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  • Oh my what fun Carmen and I had. When you plan a girls weekend just to do girls things I think it’s pretty hard not to have a fabulous time. We beaded, and chatted, made tee-shirts and chatted, shopped and chatted, and ate and chatted. Among other things. The photo above was taken at Word of Mouth Cafe. I asked Carmen what places she wanted to eat at while in town and this topped the list. Rightly so, oh my goodness yum. I opted for the fruit in the fruit vs. potato battle. But least you…

  • Carmen (who lives in Alaska) is on a plane on her way to see me for the sole purpose of a girl’s weekend! Her husband arranged everything as a surprise so I’m going to take the rest of the week off to celebrate girl time. photo circa 1996 – Carmen and Amber trying to be models on the beach… sand in the face turned out to be not so sexy after all.

  • Last week Kristen posted on her blog a necklace that she loved. She was coming down for a ladies fun crafty day so we decided that would be one of the projects. I have not dug into my bead stash in a long, long while. Part of the problem is that my collection is a little dated for my tastes: I own thousands of tiny beads. Seed beads and a little bigger. These are so small, it takes a lot to make a big impact. Kristen is more bold and already had some fun big beads,…

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