I was down in South Florida for the Thanksgiving holiday and contacted Valerie & Linda in the hopes that we could meet up for a little while. Well, after a few days of e-mailing and leaving messages, we finally got our act together (LOL) and met on Saturday morning. Linda recommended a great diner near her and after going all the way up to Palm Beach County to get Valerie, met me (Jon & Avner, too) for breakfast. We scarfed down lox & onion omelettes with real home fries (Valerie had scrumptious looking french toast) and then we went to, where else, a bead store! I did a little damage at the bead store, Valerie sold some of her polymer clay beads tot he store owner (yippee!) and Linda window-shopped.
It was so much fun! Valerie and Linda were even nicer in person (is that possible?) and Valerie BFNRed me with a velvet pouch of goodies - polymer beads of all sorts - rounds, a donut, a pendant and tabs plus some yummy white ab crytals! Both were decked out in fantastic jewelry too - Linda had this great necklace of polymer and beaded beads plus a bracelet that I was drooling over (a flat strip of peyote embellished with a hibiscus flower button and fringe). Valerie had on a lovely beaded necklace and 2 bracelets - one of her beads with crystals and another from Nicole.
We commemorated the occasion with a picture: