And The Winner Is????????

Today was the drawing! We held the drawing during a class and our friends Anna and Liz (who were not entered in the drawing) pull the names from our bucket.

Anna reaching really high to pick the winner!

And the winner is............

Congratulations Noel!!!! I will send you an email to get your address to mail you your bracelet.

We will continue to have drawings from time to time.... keep checking back! It was a lot of fun!

New Bracelets!

These are 2 bracelets that I have finished over the weekend. I made them using viking knit! Portia showed me how to do viking knit while I was teaching in Chicago and have been hooked on it since!

Both of these bracelets are available in MY ETSY!
I have also added some more fire red and fire orange kryptonites as well.

Let me know what you think of them. I am working on some others that have my kryptonite beads in them....... I am just waiting to finish some pmc beads to go with them!

Finally......

Finally new beads in MY ETSY SHOP!

I will be adding some more of the silver cored brighter kryptonite beads very soon as well as some new earring designs and even a few finished bracelets!

SOMETHING NEW! IF YOU COMMENT ON MY BLOG I WILL PUT YOUR NAME IN A DRAWING TO WIN ONE OF OUR CHARM-N-BEAD BRACELETS!
WE WILL PICK A NAME ON NOVEMBER 7!

Beautiful Fall Day

Well today was a beautiful fall day here. There is so much color everywhere! We went for a hike with the Moore's and Anna and I started collecting leaves...... well you can see where we went from there! A little influence from Andy Goldsworthy...... just google his name and you can see a lot of his images! After doing the little arrangements we made we really appreciate all of the work he goes through for his installations!

We were working on an arrangement and this little guy decided he wanted to be part of it too!

I hope you enjoyed the photos as much as we did taking them!

Tacoma Glass Museum

Whit and I went to the Tacoma Glass Museum finally! Now we can officially say we have been there.....

These photos were taken on the bridge outside. If you are ever in Tacoma it is worth the visit.

Cats of Italy

This is Sean AKA as "catmandoo" of Sorano!!!

This is Isabella. She greeted us just like this on the roof near our front door of the villa!

If the windows were open at night she would jump from roof ledge to roof ledge and come in and sleep with my sisters!

She was also our guide on our hike to the waterfall!

These are some of our neighbors Sean and Emma's cats... We called Sean "catmandoo of Sorano"

We were told that this cat wasn't doing well.... and wasn't eating...... well I guess she liked our cooking because she ate up a storm of it!

Sorano cats

Sorano cat

Sorano mother and kitten

Sovana cat

Cats in Burano.......


I am still going through our photos so expect more soon!!!!!

Chicago

Hi everyone! I am still teaching in Naperville, it is about an hours drive to Chicago from here. I am teaching 2 3-day classes. They are going great. Portia always spoils everyone in her classes!

We went to Chicago on Saturday and saw Dirty Dancing!! We liked it so much we bought tickets again to go on Tuesday night before I come home. I leave on Wednesday.

I am leaving you with a few photos from Chicago. Will be back soon...... I still have more photos from Italy to share!!!!!