My first bead memory

Su/Cutworks · 2004-05-08T21:43:27+00:00

I suppose they'd be classified as beads. When I was a kid we lived in Downer's Grove, IL. It was a great place to live, much like being inside a Ray Bradbury story without the scary bits. I was only five when this happened, and today playing with my son who is almost 5 now, it made me remember the bracelet I was given that year at Halloween. We had those really cool older neighbors, the kind who would feed you tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches, and never did we worry about them being anything but lovely, kind people with nothing on their minds but enjoying being around their neighbors. I remember them well, but can't tell if they looked old to me because they were or if I was so young. Anyway, they gave me my first 'real' set of beads at Halloween. It was a bracelet, with discs of glass that looked like Life Savers almost, linked together. I remember trying to eat one, because they looked so good. I came close to cracking a tooth, I bit down on one so hard. I remember my parents laughing at me and explaining that it was something pretty to wear on my wrist. It was days before they could talk me into taking it off again. That started my lifelong love of beads and bracelets and shiny things. I'm really a magpie at heart, and one of these days I think I'll have to find some glass disks with holes in the middle and make up a new bracelet to remind me of the one I had back then. In 1958. Almost a lifetime ago now, but as fresh in my mind as the day it happened. Ever since then I've been an avid accumulator of things shiny. I think if I'm ever reincarnated I'd have to be a magpie. -Su

May 08, 2004 61 Replies

Rate this thread:

Candace 22 years ago

I would have to agree. Completely. Uhhg.

~Candace~ your local hemp goddess :)

Vote

KDK 22 years ago

Yes! I'm pretty sure I had those and I know my sister did (cuz I played with them!)

Vote

Join the Discussion

Have something to add? Share your thoughts — no account required.

Didn't find your answer?

Ask the community — no account required