Recently, I made a couple of bracelets with tutelage from Kimi of Aether Designs. One of them was for my mother-in-law for Mother’s Day and she seemed to really like it. Thanks, Kimi!

And here they are! Bad phone pictures though…

This is the bracelet I made for my mother-in-law. She loves butterflies, so I based the colors off a light blue butterfly with dark fringe around the wings. I don’t know if that vision really comes through, but she liked it and that’s what matters most.

The holes in the center of the large bead in the middle (blue cats eye) were a little big and the seed beads kept sucking up inside the middle bead, so I was constantly fighting to keep the seed beads where they belonged. I still had a lot of fun making this piece.

This is the bracelet I made for myself. It sounded a little boring when I was trying to describe it, but I think it turned out very pretty. It matches just about anything, which I was going for.

I plan on making some more bracelets soon and I’d like to learn how to make different pieces. I never thought I’d like beading, but I’m really enjoying it. I’ll post pictures when I finally make it down to the bead shop so I can make more.

Aether Designs makes bracelets just like these in whatever colors you’d like, so if you like these bracelets order one from Aether Designs today.

I started more projects than I can possibly keep up with. More updates in Part 2 if I don’t spontaneously combust first.

I haven’t had time to take any pictures of the snow this year, so here are some pictures taken around this time last year. Sorry guys. I know some of you have seen these before, but maybe we’ll have another snow storm after the first of the year so I can post some more snow pictures for those of you that are snow impared.

“Get this cold crap off of me!”

Fraidy hiding from the camera in his igloo.

“Where’d the stairs go?!”

I’ve been sick for the past few days. I’m starting to feel a bit more human instead of a slobbering zombie, so I figured I’d do a little catching up on the tons of things piling up around here.

Sunday we went out the rents for Mother’s Day. My mom liked the mauve and purple african daisies I got for her. We also found out more about what happened to the kittens. After talking to the humane society, they found out that it wasn’t a kidney infection that the mother got, it was distemper. With the help of antibiotics, the mother was able to survive it. However, as soon as she started feeling better, she started feeding her kittens again and gave it to her kittens. The kittens didn’t survive.

The mother was dropped off at my parents farm not long before she got pregnant.  My parents had decided to keep her and were planning on getting her shots and getting her spayed, then she wound up pregnant.  The whole thing is just sad, but I’m glad they were able to save the mother.

We’re still working on the website for the business, which has brought everything else to a halt.  Hitting a few brick walls that we have to scale and it’s going to take a long time to get everything up and running, but we’re getting there.  It will be a huge load off both my shoulders and my time constraints once it’s all up and running. 

I haven’t ordered my podcasting gear yet.  Soon!  I know there are a couple of people out there anxious for me to get all this started and I’m working on it… I promise!    I have a lot of behind the stuff to do as well before I’m ready to podcast… lots of editting that I’ve had to put off until the business website is done. 

This has been a crazy week already and it’s only half over.  Tomorrow… the kiddo gets her braces off!  Woohoo!  She can’t wait to eat a bagel, chew gum, and eat peanuts again.  I even bought bagels for the occasion.

Next time… Tater Brain and Tater Tot!  The story behind the names.

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