Today I had the rare privilege to not only go bead shopping, but to also spend some time with my sister-in-law by ourselves. She received an invitation in the mail for a wholesalers only bead show and invited me to join her. The show was mainly gemstones with some findings, chain and tools. We decided to split a couple strands of dyed rainbow jade and aquamarine along with a roll of chain.
This picture isn't the best, but is was the sterling silver table where I could have very easily spent way too much money, but amazingly we walked away from the table deciding we didn't need any silver at this time.
We were out and about running errands this afternoon and as we were stopped at the light ( you will notice it is red, so I was completely stopped before taking this picture) I noticed not only the dark clouds to the east of us, but how intense the light coming from the west hit the shopping center in front of us. I just thought it was a really cool display of God's awesomeness.
As I was taking Andy to preschool this afternoon, I finally noticed my neighbors red maple and had to snap a photo. I love the colors of the green evergreen, the red maple and the yellow something or other plant that I don't really know and the moss on the rock. Just a fun picture of God's wonderful creation.
Tonight we have bible study and I volunteered to bring something to snack on. I have been on a quest lately to find a pumpkin bread recipe that does not have a large portion of sugar and I found one that is quite tasty and has less than two cups of sugar. I used less than the recommended flour as some of the comments below said to weigh the flour and since I do not own a food scale, I used about two tablespoons less than the recipe called for.
