Hey guys -
I'm in Miami at my in-laws and couldn't get to RCB at all this week like I usually do. I'm connecting through google right now (ugh), but wanted to drop a quick note wishing everyone a Happy Thanksgiving!!
Also, Valerie and Linda2 and I are trying to arrange a meeting for Saturday. If it happens, I'll be sure to take pictures!!
As Kathy says, OBR (obligatory bead reference):
I participated in a holiday swap via one of the parenting forums I participate in. So I wanted (of course) to make her a piece of jewelry as part of the gift. She liked blue and I felt like doing something kind of sparkly. I went through my 'large' firepolish stash and came up with some largish (14mm?) aquamarine AB round crystals. I had some
4mm plain bicone-ish crystals and a hank of the $1/strand pearls from South Pacific. I designed a necklace with a kind of helix-twist to it using 2 strands of SoftTouch - on strand 1 I put 4 pearls and 4 small crystals, on strand 2 I did the opposite of 4 crystals, then 4 pearls. I ran both strands through a bali-style daisy spacer, the large round AB crystal and another daisy. then I repeated the 4&4 stringing. It turned out really, really neat!! Unfortunately, I forgot to take a picture of it when it was done, but I liked it so much, I'm going to make another one (maybe different colors) as a gift and I'll be sure to take a picture of that one and post it.Take care ya'll, Barbara (Penguintrax)