Finished!

   Hello! Been a while since I posted but I really have a great explanation. I was a little busy earning my Associate of Arts degree with a Concentration in Business Foundations; and I am excited that I have completed my program. I enjoyed the courses I took especially PC Application Support, Finance, Management of Information Systems, Principles of Accounting, and Cultural Diversity, but Business Communications and Critical Thinking was my favorite. Although I continue to study and learn new concepts every day I now focus my efforts back on the one thing that lead me to the University, TamsJewelry.

   One thing always holds true for me as long as I dare to dream, as one goal is accomplished another is created. So I took a little break for a week to get my house in order and to get back in the routine of not having one, believe me it is harder than it sounds. Lol

    Now I am back to work and as I get in a groove I moved to the next project of moving into a bigger space. I will tell ya all about it soon. I am also exploring some bead making techniques and will be sharing some craft tutorials soon. Yes it is going to get busy just in time for the Holiday season….Thanks for stopping by! Come back again soon!

Sometimes you gotta give up what you love....

     Goodbye my love! This is me kissing you goodbye. Can you see the tears in my eyes? This is a very sad day, but please stop tempting me with your sweetness! It is hard to walk away from you, but you are so bad for me in so many ways this is something I must do.  Bad for my heart, and myself esteem, not to mention the guilt I feel for allowing you to change me into someone I don’t want to be.  Just because you were enticing enough to lure me into a life-long obsession of you does not mean I can’t give you up. I may have been weak to you before, but not anymore! Yes I realize I let my love for you cloud my better judgment. Many times I lost all self- control and gave in to my desire for you. Each time knowing you weren’t good for me, yet I gave into you. But now I have found a new love, one that makes me feel good about myself, makes me feel like I can achieve anything!  So stop being so seductive it isn’t going to work, I am changing! That’s right, sometimes you have to give up what you love in order to find a better you. So this is it, we are over. We are through! To my new love, thank you for accepting me for who I am and helping me to change! Most of all thanks for giving the courage to do what I should have done long ago. So goodbye chocolate I am going to miss you! My new love for exercise is going to get me through. Now it is in writing and there is no turning back, I only have to remember you’re responsible for my fat. Written by Tammy Sultemeier November 14, 2013 8) Inspired by my Nutrition class!

A's in everything but life..

     PSY/ 201 Foundations of Psychology= A+

  HUM/111 Critical and Creative Thinking= A+

        Hello my friends! Yes, it has been a while! I have been busy earning my degree and although I am doing well with that I am certainly failing as far as the other areas of my life. It is kind of ironic that I decided to earn my degree and learn how to build my business yet that seems to be what I most often neglect. Oh I realize I can apply all I have learned and be busier than I can handle, but can I handle it? Lol… I have decided that I am not going to beat myself up about my downfalls. Instead I am making a new game plan. I am sure I am not the only one that struggles with time management and balancing life. If anyone out there feels they have mastered the juggling of life, please share your strategy with me. Well, now you know what I have been doing this summer what have you been up to?

Made it through April...

      Hello friends! Yes it has been a while...college, and keeping up with the jewelry has been a bit challenging, to say the least. April is always a hard month for me to get through, because of my dreaded birthday. Oh , I realize it is all about perspective, and I keep a positive one. Every year in April I reflect on how my life is going. I ask myself questions like, "What did I do to inspire others this past year? What can I do to do better than that?", basically I spend all of April analyzing my life. lol I am sure I am not the only one that reflects on life when birthdays rolls around. You do it too, right? I have a list of things I need to improve on, believe me it is a longggg list. I decided this year I am going to take the time to enjoy the little things ,but I have no intention of losing focus on that list. I am happy to report, I have earned 15 of the 60 credits needed to attain my goal of earning an Associates degree. Now that I know what it will take to maintain the A's, I can focus more on this blog and my jewelry. Yep, life is good my friends! My two new courses now are, Foundation of Psychology, and Critical and Creative Thinking, I am so excited to be taking them! I have a little free time now and I am coming to read your Blog, and catch up with you now, so make me some coffee please....lol  
See you soon!

Keeping that New years resolution is getting old....

 
     Keeping that New Year’s resolution is getting old already and we are not even half way through the month. Am I the only one feeling this way? I have managed to accomplish two of three promises that I had made to myself but the hardest is the third. I want to earn my purple belt this year and in order to do that I am going to have to find some motivation fast. The next karate session starts Monday and all though I told myself I would be physically conditioned by then but boy, I am in for a world of hurt. I have been slacking off now for four months so with no one to blame but myself I am going to suck it up and start this karate session with a prayer that I will be able to make it through the next three months without injuring myself. So although my new year’s resolution is causing me some stress I am going to give it my best my friends, and looking on the bright side of things I have eleven more months to go. Did you make, keep, or break a resolution?

I 'm going back to school

      I didn't want to speak to soon and jinx the most exciting thing that has happened to me in a very long time. That is why I didn't share this sooner. I enrolled at the University Of Phoenix . Now It's not that I don't feel challenged enough already trying to raise my two teenage daughters. And yes, karate is very challenging also.  I have come to a point where I needed to learn more about search engine optimization, e-marketing, marketing in general , writing, and well you get the idea. In order to keep up with the ups and downs of this economy I realized I have to learn a few things. So I did a little research then I decided The University Of Phoenix had a perfect marketing program for me, so I contacted them. If you have been considering furthering your education may I humbly suggest you contact  Lew Sykes a student adviser ,he certainly made my decision easy. I gave him a link to my Etsy Shop and he helped guide me to the perfect program for me. May I add it has been a while since I have been in school. He scheduled me for 4 weeks of work shops to prepare me and guess what? I Loved them! Yes ,not only did I learn something from them but I had fun in the process.Now that I have the workshops behind me ,I am confident I am ready to start the first two courses on Monday. I will be earning an Associates degree in business and entrepreneurship first. And hopefully I will then go on to my Bachelors. I am so excited! If you are interested in furthering your education but aren't sure where to start please contact the University Of Phoenix ecampus.phoenix.edu/ and see what they have to offer you. Never stop learning ! When you speak to Lew please tell him Tam sent you!

More Time...

      Well This was an enlightening week for me.I had a big birthday 4? ugh! And I am no longer at my part time job. I was overwhelmed with work, and work ,and my teenage daughter's.lol   So I asked to cut back to three days a week,and within two weeks he come up and said "I'm gonna let you go". I was soo shocked I cried,never been fired before.He had a real good bogus excuse too.Oh well,I'm counting it as a Blessing! Gonna focus on my jewelry and my family! If you Pray, please say a Prayer for me ,I need all the help I can get!  So of course I spent the first day cleaning house. And now I am going to be filling up my shops! And I am actually going to have time to bring all those drawings I have stashed to life.And yes,of course I have more time for my blog now.Going to share some recipes and how to tutorials,some Texas road trips and of course some of my crafting friend's work! I can't stop smiling now,it's so exciting like living a dream.lol I can't wait to see what God has planned for me next! I hope you Have a fantastic weekend!

Please be patient with me I am a work in progress!

      What happened to October? Time is flying by,here it is almost November and I am not Ready for it!LOL I had great intentions of having all my newest items listed and I really wanted to be able to add Christmas items and be ready for the Holidays,but time hasn't permitted me to do it.Am I the only person who can't seem to get caught up?I thought I was done all my pictures on all the store fronts had been edited. And I made sure to have all unique items in each one,then Google decides to change the rules.lol  I really don't have time for it.LOL I am going to add all my Items to my Etsy shop at least it's syndicated I don't feel all my hard work is wasted there. So here I go again,please be patient with me I am a work in progress.LOL  If my day job allows I will have all my items added by Christmas.Here is what I have been working on this month.Yes eye lanyards ,and a couple other things.LOL  I have many items I haven't done pictures on.Well that's pretty much it.I will keep you posted .I sure hope you have a fantastic safe Halloween.Thanks for stopping by!

Made it through the Karate Camp8) LOL

       Hello my friends,yes I made it through my first of many karate camp's.I am proud Of my daughter she did so great!I loved it I wasted a whole lot of time worrying about nothing.It was not nearly as abusive as I thought it would be.We practiced several new techniques and we were introduced to some weapons like bow staff but my favorite thing for the day was throwing the ninja throwing stars.Turns out I am not to bad with them I am definitely going shopping for my own.And as far as weapons go I am pretty sure the bow staff is my favorite.After training all day practicing ground fighting and meeting some other great people we did night trails.Turns out what I was scared of most was the most fun.We practiced everything we learned throughout the camp on the night trails.I learned I  need to practice self control among the many other things because one guy attacked me and I forgot I wasn't supposed to hit him so hard.Man I felt bad as I am sure he did after he forgot to block, I kneed him twice in the groin.Wow I can do it, sorry dude.LOL I'll do better when we go again in the fall.No injuries to report other than a few bruises,yes my friends life is good!Enjoy your week!!

Awe I got stung by the D--- Scorpion.LOL

All summer I have been finding scorpions in the house.Yes we sprayed and yes, If I had the light on I may have seen this particular one.But I didn't, and for the first time in thirty years or so of living in Texas I got stung by a scorpion.And ya know what?It didn't hurt as bad as I thought it would. In fact I am kind of laughing because I think My karate is paying off. LOL No Don't laugh I am serious.See in karate the art part is made up of formal exercises called Kata.And from practicing them the souls of my feet have become very tough especially the heals.So karate paid off for me by helping me to fend off that nasty Scorpion sting.And my fear of scorpions is gone.Wait what was that I just saw?I mean to say My fear of scorpions isn't as bad as it was.