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  • Okay so today I’ve been a lot in my head. I had to do a lot of driving around and I was by myself and my thoughts always get the best of me. So I thought a lot about how things would be so much better if everyone was just nicer. I mean, just polite, and caring, instead of short and rude. What made me think of this? Well things are going pretty smoothly on the Ribbon Jar front except for one thing: a package got lost. This was from the second order. The person contacted me and said she…

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  • Today I wanted to do another project for the Ribbon Jar, you know, to juice up the home page a bit. So I decided that beads would be a great thing to put with ribbon (yum, yum!). I had to reorganize my bead collection before I used them, of course. I love doing this because for my 22nd birthday Bj made me the most beautiful gift, a homemade bead box (that’s it on the right). He planed down the wood, put it together, and finished it all. The inside his mom helped him finish in velvet with a box and…

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  • Well I survived the bridal madness! I had a lot of fun hanging out with some great friends. First up was Tracy’s bacholorette on Friday night. I picked up Tex and met up with Karen at my mom’s. It was oh so tempting to pop in the pool, but we had to head up to Aloha (near Portland). First stop was Tracy’s sister’s place to open presents and have hors d’oeuvres (why, oh why is this spelled this way!!!). Then we headed to a bar called Bushwackers for some dinner and fun. We ate, but unfortunately did not do much…

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