New Jewelry Items

Last Monday on my day off - I made some new jewelry items that hopefully will get listed on Esty this week. I'm finding that I have less and less time to get things done that I want to accomplish... so bare with me.

Aren't these cute? They are Christmas Trees. Red tops, green "branches" and a brown trunk.

Turquoise and Silver... I have made several of these - I've sold at least three sets in the last two months.

Pale green Adventurine and Rose Quartz

Mother of pearl... white with a slight hint of tan... gorgeous!

I hope to get some more made soon - but things are crazy busy these next few weekends. I've also been trying out some new recipes that I'll put up on the recipe blog during the next week - keep an eye out for Shrimp Scampi, Moussaka, and a couple of others.

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All Aboard

Ok - so you know about my rockin friend Summer... but she has some pretty cool friends herself - like K.Law and KS... well they've cooked up a little fun for all of us... and I'd love to share it with you guys.

They're planning a Blog Gathering!!

Here are the details as planned right now...

The weekend? April 9, 2010 (gasp!). All things fabulous in Austin, Texas where we can take in the sites, the sounds, the food, the drinks, and the awesome conversations over a long weekend. And how amazing of an opportunity finally meet your faves!

Some things on the potential agenda:



Austin Ghost Tours , Boat tours, Cavern site seeing , Museum of the Weird, all the Mexican you can handle, and of course maybe a Vineyard or even a beer brewery. And of course we could all stay together at a swanky (but inexpensive) hotel. A casual gathering of friends sharing great stores. Nothing fancy. No convention-ish bidnass. Just a whole lot of good conversation in a great city with some fabulous ladies.


Welcome to any and all! The more the merrier and the more the fun!

If you are game, email KRISTEN at bist1115@yahoo.com or comment here or there and we can get the juices flowing. Once we know who can make it, everyone will be responsible for their own airfare, but we'll look into group rates for hotel accommodations. Please spread the word to any of your favorites.

We hope to see you ALL there.

Anyone interested?? Let Kristen know - but also let me know... I'm looking for a few good roomates!!



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Moving Forward

Well... I have no brilliant introduction for this post... but I come to you guys today to tell you that we got our Preadoption Counseling Appointment!!! This means that we are starting the process officially toward getting our baby.

Can I just tell you that I laughed, cried, and sat there in shock all at the same time. Too funny. I'm glad that we'd already started the process of putting together our plans for the nursery - the bedding will be ordered tomorrow. The rest of the stuff will probably start this weekend... or at least that would be my guess.

I've got to get through our Women's Service Project at church - but then it's all baby prep. Our meeting is on December 4th at 9 AM. From there we will get a full adoption packet and get put on the list for the homestudy.

The thing that I learned tonight that was new - is that the homestudy isn't done until a birth mother is interested in your profile. There are stories of people having their homestudy done and within 2 weeks they have a child placed in their home!

Our friend that has already been through this - talked to another of her friends that is extremely close to the leadership at the agency and apparently they have a lot of birth mothers right now... so you never know. John's dream might just become a reality... oh my goodness. My head just starts spinning when I think about how amazing that would be!


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Oh...Eve

I happen to have the pleasure of working in an office full of women - or at least my department is predominantly women. (Out of 7 of us there is 1 guy.) So if you've heard all of the theories about how if you have a group of women in constant contact with each other - their hormone cycles will become the same.

Somehow this actually is happening at our office - not so much with me... but the other ladies are fairly in sync. Yesterday morning, I was sitting in Karen's (my boss - that I'm not allowed to call my boss) office, and another member of our team came in, Stasha.

She was telling us about her weird evening, and that her cycle started in the middle of the night - which most women know brings cramping and pain. Well, Stasha looks at us and says, "It's days like this that I want to ask Eve, why?!"

To which I replied, "I know, I mean it was an apple... if it had been a brownie, I might understand!"

This made all three of us laugh. I hope that it does you too!


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The Nursery

A few of you mentioned on my last post about the nursery how you thought that having to set one up in our house was sort of the cruel part of the adoption process. I'll be honest, when I first started looking into all of this - I completely agreed.

I couldn't imagine being in a place where setting a nursery up wouldn't just be a painful reminder of what is missing from our lives. I couldn't think of a time when looking into that room wouldn't bring me to my knees in tears.

Funny thing now - is that putting it in the house - or planning for putting it into the house... gives me an incredible peace. It is a place where our baby will live - at whatever time God provides us that child. It feels exactly like the type of things that you should step out in faith and do when called to do it. It also is a place that I will cherish being able to go and pray.

I can sit in that room surrounded by all sorts of things prepared for our child... and pray that God provide the child to us, protect them while we can't, help their birth mother deal with the choices she has to make, that the baby is born healthy, and all the other things people pray for their children before the arrive. Once the baby is there - I'll certainly go there to pray for all the things that mothers pray for their children... like, sleeping through the night! HA!

I've said it before, but the truth is that words just don't allow you to feel what is in my heart. The incredible peace that I feel about all of this is truly nothing short of a miracle in itself. It doesn't scare me or upset me to be setting up a nursery for a baby that I haven't encountered yet.

The same way that writing a letter to the birth mother and our baby doesn't scare me either. It gives me joy to be able to write such a letter for our child to someday cherish. Our baby will grow up with a keepsake telling them just how much we loved them and wanted them before they were brought into our lives. They will know that we weren't able to have a child on our own at the time, but that God brought them into our lives for the better of all our family and friends. Can you imagine anything more precious?

They will also grow up with the benefit of this blog - because it is sort of like a journal, and I know that we will have certain aspects of the blog made into a book for them to keep along with that very letter... so that they will know just what it meant for us to become their parent. So that they can see how our faith and love gave us all the opportunity to call each other family. Because that child might not have grown in my body for 9 months, but surely the moment I meet them... they will grow in my heart forever.



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