All About The Girl…

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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!

Unexpected Visitor

We noticed a tapping at our front door, when I first heard it, I thought it was Eric doing something in the office, but he said that he was not making the noise, and in fact the noise was coming from outside – turns out we have two Eastern Bluebirds tapping on the front door! Are they trying to built a nest? Perhaps they just like the brass door knocker? Well, we still don’t know why our little feathered friends keep tapping on the front door, but they do it daily and only to the front door.

A couple couple of weeks the public schools had a two-hour delay due to all that snow and my neighbor called to see if her son could come over and get on the bus with Nicole while she went to work. Sure, I say, just send him over. She told me that she was going to feed him breakfast and then send right him over. So when I heard a tapping at the door I go to the door expecting to see Michael. Do you see where this is going?

No Michael, just that blasted bird! Oh no – we both had one of those panic moments and I think I even screamed (stop laughing, you would have too!) I’m thankful he didn’t fly into the house, I don’t even want to THINK about that scenario.

The pictures were taken while the bluebirds were on “break” from all their knocking. My crazy critters!

And The Winner Is...

We have a winner in the Birthday Earrings Giveaway. 

Here's another look at the earrings...

First, I want to thank everyone who took part in the giveaway, I've been overjoyed by the wonderful comments, the happy birthday wishes and of course the encouraging comments about the earrings (I've been grinning from ear to ear!), you all are THE BEST!

Drum roll please.......


The winner of the is Devildogwife! Yeah!!!  Doing the happy dance!!!

Note to DDW: E-mail me your address and I will mail the earrings ASAP.

Be blessed!

ReBecca

Blizzard of 2010

Friday the National Weather Service forcasted 12 or more inches of wet snow and high winds, possible power outages for our area. Let me tell you, they got it right on this one! It has been snowing since Friday morning and the snow will continue through sometime tonight with more snow expected Monday! Hopefully, we will not loose power, we do have a generator but my concern would be the the lack of heat!

These two kind of look like they are kissing or sharing food, but the birds are getting kind of chippy.

These two are getting along.

The view from the back door.

Carndinal in the snow.

We have a tree stump next to the closet tree – it is completely covered!

I have trouble taking pictures of the Blue Jays, they see the slightest movement and take flight so this was a huge victory for me.

Here are some birds forging for seed on the ground. Eric forgot to pick up more seed for the bird, so later on I put out some bread crumbs for our feathered friends.

Here are my guys shoveling the driveway.

Birthday Earrings Giveaway

February 1 was my birthday and to help celebrate my special day I will be doing a giveaway for this pair of handcrafted earrings designed and made by me. The earrings have a romantic feel to them, and features sterling silver Bali beads and ruby quartz beads.

How can you take part in this giveaway? I'm so glad you asked – it's really easy, here is what you need to do:

1.  Leave a comment on this post.

2.  Be a current subscriber to this blog – leave a comment letting me know that you are a subscriber.

3.  Sign up today to be a subscriber to this blog – leave a comment letting me know that you signed up.

4.  Tell a friend about this blog or about the giveaway – leave a comment that you told a friend about the blog or the giveaway.

Easy right? You have the potential to leave 3 comments and with each comment, your name will be put in the drawing for the earrings. The giveaway will end Sunday, February 7 and the winner will be announced on Monday, February 8. All comments need to be on this post.  Please make sure that I have some way of contacting you should you win.
 
Be blessed!
 
ReBecca

It's Snowing!

What's the weather like in your neck of the woods? Here... it's SNOWING! The flakes have been falling all morning, and at one point we thought that the white stuff was tapering off, but no the snow continues!

Enjoy your weekend.

ReBecca

Changes...

We withdrew Gene from public school on January 19. Gene has been struggling with focusing in class and the middle school work load from the beginning of the school year, and add in behavioral issues – just not a good fit.

I decided to go with BJU Press Distance Leaning/online for Gene, and I think this will be a good fit for us. Our materials arrived Tuesday and we started rolling on Wednesday, we didn't do all the subjects so that we could ease into this new program. I'll keep you posted on his progress.


Be blessed and have a great weekend.
 
ReBecca