Kristen's Birthday present arrives

My birthday was a few weeks ago, but Kristen's bead shipment hadn't arrived in time. Her much-anticipated present arrived on Friday. Isn't it beautiful? Lampwork glass beads and little pink pearls and quartz beads make this bracelet and earring set a real beauty!!! Doesn't she do awesome work?



In other birthday news, Greg's parents gave me Greg's grandfather's stamp collection. I started collecting stamps again a few years ago, so Greg's parents thought that this family heirloom would be an interesting addition to my collection. I haven't seen some of these types of albums since I was a kid, so I was really excited. Greg bought me the Muppet show, season 1 DVD collection, and the Vanity Project CD. The Vanity project is Steven Page, from the Barenaked Ladies, solo project, and I had it on my Amazon.com wish list. There are some really great tracks on it.

The Oakes family's annual Christmas in July (on Civic Holiday weekend) reunion was held at Greg's Aunt Nancy's house. I only took a few pics, and they didn't turn out too well, so I'm not posting them.

More news later...

TTFN