My Crafty Side

I completed a few fun projects while on vacation and thought I'd share....



Some VERY fun jewelry that I made for myself and gifts!

And just a few of the scrapbook pages that I completed!
I asked my dear friend Patti to pick out some supplies
for my upcoming pages, since I didn't have the time to
shop for leaving for vacation! So, some of these pages
were my own personal challenge! To use something I
didn't pick out and make scrapbook pages with them.
I love them all and am very pleased with the results.
Maybe Patti needs to be my personal scrapbook shopper
always!!


Hard to see but the first one is a snow page and New Years
Eve from 2001 - both of Kaitlin.
The second pages are the Bon Jovi Concert in July!





Here is Fourth of July that I really love - hard to see with
the glare. The other one is my birthday, which also turned out
great. I bought this paper in Shipshewana. Still need to journal
all these pages....

And this is my "almost summer" page.
Just random shots of the yard etc.

I wish life was all play and no work!!! What fun I would have!

Diamond Lake

We enjoyed our vacation at Diamond Lake last week. The weather was wonderful, the kids were fairly happy - only a few moments of sisterly hate - and we had no major issues. I came back to work relaxed and refreshed and ready to go! Here are a few of our fun photos!

Thanks for looking!!

Pain, Progress and Projects

I am still on the road to recovery after my shoulder manipulation proceedure. It Hurts!! It will be a painful recovery. I am going to physical theraphy and trying very hard to not be "wimpy". I am doing my exercises, icing my shoulder, trying to ignore the pops and cracks I hear when I move and trying to improve my range of motion. I don't like pain, did I mention that? But, this is good progress and I will continue with theraphy and pushing through the pain. There, I don't sound too wimpy, do I?

I worked on a couple of beading projects over the weekend. I just love them both and had to share. I have never made a knotted necklace before. My friend Julie shared the idea with me and I just love the way it turned out! I made it long, and so now I want to play with some other colors and make a shorter one! The black and silver necklace is my copy cat version of an idea I saw in the Silpada catalog. That one will get lots of wear, I'm sure.

Well, this is a very busy week for us. We leave for vacation on Friday and I have lots of packing, baking, shopping and organizing to do. Unfortunately, I just don't feel up to it! So, it will get done when it gets done and we may not be out the door early Friday morning, but, hey, it's vacation. Why hurry!!! When I return I'll post some photos of us "having fun in the sun"!!