By Nicole

Whew! This makes me caught up on NaBloPoMo. And it is helping me catch up on organizing jewelry for the upcoming Christmas Bazaars. I have missed the Farmer's Markets for quite a while, so I have a bunch of stuff to sell.  At best count, I have just under 100 pairs of earrings and 10 necklaces or sets.  Here are the earrings.  They aren't the best pictures, but this is a quick introduction to what I mean when I say I am a beader.  I'll save the sets and the seed bead work for another post.  Excuse the beat up rug. 

And again.... wow - long time. Hopefully there will come a time when it won't have been a long time between my posts. This life somehow gets away from me a lot. Blogging is just part of the rest of my ADD-affected activities. I start something and failing to finish, move on to another because of a mere distraction. Eventually, apparently, I circle back around! Lots of things have gone on since my last post. I have graduated from City University (yeehaw!). I have made three birthday cakes that I have successfully kept hidden from CakeWrecks. I have maintained the rest of my frenetically crazy day to day schedule, and I have circled back around to blogging! This was the first three day weekend I have had since September, and I was just about DYING to get a whole three day weekend without the pressure of school or shopping or a birthday party. So I went a little crazy. My husband and I made 10 lbs of summer sausage. Then I proceeded to bake 3 loaves of bread and a batch of ...