these sure are pretty...

...well unfortunately, the jeg lag is still kickin' my butt. sigh. good news is that i got to spend some more early morning time working and some late afternoon time sleeping. they say that for every hour of time change, expect 1 day to get back into gear. so that means i have like oh 9 more days before i get back to normal...
... speaking of normal, i REALLLY need to get back into a regular exercise schedule. i did go to the gym this week and have make plans with a running friend for tomorrow (so there is no backing out there) but with the pregnancy and short daylight hours, my body can feel it... so i need to get back into it soon.

... in the news of MR, the good news is that one of our large shipments arrived today! FINALLY (this was the 40, no make that 45 day) shipment that was supposed to take 21 days. all i can say is YAY! we will be inspecting everything tomorrow so keep your fingers crossed on that.

but some goodies i wanted to share are some of these CITY heart and round ribbon slides we have! i pulled these out today just to show you - aren't they just pretty? i can't decide which ones i like better - the lifesaver-ish ones or the heart ones. they come in 7 mono-chromatic color schemes to match all of our new CITY ribbons. sometimes i think they are too pretty to use! LOL! when we were in Hong Kong, i got to see my cuz, amanda, whom i haven't seen in about 2 years. amanda is a hip, young "uni" (australian word for college) student in Sydney. she had no clue as to all the goodies we make at maya road. so i showed her some of our ribbons and slides. amanda is not into scrapbooking but totally into jewelry making. but in the end, she told us she loved our stuff and we left her with yards and yards of ribbons and some blossom slides! we might make a convert out of her yet!