Back to beading

This morning I woke up in time to get ready to go to beading class for the first time this year. I was starting a new class learning how to do wire work. I made plans to meet Ann and Dad afterwards at Ikano. When I got to the class, I realised it was just me and the instructor Hester which was fine and meant that I would finish earlier than 1pm as planned.

The first project we did was a simple bracelet in earrings using wrapped loops - something I had done many times before. I breezed through that and then we moved on to creating swirls around the edge of a mother-of-pearl pendant. This was something new and good to learn. I had always wondered how it was done. It was a bit fiddly but it wasn't hard which was good.

The second project we did was much more involved. We created a bracelet from scratch including the links for the bracelet. We also learned how to make coil cages for the beads - again, something I had always wanted to learn. It took about an hour and a half to make the bracelet but I was really happy with the results. I walked out of the class at 12.30 wearing my bracelet and pendant.

I drove to Ikano where I was to meet Ann and Dad who were catching the train and the bus out to meet me. I bought a couple of things at ACE Hardware to fix up the bar lights and also some cat food from the pet store and dropped them off in the car before walking up the travelator and running straight into Dad and Ann who had just got off the bus - good timing!

We walked over to the Curve and had lunch at Marche - a Swiss restaurant with numerous cooking stations a bit like a market (hence the name I guess!). I opted for a mushroom crepe with a salad and gratin portebello mushroom. I definitely bit off more than I could chew! We all walked out of there full to the brim but the food was delicious and definitely somewhere we would go back again.

After lunch we wandered around the stores for a while, picked up some cupcakes for tonight and then headed up to Harvey Norman to get Dad's photos transferred to DVD. We did a quick bit of shopping before heading to the car. I had to  pick up a couple more things from Great Eastern so we took the Duke Highway across to Ampang and I picked up some contact lenses, cat litter and a couple of other things before we finally headed home.

Dad got busy spray painting the frame for the bar lights. Ross came home and he made spaghetti bolognaise for dinner. We watched more of the Tudors and indulged in our cupcakes before heading to bed.