running and some new items
to be posted for your viewing delight ;o}  !

Until next time have a safe Halloween if you celebrate it!

~Rebecca~


Thursday, September 2, 2010

What I Have and Haven't Been Up To....


Well, things are forever changing, and I am not a person who loves change. I like things to stay steady and familiar, however that is not realistic. Well, I didn't "cook" my way through my recipe book, but I did start the soap business, which is one reason I haven't posted in 4 months!!

I haven't left the earth, only I can't seem to find the time I need to do everything I want and need to do, and still take care of my daughter and husband!!

I've been a little down lately, okay a lot down lately. Which is not my normal self. I have lost and am loosing people I love dearly to sickness, it's been three in the last month. I have a sadness lately that I'm having a hard time shaking. So I haven't been very creative or social either.

But I have been up to a few things ! I have been making soap and natural products like crazy. After reading some pretty scary stuff about the things we put ON our bodies, I got busy. I want my daughter to start her beauty regimen with natural products. I have many health problems and sometimes I wonder if all the gunk i used to put ON my body contributed to that...so I'm trying to change things for my daughter.

I am selling these items on Zibbet, a wonderful place to set up shop. If you have time please go by there and check it out!

http://www.zibbet.com/rwestdesigns

I am currently trying to get new pictures of my jewelry taken, and re-do my Etsy page. It needs so much help!! So if you've been there lately please excuse it, I hope to have it all revamped soon!

New RWestDesigns Jewelry coming soon, I finally got my "studio" in better shape (with the help of my WONDERFUL MOM) and am hoping this will spark my creative side once again!!

Come follow our Body & Soul Page on facebook to keep up with the natural bath products we are making!!

http://www.facebook.com/bodyandsoulproducts!!

Until the next time ~ hope everyone is having a GREAT start to "Back to School" month!!