LadyGypsy.net – the blog of Kimberly Dowd of New Jersey

A while back I bought a bag of beads. I love bags of random beads. When I was a kid, I collected stickers and I’d always, always get the mystery $1.00 brown bag of stickers from Heroes’ World – the weird store at the mall that sold weird things to collectors. This bead thing? Same thing.

Bag, dumped out

I mean, isn’t that glorious? (shudder)

I spent a good hour separating out beads that were similar, and I pulled out a bunch of orange beads.

And thus, the Orange Creamsicle necklace was born. It’s made with silver-plated wire and all of those delicious orange beads. I made the clasp, too.

Orange Creamsicle!

This’ll go to Mom, who was kind enough to remind me that she didn’t have an orange necklace yet.

(Any tips on photographing jewelry? This is my worst yet. The towel is in great focus. The beads are not. Even if I manually focused the camera, the front bead would be in focus but the back beads are blurry. Photography isn’t my strong suit. )

Heh. Write some political stuff and everyone comes to play! In short, yes, I’ll vote for Kerry, but I still wish he’d stop harping on the tax cut when it’s obvious that not just the uber-wealthy benefited. End of topic for now.

Let’s get back to the light and fluffy. But I can’t talk much about work anymore…someone at work (I’m not sure who) reads my site and reports to a higher-higher-up when I talk about my job. So if I was doing really well and making some goals, I couldn’t say so here. (smirk)

This weekend Mom and I went to the Haddonfield craft show. I bought this lovely May basket, which was woven right at the festival! It’s hanging on the inside of my front door now. Without flowers. Nobody loves me! (sniff)

I also bought these snazzy salt and pepper shakers. Dishwasher safe, and a reminder of the show that I can use on a daily basis. Well, as often as I cook anyway. Which is certainly not daily.

A week from RIGHT NOW I’ll be at the Dave Matthews Band show with my brother. Psyched does not even begin to describe me. I’m very tempted to try and go there Wednesday night as well…maybe I can buy a ticket from a scalper outside.

More tomorrow. I’ll be blogging on a daily basis again now. Be sure to check out the update section at the top left!