In honor of school starting...

Well, Bailey starts kindergarten today so in honor of that I thought I would show a few pictures of the oldest school house in Arizona. We saw this on our trip to Strawberry, Arizona. The picture above is Bailey's outfit that she picked out for her first day of school. Please note the jeans and the belt, she told me she looks 'cool'. I don't think she knows what that means.

No this is not her new school room but it was a big step back in time. When I went to grade school I lived in such a small town that I went to a one room school house with all 8 grades together. Just like 'Little House on the Prairie'. I have more pictures to show you but that will have to wait for another post. I have to take miss priss to school! Have a good Monday!

H

Baby feet and hands

So in a need to practice I've been taking pictures of many things like this cute little baby boy. He is my oldest nephews' new baby brother, he is not my nephew. He and my nephew came over this week to give Bailey a birthday gift and he fell asleep before he got there and I thought it was a perfect opportunity to snap a few pictures.


I love feet and hands and since these weren't moving everywhere I could get some good pictures. I'm super happy with the foot picture but I didn't want to wake him to get a better angle. I like the hands but I still need work. I do want his eyelashes! This is just not right for a boy to have eyelashes this long!



But these eyelashes run in the family because this is my nephew and I've always thought it wasn't right how beautiful his eyes and eyelashes are! He has the most beautiful smile when he isn't 'trying' to smile for you.



And now I give you the cheesy, fake smile. I guess its better then my daughter not smiling at all! I don't have many of them together so I had to take the 'lets pose for a picture' shot. I'm working on a photo book for my mom for Christmas and I want to include all kinds of pictures of all of her grandchildren. She doesn't read blogs so she won't know.
Anyway, hope you're having a good weekend.

H

A few pretties for you to enjoy

Okay, where in the heck have I been!? Well I've been in San Diego for a little girls birthday. She turned 5. So we went to Sea World and the San Diego Zoo. I'll show you pictures of the rest of the trip but for right now I thought you would enjoy a few flowers. The one above has to be my favorite.







Okay so these two nuts aren't flowers but I thought I would show them anyway. Hope you have a good week.

H

My sister is amazing

My birthday was back in May so I've been meaning to show you these pictures for a while. My sister Holly is a pastry chef and she made this gorgeous cake for me along with an amazing party that she set up along with the help of my sisters and mom. I just had to show you the details of the beautiful cake that she did all by hand. Everything is edible on this cake. This goes along with my obsession with Hawaii and the beach in general.



I have the most wonderful sisters in the world! Thank you all so much. Sorry its taken me so long to write about it.

H

Happy Father's Day

So its Father's day! Happy Father's Day to my husband. That's a picture of Brian and Bailey looking at the clouds. She likes to figure out what animal shape they can be and she talked her daddy into laying on the ground to figure it out with her. He spoils her rotten and has created quite a monster but he is a very good daddy! Thank you honey.

Happy Father's day to my Dad as well! I love you, Daddy! Thank you for all that you do! Happy Father's day to all the dad's in your life. Don't forget to thank them and tell them that you love them.

H

There are not words...

I just don't have the words to describe how amazing the Grand Canyon is! If you've never been then make plans to go. The day was just about as perfect as a day could be. I'm not going to say much more, just enjoy the pictures. I'll add pictures of the little creatures we encountered while at the Grand Canyon.

As you can see we had the most wonderful time on our little jaunt north. I hope you've all be well. I'll check in later this week and give you the low down on what's been going on in the land of Cherry Creek.

Garden Party

So I went to my forged bracelets class today with Michael Sturlin and it was wonderful. I'll post pictures later since I have one more day of class with him. Anyway his wife is a Thai Chef and I got some of the last of the salad greens from her garden to have for dinner tonight.
In the blue bowl are the croutons that I made from the bread in the green bowl. They are so easy, you should give it a try. Really super easy and oh so much tastier then the kind you get at the store made in a bag. A great way to use up old bread or heels that no one wants to eat. I know you have a bag in your kitchen that you put them into because you're going to 'feed it to the ducks' or whatever. So now you know what to do with them. I'll give you a recipe if you want one.
We added some cheeses and tomatoes and a grilled steak and oil and balsamic vinegar and we we're set. In fact there isn't any left.



Now its getting a little sappy in here! I hope you all had a lovely Saturday. I'll post pictures of the class bracelets sometime this week.

H

Mary, Mary how does your garden grow?

I know that's not a very original title but it works! Well that just has be the cutest thing ever! That is a little baby basil plant trying to poke its little leaves out of the dirt! I needed to embrace my inner chef (I did graduate with a degree in culinary arts - really I did!) and at least grow some things that my family could eat! Bailey and I just started with herbs for now but we plan to add more as the planting season comes around again. She also has a little tomato plant growing and she is very proud of it. There is nothing like the taste of food fresh from the garden. Tomatoes are my favorite! I will be sure to post more picture of our little garden. You are of course all invite over for dinner. I've also decided to start making some bread on a regular basis because well its just too easy not to! I'll post about that too.
I'm not sure what this has to do with jewelry or jewelry making but since all these things inspire me I thought I would post about the fun we are having here!

basil, parsley, and chives

Have a wonderful weekend!

H

Bailey rides a Harley

I knew someday that she would run away, maybe on a Harley but not so soon!

My uncle was actually in town for about 24 hours. He's a motorcycle cop in Texas going cross country and stopped in Scottsdale on his way through. Miss Bailey got a ride on the bike and she was so happy!

Hopefully I won't see that again anytime soon!
(her riding away on a motorcycle, like when she's 16)

I hope you're all having a good week. Its been getting warm here but still beautiful!

H

The Easter Bunny

This is quite a big Easter bunny! He is such a good sport about all the girlie things we have to do because Bailey is such a girlie girl. No one asked him to put these on he just did. If he hadn't put them on I wouldn't have taken the pictures!



He's trying to keep Shelby away from the purple egg with chocolate in the corner of the picture. She's not happy about not getting a treat but dogs can't have chocolate!



Now he's looking like angry Easter bunny so I'll stop taking pictures now! I hope you had a good Easter.
This is part of the 'Life is Funny' series going on over at Weight...What? Brian doesn't think this is very funny but I do and I had the camera!

H

Dads Birthday

IMG_0312, originally uploaded by cherrycreekdesigns.

Okay so this may not be the most exciting birthday but I'm showing you this because of the way Heidi choose to 'light' the candles. Yes she's using a torch because the matches weren't working since we had 64 candles to light!

Happy Birthday Dad!

P.S. We didn't light anything but the candles on fire, I promise!


H

A Conversation with Bailey

She likes to chat...about everything! I just thought these we're kind of cute. I just kept the camera clicking away while she chatted with me about...well everything and nothing! I wish I could tell you what she was chatting about but I really don't know. Maybe I'm just getting old but sometimes I just can't keep up with her chatter.



I know I'm bias but dang she's cute! She drives me crazy with all the chatting and questions but she sure is cute!

H