Ahhh, it is late October and the weather is astounding! Oh Vancouver, you are making your people happy this year. Also it is my better half's birthday. Happy Birthday Mark!! Sadie and I got up to all sorts of fun and messy things today in your honor. There will be cake. Sadie wants to blow out the candles, we won't put on the whole 42. I put her down for a nap 30 minutes ago and I can still hear her in there calling me and yammering away. I am ignoring her though because I really want her to sleep so she will be in good form for tonites festivities.
Well, last weekend was the Fraser Valley Bead Show. I gotta say, it was pretty slow. The crowd was mostly older ladies, not the younger ladies whose lines you can find all over the city. People just weren't spending much myself included. I guess we all have more beads than we know what to do with. I did get a couple of things though. A quartz skull and some big, hunky, chunky black tourmaline.
What do you think of that? I doubt that I will be parting with the tourmaline. By choice I mean and not just due to the fact that my Etsy shop is seemingly dormant. Harhar. Well the girl hasn't given up on her quest to be freed from nap time. Too bad. I hope she can hold it together for Birthday dinner. Peace out kids. xo =)
This funky peice is headed to Austin. It is a crazy little necklace I made for a friend of mine who lives far away and who I miss a great deal these days as we both go through the experience of new motherhood. It would be so sweet if our girls could grow up as friends, but alas our paths were near only briefly. It is made with black tourmaline, pyrite, turquoise and a ruby moonstone. I hope this inspires fun and harmless craziness my dear!!
And last but not least, this beauty is for me. This crystal I have had for a long time. I think it is my first clear quartz point. I put a carnelian ring that I made around the top of it and wrapped it all together with copper wire and then I made the necklace part with copper chain that had amethyst, labradorite and iolite wrapped in, (a left over strand from Mystical 3 strand) and some other copper chain with various carnelian, rose quartz, smokey quartz and other agates in it that were given to me by a sweet old lady who was a customer at Extra Foods. Back in those days you know. 
