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One more day of the Bead Fest Santa Fe show, and then we all start packing up and heading for home for a little while. I have absolutely fallen in love with the city and the people who live here. The attendees at the show have been a delight and our kits and patterns have been wonderfully well-received.… Read More

Hey – I kinda like it here! Santa Fe is just as beautiful and artistic and compelling as folks have told me over the years. I’m dying to get free to go visit some of the eleventy million galleries and shops around here, but honestly that won’t happen until Monday, after this weekend’s show.… Read More

First things first…Kathryn promptly corrected me from my last post that she’s 78, thank you, not 76. Dang! How did that happen?? She’s been a part of my life since our first bead class together in January of 2002, and I’m grateful for beading bringing us together…my slightly older sister at heart.… Read More

Holy cannoli – where did all those people come from?? This weekend’s show in San Antonio was, quite frankly, the busiest bead show I’ve ever seen. On Saturday, shoppers could barely move through the aisles. And Sunday – which is traditionally a much slower day – was as busy as a normal Saturday would be!… Read More

From June:
It’s good to be home, although the nurses at North Austin Medical Center were fantastic. I actually felt better in the hospital than I do now. But I’m doing very well – I can shower and dress by myself, and get around okay with the walker.… Read More

We made it! There was a small village involved in the process, but Mom is safe and sound and asleep in her very own bed with her very own puppies and kitties. Big sigh of relief!

She came home with an array of equipment that would make an engineer proud, and a rainbow of drugs to ingest.… Read More

Seriously. This woman is amazing! All the nurses are pleased at how well Mom is doing today – she breezed through her physical therapy sessions, and still has almost no pain at all. They had her on Percocet today, though, and she was very sleepy most of the day.… Read More

Mom’s surgery this morning went like a breeze. Not only was she a trooper, but they were able to save her kneecap which was an unexpected bonus. It will make her recovery that much better. She came out of surgery less dopey than we expected – dang!… Read More

From June
It’s 4:30 a.m., and I’m waiting for Jill to finish getting ready to go. Today is the Big Day that I get the first of my two bum knees replaced. Woo hoo! I am so ready. I’ll bug Jill to post sometime later this week, but she will be somewhat tied up waiting on me.… Read More

From June
I apologize for not updating sooner. I got home on Monday, and what an eventful trip THAT was! My plane was scheduled to leave Tucson at 5:30 p.m. for Dallas, with a connecting flight to Austin. I got to the airport early because we really didn’t have any money to shop, and I couldn’t see any reason for Jill to hang with me when she could go back to the cottage and take a nap.… Read More

This has been quite the week – ups, downs, drama, laughter, broken things, happy reunions. It’s like a soap opera – As Tucson Turns.

So first of all, the drive here was uneventful and actually pretty pleasant. In years past I’ve always started out in such a sleep deficit that I have had trouble keeping awake along the way.… Read More

From June
Jill is falling down on the job here. She was going to update you last night, but I dunno what happened – I went to bed at 8:45. I think I’m still recovering from Wednesday. It was go to bed at 11:00, get up at 3:30, fly to Tucson, then work at the booth until 8:00.… Read More

From June
I just got a short e-mail from Jill on her Blackberry saying she’s having trouble connecting to the internet. She asked me to let y’all know that she got to Tucson just fine yesterday. I fly out in the morning and get in just before lunch.… Read More

From June:
Jill just left on the drive to Tucson. I know she had planned to leave earlier, but realistically, we both knew that wouldn’t happen. Of course, the hour we spent searching for one of the samples this morning didn’t help.… Read More

So close…SO CLOSE…

But on the home stretch of printing, we’ve run out of toner – we literally down to 60 more patterns to print. Yet now it’s going to cost $300 in ink to get that accomplished. ARGH!

On the other hand, please note that I do not leave Austin until Sunday.… Read More