2 posts tagged “shopping”

Yesterday Mom and I both had some time off work so we went shopping for chocolate and ingredients for the chocolate for our “Art & Chocolate” fund raiser.  “Art & Chocolate” is a fund raiser we are planning for our adoption process of bringing home our children from Colombia.  It was good to have her along and I was surprised how supportive she was and interested in brainstorming for other chocolate formula ideas.  She is an expert at this and it’s good to have her as a resource.  It will be interesting to see how all these formulas come together.  I have more testing to do.  I have so many pounds of excellent quality chocolate at my house…  it must be close to heaven.  Maybe after the pressing projects of this week are done I can start in with the first stages of prep.  Now that is going to be fun!

My parents were not going to come to the “Art & Chocolate” fund raiser because of a scheduling conflict with their small group and seeing friends they haven’t seen in a long time.  But when she heard that hubby’s parents were coming in from Indiana for the event, it really turned the tide for her.  I think she pretty much decided on the spot that they wouldn’t be able to go to their small group thing after all.  It’s hard to want to be in two places at once and I knew the choice was hard for them.  However, I just got a call that they are coming and bringing the whole small group to the event.  Yay!  Some of those folks are loaded – so it will be lovely to have them there from a financial perspective.  They are close friends of my parents, so that means there will be the emotional connection.  They are generous and good people.  And they have a tradition of making chocolate together each Christmas.  So the event is perfect for them.  I am delighted!

Yeah, I spent most of the day uploading a bunch of new stuff to Etsy.com for sale.  Yeah baby, surf on over and check out the goods.  Especially if you enjoy beading like I do.  Today I posted beads I've made from polymer clay.  And I realized a little bit ago that there are tons more of these beads and such that I didn't find when I did the first batch!  Oy!  I've got more work to do!