Thanksgiving day is almost over back home.  Even though I’m so far away, my memory can still smell the aroma of food baking and simmering through my Grandparent’s house.  I can see the pretty decorations Grandma puts on all the tables.  My family dressed in Fall weather clothes, football on the television, pies, pies, pies.  And my mom’s after dinner holiday craft of sorts.  And all the while, catching up. Yes, I’m missing you all terribly this morning.  Lots of love and Happy Thanksgiving. 

Well, we’ve turned the couch into our office tonight and are working.  It happens.  The man is putting out fires here and communicating back to the States.  One hand on his phone (which has been ringing off the hook) and one on the computer.  It seems that whenever you take a vacation, you have to work over-time.  And triple time in my case, after loosing a week and a half to pneumonia.  However, I think it’s nights like this that make you savor the time away to come.  So since we would be working here in the living room tonight, on the way home from the studio I stopped by DVD-Boy’s stand to check his offerings.  I scored 101 Dalmatians, the Indiana Jones set and Stand By Me, which is what we’re watching right now. I’d forgotten how much I love this movie.  The lines, the actors, the life messages.  If you haven’t seen it in a few years, I highly recommend adding it to your Netflix queue. 

Indeed we are actually leaving Shenzhen for a few days for a quick adventure.  We catch a plane to Kathmandu on Tuesday.  I haven’t done too much research on what to see so I welcome your 2 cents.  All I know is that our hotel is next to the big square and it includes breakfast.  I know we will visit temples and markets….the bead market.  Oh yes.  We’re so excited.

P.S.  If you have sent me an email in the last week or so, I haven’t forgot about you.  Thanks for checking in and the nice notes. I’ll be emailing this weekend, so talk soon.

P.S.S.  MySpace was also bl()cked a couple of weeks ago, so if you emailed me there, I cannot login.  🙁  But,  our class reunion has been set for JULY 26th. 

I woke up in a panic about this.  And so I worked on it all day.  I feel better.  A little.

Just now I turned to Mr. Savvy to announce that my writer’s bump is nearly gone.  "Huh?" was his response.  It didn’t help that I was flashing him my ring finger.  Now if you held your pencil properly (unlike me), it should be on your middle finger.  I try not to wave my middle finger at my husband too often….at least not to his face.  😉  He didn’t get it, so I said, "I’m googling it!"  "Writer’s Bump"—I’m not the only one to notice this phenomenon.  Apparently, the writer’s bump is well on it’s way to extinction.  I’m sad.  This is comparable to when little kids ask what a typewriter is.

P.S.  I believe my older sister’s writer’s bump is on her ring finger as well.  Hmmmm.

Need to Bead….

Art Bead Scene
Worlds and beads are colliding at the Art Bead Scene! This post is just a friendly reminder that the month and your chance to win free beads from Joan Miller and Humblebeads are almost up!
http://artbeadscene.blogspot.com/2007/09/abs-monthly-challenge-september.html

Bead Arts
Cyndi shows you how to cinch a stone, simply and beautifully.
http://www.bead-arts.com/right-angle-weave-bezel-and-bail/

Jewelry and Beading
Tammy touts the treasures you can gather from other beaders when you join a bead society.
http://www.jewelryandbeading.com/2007/09/11/join-a-bead-society/

Katie’s Beading Blog
This week, Katie shares tips on writing a newsletter to promote your business.
http://katiehacker.blogspot.com/2007/09/love-those-newsletters.html

Naughty Secretary Club
There is a new clip of Handmade Nation to be seen! Look for a snippet of an interview with Naughty Secretary Club’s Jennifer Perkins at the Renegade Craft Fair Brooklyn about the art of Revamped Vintage Jewelry plus glass bead making and more.
http://naughtysecretaryclub.blogspot.com/2007/09/handmade-nation-new-clip.html

Snap out of it, Jean! There’s beading to be done!
In a discussion of why we should plan out our designs, Jean shows a pretty fall bracelet set with a cool clasp and some findings which suit the beads perfectly!
http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4557492676472070121&postID=3270380647406443329

The Impatient Blogger
Clay play anyone? Margot shows some recent experiments in polymer clay and talks about her creative process. After you check out the beginning stages, see the resulting finished necklace at http://margotpotter.blogspot.com/2007/09/pirate-king-necklace-and-repost.html.
http://margotpotter.blogspot.com/2007/09/teach-your-children-well.html

Last Friday I came down with the sinus infection from H.E. double hockey sticks.

And Rocker’s been having sinus infection sympathy pains.  He’s been by my side the whole time.  Sigh.  I love this dog.  I’m sure he would whip up some chicken soup if he could.  All though it would be sans chicken by the time he was done because he cannot help himself when it comes to chicken.

Yesterday, I taught my first class of a four week beginner jewelry course at the Birdcage Studio.  Students learned to make three styles of earrings so there were lots of opportunities to make loops.  Simple loops, wrapped loops and more simple loops.  I love to see practice makes perfect in action.  By the end everyone’s loops were looking good.  It was a good day and I was proud of them for taking on the challenge.

FYI:  Make It Mine—a cool new crafty mag coming to newsstands near you.  I saw some of the projects from the first issue and they looked really fun and unique.

On that note, it’s time for coffee! I hope you’re all doing well.