I've been buying a lot of shell components. I love sea shells. I don't buy abalone anymore, because it's being over-harvested. I substitute paua. It's brighter in color, and I kind of like intensity. Where I get my stuff:
- Fire Mountain Gems. Best selection online.
- JewelEx. Best selection of vintage beads, especially Swarovski.
- Bead Source. Where I shop offline. Great prices, best selection of stuff.
Anyway, why I bring this up is because I keep buying the stuff, figuring I'll get to it sooner or later, then don't. Does anyone else do that, buy things intending to use them sooner or later but not now? I can't be the only one who does that. So I have bags of components waiting to become necklaces or bracelets or earrings that I almost never finish. This is one I did finish - one of my favorites. Took forever to do, though. I don't have the time I want to devote to it and if I did, it would have bored me by now and I would have a cupboard full of stuff I'll never touch again.
I've been looking for the entries in my journal from Summer 03, when I went loony toons and ended up hospitalized. I know I transferred them from the book to the old web site, but am unsure if I saved them. I may have to re-do them. There's an awful lot of old entries from 2000 on, the old sites, that I don't want back up there but those ones I like. They explain a lot about me. They explain a lot to me, anyway.
