Betsy & Iya Jewelry » Today and Me http://www.betsyandiya.com/blog Handmade jewelry from Portland, Oregon designer Betsy Cross. Big pieces, mixed metals, confident entrances. Clunky or intricate. Earthy or Army. But always, always, 100% handmade. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:26:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Breaking all the Rules. http://www.betsyandiya.com/blog/breaking-all-the-rules/ http://www.betsyandiya.com/blog/breaking-all-the-rules/#comments Tue, 04 Jan 2011 18:00:12 +0000 betsy http://www.betsyandiya.com/blog/?p=2697 After I wrote that post yesterday, I realized that W and I hadn’t had any time to ourselves.  Beyond that, we have so many home projects that keep getting pushed aside, swept under the rug that hasn’t been vacuumed in weeks, the chubby kid picked last for the kickball game (not that I know what that feels like…ahem).  I reread my post to make sure it was publish worthy and then I looked over to W, who was also diligently working on business email replies, and I said, “wanna just take today off???”  See, now I’m taking credit for something that he had already wanted to do.  The answer was yes.  And we had the best. day. ever.

The plan was always to start work back on the 3rd of January.  Here is what we did instead:

The bridge to home.

Hypnotized by color.

That guy. He's my favorite.

Not sure if it's within our reach, but I sure do love it.

I love this city.

Lunch.

Is this the one?

Mt. Hood puppet show.

The best.

We had decided not to give each other presents this year.  We’d promised we weren’t going to break the rules, and sneak a gift in at the last moment.  I think that will go down in history as the worst promise we’ve ever made.  Yesterday made up for it.  The great thing about life and being human is that you can always decide to reverse something that wasn’t supposed to be.  You can decide to make a change.  In our case it had to do with silly Christmas presents and deciding that it wasn’t silly at all to give your loved one somtehing.  So we went out in search of the things that would give us warm feelings for years to come, something that would make us remember what we got for Christmas 2010:  a new bed.

I think we hit every single furniture store in Portland and didn’t quite find what we were looking for…but we had a heck of a day trying.

Happy Tuesday!!

-b

***Song of the Moment: Runaway, by the National***

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***Song of the Moment: Mayfair, by Nick Drake***

]]> http://www.betsyandiya.com/blog/today/feed/ 2 Today and Me = a boxing match. http://www.betsyandiya.com/blog/today-and-me-a-boxing-match/ http://www.betsyandiya.com/blog/today-and-me-a-boxing-match/#comments Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:51:27 +0000 betsy http://www.betsyandiya.com/blog/?p=1620 This is a fierce one: the calm, grounded, happy me on one side battling it out with the tear-through-the-studio-leave-everything-in-my-wake-turned-upside-down terror on the other.   It’s amazing.

Found these items on Etsy to help express how I’m feeling:

These Vintage Boxers from Xander Graphics

The Fighter, by Tony A Engel

Cat Fight Buckle by Alaska Gadgetry

Toilet Fighting = funny

Bears Fighting, by Dan Bob Thompson

With that, I better get on with this battle, so I might actually get some work done today.  yikes!

***Song of the Moment: Fighting on the Stairs, by The Frames***

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