All About The Girl…

photo courtesy www.pachd.com

Big day for Nicole yesterday, she had a field trip to The White House and The Smithsonian.  She has been looking forward to this trip for weeks now, I don’t think it even bothered her to wake up in the wee hours of the morning.  They went in style too, no big yellow school bus, they had a charter bus, WOW!

Nicole said she really enjoyed the trip, her favorite room at The White House was The Great Ball Room.  The class had hoped to see the President or First Lady like the group from last year but that wasn’t to be the case this year.

Another of her cool things was listening to one of the parents who chaperoned, apparently he has a passion for history and was giving the scholars a interesting history “lesson”.  Nicole said, “He was telling us about history, and he’s not even a teacher!”  Who says a child can only learn sitting in at a desk in a classroom? LOL

Nicole had a band concert last Thursday, this was a county wide concert of the elementary, middle and high school band students, and way cool for her because she got to perform at the high school, her biggest venue to date!

The Purple Princess is doing well in school, she made the honor roll this last grading period, and honorable mention the first grading period.  That’s the latest news on the girl!  

Have a great evening, I'm off to watch the Wizards basketball game.  See ya!

Eric The Builder

Eric has been hard at work making a headboard for us. Here are pictures of his handiwork... 

Saturday he did the sanding and started staining the headboard, he still needs to put on the clear coat and buy the scroll work that will go on top.

Hubby really enjoys making furniture really building in general, he has made several tables, a bench, a riser with drawers for our front load washer and dryer, he has done a couple of decks, finished two basements and a shed, just to name a few things he has made.  I think that now he wishes that he would have built his shed a bit larger and put power out there so that he would have enough room for a woodshop - maybe he will have a remodel project sometime in the future!

Here is the sketch he whipped out of the back of paper.

My handy man!

They Arrived!

The earrings I won in the Crystal Allure Studio Blog giveaway arrived yesterday!  The earrings are called Tracy Iolite Earrings and were made by Jewelry By Jackie. 

When Stephanie at Crystal Allure contacted me to let me know that I had won the earrings, you KNOW I was thrilled, but in the back of my head I thought I remembered that someone else had won.  Well it turns out that indeed someone else did win, but never contacted her to claim the prize. I’m feeling extra special! 

I love everything about the earrings, check out that wire work, yep, Jackie made the leaf connector, as well as the ear wire. They are so elegant, the iolite briolette gemstone is lovely, its blue-violet in color and will go perfect with so many things – I’m wearing them today (big surprise huh!).  

Thank you to both Crystal Allure and Jewelry By Jackie from one happy bead lover, gorgeous earring wearing mama!
 

Pretty Things

Hey take a look at my recent creations, the first pair of earrings I made as a gift for a friend.  They are just adorable made with Swarovski bicone and round crystals along with a Turkish silver connector.  Perfect for Spring!   

This pair I made for myself, I needed a pair of all silver baubles and came up this,  I just love these stunning Bali beads, what detail.  So cute.

My friend Curtis was telling me recently about how his wife won a trip for the family to Boston, and Los Angeles. She has even won a trip to PARIS, money, electronics and money. I lamented that I never win anything – well all that has changed, last week I found out that I won a pair of earrings from a blog contest that I entered! I’m giddy with excitement and can’t wait for them to arrive.  I will share pictures once my goodies arrive. Yippee!