-27 degrees!

Wow it sure is cold today. It's currently -8 degrees and it is 8 in the morning. The wind is roaring out there making it a wind chill of -27. Unfortunately or fortunately depending on how you look at it, I have two packages to ship at the post office. Haha, I hope my car starts! Whoa. 

I sold some pretty floral cameo earrings and a lovely repurposed necklace in my etsy shop. 

https://www.etsy.com/shop/SarahsSalvageShop

I'm really pleased thatit slows down a lot here at my day job this time of year with the cold. 

I am sorry to report to you that one of the puppies we delivered my c section passed away. She was the smallest and weakest. I wasn't going to tell you all but I thought I should be honest. We tried to revive the tiny thing but the owners had a hard time getting to us in the bad weather and it was too late. 

On a happier note... my crazy cat Cassie woke me up bright and early today. She always tells me when it is time to eat. This morning though I didn't feed her fast enough and in regular brat style she found something to tear up. Of course she only took two bits of food before hurling off to play with her kitty tennis balls. Oh my, a handful! 

Here she is at rest, which is currently 80% of the time. The other ten percent she is eating or pooping, and the rest she wreaks havock! Haha. 

Because of my busy week at work I was unable to fully finish something for bsue's finish up Friday. Ugh sorry! I did paint some humming bird charms I hope to craft into earrings, but they aren't finished yet. Hopefully something can be accomplished this weekend and I can share it with you. Talk to you soon. 

Excitement today

So I have a quick update for you all. That c section I was mentioning last night well we did it today. I had my day off today, but I got called in to help. Needless to say I was half asleep. Thankfully despite the wait the puppies were all viable. So far they are doing fine. We had a little difficulty with two of them. They didn't want to get going and breathing. We saw two girls and one boy. Mom took a while to take to them, but now she is nursing them well. 

Well back to my jewelry making day! Lol 

Work table Wednesday

Well it's Wednesday folks! That means I get a collection of components together for my jewelry making week.

This week I have a bunch of different themes rolling in my head. I have chickens, dogs, bugs, flowers, and more. I just don't have a clear direction yet. I'm just using my little odds and ends. I have one necklace with fish that is probably only 1/4 of the way completed, but I'm not ready to finish that quite yet. Yeah so much for getting done what you start right? 

Today was a busy and interesting day at work as a vet tech. We spayed a cat did our regular appointments and even saw a dog that potentially might need a c section tonight.  I will admit I wasn't too excited about staying any later to work than I was, even with the aspect of bringing cute puppies into the world. 

It's chilly here in Vermont tonight. They say it will be in the -10s tonight. I am just happy we didn't have as big of a storm as they predicted! I am so ready for winter to be over. That means we can do more work on the house and my boyfriend will be done with his first semester of electrician classes. 

That's all for tonight. Wish me luck on actually getting something done this week...as well as keeping the house clean.:-p

My first blog post

Hello, my name is Sarah Colburn and I am 24 years old. I am a veterinary technician by day and a jewelry maker by night. 

Let me also say right now those two things certainly aren't my only two passions! Currently I am also helping my boyfriend fix up our 1840s auction house. Wow what a chore! So as you might imagine things can get pretty hectic and busy in my life when I try to Balance everything in my life. Something I often say is,  "There isn't enough hours in the day!". Does any one else ever feel that way?

I want you to get an idea of who I am. 

I'm a short little lady who often gets mistaken for a kid, but trust me I have a lot of skills and things on my plate. Wether I'm helping the vet in surgery, taking X-rays, drawing blood, dry walling, tiling, or stringing beads. I am more than I seem. It was instilled in me from an early age to try to be skilled in many kinds of things. My dad taught me the manly things like small motor repair, how to buy and sell, cut wood, and plant your own food. When I lost him this past August I was really at a loss. He could no longer help me learn new skills or be there to answer some question about that noise my car was making. I was on my own. I now have this attitude stronger than ever though, that if something needs to be done try to figure out how to do it my self.

Currently I am working on an upstairs bedroom of our house. The house is old and has angled crooked ceilings. Our current task is to take take down any broken plaster, put up sheet rock and get a room for me to do my jewelry making in. It is looking pretty well, but it isn't a labor of love to be sure. It's exceptionally difficult to meet Sheetrock and plaster at a 45 degree angle.  I am part of a group on Facebook called the bsue boutiqes creative group. We show our work tables on Wednesday and finished projects Friday. People often comment on the fact that I build and glue over my living room floor/ area run but it's my only place. Believe it or not my jewelry used to be created on a crowded apartment livig room floor so trust me it's an improvement. Hopefully soon that bedroom will be finished.

So that creative group I was telling you about holds giveaways for people who participate. One of the newest challenges is a log one where participants must build a cordinatig line of jewelry with components that can be duplicated over and over. I decided this kind of challenge wasn't for me, but I did want to follow along a little. Part of the challenge was to make a blog. That's what I'm doing here. I'm also trying to decide on an easy line of jewelry that could be duplicated and sold as a coordinating line. Well that's where my love of animals is going to come in. I have already began to release dog and cat related jewelry in my etsy shop. I have added simple earrings, cameo necklaces, and cuff bracelets.

See my shop here

Animal jewelry


Anyway my goal with this blog is connect with others with the same interests as me and to go over my creative blunders and to show people my creative jewelry.