oh my gosh. These little critters are sooo adorable. Go check out lorelei's blog to enter to win.

Lorelei's Blog: Super Cute Line-up

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My mom just got home from Michigan. She took a few pictures of the inside of my brothers house, and some of my niece's first communion. Her camera wasn't working great so the pictures are a little blurry, but I'll share them anyways :)

My niece looks so cute, like a lil bride! I wish I could have been there. She is the 1st one. 

 

So they got into their rental house. I guess it had all been set up for them, beds delivered, and set up and such. So they all are in bed, and at midnight...all three of the kids alarm clocks went off. Needless to say, three terrified and traumatized children! Obviously thinking it was fire alarms going off.  Poor babes! 

(the inside of the house, you can see lilly's closet up in the corner with her clothes still in it...weird)

Regarding the recent news. At first I was very excited, which is out of character for me as I am, or was up until tonight, always a pacifist. I kinda feel bad for feeling happy about him being dead. I mean, if anyone deserves to be dead it is him!! And when it happened I was hooting and hollering and crying happy tears and celebrating! Now that it's sunk in... I'm a little disturbed by my excitement at anyone, good or bad's, death. And I am happy he is dead. I'm  just not really thrilled with any part of me that wants revenge like that.  Anyways. I will be in crash position until my fiance is safely on the ground next week, and in my arms. He flies out of New York next week, and I have to admit I am a little nervous about the retaliation that will follow this.

Flowers From My Garden

"Goose bumps happen when your soul comes close to you, breathes lightly on the back of your neck, and wakes you up." - Sue Bender

BJP March Piece

I finally finished my March BJP piece. Now I'm only one month behind. There isn't much of a story behind this one. I started it a long while ago, didn't love it, but a friend did so I finished it up for her.  It ended up turning out better then I expected. I used my favorite german flower cabs that continue to show up in my bracelets. Love those thing :) Speaking of which I am down to my last two so I need to get online and order some more.

for my neice

This is the graduation gift I made for my niece Kayla.

I need some recommendations from my blogger friends, please!

So, I want to start playing with chain in my pieces. What I want to avoid, is doing the same thing I did when I first started beading, which was waste a lot of money. For example, when I started beading I bought any wire, after playing for a while, I discovered, to make a nice piece, you really need to invest in a nice foundation, and after a lot of playing around I discovered SoftFlex.

Now I want to play with chain, and I don't want to waste my money buying the wrong stuff.  I want to be able to open the links, add beads, do stuff like that. So, probably want to buy it in a bulk roll so I can cut it to what ever length I want. I'm assuming that is the way to go.

So if anyone can give me some recommendations, tell me what you use or what you like, or what you think is a good versus bad product. Any suggestions, hints, help would be hugely appreciated!!!

Hope everyone is having a super creative day. (Hugs) to all.

on a lighter note...

I made another bird charm. This one I added a birds nest made from a wire ball, and eggs from lil pearls that I painted to match the necklace. The nest is an idea borrowed from my aunt, who learned it from my cousin.

I hope everyone is having a wonderful Easter!