My Birthday

It was a great one even if its the 50th. My mom came up from Florida, my son and his girlfriend drove down from upstate. With my wonderful husband they threw me a surprise party! It was great to have my friends and family all together. This is the last one I'll count going forward until I hit 0 again :) AND this was the one and only SURPRISE party, the old heart just can't take it.

I had fun taking pictures this morning of all the beautiful flowers I got for my birthday. I just love the new macro lens.




To see all the photos - http://www.flickr.com/photos/getglassy/sets/72157601742451088/

Blue and Green

I miss the Carribean. This winter hasn't been as bad as other parts of the country but I still miss the ocean and the warm sand.

Creative Glass Guild of Etsy

Find Ms Candy Corny! She's hiding in the CGGE members stores on Etsy.
She's tricky, she hides in some strange and interesting places, you need to hunt high and low for her!

But your treat is a chance to win one of these 3 great prizes!








Visit participating members stores and look through the photos to find Ms Candy Corny (avatars don't count). Jot down where you find her and send the list to Creationsinglass. If there is a tie the winners will be picked at random to receive one of the above prizes - one of them I made!
Most members are also having a sale to go alone with the contest. Take a look and save some $$. The holidays are coming fast so start shopping early!

OH and I almost forgot - I'm offering 20% off anything in my shop!
Getglass.etsy.com

Server problems

Here we are into day 2 of our server problems. We have a co-located server in a Chicago data-center. This data center is one of the big guys at least we thought. They are suppose to have redundancies up the ying yang but apparently they forgot one! All the information I have is they were waiting for a part to be delivered from Cisco.
We found out from our service agreement that we get refunded a whole $25 a day... woo hooo.. not much consolation for our 100 plus sites running on our server. Guess we need to share the wealth.. each one will get $.25 per day of the outage. That'll keep my customers happy... oh yeah.
I understand break downs, I understand equipment failure, but I don't understand how a company as big as they are with today's technology didn't have a backup plan better than this.

Lets just hope the day gets better.

I have been tagged by http://papernclay.blogspot.com/. This is new to me so I hope I'm playing by the rules properly

Here are the rules:


1. Link to your tagger and post these rules.
2. List eight (8) random facts about yourself.
3. Tag eight people at the end of your post and list their names (linking to them).
4. Let them know they’ve been tagged by leaving them a comment on their blogs.

8 random getglassy facts

1 - I grew up in Niagara Falls and really miss it sometimes. I use to ride my bike through the park as a teenager and it was the 'hangout' place in the summer.

2 - I have an amazing husband, he's my best friend.

3 - I have 2 great kids even if they are adults now. My son is 27 and daughter 24 and amazing since I'm only 29 ;) I'm waiting to be a grandma but no one is cooperating!

4- My favorite color is purple and cobalt blue.

5- I LOVE snorkeling and I'm on my way to the Caribbean next week to indulge!

6 - I love cats and have two of them. They wish they could go snorkeling with me. I have never seen cats who love water as much as they do. Their favorite hang out is the bathroom sink and will stay there even when you turn the water on.

7 - Favorite food has to be pizza and wings - I am from the Buffalo area after-all.

8 - My retirement plan - the 4 B's - Beach, Bar, Boat, Bahamas

Tag - Your it!
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My First Etsy Treasury

It was sooooooo much fun picking the treasury. I think I'm hooked!

So many great artist to choose from on Etsy and amazing how many belong to CGGE. I love being able to help advertise the group.

But notice the theme - the urge to get back to the Caribbean is getting stronger every day. We're planning for October, not sure I can wait that long!

Fish

Fish you say.....
I'm a Pieces I love fish. I really love swimming with the fish - literally! We try to make it to the Caribbean to snorkel at least once a year. We head to beautiful St.Thomas most of the time. Take a look at www.pocketyachts.com. It is a site I build for friends of ours in St. Thomas. If your ever heading down that way his day packages are the best. They are so friendly and will take you to all the best places!

These are some of the pics we've taken underwater.

Thats me feeding the babies.




And this guy is our yearly friend. He was either hit by a boat or shark took a bite out of him. He's missing his back leg. But friendly as can be. He'll swim with you and doesn't shy away when you get close. And when he's in the mood he'll even let you touch him.





On the day we head home we try to get one last snorkel in and thats when we found this beautiful spotted ray. Always seems like the seas save the best for last just to keep us coming back for more.



Lately I've been inspired by the desire to head back to the ocean. So here's a few little fishies I've created in glass. I'll be posting these up on Etsy soon.