Mommy can still fix everything

I'm working on a Ren Faire costume for Chuckro. (Still a little nervous - I don't actually have a pattern, and I'm going off a costume maker's site online. I've already made one major mistake and managed to fix it. We'll see how this comes out.) My sewing machine spontaneously stopped working last night. After rereading the manual, and fiddling, and looking up stuff online, I finally gave up and called my mom. Who, of course, knew how to fix it.

Mommy can still make everything better.

Ooh, pretty

We got a new ammonite at the museum (think fossilized snail shell). They're usually shell-sized, maybe handsized, maybe a really large one as big as your head. The rare ones are a bit iridescent - people make jewelry out of them, like amber.

Ours is over two feet in diameter, it looks like. And fantastically iridescent - there's a full rainbow, all the way from red through purple. It's so dazzling it's almost gaudy. This thing is just jaw-droppingly gorgeous. I actually thought it was some kind of metallic painted pottery from across the room.

Shiny!