Elaina's Internet Debut!

Elaina is visiting us during her spring break from Ohio. She thought that she left the cold weather behind, but instead I think she brought it with her!

One of her favorite things is having steak and rice for breakfast!

We went to the beach today even thought it was freezing outside! She found some treasures to take home with her.

Me and my buddy!

I don't think she liked her dinner!

or her dessert! We finished the evening watching her favorite movie, The Simpsons!!! Now she promised to let us pick out the next movie.........

Elaina is always such a pleasure to have here, I wish that she lived closer.

She also made some beads, I will try and get a few photos of them later!

2nd Day

These are the students beads from the second day of class.

I think that everyone did great!

Have you checked out the auction lately?????

Check it out here......

Easter's Masters Class

When I scheduled this class I didn't realize that it was happening over Easter weekend!

What a great group of bead makers. We even had the Easter Bunny (Jim Moore) come to the class with a basket of eggs filled with steel texture tools for each student!

This is Nicole, she was my TA for this class...... I am trying to figure out how to arrange to have her for each and every class I teach! She is awesome!!!!!! Thank you so much Nicole for everything.

Look at Penny, doesn't she look happy! And there is Stosh looking over her notes, by the way she takes the most amazing notes!

Here is Stosh, Chris and Kristen working on coring and capping their beads.

A sampling of the students beads! I will try and take some photos of the second days beads tomorrow. Everyone did fantastic!

Private Lessons with Michael Barley and Andrea Guarino

Check this out!

Private lessons with Michael Barley and Myself!

This is for a great cause! All of the proceeds will go to the children's festival and the Andy Mackie Foundation!

Helping out!

This is my dad helping out at the Children's Festival. He was in charge of cutting the leather and putting a loop on the end!

This is Sally (my step-mom) helping the kids string their pieces.

And of course a photo of Whit helping this boy put on his bracelet, which he later gave to his mother! The boys mother came up to me practically in tears she was so touched by it!

Tonight!

Tonight we had a wonderful evening and dinner with Lois, Phil and Jake!
Thank you guys very much!
Night Jake!!!!!

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Well it has green in it! These beads, the stone ones, are from Africa John. You should check out his beads! The rest of the beads are some that I made out of pmc.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!