WOYWW 301--A Little Bead Happy

My bead-happy bracelet-crafting bonanza-making-heyday continues to be spread out all over my desk.

Happy What's-On-Your-Workdesk-Wednesday

So this week, Imma jewelry maker. That's right. Busting my bead stash really. Apparently last year I was very efficient and frugal, hitting the bead and wire sales with coupons galore. So now, I have stash. I'm currently in love with these rich pink Czek glass seed beads. I like the gold ones too. I'm making bangle bracelets to wear, share, and sell. Every morning lately, I enjoy my coffee and a little bead stringing. It's a happy way to start the day--that is after I've done my two miles on the treadmill! Then, I go to the office to a job I really love. Then, in the late afternoon, I'm back home, starting dinner, feeding the cats, and, yes, stringing beads! I have been alternating that also with cross-stitching on the matryoshka dolls. Love it all!

A photo from when I was working on no. 3--I'm actually on no. 4 now!

Last week's 300th WOYWW was really fun--I tried very hard to visit every desk, and I really appreciate all my visitors and how sweet your comments were about the story of my first little desk. To answer a couple of questions, I do not still have it--I'm pretty sure it fell apart many years ago...it was, afterall, a little nightstand. And yes, in my family we call a bedside table a nightstand. Yes, I really did have dozens of Little Kiddle dolls! Here's why. I got a huge set of them--they came in this big flat box packaged together, for my birthday that year...November. Then in early December, my mother took me with her to her employer's Christmas banquet. The owners of the business gave me a present, and it was, guess what, the same set of Little Kiddles! Of course, to mom's embarrassment, I pointed that out. But also told them I could never have too many Little Kiddles (after I saw the look on her face). I remember the adults laughing. What a pill. Many moons later, my little daughter did the same thing at a birthday party, over one of those big Barbie hairstyling heads! And also, if you were afraid to read my last paragraph last week, I did not give away any Downton spoilers. I would never do that. I just prattled on and on about my love for that show and how it pains me to wait for the next season! See, I'm still a pill!

Happy Wednesday.

Eat, Write, Dream, Stitch