A Year in the Making, day 335

It's Friday! Not that it's been a rough week, not at all, but no matter what, you always get excited about an upcoming weekend, especially in summertime, and even more especially when the weather is predicted to be absolutely beautiful.

I'll be picking up some Italian prune plum trees this weekend, if all works out, so I'll hopefully have my own fruit to harvest for jam. I make a mean plum jam, if I do say so myself.

Playing in the black box today, which isn't entirely black, but has lots of interesting neutral stones besides the onyx and the hematite and the smokey quartz.

Faceted Black Onyx Necklace



Faceted Black Onyx Earrings



Fossilized Coral and Rutilated Quartz Necklace

A Year in the Making, day 329

It's been a busy weekend. We went to a friend's housewarming yesterday afternoon and nomnom'd on tasty bbq'd sausages. I also made something tasty:

Spinach Strawberry Salad

1 bunch spinach, stems removed, washed
1/4 cup sliced almonds
4oz gorgonzola
10-15 strawberries, hulled and sliced
1/4 cup poppyseed dressing

Directions? Mix it all up. Then stuff yourself silly.

I got a necklace made yesterday but never got pictures, so today you get a two-fer!

Jasper and Red Malachite Y Necklace



Black Onyx and Sterling Necklace



We spent the day at the Point Defiance Zoo today. OMG, the animals! They were out and they were frisky.

Today was the premier of the brand new baby tigers! Squeeee!



We got to the polar bear exhibit right at feeding time.



Meercats! Squeeee!



And some lovely swaying underwater life:







I'll be off to a work conference tomorrow, so there'll be another on-the-road post or two.