A Big Weekend Planned

Lately I have been a bit hindered by a tailbone that has decided to act up and cause me some serious pain.   I broke my tailbone a few years back and no every once in a while it rears it's ugly head.  Most often it's after I have drove a bunch or this time it could be because I slammed it on a ramp while I was zip lining in the caves of Louisville.  I am finding it never pays to be adventuresome.  If you are interested in zip lines here is the link to the ones in Louisville  http://www.louisvillemegacavern.com/  I can highly recommend it just make sure you get your butt off the ramp before sitting into your harness.

This is a big weekend for me, I am suppose to go torch for Beads of Courage at Ed Hoy's this weekend.  It's a huge fund raiser and it's going to be a lot of fun but I have a two hour drive to get there and another two hours back in the same day because I didn't realize that the Bead Bonanza was this weekend also.  For some reason I had it in my head it was next weekend but oh well how about a whole lot of excitement in one weekend.  I am lucky I have such great friends and I won't have to drive myself to either one of these events.

If you have never been to the Bead Bonanza it is an amazing shopping experience and I highly recommend if you are anywhere close take the time to drive over to Southfield, don't forget your credit cards.  The address and info can be found under the schedule link at the top of the page. 

I will try and remember to take photos at the Beads of Courage fund raiser and post them on Monday.

Bead Cluster Necklace

Beads of Courage

Today my friends and I spent the day at the West Michigan Glass Society we made beads for the Beads of Courage Program. If you don't know about this program please take a look, it's a wonderful program that gives out beads to children with cancer to mark milestones in their treatment.  Many of these children don't have a whole lot to be happy about, our hope is that the beads we made today will remind the children that there are people who care enough about what they are going through to share their talent. We all hope these beads will put a smiles on their faces when they may be facing something to scary to think about.

Our bead making group meets once a month at different locations around Michigan and although we don't have a regular name most of us call ourselves DiPWADS (doesn't play well with any divas).  Twice a year we rent out the Glass Society to play with fire, stuff our faces and generally enjoy each others company.  This is one of the most wonderful and sharing group of women I have ever been involved with.  If you live in the area and make glass beads or would like to learn please join us for a meeting all are welcome, we list our meetings and chat on Lamp Work Etc. check out the second post for times and locations.

Photos of the beads we made today will be up in a day or two.

Jill, Sharon, Robin, Jamey, Deb K, Deb, Barb, Dawn and Marion, this is some serious creating going on :)

Jill, Marion, Dawn, Christa, Sharon, Robin and Deb K, I love it when all the torches are in use.

Dawn and Melissa with their beads or courage shirts on.

Barb, Laurie, Nancy and Sandra, more torches glowing.

Sandra, Ann Marie, Dawn, Karen and Chris, just hanging out

One of my toothy pumpkin face beads getting his eyeballs put on.