Beading By The Bay Projects

Beading By The Bay is held each year at the Crown Plaza near the San Francisco Airport and this is the second year that I've attended. Marcia DeCoster who organizes the event also is a teacher of one of the three projects. This year the project was this pendant which I finished shortly after arriving home from the event. I used another technique for the "chain" and made it rather long.

I always enjoy taking a class from Sherry Serafini since bead embroidery is probably my favorite beading technique. This year at Beading By The Bay, Sherry was one of three teachers and this was the project. I finished it a few days after returning from San Francisco.

Piper is growing up!

I spent about two weeks in Hawaii with my Montana hiking friends in

February and then was only home for a few days before heading to

San Francisco for Beading By The Bay. Piper went back to board at

the breeder where she originally came from during that time so I

didn't see her for 3 weeks. Julie had groomed her before I picked

her up so now she looks like a real Schnauzer.

The Three of Us

Piper is really settling in. My son Toby took this photo last night. It's hard to get a photo of one, let alone two dogs but lap sitting helps.

New Member of the Family

Piper, a little black and silver Miniature Schnauzer, arrived at my home on Saturday. She's

9 1/2 weeks old, born Dec. 1, 2012. Her big sister, Sassy, pretty much ignores her but I'm hoping that when she gets a little bigger, they will play together.