Jill

There are a lot of up days and down days in this life of mine. Good days where your class goes well, and the new design is awesome, and you got a lot done. Bad days where the package of beads you desperately need doesn’t arrive in the mail, you can’t make a good color choice to save your life, or someone stomps on you.… Read More

Slightly used, adorable, and known to chew anything within reach. Yes, it’s true. Winston strikes again. He got his little doggie canines on Mom’s glasses. Within minutes, POOF! They were history. Don’t get me wrong – they didn’t get swallowed by the Great Gut of Winnie, but they are destroyed both frame and lenses.… Read More

Let’s see – it’s 3:30am, and I should be asleep right about now! But I couldn’t turn off all the tossing and turning in my brain, so I got up to put all those thoughts down on paper. It turned out to be a useful and much needed overall planning session so I’m glad I got up.… Read More

Feeling better again today, but not 100%. Argh. Stoopid cold. But I did get Things accomplished today with more accomplishment on the horizon. It’s all about putting one foot in front of the other, even on days when it seems impossible.… Read More

I can’t seem to shake this cold all the way off. I was almost 100% better, but then I had a massage yesterday and that seems to have caused a relapse. I got zero done today, and feel crummy. So forgive the blah post tonight.… Read More

I’m not the neatest painter in the world and if anyone had any doubts about that, you’d just have to look at my arms and hands right now. Totally speckled and dotted with white primer paint on every uncovered surface. I made sure to keep my newly pedicured toes free of paint, though since they’re so adorable with little flowers on them.… Read More

Is it wrong to sleep 22 out of the last 24 hours?? I don’t think so! I think I earned it! And yes, Winston and Maggie have shared the bed with me most of those hours. Ahhh….

I had one last “on the road” insult to deal with before I got here – food poisoning!… Read More

I had to stop for the night in Norman, Oklahoma. So near, but yet, so far from home. The travel home has been interesting. I’ve seen more bad car accidents than I care to – one for which I was parked on the highway for over 45 min.… Read More

Awwww….I have such mixed feelings about the end of Bead & Button each year. It’s an extravaganza of delights – things to see and fondle and oogle – friends to hug and chatter on endless with – laughter and frolic. But it’s always the most exhausting of shows.… Read More

Have you missed me? Every day I’ve thought, I need to update the blog. And then I collapsed into bed before I was able to get on the computer to do it. This is like the ultimate beady endurance test! One more day on the Marketplace floor, and then we pack everything up tonight into the car.… Read More

I’ve been in Milwaukee less than 24 hours, and it’s already kicking my butt!

First, the drive from Tulsa to Joliet Tuesday was long but uneventful, right up to that last 150 miles. Then it was kind of like driving through the apocalypse.… Read More

Just finished today’s 494 mile drive and checked into a hotel in Tulsa. I’m so ready for bed, but still a bit wound up, so I thought I’d take the opportunity to update the blog.

I’ll be driving more miles tomorrow, and the day will be longer, so I may flop into bed before I can get the computer out of the case and plugged in.… Read More

I’m finally surfacing, after collapsing into an almost 12 hour sleep last night. The plan on Friday was for Mom & I to leave for Houston by 6pm – right after she got home from work. But I had one last kit that I wanted to take the time to put together and begged Mom to let me.… Read More

Sometimes it takes me a while to get it right. Remember how I was so happy and excited that I was flying to Bead & Button this year? Well, part of me was happy and excited, but it was also causing chaos and confusion in my head.… Read More

Most of the time I talk about happy, beady things here on the blog, but I hope you’ll indulge me for a moment as I tell you about Terry Olson.

I found out just today that Terry passed away in March.… Read More

At least that’s what Anne keeps telling me as we trade daily updates on our mutual plodding along the path to B&B. And I’m seeing the vision. Of course, it might be a mirage. Or a hallucination.

Rich’s foot injury was hurting Big Time today.… Read More

…it’s your brother…again! I got home from class last night and the first words out of Mom’s mouth were, “You’re not going to believe where your brother is.” And I thought, oh, no – not again! Sure enough, he was at the emergency room at the hospital.… Read More