This isn't the greatest picture but these were the beads I chose.  They didn't have the selection I was expecting.  Most of it was bead mixes and only a few in single colors.  I thought that this could look like sea glass.  I'm thinking about using the beads randomly with the only rule that you can't have two of the same bead next together.  I may change my mind but that's what I'm thinking right now.  I finished the lateral braid and I think I got the hang of it now if it shows up in any other patterns.  The next part is the ruffle and the first step in that is to double the number of stitches.  I did that then on the return row, right near the end, I found a weird stretched out, loopy stitch thing so I had to"tink" back... about 900 stitches.  Grrrr.  I really need to get this done because the beaded bind off will take a wile.

I really haven't been doing much.  I am still looking at the Craftsy but not much else.  My son and I went to the pool (the high school lets the public use the pool over the summer for a small fee).  We had fun till a little kid threw up in the pool.  Our future plans are Letter Boxing, going to a John Deer museum and back to the library.  With all this running around I may be losing a little weight.

Last week the kids had vacation Bible school at the church.  The theme was weird animals and so on the last day they had someone bring in some animals for the children to pet (like a petting zoo but much smaller).  One of the animals as an alpaca (yeah alpaca!) and almost everyone called it a llama.  I was trying to figure this out and I finally did... Dora the Explorer.  Almost every child under the age of fifteen has seen Dora or Diego (most likely both).  Dora sometimes has a llama on the show and it is not drawn proportionately.  It makes the llama look slightly taller that a child which is the height of an alpaca as llamas are actually much taller.  I don't know why I have to figure out these inconsequential things but some how I feel better when I do.  That's it for my randomness, See you next time.