Hello!

I can't believe I let 3 weeks go by without writing anything here...aaack!!! Now that classes have started, I've just been so busy and haven't had as much time for bead-making/jewelry-making as I would prefer. But I have been doing some big bead orders and custom jewelry, which is always fun! I have a major group project due in my marketing class next week, so that has been consuming a huge amount of my time. At least that will be over soon! And there's a lot of reading for one of my other classes, plus a huge paper to think about for my third class. I'm enjoying my reduced work schedule, it gives me more time for homework. So that is good. I decided to combine 2 of my Christmas bead sets into one jumbo-sized set! I put it up on Ebay earlier this week. I also listed a pink/black/lime charm bracelet set made with my own lampwork beads. I really like how it turned out!!! Aside from all this, I'm also keeping busy with church activities. Half of the membership of my church is student-based, so there is a huge turnover every year. My husband and I are two of the Reader Coordinators, so we've been busy training all the new readers (we have 35 new ones and even more 'returning' ones!!), working on the schedule for fall, answering e-mails, etc. At least we only need to do this once per semester, it is a lot of work but it is also a lot of fun. :) What else is new...hmmm...this weekend is the Huron Township Applefest in New Boston! Yay!!! I get to go "home" and eat soup in a breadbowl, eat caramel apple slices, and see some friends. :) We are also celebrating my sister Barbara's birthday this weekend. Plus I'm sure I'll have a marketing group meeting sometime this weekend, and who knows what other activities will come up. It is supposed to be a really cold weekend, which always seems to happen when Applefest comes. Today it is supposed to get up to 73 degrees, but it feels chillier than that. It's been in the mid-60's for the last couple days. I guess it's almost October, so it makes sense that it is getting colder, but I'm not ready yet!!! :)

The Latest

Hello everyone! I bought a lentil masher this week, so I can't wait to try making some lentil-shaped beads this weekend! I am definitely excited about it. It is really ice tongs, bought at Linens N Things for $4.99, and bent a bit to realign the ends so they meet up in a more parallel fashion. I read about this on a bead-making website and thought it sounded a lot better than paying big bucks for a "real" lentil masher! :) So I'm hoping to make my very first lentils this weekend. I hope it goes smoothly! Saturday (tomorrow) I'm going to the Grosse Ile Home & Garden Tour, which my aunt is the chairperson of. I'm looking forward to it, I just love big fancy houses! :) It is also Welcome Weekend at my church, so I'll be busy with that as well. My sister and her new boyfriend are coming over for dinner tonight, so that will be fun as well. Lots of fun stuff going on this weekend! Hope everyone has a good one!

Labor Day updates

Hello! Hope everyone had a good Labor Day! We visited with some family, and just sat around the house & relaxed most of the weekend, which is always nice! I got quite a few beads made, look for them on the new "Bead Specials" section of my site! If no one snaps them up, I'll be moving them to Ebay next week. More specials will be posted as soon as I get more of the beads cleaned up & strung. There will be more holiday beads, and also some pink/lime/black. Not much else is new with me, except classes start tomorrow, so hopefully all goes well! Taking 3 master's-level courses, plus working full time (although I'm cutting down to 32 hours instead of 40 per week), plus running my jewelry/bead business, plus all the volunteer work I do at church & with other groups....hopefully I don't have a breakdown by the end of the semester, ha, ha, ha!!! Stay tuned for more beads to be posted hopefully tonight!

Autumn Beads

Well, before my torch went haywire over the weekend, I was able to finish up my Autumn Beads for Ebay, so check them out! My new torch is in the mail as I write, so I'm hoping for a long Labor Day weekend of bead-making. Other than that, not too much is new with me. Tonight is my friend Kim's Pizza Hut fundraiser for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, so that's where I'll be tonight!