Welcome May and a New Me!

Hi everyone, I know...it's been a long time. I've made some more pieces that will be posted to the website later next week. Just a few....



Here are some pictures of the Family Circle necklace you have heard me mention in the past. Silver with a heart charm and 4 stones. Starts at $90. And $10 for each additional stone. Gold-fill Starts at $100 for 4 stones, less the heart (sorry I just can find a suitable charm)

So the new designs are cute, some simple. I think you will like them. In fact I'm wearing a pair now. Teeny tiny little silver hoops with an 8mm silver ball accented by Bali beads. Another perfect everyday and may I add: a sporty earring.


Which leads me to what has been going on in my world - aside from designing jewelry and managing my kids. I've been exercising! To be more specific, aerobic activity - ZUMBA! Oh my, how I just LOVE IT! It is so much freakin' fun! I can honestly say that I'm addicted! Crazy, I know! I really hate missing a class. Anyway, exercise was one of my new years resolution (as it has been every year since I was probably 19) Check out this UTube clip....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf0q6qtThF4

So, on April 1st I started to be more conscience of what I put in my body and also added running and weight lifting to my program. It has been exactly 1 month or 30 days and I have lost 12 lbs! WooHoo!!! I'm so excited because I know I can do it on my own with out any gimmicks. Yesterday, I signed on for the Body For Life Challenge. It is a 12 week program that basically includes a low fat healthy eating along with cardio and weights - it is a lifestyle change. And I welcome that with open arms! Al that I have been doing goes along with the program. It's really basic: calories in versus calories out. Easy. I swear I am so determined to be fit again. I have my before photo (which I am NOT going to share!) But, if in 12 weeks I can be transformed - then MAYBE. That's a really BIG maybe. I'll share only if I look inspiring at the end of my 12 weeks. So for me, my biggest motivator is my 20 year high school reunion. It's this October! I haven't seen most of my classmates since then. It is so frightening!

Well that is it for now. Moving forward. :-)

In loving Memory of Eddie

I write tonight with much sadness. I sit here sobbing for my dog is dying. Two weeks shy of his 14th birthday, we think he has suffered a stroke. We knew that this day would come. But like many thing in life - we are just not ready. I love this dog. His name is Eddie. Our 1st true responsibility, our kid. I remember the day we got him ... $50 bucks ... a rottie lab mix. He is an awesome, awesome dog. He was there the day my husband proposed to me in the snow. He traveled with us on our vacations. He moved around with us from our rental to the first house we bought. He was there when we brought home our first, second and third child from the hospital. Curious of the little being who has yet again taken our attention away from him. I'm crying and don't know what to say. I am just so, so incredibly sad. he is at the Vet now. And I sit here telling you all of this as I wait to hear his fate........

The day brought him home. Eddie at just 8 weeks old.

With just these few passing moments....

I just heard. I can breath!

I didn't get to say good-bye!!!

What am I going to tell my kids?

How I will always remember you Eddie...

Eddie "Spaghetti" Tonda

April 11th 1994- March 27th, 2008

Winter 2008

So here's the deal, one of my New Years resolutions is to spend less time on the computer. It consumes me very easily! For crying out loud there's whole wide world out there to explore via the web!

I'll make this quick, I have added a few new items on the website and I assure there are a few more to come. Custom orders have really taken over my business. I'm not complaining, really, it's awesome! But because I'm so busy with that...I have less time creating for the sake of the website. I make 'em and then they're gone! Sorry. So if you wish I still had "Misty" or "Linda" earrings just email me directly. Or like most of my recent orders, if you want a 'style' of one my earring but in a different color stone... just email me! I'll do my best to oblige ya!

In the meantime here are some photos of the happenings in our world.....

My little snow baby.
Number 1 and 2's 1st skii lesson. A little weekend getaway at Squaw.

Happy Holidays!

Whoaaaa! It's crazy around here!

OK, First off ... place your orders by the 20th for guaranteed Christmas delivery! Just a couple of days left!!!

So we're hosting Christmas day dinner here at our home for the first time and lets just say - I'm FREAKING' OUT!!! The house is a mess, I've got chairs to rent, furniture to rearrange, food to buy, teachers gifts to wrap, more gifts to buy, the kids Christmas programs to attend, orders to make and ship... UGH! Somebody stop the madness!!! It's all good though.

From Me (Corina - Aniroc design) and my family,

Happy Holidays to you and yours!

May everyone's holidays be beautiful and wonderful!

May your New Years Eve be safe,

and 2008 a prosperous and healthy one!

Reading other Blogs

I want to share a couple of personal blogs that I'm reading that touch be deeply. As you know I have a friend battling a war with cancer. Since I found out I have carried it with me everyday. I'm so so puzzled and very saddened to why this happens. I want to do so much to help but feel like nothing I do will help. It has changed my life. I pray everyday that she will be cured.

http://thewrightspot.blogspot.com/ The other is of a man who met Heidi's mother-in-law http://vivoalive.blogspot.com/

I plan to bring her some goodies to brighten her up. I think a hat, a plant, slippers, some cute hand towels (she needs her own) a can of Lysol and more... I only wish I could have given her this gift sooner. But as luck would have it the kids and I have been battling colds the last few weeks. And we don't want to spread that! Also, if you have seen me trompin' around town... Yes. I broke my foot to top it off!

So, I don't mean to damage any one's day. But If you think your having a bad one maybe this will help you rethink that.

Welcome Fall

Well another month has come and gone. The weather was so nice the whole month of October with temperatures averaging 78. Our #1 turned 6 with a Secret Agent/Spy party and then finished his first trimester with straight "A"s (well "S"s)! He really makes us so proud.


What a fun filled month it was! We made a trip to Apple Hill and picked apples and visited a petting farm along with all the arts and crafts booths there were to see. It felt like fall. One vendor (S. Todd Smith) crafted old wine barrels into pieces of art, I had to have one! I purchased a votive holder and I just love it! We even managed to do a little wine tasting at The Lava Cap winery. May I suggest the 2004 Granite Hill Reserve Petite Sirah. De-lish!

Here's #2 trekking through the vineyard.

We bought our pumpkins from Davis Ranch were they had a great corn maze, that was fun.

#3 enjoying all the pumpkins to chose from.

We also visited Fog Willow Pumpkin patch with #1's Kinder class. That was his 1st bus ride! Of course that was the highlight of the trip for him.

As #1 went off track, we managed to fit in one last camping trip before the Holidays. We went to Bodega Bay and met up with our close friends, it was so nice! We collected sand dollars one morning during low tide. I found some tiny ones that I plan on making a mold from to recreate into PMC (precious metal clay) jewelry pieces. We returned the day before Halloween with lots of cleaning to do from the trip.

Halloween we carved lots of pumpkins and trick-or-treating around the neighborhood. I couldn't believe how many people were out this year! It made so much more fun. People were pleasant and neighborly. I think that extending daylight saving time was good. So #1 was a Zombie, #2 a Black Cat and #3 Princess Aurora. Too cute!

So, Christmas is just around the corner and I have been swamped with local orders! All custom pieces, most from a good friend's trunk show. Others for fall birthdays, I guess. Either way I'm enjoying it. I have another trunk show this week. Can I tell ya ... the bookmarks are flying off the shelves - sort to speak. I have to thank my great friend Lisa Lane for that. It was her initial request for one and it has just snowballed from there. Thank you Lisa!

Thanksgiving is just two weeks away and Christmas is in the air of all stores! Sheeesh! Poor Thanksgiving as Lisa would say. We go from Halloween straight to Christmas.

Appreciating family

I know, I know it takes me forever to blog. Well, a few weeks ago, when I was ready to take on the holiday shopping season ... a friend was diagnosed with Breast Cancer. She is 30 and has 4 young children. It has been just over a week since her surgery and next week she starts her chemo and radiation therapy. She was told that she has at least 10 nodes positive. My heart aches for her and her family. I just can't imagine. Every time I think about it and it gets me upset(like now). My husband works in oncology, he deciphers the disease facts to me. I'm not sure if that's a good thing???

Since this info came to me I am realizing the importance of my life. I am not ill, but I want to absorb every moment with my kids and family instead of just letting them pass me by as it has been. I enjoy what I do and that's good. But sometimes I get stressed with deadlines and promises, loads of laundry and a constant messy house. I don't need to 'work' but this is my creative outlet and that I do need. So I'm taking things in stride and new items are coming but a bit more slowly. I hate that it takes something so terrible to see clearly.