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Lovely beads. I especially like the bead of Love Brendan Blakes.

They remind me of the sea around Cuba. It is 10 years this year since I went there. It is also 10 years since I visited my sewing e-mail pal in NJ. Alas she stopped communicating with me about four years ago. For what reason I will never know. No birthday and Christmas cards. I left messages on her answer phone. I hoped she was not sick. I did a USA people search and found out she stilled lived at the same address but had changed the phone number. If she had said she no longer wanted to keep the friendship up due to other things I would have understood. I felt very sad about it.

Shirley

In message , Tina writes

If you want to get to Kalera's beads just after she posts them you have to subscribe to her email updates. Being 3 hours (we don't have daylight savings time here) behind at the moment, I find that a lot of the really good ones are snapped up before I see them (not that I'm really in the market for lampwork at the moment - I have several pounds of glass here waiting to be turned into beads - but of course they're going to be nowhere as good as hers) - you can look at the "past sets" and such on her website and find what's already gone.

So, if you like Kalera's beads go to her website (beadwife.com) and subscribe to her mailing list (and you can tell her I sent you if you find a way of telling her :) ).

Aloha, Maren

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I wonder if she had a health crisis that interferes with her thinking, or maybe has pain issues that leave her exhausted to correspond. I don't hear from Sooz anymore, even when I email or phone, and I miss her terribly. I do usually get a quick visit in to see her when I get to Calif -- usually.

Tina

I have several sets of Kalera's beads, and yes, I got them when they first were posted on her site. And for more than what she lists on eBay for. Her (ex-)apprentice, Breezy, also makes gorgeous beads.

The last I heard of her she was still working. I would have thought her DH would have let me know if she was really ill. Up until last year I sent her birthday greetings.

I also miss Sooz. She is no longer in contact with me. We are like ships that pass in the night. Hugs Shirley

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Not really too hot, but at the moment it's raining cats and dogs again, and we have lots of mosquitoes then (yeah, in Hawaii too). And I've had some health issues (infected spider bites to be exact) that slowed me down immensely, so I have a lot of catching up to do (there's always all those "have tos" before you can get to the fun stuff - I should be working on putting together an Etsy store so that people who need shopping cart like features don't get turned off by having to email me first).

I've looked at Breezy's beads too, not in a while though. Did you see Kalera's sister's:

Don't know about anyone else - but it's never too hot to make beads. It's a drrrrryyy heat. ;-) Seriously - it's a different kind of heat.

Sometimes - however - there is something of an issue with it is so hot there isn't enough power left for the kiln w everyone running their air conditioners!

That's a problem we don't have here. Most people have neither heating nor air conditioning.

But, we usually have over 70% relative humidity here.

Aloha, Maren HiloBeads: Beads - Beading Supplies - Hand-made Jewelry