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About Me

My name is Ingrid and I own McCue's Mercantile, a small home based giftware and home decor shop.

Visit McCue's Mercantile.com OR check out our eBay Store

About my son Brendan My oldest son, Brendan has a form of high-functioning autism called Asperger's Syndrome. He was diagnosed when he was 5 years old, which is quite old for a diagnosis of this type. He's a really wonderful kid and if you met him, you may not notice his issues thank goodness. Here's a little more information about Autism from VH1."Rock Autism" on VH1 Classic PSA

I Love Beading
I love to bead! I enjoy learning about all types of beading but my LOVE is wire wrapping. I kind of go into these stretches where I may bead every day for weeks and then won't touch it for a while. I guess it's just my personality but I LOVE to bead! I'm hoping to get some of my products onto the website and ebay soon.
Do you sell jewelry? Join Your Jewelry 4 Profit I opened this group but haven't worked on it. I'd love to be able to make it into a cool place to bead, swaps and more!
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My Interests

I love making jewelry! I especially love semi-precious beaded jewelry. Reading - yeah I know, pretty boring but I dig reading everything from non-fiction to way out there stuff...you tell me about a good book and I'm on it. Doing stuff with my family. And I love checking out new stuff for the shop. There's nothing like finding something cool that you just can't find everywhere.Here's some pictures of my jewelry - if it doesn't work just go and look at it on the pictures section. There are a few there :)

I'd like to meet:

I'd really like to meet someone who didn't have a dime to their name growing up and turned their lives around. Not someone who did it with their family's money or someone who grew up in a middle class neighborhood, I'm talking about someone who didn't have two dimes to rub together - ever - until they broke out of that kind of life. You hear about it every day, but do you ever meet that kind of person? I don't but I'd love to!

Music:

Country, Classic Rock, Show Tunes, whatever I'm in the mood to listen to. If you are at the shop you'll probably hear easy going music but not easy listening either lol.

Movies:

Finding Nemo (can you tell I have kids) Happy Feet - how cute is that movie? I haven't seen an adult movie in years. I'm hoping to change that soon though.

Television:

Grey's Anatomy, ER, Ghost Whisperer - anything creepy!

Books:

Whatever catches my eye at the time. I just read a really awesome book from Nora Roberts.

Heroes:

My children! Brendan has to overcome so many obstacles and with everything that happens, he does. I'm so proud of him! Aaren is just an awesome toddler, what else can a mom say??

My Blog

Wire Wrapping for Wire Dorks

Last night I got to share the evening with a bunch of online friends who do beading. How cool is that? I sat next to Lois who was teaching the class on wrapping a cab. I had done a c...
Posted by Ingrid on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:21:00 PST

Aaren doesn’t need speech!

WooHoo! I got the report back from Aaren's latest testing and he doesn't need speech anymore! I'm so pleased I could just sit back and smile the whole day. Now if only I can keep up ...
Posted by Ingrid on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:24:00 PST

A What??

Tonight when we got home it was dark and we could see our neighbor in her house. Of course with me being the prankster that I am I turned up the music to 3 million in my car, blairing the kids e...
Posted by Ingrid on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:32:00 PST

Brendan Update

Brendan started TSS services at home this week. He really enjoys his new friend and she seems really sweet! He's doing really well with her and responds like I've never seen before. ...
Posted by Ingrid on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:20:00 PST

Aaren Update

Today I had to bring Aaren into the Berks County Intermediate Unit for testing. They were checking to see where they wanted to place him for speech therapy and also to see if there were any issu...
Posted by Ingrid on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:18:00 PST

The Autism Walk

We made it! What an awesome day it was. The sun was shining, the air was clean and crisp. Just a perfect day to walk the 3.2 miles. Not only that, everywhere I looked I saw pic...
Posted by Ingrid on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:14:00 PST

WooHoo!

I can’t believe it! In ONE DAY we’ve DOUBLED our goal for $1000.00 for the walk! My heart is soaring. I’m in shock and I’m so proud! For everyone who&rs...
Posted by Ingrid on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:27:00 PST

Not sleeping

Ok, I'm not sleeping. Well, I am but just not at the right time. Last night I fell asleep at 6:00 and woke up at 2:30am. I made some jewelry, watched tv, and basically sat there like...
Posted by Ingrid on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:22:00 PST

Walking for Autism gets me off my butt

The other day I posted "On the Road" it was about me getting onto the treadmill. I'm still doing it but here's the big thing. I'm going to start posting my scary information on here. ...
Posted by Ingrid on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:34:00 PST

Bush Announces 09 Budget, Autism Funding Down

I just read about the final proposed budget from President Bush. I don't know what he was thinking. Here's the important stuff, well at least where Autism is concerned. "The presiden...
Posted by Ingrid on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:09:00 PST