If you don't like reptiles... look away now, If you like babies keep reading!

Just about to go to bed, and thought I would post one of my photos from today, to cut a very long story short. We didn't go to get our visa on wednesday because we didn't feel 100% confident in what we had written, having now given a couple of extra days, we are both feeling very confident about it now... so we will be doing that a week on tuesday. 

Sorry to put these in the same post...

I took photos of my friends baby today, she was so gorgeous and by the end I felt totally comfortable holding her... (at first I was very wary having not really had any experience with babies!) I loved it, its was great! She is called Macy Olivia and she is 9 weeks old, We only got one smile out of her but I caught it... Yippee, will be going round to do more next week hopefully and do some family shots too!

Just checking in...

Phew... well that's been a very hard weekend at work, 3 days off now and lots to do! Tomorrow we are going to sort and finish of our Visa application, then Wednesday we are heading to London to go to the Japanese Embassy to actually apply for the working holiday visas which we are hoping to get - so wish us luck, (gasp - this was a long sentence!) and then thursday (this is very very exciting) a friend of a friend has had a baby, she is 8 weeks old, and I am going to go and photograph her! I'm so excited! I've got so many ideas for the shoot so WATCH THIS SPACE!!!!

Ok, so all my lampworking glass stuff has been put into storage - sniff sniff :-(! so you won't be seeing any more beads for a bit now. I haven't quite finished packing my jewellery making stuff yet so you might see some jewellery soon! I can't believe it, we will be in Japan this time in 6 weeks. Time is flying by now... so excited.

Right I'm off, you will hear from me soon, I'll leave you with a photo I took of Fran. Hope you like :-)

xxx

I'm taking back my life {and taking back my blog}

Right well... since xmas I would say I have been working my arse off very hard!

I have achieved everything I wanted to achieve.... we now have under 8 six weeks until we move to Japan... and the only thing that we have sorted is our plane tickets and a place to keep our stuff while we are away. We have ALOT more to sort!!!!

So I am very pleased to say that we both now have enough money to go out there and live - and anything we make between now and leaving will be extra/spending money!!!! So I have cut down (again... I know!) to 4 days a week at the restaurant... meaning I have enough time to make money/get everything sorted/enough time to go round spending some quality time seeing everyone before we go! 

I have been off today and I have been round my friends have a birthday dinner party for one of my other friends. Now i'm back home gunna sit down with Fran and write a "To Do" list, and hopefully work our way down it til all is ticked off!!!! You know what else I'm going to do tonight.... I'M GOING TO MAKE SOME BEADS!!!!! hhhhhh'oh yes, that's right!!! I'm feeling inspired and I really haven't been feeling it lately so I will let you know how that all goes!!!

I'm gunna leave you now with a photo I took the other day, I'd had a really great day with the lovely Sara - she had let me take photos of her which you can look at here. and then we went for a walk to somewhere where I could take a few photos of the sunset.

The only editing I did on this photo was straightening up the alignment of the horizon.... so this shot is practically "Straight Out Of the Camera"

I have neglected you!

I'm so sorry Blog world that I haven't written to you in over a month now!

We have finally booked our tickets to Japan, we fly on June 13th!!! I am so excited about it, but oh my god I am scared! I know I'm definitely excited about actually being there but there is the whole leaving family and friends behind, and then the actually getting on the plane!!! Yup yup yup, I think that is going to be the hardest thing... waiting for the plane... waiting to get on the plane... waiting to get to our seats... waiting for the plane doors to shut... waiting for the plane to take off... blah blah blah. If any of you know me, you will know that I get extremely anxious! And I'm not so great at dealing with anxiety...

Anyway I'm trying not to think about the negative... infact I am trying to have a whole new take on life... no negativity only positivity... finger crossed, we will see how that one goes!

I have been making a few beads here and there and a few bits of jewellery but really nothing to write about... I am doing so many hours at work waiting on and I am training to be a manager which is another thing to challenge me - I like it!

At the moment, any spare minutes I get outside of work I am searching the internet trying to find videos/tutorials/anything that can teach me the next thing I want to know about photography... I also have been a sucker for Flickr these past couple of weeks! I really want to be able to take good photos more than anything when we go to Japan... and maybe if that goes well, when I get back I could go on a few photography courses... I guess we will have to see.

Anyway I will leave you here with a few of my favorite photos from the thousands I have searched through on Flickr in the past couple off weeks.

1. I miei silenzi fanno rumore, 2. { easy like sunday morning } - explored, 3. 桜 Avenue, 4. Wallflower, 5. ♥ T I L T ♥, 6. Bright days ahead....., 7. ., 8. ttd, 9. Infanta, 10. Spring Breeze, 11. Untitled, 12. .a little family., 13. Upside Down, 14. { spring baby } +2 in comments, 15. Anemone

1. Forget me Not, 2. baby blues, 3. day three hundred and sixty five, 4. little harry potter fan, 5. The Easter Bunny, 6. { spring is in the air } + 3 in comments, 7. Carpe Lux, 8. Sea n' Double, 9. My daddy...my friend., 10. we'll all come together, no, it's never too soon., 11. A Green and Pink Nature Moment, 12. The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. ~ Dolly Parton, 13. Untitled, 14. looking for my pot-of-gold!, 15. Double Rainbow

1. ~, 2. mantooth002, 3. Hudson - 3 months, 4. marissa, 5. Untitled, 6. Play Ball!, 7. Untitled, 8. Almond Blossom - London 2010b, 9. Sunburst over Grand Tetons, 10. Happy Birthday PD!, 11. Display, 12. Bamburgh Sunrise, 13. Week 12: Backlighting, 14. Untitled, 15. Sihouette kiss

1. My Bria, 2. untitled-8070, 3. Untitled, 4. Turquoise Towmater, 5. by the sea, 6. Hello beautiful, where have you been?, 7. benj and maddie, 8. A Promise..., 9. If it feels so real why can't I see it?, 10. Snow Monkey - Jigokudani Yaenkoen Park - Nagano - Japan, 11. smile was all sunshine, 12. Untitled, 13. Untitled, 14. DSC_7224_s, 15. Waiting

1. Dolphin, 2. Spring blooms from last year!, 3. Untitled, 4. Untitled, 5. Pink, 6. Heavens Light, 7. Goddess on a mountain top, 8. Purple, 9. Sunset Giraffe, 10. [17-31], 11. .67., 12. ♥♥, 13. This is It!, 14. everyday life in Venice, 15. Untitled

What a great few days off I've had.

Ok, So monday I made these beads and nothing else!!! WOOP

Tuesday... I got up reeeeeeally early to get to Sally's for a lesson at 8am which is 2n a half hours away. We had such a great day bead making, experimenting, chattin! I had such fun!!! :-) Thanks Sally!
I also picked up my new kiln!!!! here is a picture of it in its new home!!! I'm so happy with it!

I tidied up the WHOLE of the room where I make beads so I can find things when I need them... now the real task is to keep in tidy!!!
All my glass all neatly stacked up...

 

Where I make my beads..

 

and today was BEAD MAKING DAY!!!! I have made the most beads I have ever made in one day and I haven't even filled this thing up!!! I have made a load of implosion beads and some other beads that I am practicing after my lesson. The crazy thing is, I learn from watching people and not necessarily doing. So for about 3 hours yesterday I asked Sally just to show me her making beads and I can tell today after I have already improved... I am just that bit more confident with actually handling melted glass... I worry way to much so as of today... I DON'T WORRY and IT'S ALL COOL, haha. My kiln has got loads of lovely beads in and I will be able to show you tomorrow... but for now Good Night :-) x

My Blog Wins a Sunshine Award!

I was thrilled to her that a few days ago The girls over at The Scarlet Butterfly Company sent me this Sunshine Blog Award you can check their blog out here! The Sunshine Award is awarded to bloggers whose positivity & creativity inspires others in the blog world. Which was so nice to read!!!

 

The rules for accepting the Sunshine award

~ Put the logo on your blog or within your post

~ Pass the award onto 12 bloggers ~

~ Link the nominees within your post ~

~ Let the nominees know they have received this award by commenting on their blog.

~ Share the love and link to the person from whom you received this award.

Can't believe I have to pick only 12... oh my goodness this is going to be hard... (gasp) here goes.. in alphabetical order...

Amari Jewellery 
Beads By Laura 
Chameleon Designs 
Dora Schubert   
Embellish Yourself  
Follow Your Art  
Florspace  
Gemheaven  
By Keiara  
By LGD  
Suzy Q Jewelry 
Trinkets and Treasure

Head on over to these blog and take a look around as they really are my faves...!!!

On another note... I will be posting a bit post tomorrow of what I have been upto in the past week as I haven't blogged which is very unlike me! And I am going to be holding a PRIZE DRAW for a sterling silver necklace with one of my handmade lampwork beads as a pendant... what this space!!!!

Guess who has got their personal license!!!???!!!

That's right, I took the qualificaition course on monday, didn't want to tell anyone til I knew I had got it... and I got 37 out of 40 correct so I'm well pleased with myself!!!

On Wednesday I went to suprise my bestest friend in the world ... she flew over from irealand!!! it was amazing her reaction... she couldn't quite believe that we had met her there it was brill... we went out on the wednesday night and then went shopping on thursday!!! we had a great great time!!! and I'm going back to see her tomorrow after I finish work at 4!!! I'm so excitable!!! I love having her here and I miss her so much when she is in ireland! The picture above is of me and maggie on wednsday night!

Here's a few pictures of a few commisions I've had for xmas... I need to get on with them as I actually have loads!!!!!!!! WOOP

My little Froggy Sitting on a Lily Pad Pendant

And a Sparkly Snowman for my mummy's phone!!!

Hope everyone is well... Hoping to get a load of beads done very soon ... but after Maggie has gone home i'm affraid!!! hehe!!!

Oh Dear... Shes done it again...

What did I say about a month ago about me never being happy... well I'm sure I didn't say that exactly but I always have to change things, I don't like things being the same for too long, and I needed to update some beads on my website, so what did I go and do?!?! I know I'm a fool!

But from now on my website will hold beads for no longer than a couple of weeks and they will be transferred to my Etsy shop. At the moment I have only 6 bead set and 5 focals... a couple of new bits on there so please do check it out here.

Still not feeling good and am in the designated "ill persons" spot on the sofa luckily Wednesday and Thursday was my day off... so I am hoping that will give me enough time to recover to 100% to go back to work on Friday! Keep sending me those get well vibes!!!

Pink Live @ VMA 2009

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Sigh... back on the sofa with flu... yet again

Well this is like the 3rd time I've had flu in like 5 months and I'm seriously getting fed up with it! I NEED A BODY TRANSPLANT PLEASE!!!! I can laugh about it really... It strarted when Matthew came home on monday with FLU and has been sat the sofa up until about an hour ago as he is all better now (well apart from the dreadful lingering cough!!!) and now me and Fran arn't well... I've just ordered a load of sterling silver beads/findings for my wedding jewellery which is exciting. It has taken me 5 days to decided what to spend my money on and I finally did it, between coughing, sneezeing etc!!! Will try to keep my brain working, cuz I hate been totally incapable of doing things!!!! Watch this space!!!

A Little Torch Time Music

Well... I have been off work this weekend with flu... oh it has been horrible, I hate not being able to do what I want to do!!! I just couldn't concentrate on anything! so no bead making at all! I didn't want to burn myself - I've got enough scars from last time I insisted on making beads when I was ill... I don't need any more! So I went into work today for some training/meeting as the restaurant is shut for a couple of days for a refurbishment! fingers crossed its going to be good!!! it was only a couple of hours of sorting though our files and talking about things that needed to be talked about so it wasn't tiring but I am knackered now!!! No plans for today or tomorrow just chilling out to get better before back to work on Wednesday!!!

So... what do you guys do when you are making beads? or making jewellery? or what ever you like to do... ?

Well when I used to make jewellery I would sprawl out on my living room floor with everything I could possibly need and I would watch 24!!!! or a crappy tv show that I would get into... but 24 was my favourite... though actually I never got much jewellery making done when 24 was on... its way too confusing when you dont give it 110% of your concertration! haha...

and when I started making beads, I realised I had to have my complete concertration on the flame ... obviously much more dangerous than beaded jewellery making! So when I began torching I was on a hot head torch which is just WAY to loud to listen to music or even listen to the tv... but now on my new set up I listen to tunes the whole time! singing along and having a really great time!!! so I thought I would share my playlist that I made called "Torch Time" I made it using Spotify... if you haven't come across this program you should google it and download it! as long as you are online you can isten to as much music as you want for free (not every piece of music in the whole world is on there... there is a few essientials missing but its free so who cares!!!!) here it is... hope you enjoy it as much as I do :-)

Torch Time: http://open.spotify.com/user/vixwhite/playlist/0D0ewYeOwzx4k65nZW1bZA

Hoping to get enough courage to get behind the torch tonight... but we will see!!!

Sight Seeing in Liverpool and...

A View from the Albert Docks.

Pretty cool building... just happened to be a Costa Coffee.

We thought we would try out the motion mode... fast shutter speed!!! WOOP!... and my turn!

Yellow Submarine, The Beatles! Fran drinking a pint in The Cavern!

and again.. on Inside mode... or something like that!

and me in The Cavern.

Both of us.

me and my new hair!!! love it!

another photo taken with the inside mode on... not sure it would be classed as a "good" photo by professional photographers... but we liked it!

We decided to go to Wagamams, Japanese!!! it was bloody gorgeous! and we both did alright with the old chock sticks!!!

me enjoying a Ebi Katsu (Fried battered Prawns to you and me)... yummmmmy!

and finally a view of the Albert Docks from the top of Liverpool One.

So we have had such a wonderful long weekend. We have kept busy the whole time! But no beads to report at all... but that's OK... got lots of ideas stored up!

Friday we went into Manchester to see Fran's sister and brother in law, it was a lovely to see them and a really great day. They arrived back safe and sound in Vancouver today! Lucky things! Ow, then we watched Derren Brown... I was so excited at the fact that he was going to sick us all to our sofas... but it didn't work on any of us! I was gutted as I so wanted it to work. Did any of you guys get stuck? I haven't yet spoken to anyone who did yet so hope there were a few of you.

Then Saturday we were up earlyish to see Mum, Dad, Nan and Arthur off on their holidays in Scotland, we watched a few movies whilst I dyed my hair. had a fantastic afternoon nap (I sooo wanna do that more often! hehe) and then off we went for a curry. We got back and stayed up til 6am whilst the UFC was on, Fran was so excited to be watching, as he thought he was going to miss it. I re designed my whole website (as you have already seen) then we slept for a few hours then got up and ready to go out, and walked to the Middlebrook shopping center to pick up my AMAZING anniversary present!!! It is amazing... it was a brand new brilliant camera!!! Which is why I wanted to go somewhere to take some photos! It is incredible... I tried taking a few photos of my beads this morning, and there is a whole totally different level of detail and clarity! I love it!

and then today we went to Liverpool and Fran showed me the sights (See Above)

And tomorrow my bestest friend in the whole world is coming to Manchester for the day and I'm gunna go see her!!! So excited can't wait!!! I haven't seen her for over a year

So I guess I won't have any more beads to show until... erm... Thursday! Watch this space :-)

Hope everyone is well

Vicki xxx

Happy 2 year Anniversary Us!!!

Well, two years ago today I met my now boyfriend for a drink in Font Bar on Oxford Road, Manchester... I had known him through work for a couple of months. And to be honest... since then we have pretty much been inseparable... We have had a tough 2 years, what with me being ill for the majority of the first year, and then getting a flat together... then moving back home to live with the rents. But we are so happy together... who knows where we will be in just another years time! (keep reading... you'll understand in a bit!)

So... last night we went for a nice Indian meal which was lovely, and we came back and we stayed up and watched the whole of the UFC, (I was so suprised I was still awake come 5:30am!!!) So... this is what happened... I re-designed my Beads By Vicki Website... take a look let me know what you think!!!

So, those of you know me... I get bored quickly... from the age of about 10 I would change my room around at least once every 2 months... and as I go older the obssesion began with changing my hair colour. So here are a few things that I have changed in my life at the moment

1. Dyed the ends of my hair bright pink (photo to follow later)
2. Totally re-vamped my website (and with the new design comes new beads!)
3. ... the scariest and most exciting thing of all... there is a very big possibility that Fran and I will be going out to Japan for 6 months as soon as we have the money!!!

So I think you are pretty much up to date now... the sun is shining... we are chillin' and everything is goooood!!!!!!!

xxx

Bring it on...

I HAVE MY NEW TORCH!!! I haven't yet tried it out, because I didn't want anything to go wrong in the small time I had to try it out around going to work... but I am off today and tomorrow !!! So I am going to be able to have a proper play!!!!!!!! I'm so so so excited!!! will show pictures of how I get on... Also, Today I am going to start to make a new jewellery site for me called Jewellery By Vicki, to link in my Beads By Vicki, and Designs by Vicki, which I am hoping to get up and running in the next couple of weeks!!! :-)

Where have I been?

Arabian Nights Bead Set - £28.00

Encased Mystic Swirls Bead Set - £28.00

Little Gems Bead Set - £32.00

Well, I have been working very hard, to be honest since my lesson with Sally last monday, I am absolutely longing for my new torch which I purchased yesterday... Eeeek!!!! Kinda sat there using my hot head, when I know that I am going to get such better and quicker results on the new torch, just seems kinda pointless... but I don't want to stop. haha. I made a set for my friend this week, and made it into a bracelet for her, which we were both very pleased with (not the best photo, and also tweeked it after the photo was taken to make it a little smaller for a prefect fit!)

Anyway, my torch should be gettin here in the next couple of days, which I will be able to get set up soon!!!!! not sure of next weeks rota at the restaurant but hopefully it shouldn't be too different from this week! fingers crossed I will have Monday and Tuesday off!
Also, just wanted to say I am absolutely LOVIN paramore at the moment!!! BIG TIME!!! if you don't know who they are check out their myspace and listen to some of their tunes, their new album "Brand New Eyes" is hitting the UK on the 28th September 2009, and OH MY GOD I'm excited!!! Other news I am going to see Tim Minchen next week which on the whole I am excited about (not feeling so good about the fact I'm gunna be sat down... with loads of other people... but I'm sure I'll get over it and have a good night!) Also, Loving Regina Spektor since glastonbury, and am hoping to get a recording to me doing a few cover versions ("Laughing With"... and "Samson") of her songs! and also loving Newton Faulkner (since glasto again!) watch a live feed from his blog where he was just answering questions and playing a few bit, felt so personal!!!! But I really want to make some beads for his dreads and send them to him!!! that would be just tooo cool! :-) hehe

Apologies...

I'm really sorry, I haven't managed to take any photos today... well, I did on my digital camera but non of them were good at all... and for some reason it didn't get the colours right ... so I PROMISE PROMISE PROMISE I will take photos in the morning using my mum's camera and post them STRAIGHT away on here... hope you can forgive me :-)

Yesterday... what a day!

Well I have no pictures to show right now as they were in the kiln when I left , should get them tomorrow! It was such a fantastic day!!! I learned soooo much, the majority of the day I watch Sal do demonstrations, which is exactly what I wanted, as I learn mainly by watching people work... It doesn't matter how much I read up on techniques, I don't seem to be able to do them until I see it being done or see steps in pictures. So even though I was knackered last night, i HAD to go on my torch when I got home!
I made a set of 8 beads, which are simply encased ekho... I did it, I got greens, blues AND purples. :-) I also made an encased floral focal bead using Lauscha Clear glass which Sal very kindly gave me a few rods to play with. It didn't burn or scum one little bit... not even on my hothead! crazy really, and because it wasn't burning I didn't actually mind waiting for it to melt in (I usually get very bored with waiting for the glass to melt in on my hothead! if I burn the glass, and I throw it straight in my bucket of vermiculite in rage that I have totally wasted my time!) I think that it is the best bead I have made by FAR!!!

I think just watching Sal work has helped my lampworking remarkably!!! I just felt like I could do it!!! no problem!!! crazy really! I also made a few heart focals too...

Will post photos later on today!!!! :-) and then will post photos of my lesson beads when I get them in the post! :-)

Under New Managment

So this week has been a strange one to be honest... not much bead making gone on (SOB SOB!!!) but have worked a fair few hours. The restaurant I work at is under new management and already in just under a week it is starting to feel like a lovely place to work! I have really enjoyed it!

I do have some very exciting news... me and Fran went to see a mortgage adviser at the beginning of the week, just to see if and what we could borrow... and how much we have to save etc. and We were pleasantly surprised!!! we are hoping to move in about 6-9months tops. Hoping to move not to far away from where we are now, what with our jobs etc... but who knows... we could go anywhere :-)

I'm off the Hinckley tomorrow bright and early... gotta catch the first train of the day at 6:40!!!
I'm off to see Sally Carver for a lesson, and I am hoping to get a few tips on silver glass, and other more advanced techniques!!! as much as she can possibly teach me in the day!!! so I imagine I will be well and truley K-nackered!!! but will hopefully have some exciting beadies to show!!!!

Life as a Lampwork artist

Well today is my first day trying the out the artists life style...
My hours were cut at work and a few people had been left with non, so I decided to give a few hour away this week to have a taste of being a professional lampwork artist!!!
I am off til Friday night and I have decided when Fran goes to work... I will be sat behind my torch til he gets home... obviously with an lunch break... but before I start I have a few beads to go clean up, then take photos of and then get them up on my site... so I reckon I will hopefully get about 7-8 hours of bead making in today which I'm veeeeerrrryyyy excited about... that is as long as there is another space in my cute little kiln. Think I'm going to have to get thinner mandrels so I can fit more of them in!!! :-)

Will post pictures of the bead later on today.

Wish me luck! :-)

Wow soooooo much has happened since my last blog!!!

Weeellll!!!! We went to Helpringham to visit my lovely lovely family and to go to the Heckington Agricultural Show where I was sharing a stall with a lovely lady called Becky who also make Lampwork beads and jewellery. She did the Saturday and I did the Sunday. We slept in the garden in tents, it was lovely. We got to the fair at 7:30am!!! I was panicing, hoping that I had bought everything with me etc. Mum and Fran were absolutly fantastic helping me set up and helping me throughout the day!!! :-) We got set up and had a great day!!! Talked to lots of people and swapped a lovely wall hanging with the lady from the next stall and she had a load of my beads. Her website is currently under construction but as soon as it is ready I will post it on here as her stuff is beautiful! She says that she is going to use some of my beads to melt into a bowl. So I am very very excited to see what that turns out like :-)


Here is me and Fran my Stall!!! :-) After the fair We went to my Mums cousins 30th Birthday Party, it was so lovely to see all the family, and we had a great great (and got a little drunk) hehe, haven't drank for ageeeessss! I think i remember telling the bar staff their My life story... haha!! Oh dear... yep, I was THAT drunk!

Also, All the members who are on Frit Happens (my fav forum ever... I pretty much check that before I check my email - not good haha) and Etsy now have a FHF team which is bloody brilliant!!! A few people have done a LOT of work to get this going and I would like to thank them, as it has definatly upped the traffic to my etsy shop!!! FOR SURE!!!! Here are a few treasuries I am featured in right at this moment :-) how exciting!

All the Pictures are clickable and will take you to each of the treasuries on Etsy, and you can view peoples comments of the treasury. I think a certain few people are enjoying the suspence of waiting for the treasury to open!!! hehe, YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE... and thank you, you lovely people!

Another Exciting thing to have happened is My Sun Rise Jewellery site is now featured on the actually MR SITE webpage!!! I was so excited when I saw it!!! It should drive a lot more traffic to my site, which is very exciting - Oooow, I am a very excited person at the moment... everything seems to be going in the right direction :-)
This picture is also clickable and I am shown on the 3rd page. Please feel free to take a look :-)

I'm tying to think what else has happened... (that is if I haven't lost all of you cuz this post is so bloody long... at least I know one person will be reading!!! HIYA NAN!!! *WAVE* hehe) Well I have sold I few bit of jewellery and I have given quite a few of my hours away at work next week, and I have 3 days off in a row... I am going to see if I can treat my lampworking as when... for example as soon as fran leaves for work... that is when I start beading... and when he gets home... I stop. I know it will be great cuz I wanna spend every spare second I get behind the torch... so I think it will be a case of "Ow... do I have to stop now?!" hehe, but this way I will actually get to see FRAN!!! WOOP!!!

Ooow, I knew there was something I hadn't told you. and the reason I haven't been bloggin I have been working hard on a website for My Brother, let me know what you think so far please. any comments welcome!
Photo also clickable... It is no where near finished yet (thats tomorrow job!) and it won't have the adverts in the end... so look at it with an open mind!!!

And keep your eyes peeled for my new website... Designs By Vicki...
PHEW... thats was like 6 posts in 1!!! sorry guys... sure there is something I have missed. but please please please excusing spelling/typing/grammar mystakes cuz I just don't have the time to type this long AND read back!!! hehe. Bed time for me. then making beads all day tomorrow :-) WOOP

Goodnight x