A beautiful day in the neighborhood.

I awoke this morning to snow falling heavily from the sky. Fun stuff. The kids went out to build snow forts and I got to sit on the couch, sip tea and watch it come down. It is certainly starting to feel a lot like Christmas. I have devoted this weekend to baking cookies.

I have pictures that I will work on posting while the goodies are in the oven. I won’t get the beads back out until after I finish SupremeMe’s scrapbook album. I hope to finish that up on Monday.

I am slowly starting to burn out on Christmas. Between ornament kits for the kids classes, making a dozen different kinds of cookies, hand made gifts, Christmas shopping and growing a baby, I am very,very tired.  I hope that I’ll get the spring back in my step after all the big holiday projects are done. I am excited about putting aside the craftier beads that are used to make Christmas Ornaments and returning to my love of making jewelry.

Today  my first Christmas present arrived in the mail. Lol. I’m supposed to check SupremeMe’s mail while he is out of the country, so I felt obligated to open it. 😀 It is a beading book from Japan! I think that the projects are going to be a bit more difficult to follow in this particular book because a lot of the projects are crocheted. I won’t really get to sit down and go through it until it is actually given to me on Christmas morning though. I may even wrap it myself and put it under the tree to remove the temptation! :p

I can’t wait until the rest of the books arrive. I was also pleased to find a bead shop in France that I can order from. After the holidays I want to sit down and order some French beading magazines. They look like they will be very interesting and they will be much easier to translate! Most of my favorite bead blogs belong to French Women.