Robin from Beadlust posted this a while ago, and I can't take my eyes off of it. I love the colors, the items, the beading. SIGH....I love it:

Wow, I have only dreams that I could come up with something this creative. Sigh.....off to wishing I had more time! :-)

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I have no idea how much of my blog audience is actually in Denver (feel free to actually post a comment you 200 readers a day!) but I'm going to participate in a group show with a fabulous group of women.

Vacation Never Ends
Creative Claudia aka Sew You Studio
Andrea Flanagan Photography
Native Wisdom Beauty
Bellhaus Creative
The Music Train

Highland Mommies has an entrepreneurial group called "Empressarias" who are having a great show at the D-Note in Arvada! Come shop and explore - including: gift baskets, unique accessories, photography gift certificates, jewlery and more... Enjoy the afternoon with live music, dancing for the kids, make and take crafts and if you're interested in starting your own business - this is a great group of gals I have taken a lot of inspiration from - Including:

December 1st from 3-5 PM at the D-Note in Old Towne Arvada

Anyway, nothing in the show for me is craft orientied...I'm there plugging our web design business. I think I'm handing out internet safety tips - frankly I'm expecting to be upstaged by some very creative Moms.

Next post...back to our regularly scheduled craft and kiddie stuff!

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Not really! But we had fun! And a bunch of "dudes" showed up too (thus the direction of the site surfing)! :-) Here's a few of the sites we surfed:

Etsy -neat place to get handmade gifts and fabulous ideas!
Parent Hacks - the best site with parenting tips around
Cool Mom Picks - Holiday Gift Guide -for all your holiday shopping needs.
Dooce - great mom blog
Mothers Acting Up - what a totally cool site. Not for profit...go check it out.
Dadz.tv - UTube for parents...very cool
Dadz.com Directory - if you're a Dad, start here.
Blogfathers - I found this a while ago, group blog by cool dads

I'm sure there were more, but that's what I can think of next. It went so well, the hour flew by and people hung around for a bit after the hour! I'd love to do another one! Very fun!

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If I haven't sent you an invite, Me.dium is a recent discovery thanks to a friend of mine who works for the company in Boulder Colorado. It's actually a fairly hard to explain tool, but it's a side browser where you can see other people you know (or don't know) and what they are surfing.

The neat thing is that on Tuesday (at 11am mountain) I'm hosting a Mom's Minute! What's cool about this is that I can get a group of folks together and we can surf our favorite Mom's sites! :-)
It was a weird concept to me at first, but I sat in on their Rock.Me - which is basically an hour surfing with someone from a band. They went around Utube and looked at influences and music videos...along with other band's sites on My space. It's nifty and frankly my mind boggles at all the places it could go! :-)

The other neato new find is Pandora radio (if you've all heard of it, I'm probably a dinosaur! It's cool tho, you type in a song or an artist you like and it trys to match you with other compatible music. All commercial free, nifty new music! I have spent the last several days really really enjoying it.

Ok, enough geeky stuff! We had a fantastic TECH FREE Thanksgiving - we played games, read and looked through picture albums! It was a ton of fun! And so, I'll leave you with my daughter's best art from the holiday:

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I had a playdate dying lace! Woo Hoo! My friend Antonia invited me over and we dyed lace! It was heavenly. This is what I made:

I'm so excited and now wanting to put it on stuff! Inspiration is a very very good thing!
And on top of that - gifties:

Isn't that cool? And she gave me a few aprons! (pictures to come).
Wow, did I need that! It was SO fun!

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I can't believe my baby is Seven! :-) However, today is the day and we're off to the bowling alley to play with friends, eat pizza and have fun!
I hate the whole "gifts for the attendees" thing...so this year we're doing these coloring books:

I think it's a cute idea. Missy C and I went through and picked her favorite crafts off sites like sprout and disney and then put in coloring pages and a recipe for french toast. She drew two cute pictures and I stitched the whole thing together in the sewing machine (why staple?).

Anyway, I think it's cute and with a couple of cheap crayons...probably LESS likely to be thrown out than the stuff from Oriental trading! :-)

Had a great crazy quilters meeting yesterday and so more on that later! (busy weekend!)

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Normally the Quilt of the month site does more conservative quilts, but if you love to look at quilts (because you make them or admire them) there's lots of room to "ooo and ahhh" over these fabulous Quilts.

I really like this one but the close ups don't really do it justice. I'd love to know techniques used to create quilts like these.

The international Quilt study center is worth some surfing time anyway, neat stuff and wow! I wish I could go take classes and attend their lectures!

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Happy Belated Halloween! I meant to post yesterday, but yikes...with a school party and a short break - then out for neighborhood trick or treating, it was a busy day! Here are the kids watching "The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown"...best shown with commercials! :-)

Then of course the parties at school. Alec was a race car driver. I love the variety of costumes...some of the homemade ones were the best! The ghost in the middle was a riot - just a white knit cap and a sheet!

Missy C chose to be "Kim Possible the way she dresses at school". About all we had to do was try to color her hair orange (food coloring) - she seemed to have fun and what a great ninja behind her, eh?
We all went down the street and went "Trunk or Treating" at the church down the street. The people from the church decorate up their car trunks and hand out candy...they serve hot cocoa and cider. It's great!

Halloween is over and except for the huge bowl of candy in our house, today it's "back to normal" and getting things done around the house.

I've been trying to get my "other blog" working on Wordpress and so have been distracted by that, but I have several draft posts I've been meaning to post here. So, we'll see. Hopefully this week!

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