Here is December’s Bead Journal Project. This is the daughter half of my first Mother/Daughter necklace set. I posted the mother half for November’s BJP and I will give it to my mother. I’ll keep this one. When I see Mom next, hopefully in Febuary, I’ll get a pic of the two of us wearing our necklaces.

Here is a Right Angle Weave bracelet done in red, with red crystals for embellishment. I really like this one.

I like this bright and sunny bracelet. It’s done in Raight Angle Weave. The red beads are discs. Just love them!

 My mother introduced me to the work of Carla
Sonheim a few months ago. She paints, writes books, teaches classes, and blogs. I’m sure she does more that I haven’t discovered yet.
One of the things that she does that I like is what she calls Blob Thursday. She paints a, well, a blob on paper. She emails this to those on her list. Our assignment is to print the blob and draw, paint, or what ever to make it into a creation of our own. Then you post it on her Flikr site, Drawing Lab flickr group. If you are interested, either in seeing what people have done, or in joining in, I urge you to click onto her site.
I’ve included here the latest blob (#10) and what I did with it. My pirate alien seems to be a hit on my flickr site. I can’t seem to figure out how to put a link here. Still very new to flikr. But, my user name is Jandikk if you want to try and take a peek.

Here is a yellow double wide RAW bracelet embellished with clear star beads. I thought something bright and cheerful would help keep us all warm.

This is November’s Bead Journal Project necklace. I decided to make “Mother/Daughter” necklaces. The first set will be, of course, for my mother and me. This one is my mother’s. Mine will use the same pendant and some other beads, but some things will be different. I’ll post it for December’s BJP.

Here is the business card holder in gold and white. A friend is buying it to give as a Christmas gift. That’s so cool!

Here are a couple more three dimensional RAW bracelets. Each one has 4 sides and the embellishment bead is in the center.

After last week, I decided that my little bead pouch needed a four leaf clover. Here’s to some better luck.

A couple of weeks ago I posted that I had found one of my cats, Grey, that had been missing. Well, he wasn’t very healthy, and he really wasn’t doing very well. Wednesday morning, he left the house and hasn’t been back. I’m assuming he won’t be back.

Thursday afternoon, Georgie wasn’t feeling very well. By that night, I knew she wasn’t going to make it. She died in my arms Friday morning.

Georgie and Grey were mother and son. 

They are survived by Buddy, another son of Georgie, and the dogs, Gruf and Spunky.

I really miss both my babies.