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I'm incredibly excited to be teaching a jewelry making workshop for the local high school. We are gathering materials, and after 25 years of jewelry making, I have so many amazing beads and tools and findings to donate. Our project list has great potential! I'm elated to share this craft with young, talented minds and learn from them as well. I'm hoping to draw in staff as well, for perhaps a staff workshop. I've already heard interest from parents who'd like the same. All weekend long, I pulled out boxes of beads, findings, tools that I've collected over the years. I was surprised at how much I have, and I haven't explored the bins in the garage yet. I know I have yet another one full of beads.  So we'll see how this goes. We have an earring project lined up, and I've collected some watch faces for a watch making workshop.  Happy Monday........

Visit my instagram page @yummykitchenchemistry to see our recipes and food prep. With a diabetic in the home, we've all learned how to calculate carbohydrates, build meals focused on a complex approach for blood sugar health, & avoid simple empty calorie carbs which will spike blood sugars and offer little nutrient value. We also document our garden's progress, provide recipes and throw in some amazing desserts.

I'm trying to teach my girls to derive their take on ANYTHING via facts and evidence. Seek the truth. Understand what a credible source is. Study the constructs of the scientific method to apply an objective stepwise procedure when sifting through garbage for that one degree of truth. I don't believe that we, as adults, have mastered this. I'm stunned at the disregard for credibility. Adults in our lives on social media are notorious for inflammatory rhetoric that holds no truth. It's lazy. It's lazy and demonstrably embarrassing when you consider that THIS is the lowered standard we are putting out there purposely and it defines us. Embarrassing. I've worked in the jails, in the in-patient psych units. I've been told every crazy story you can imagine. True or not, the agenda is to mold a certain perspective in order to gain trust not earned. These were my patients. Patients or not, people lie most of the time. MOST OF THE TIME. A story by anyone is litter