tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-298790012009-10-14T17:07:32.547+10:00Jeweller/analyst/programmer/student. Infrequent blogger. New mother-of-one.Jenna Appletonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01424729095623078574noreply@blogger.comBlogger69125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29879001.post-80222639288076564352009-09-16T11:21:00.006+10:002009-09-16T11:58:19.233+10:00

I've been remarkably slack in taking photographs of Daniel in the last couple of months. Part of that is that I'm just too busy with exam and other stresses (free of the exam in fifteen days! hurrah!), part of it is some sort of weird grief-avoidance because I associate my camera with our little girl-kitty that was run over in May :(Select photos, when I have them, are usually posted over on my

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So, I bought a lot of cabochons last week when I went to Hong Kong.I wasn't planning on going at all this year, given that I have a baby and all, but with airfares so low due to the global financial crisis, and Ben agreeing to look after Daniel for the few days I was gone... I couldn't resist. However, Daniel's come down with a contagious kiddie virus that means that he can't go to daycare this

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... I'm spending rather a lot of time on it lately.

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Waved off Ben for a little while today; he's gone to the USA for work. We will miss him :)One thing that is kind of odd in my personality is that I always go on a slightly manic home-improvement crusade whenever Ben is gone for more than a couple of days. I get the urge to change things a couple of days before he goes and I start subconsciously looking for stuff to improve. Most of the time this

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So, Ben's going to the USA for a little while later this month for work... leaving me 'alone' with Daniel overnight for the first time. It'll be several overnights really, since he's got to go to both NYC and the San Francisco bay area to work with people on this trip. We discussed it first, including whether we thought it would be a good idea for me and Daniel to tag along (expensive, since we'd

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I've not been keeping up with my blog (again). Here's most of the reason:This is Daniel. --->He was born shortly after lunch on November 2nd, weighing and measuring pretty much exactly on the median for male newborns. He came out with pretty much a full head of hair, and I'm going to have to give him his first haircut soon or it'll start poking him in the ears :PAs you might expect, much of my

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Technically I'm now on maternity leave. w00t! I do have a couple of things I'd like to keep working on though and I'm not required to hand back my pass keys/network access just yet, so I'll probably potter around with the programming into next week or so. I'm really not a workaholic, but for some reason it's more fun when I have no obligation to do it :)I need to answer a bunch of people's

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I have a bit of a passion for collecting stones. Currently I'm fascinated with carved and faceted cabochons. I recently had a bit of spare cash and ordered a few cabs from a wholesale place. They've just arrived and already I'm contemplating my next order (/me rollseyes at self).A couple of these I've got more than I'll ever possibly use (ie the little prehnites - I wanted about 10, I had to

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Because I was ill for such a long time in July and August, I didn't get my exhibition piece finished for A&E Metal's annual 'Explorations' exhibition until about an hour before the submission deadline, and then hurtled over to their Marrickville office to submit the thing. The focal piece, I did get a photo of... that would be this one:I did quite a lot of gemmy beading in the actual necklace

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While getting things ready for the show a couple of weekends back, it became painfully clear to me just how much finished jewellery is sitting up in the loft unphotographed and unlisted. I knew there was a fair bit - I really don't like to take photos and list stuff, I want to make items all the time! - but when the number of items gets into the (multiple) hundreds it's all a bit much.I figure

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I just finished making a ring for the first time in ages. I'm pretty slow at making rings when they have stones set into them - today's is ridiculously simple but it took me close to an hour and a half! Most of that was because I chose a piece of tubing for the setting that was a bit too thick in the wall and it took a lot of time and effort to actually set the stone :PBecause I haven't made

Jenna Appletonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01424729095623078574noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29879001.post-8405970859756946682008-09-15T11:05:00.002+10:002008-09-15T11:08:34.100+10:00

So I ran out of disk space this morning on my primary hard drive. I ran around finding a few images to delete (mostly blurry ones of jewellery or kittehs - why I don't always clear the blurry ones immediately I don't know) but that didn't seem to help much if at all, and I couldn't figure out why for a while.The headdesk moment? I don't think I've cleared my "Recycle Bin" in probably a year.

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I think I've had more energy for each of the last two days than I've had any day in the previous three months. I don't know what's changed - I'm certainly no less encumbered by the preggo belly, I still have heartburn for hours every afternoon/evening, I still need ten hours' sleep or more - but my waking hours seem much brighter ^_^I've always been the sort of person that thrives on deadlines.

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- festival -I had a lot of fun doing the Marrickville Street Festival with Sam and Mel yesterday. Thankyou to both of you for making it such a great day! I think our stall looked fabulous :)While I didn't have an overly successful day financially at the Fair, I'm really very happy that I went and participated. I'm feeling vastly more organised because of it, and it was valuable to see the

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Last night proved relatively fruitful in my quest to customise my Zen Cart installation, hurrah!I've had fun installing a grid layout mod for the categories (super easy compared to OSCommerce, I have to say) and doing minor tweaks on the stylesheet to get things to 'look right'. I'm also very happy with my decision to move hosting services a couple of months back, as the new host's control panel

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My husband has some work dinner thing on tonight so I have a bunch of time to myself. I'm using it to work on my website shopping cart, and then I'm going to bed early.I've just had pizza delivered... not something we do often, but I don't really feel like using all my energy tonight cooking for one (and a half?) ^_^ I'm really enjoying that Pizza Hut here now has online ordering, and that I can

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I often think while I'm going about my day that 'I should blog that!' and I rarely do... as evidenced by my lack of posting in this thing."so, what are you up to?"Right now?I'm currently on lunch break from my day job... which I'm currently performing from home. I seem to have contracted pretty much every bug going around this past winter, and being constantly ill for over six weeks plus getting

Jenna Appletonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01424729095623078574noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29879001.post-53210319382453806502008-05-30T15:50:00.003+10:002008-05-30T15:51:35.207+10:00

I'm starting to list the things in the destash list over in my Etsy store (littleappleton). If there's something you wanted that I haven't yet listed, please send me a message :)(Note that some things will have an extra $ or two over the price in the list below to cover PayPal/Etsy fees; I didn't calculate these in when I did the price list)thanks! - j

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I'm still unpacking up in the loft. Things are generally taking twice as long as I expect! Alicia hangs out with me all the time up here in the new loft studio. Sometimes she even comes up here and calls for me, and tells me off when I come up the stairs for taking so long. I've never had a cat that talks to me so much before :)I'm back at work three days per week, which is restricting my loft

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... and I'm off to get the settlement cheques done now... I can't wait to get the keys tomorrow! :)

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*destash list updated 29th March*Just a quick update of what's happening around here for the next month or so... I'm thinking I might look as though I've fallen off the face of the earth for a little while so I'll warn people in advance :)I'm currently studying for a couple of exams toward my actuarial qualification... I find these *hard*, and they're on the 8th and 16th of April. (If you're

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I'm kind of disgusted by the way that Sydney Airport is set out lately.There's very little space for people to pick up travellers and nowhere for them to stop and wait... if your passenger isn't there when you come around to pick them up, you are moved on. While I don't have any issues with this - terminal-front space is at a premium - I do take issue that there's nowhere for them to stop and

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I didn't get to make a ring today, despite it being Friday :(I spent half my morning organising stuff and at the laundromat (we don't have a washing machine in our tiny apartment). I've also packed and sent all outstanding parcels, which was quite a few... sometimes I'm quicker, today I was slow.I came home early to bundle up the kittehs and take them to kitty boarding at the local vet's. We're

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So, I just bathed my two cats. This is a pretty rare occurrence; I only do it when I think they really, really need it. This occasion is because they keep picking up fleas on their infrequent trips outside, and despite regular doses of selamectin (Revolution is the shelf name), which is supposed to eliminate both the fleas, and their eggs and larvae in the environment, they can't seem to shake

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It's Sunday morning and I'm sitting at my desk in the front room (what we call the non-bedroom room in this apartment) and looking out the window. Oscar and Alicia are sitting on the sill and looking out the window with me. It's raining a fine mist outside and it's looking a little grey out there; it's actually the sort of weather I like best ^_^Ben's dad flew down yesterday afternoon to help us

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