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Honey Crunch -- Italian Glass Necklace.

Burnt Orange -- Italian Glass and semi precious stones.

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I know I've been a very slack blogger of late, but I offer TK's most recent school photo as a peace offering... whatcha think?

Although today he came home from school with a chipped front tooth, having tripped over during the day.

*insert eye-roll here*

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TK has been under the weather this week, with what he described as 'dull aches with sharp pains' so Ross (with his new flexible working hours) took him off to the doctors.

Later that afternoon I called to talk to TK...

"How are you feeling?"

"Better, now I just have really smelly gas."

"So I shouldn't sit next to you on the sofa tonight?"

"Oh, no you can. I'll just move away when I need to pass gas."

That's my boy!

LOL.

My best friend, Sarah, just had her 2nd baby. A wee boy.

Here is part of the email she sent "Well we have a new baby boy (yet to be named). He was born at 12.51pm today and as the contractions only kicked in properly at 12.20pm there was no midwife or ambulance here and certainly no time to get to the hospital so (husband) delivered him on the lounge floor. The ambulance arrived 5 minutes later followed by the midwife 10 minutes after that!"

How cool and amazing is that?

Today I came home from work early to do some online training at home, so I told TK that he could walk home from school instead of going to afterhours care. TK was thrilled.

At 4.15pm, TK came in looking frazzled.

"Sorry I'm late Mumma, I was working on the school newsletter."

"How's it going?"

"Oh, not so well. We couldn't get the last part printed in colour."

"Really? That's a shame."

TK goes to the pantry and opens the door. As he pokes about amongst it's contents, he says, completely seriously "What can I have to calm my stress?".

*stifles a giggle*

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(or should I say, more beads?)

Last week I sent approx 350 beads off to be annealed, and now they are all ready to be photographed, and either sold individually or made into pretty things and sold on my etsy site.

Hurrah!

I'm really happy with the beads, they have turned out really scrummy:

Some of my favourites:

A necklace that I've temporarily strung together with little pebble beads:

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