Then another girl came up to us and asked us something like  "Where is the third floor and how do you get there?" The other student with us said "Its between the fourth (we were on the fourth) floor and the second. You take the elevator." 

Then she looked over at us and rolled her eyes.  "Duh"  We smiled with her and thought about the clueless one - One year down and you learned where the third floor was. Good job. 

For 14 years, I have been getting up to either take my kids to school in the morning or now that they drive, saying "Goodbye, Drive Safe, Love You" at the door.

They have perfected the cupcake.  They are now multi-layers and multi-colors.

I think it is like eating a circus!

Kolby

Our family loves ice! Ice in everything! We go through a lot of ice!

Our office is next door to our house. We have a big fridge there with an icemaker and then our fridge in the house has an ice maker. During holidays, our extended family always walk in the door with more ice.

I told you my familiy loves ice.

So a couple of years a ago, our office fridge stopped making ice. No big deal, we called the repairman. His conclusion was that he couldn't fix it and we needed a new fridge. So we got to shopping, we get a new one for the house and move the old one to the office. Fitting a new one into our kitchen isn't an easy task. I won't go into it here but we finally found one that would fit. Okay so we are ready to buy the new fridge. Then that fridge all of a sudden starts making ice again!

Okay no new fridge. So we go along for a few months and the kitchen fridge stops working all together. Repairman comes out again and we have our fingers crossed. New fridge, new fridge we chant. (See we have a home warranty agreement on this one - if it can't be fixed they replace it). Well after 2 weeks of using the office fridge, coolers, the beer fridge and having the girls pick up ice on their way home from school, the kitchen fridge is repaired.

Then it starts, no ice, then ice in both fridges. Back and forth. Through Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter. Girls buying ice on their way home from school. The big bags of ice. See we have a new home warranty agreement where they will pay for the icemaker to be repaired. But it doesn;'t go into effect until May 6.  The first part of May, I am sitting in the living room beading. it is quiet and all of a sudden I hear plop and gears moving. The kitchen fridge is now making ice like crazy!

Lots of ice!  We are holding our breaths that it keep at it.

All this to tell you that I am adding  "Ice Beads" to the shop.

Thanks for listening to my long drawn out story.

Shibui

At Shibui & Daughters, we are changing things up just a bit.  

We have new beads

and some new found objects for steampunk

that are coming to the shop. 

See those vintage bronze disks in the center. They are really cool.!

A few new items at a time, so check back when you can.

Thanks for listening.

Shibui

What do you mean?

Okay. I'm not very musically inclined.

I big thank you to Kate McKinnon!

Thank you for mentioning my Project Tin on your

Contemporary Geometric Beadwork Blog!

       

Kate and Jean Power have a new book coming out this summer.

It explores structural beadwork at it's best. Amazing.

I have preordered it and can't wait until it shows up on my doorstep.

I like the feeling of expecting something in the mail other than bills and ads.

Thanks for listening.

Shibui

I'm looking for more students that would like to take this class.  Any takers?

Thanks for listening.

Shibui