{"id":155,"date":"2007-12-18T23:57:08","date_gmt":"2007-12-19T06:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?p=155"},"modified":"2007-12-18T23:57:08","modified_gmt":"2007-12-19T06:57:08","slug":"one-week-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?p=155","title":{"rendered":"One week to go!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/lampworkfocal.jpg\" title=\"lampworkfocal.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/lampworkfocal.jpg\" title=\"lampworkfocal.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/bluegreenfocal.jpg\" title=\"bluegreenfocal.jpg\"><\/a>Just one week to go until Christmas?\u00a0 How can that be?\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure you all agree that time has been flying by way too fast.\u00a0 With the kids home this week, it has been a little more difficult to cram in all of the last minute details this final week.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll admit I&#8217;m still working on my Christmas cards&#8230;.so if you have not received one yet, \u00a0you know why!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One of our highlights of the season is a trip to visit Santa.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve made this trip every year since becoming parents 7 years ago.\u00a0 We were accompanied again this year by my brother, his wife and their toddler son.\u00a0 There were really no tears this year (probably a first!), and we all came home with great pictures.\u00a0 Here is what my\u00a0Kindergartner asked for this year:\u00a0 beads and craft supplies!\u00a0 Aaaahhhh&#8230;a little boy after my own heart.\u00a0 Would you believe I almost left the mall without my dear pictures?\u00a0\u00a0 I had left them earlier at the See&#8217;s counter (another annual tradition, this one from our days in Monterey)&#8230;luckily my husband noticed the envelope was missing right as we were leaving an hour later!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to those of you who voted in the Guess the Skittles game from the other day&#8230;.are you ready for the grand total???\u00a0 There were (now quite a few are missing, he he) <strong>2,481<\/strong> in the jar!\u00a0 And would you believe my Dad guessed 2,500???\u00a0 You were close&#8230;.much closer than my husband&#8217;s guess of 10,000&#8230;.well, he did retract that quickly and dropped the number dramatically when I looked shocked.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0I know this is a jewelry-design blog and you must be wondering, where&#8217;s the latest??\u00a0 Jewelry has been on the back burner these days with all of the season&#8217;s festivities unfortunately.\u00a0 I hope to swing in to gear in the New Year.\u00a0 Here are a few close-up shots of a couple necklaces I did manage to create recently.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/lampworkfocal.jpg\" title=\"lampworkfocal.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/lampworkfocal.jpg\" alt=\"lampworkfocal.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/bluegreenfocal.jpg\" alt=\"bluegreenfocal.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Good luck to all in this final exciting week leading up to Christmas.\u00a0\u00a0 May you\u00a0squeeze in\u00a0all that you had hoped to do, still stop to enjoy a cup of egg nog latte, and most importantly &#8211; 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