butterflies really are free

i found the lost butterfly dealies on a tray of things that me and ben was working on together.  he made his first micro-macrame beaded bracelet with bright blue funace cane beads and a skull and cross-bones button.  it turned out pretty good to have been made by a 7 year old.  i had to undo some knots for him to rework, but all in all, he did great.  he wants to make his mom something.  he will expect her to wear it and i have helped him find a grouping of beads for a bracelet that won’t be awful together.   we looked at every bead i have and he picked out what he loved.  he would find one and i would remind him he had to take two of the beads in case he needed a match.  we would make bead soup with the leftovers.  he thinks bead soup is funny.

so now i can make my little butterfly frames till my eyes cross…  i recently joined another bead swapping club.  this one has 6 or 7 boxes of beads that make the rounds…  they even have a bead snob box.  higher end beads…. by the pictures i see posted on facebook, i might just stick to that box.  the club also has some person to person stuff going on.  right now i am partnered with the moderator for a rainbow glass trade.  a trade of rainbow colors worth about $15 to $20.  that is pretty easy to do, i’m sorry to say.  and what she has sent me is more expensive than that.  i am sending her lots of bright summer colors in rainbow colors.  

god, i’m boring.

the kids are fine.  they are like brother and sister now.  in the beginning of a visit between the two, they begin the visit very lovingly with much time spent being well mannered, kind, gentle and loving towards the other.  at the beginning of week three, not so much.  kind of funny to watch them.  hannah is all bossy and benja is a tattle tail.  when they come to me i suggest things and then redirect them to settle it themselves.  it mostly works.

we missed getting blanca in to be spayed by the vet.(dustin was supposed to get it done)  all of a sudden one morning i have benjamin asking me "granzee!  what happened to blanca’s pee-pee?"  and hannah is piping up with all the answers!  and we were ALL grossed out accordingly when later in the next day or so poor little in-heat-dog started to bleed.

i find it a little icky and distasteful when miss blanca wants to sit around and like her butt in front of me….. now, it’s really icky.  uber icky.
i live with an uber-icky-dog.   that wants to give you kisses.

so.  now that you are grossed out with me here, i’m going to leave you now.  and go make a couple more anklets for my shop.
go see what i’ve been doing….

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