Happy Easter!

Although it is not quite Easter yet, I'm guessing I won't be doing another post until after Easter, so I wanted to go ahead and say "Happy Easter" now! I hope all of you have a blessed and relaxing holiday. Right now I'm consumed with Easter Triduum activities at my church - I'm singing in the Triduum Choir for the first time, and it is a lot of fun. So I sang at Holy Thursday mass last night, and in a couple hours I'll sing at the Good Friday mass, then also at the Easter Vigil tomorrow night. That's a lot of singing! For Easter, we're going to my mom's house and then seeing Phantom of the Opera with my sister and her boyfriend at night (we booked the tickets before we realized it on was Easter Sunday!!). In between all of this, I'll finish 3 homework assignments that are due next week, and do some reading for my classes. I'm hoping to list more auctions on Ebay Saturday as well. Most likely a lot of "sale" auctions, as I still have a lot of stuff I'd like to clear out so I can make some room for new creations! I have a TON of awesome lampwork beads that I'm itching to make new jewelry with, but it is a matter of finding time! I'm looking forward to the end of April, when my classes will be over for the semester! Then I'll have the whole month of May free, before classes start again in June. It will be sooooo nice to have a whole month of free time! I'm hoping I can use that time to launch the wedding jewelry collection I've been dreaming about for a year now, and also to do a lot of my own lampworking and try out some cool new bead-making ideas. So stay tuned to see what happens!! Again, Happy Easter everyone!

Hello again!

Hello again everyone! Long time no chat!!! I realize it seems I've fallen off the face of the earth...I haven't posted since last year! Eeek! I have been keeping super busy with work and classes. This semester is turning out to be really stressful. All of my classes require a steady (and huge) amount of work. Last semester, I took 3 classes as well, but only one required a ton of work all the time, and for the other 2 the workload varied over the semester. Sometimes I had a ton of stuff to do, but other times I had pretty much nothing to do. So this semester is turning out to be a lot more stressful in terms of the amount of coursework I need to do. Work is also really busy right now. And I joined the Easter Triduum choir at my church, and have been volunteering with Michigan Youth Leadership quite a bit. Plus I'm helping my best friend Jenny with her wedding plans (I printed up 200 wedding invitations this past weekend) so that has been keeping me busy too! Her wedding is April 16th, and it is going to be a lot of fun. :) My husband David & I took a much-needed 6-day vacation down to Port Aransas, Texas last week during my spring break. We got to see the whooping cranes, and tons of other really neat birds. We spent a lot of time lounging around (even though it wasn't as warm as I was hoping it would be), and just relaxing. Usually our vacations consist of us getting up super early and running around all day, seeing and doing as much as we possibly can. So this vacation was a lot more relaxing, which is just what I needed right now. As you've probably noticed due to my lack of posting and updating of my website/Ebay, I have had to put a lot of things on the back burner lately, which I'm not too happy about but I don't have much of a choice right now. Today I added a few new pairs of really neat lampwork earrings. I have plenty more beads just waiting to be made into lovely creations, but there are simply not enough hours in each day for me to get everything done!! I will try to post more often in the future and get back into the swing of things with my website. :)