My life revolves around Critters it seems...
We keep them and I make them!

The kids absolutely LOVE the chicken pen.
They have names for each of the chickens, like
Ola (for Grandma Yola), and Cricket Hunter...

Seeing life again through little eyes is such a delight.

I just recently started making big-hole beads for Pandora style bracelets...
they sure are fun to create.

These little Cuties are the latest three. Which do you like best?

One of the special things we do is
HOME SCHOOL!

We needed to connect with the children and help them settle in when we first got them. That was about a year ago now. They had been bounced from pillar to post, and were abused in their bio home and then again in the Foster Homes they were sent to. They needed to learn to trust and to behave, because they were fearful and wild when they got here (in their Foster home they were allowed to ride bikes in the house and climb the backs of furniture for example)!

Well, home schooling and a stay at home Mommy were our choices to help ground them and give them a feeling of security and permanence.

Here is our oldest boy writing his letters for the first time. He's not tracing, he's making the letters and boy is he proud! Can you tell?

And below, he is pointing out his ABC's. He can do it forward and backward now. He's 5 and is really doing well. So are the other two. Thank you Lord for choosing these children for us!

"Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning." James 1:17

We are canning peaches this week.

It's the first time for the kids...
They absolutely LOVE helping with anything food-related. They were starved as little ones so food is a big issue to them.

Isn't our God good - we prayed for Him to choose the children for us, and He gave us little ones with big food-related issues (after He removed them from their home of cruel abuse and starvation)... and WE cook from scratch, garden and can... all the things that make you feel so happy and content in your home-life!

A full pantry and every meal cooked from scratch, and a stay-at-home Mommy! Makes for safety and comfort and learning to trust and hope again!

Aren't they Cuties!

I had to post this little Sweetie. He is sitting on a big hollow Rose bead with encased black swirls looping all over the bead. Love that Dark Transparent Rose color!

SINCE I have frogs on the brain these days
I decided to make a Pandora Bead with one of my little guys on top.

It sure was a challenge to get an even wrap of glass around that big mandrel! I ended up adding a lot of Murrini and stacked dots and encased black vine to tie it all together!

It was fun but a bit stressful, and I am not sure if he is sitting up to high for a bracelet - what do you think? I can try to make him lean more forward next time, but I love to see his little head looking around!

Have you ever been stuck on making a particular thing?




Even though I have been steadily working on the
Beads of Courage Critter Tutorial Workbook,
when I take a break I always want to make these silly guys!

They are encased Murrini beads with a Froggie passenger. The combinations inside the bead are endless and they are challenging me to develop my wild Twistie-making abilities!





The BOC Tutorial Workbook is coming along great,
but I keep adding Critters! I have to stop now and just get it done!

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please email me at FineFolly@bellsouth.net
Be sure to put BOC Workbook in the title. Your email will not be used for anything else
and will be erased after we send out notice that it is ready to be ordered.


Here are just a FEW of the little Cuties that will be taught in the Workbook.
I think I am at 18 and counting! Someone stop me!