So, What Did YOU Do Tonight???

Let me just start by saying, I love Berkley. I love how curious he is. I love how quickly he has gained confidence in his crawling and creeping abilities. I love that even when he is sick, he still giggles and smiles at me. But most of all, I love that he will never know how long I spent cleaning up this mess...

Most of you know I make jewelry as part of my little boutique business, this requires beads and various other small things. So I am so careful to work on my orders in my upstairs office when Braden and Berk play nearby. Berk usually is trapped in his excersauser I keep in here (for when I have to work when he isn't napping). But today, I got lazy. He has been fussing since we got back from all our trips and I let him play at my feet with his toys. Sure enough, not a minute later he grabbed up onto my desk (to get me to hold him) and crash, thousands of Swarovski crystals flew into my shag carpet.

So, now I will share with you a few revelations I had tonight... 1. Until this very moment I have LOVED my new shag carpet. It is soft, it hides stains, it leaves cool vacuum lines after my cleaners come 2. I do not love picking teeny-tiny beads our of shag carpet. 3. I especially hate picking out all shades of brown beads out of my shag carpet. 4. I will no longer be able to reason beading during Berk's awake hours. 5. I will have to find every last bead or Rusty will never let me live it down. 6. I like sparkly things and briefly debated leaving them in the carpet, 'cause it looked so pretty. 7. I love Berkley.

So, a hour (or two later), with help from Jessie, my Mom and Braden-Eagle-Eye-Beck, I now have the fun job of sorting them back into their nice, neat little compartments. Why is this such a hard job you might ask? Well these things are tiny. Most of them are 6mm, that's about the size of a karat diamond. I, however use even smaller ones, 2-3mm, for baby bracelets. Those suckers are small enough to fit a few inside this 'O'. yeah. Well, it's not all bad, I can do an inventory while I am at it. Yeah, right. So here are my pretties all in a pile, sad, they sparkle so much more in real life. Hopefully your Friday night was more exciting than mine...

And 'J. Whipp', in case you were wondering, I was working on your Bday gift when said incident occurred, so you better LOVE it! Ha ha. How can you not when you picked it out??? HA!