Merry Christmas Eve!

Check out Chloe attired in her Christmas spirit.  You may be able to tell she dressed herself and was completely thrilled with her Santa hat, Christmas shirt under the denim jumper, plaid skirt and argyle tights combination.  Always a treat and a surprise to see how she dresses herself :)  

This is before going to an Ugly Christmas Sweater Party.  Todd picked up the sweaters from Goodwill, but his needed to be modified into a neck-less, sleeveless atrocity.  My Dad was over that day and he saw nothing wrong with either sweater....he thought mine was very nice.

I am LOVING these beads and had fun stringing them into a floating necklace.  The base bead is made out of a dark Elphaba green (which I just got and absolutely LOVE) and then is swirled in Smoke Rings.  LOVE LOVE LOVE these and will probably make more!  Taking a chance the recipient won't be on the internet today, but I just had to share a pic of this

It was two days ago when I got the frantic call from a good friend with his daughter asking "Can you please please please make my Mommy a necklace with green, blue and purple beads for Christmas?"  I really like how the colors swirled together and there is great veining going on in the greens that I used in each bead.  And the purple was fun because it reacted great with the other colors to form different shades and separations.  I hope Mommy loves it :)