The trip home was uneventful – I even mysteriously sailed through security for the first time in years! And blissfully, I had an empty seat beside me on both legs of the trip. On the first flight it was literally the ONLY empty seat.… Read More
Bead News – Jill’s Journal
Greetings from Sunny Miami
Happy first birthday my sweet niece, Alexis!! Aunt Jilly loves you!
Finally – a moment to catch up! This weekend in Miami has been a whirlwind, as shows usually are. The trip to Miami was uneventful despite American Airlines best efforts.… Read More
PLEASE let me have a flight
So I wake up this morning to news of the 1,000 flight cancellations that American Airlines has made today, and warnings that they may continue tomorrow also. And while my flight from Austin to Houston is on Continental, Houston to Miami is American, of course.… Read More
29 hours left to take off
Not that I’m counting or anything. I fly out of Austin at 7am on Thursday and I have so very much to do between now and then. I have a few last minute kits to put together, although not many. Laundry needs to be finished so packing can happen.… Read More
It’s amazing what you find…
…when you clean! My bead room has been out of control ever since we moved into the new house in Sept. I’m finally making a lot of progress, though. Having the bead garage sale a few weeks ago helped weed out things I’m no longer using and forced quite a bit of clean up in finding the things that needed to go in the sale.… Read More
Mother/Daughter day
After a crummy night’s sleep (my back was hurting and keeping me up) I woke up this morning and puttered around the house for a while. Then Mom & I decided to go see a movie. We saw “The Bank Job” which was really quite good.… Read More
Lists
I’ve always been a list-maker and it’s more important now than ever before for me. I can’t keep everything straight in my head and when I try, my head threatens to explode. Before it reaches the detonation point, I end up having a manic list-making session to organize myself.… Read More
If it ain’t your mother, it’s your dog
While Mom is hulking around the house with her ski boot foot and coming to terms with needing to let her foot heal, the new problem child is Winston, our puppy. He’s 10 months old now – old enough that he needs to stop eating EVERYTHING.… Read More
What a difference a bead makes
I often tell my classes that not all beads are equal, no matter what the size number is. A Japanese size 11 is about the same size as a Czech size 10. Usually. Unless they aren’t. I related how I was struggling with adapting my Czech bead version of the Leaf Tipped Lariat to a Japanese version, and I finally gave up.… Read More
If it ain’t one thing, it’s your mother
I swear! I’ve got to watch that woman every moment. We had some excitement at Casa de Wiseman this weekend when Mom decided to be Wonder Woman. She was building a new raised bed garden for some roses we bought the previous weekend, and of course those 75lb stones left by the masons who did our house would be the perfect thing.… Read More
Trying something new
I’ve been wondering if I’m likely to post Journal entries more often if I don’t have to go through the scary moment of updating the website every time I do. One never knows if the whole thing will go poof when you hit that update button.… Read More