swarming

Some new items listed:

Nuggety choker

Smoky quartz with a great chandelier drop from a trade

A snowy-kind of thing with another wrapped hospital rock

Garnets

 These below are previews.  All ready to go; just have to get up the gumption to list.

Cool glass simulated cherry quartz.  Any guesses what the bottom drop is made of? Hints: Not polymer clay; I made it and it's in a brass setting (not a bead, I mean.) 

A fall-like thing.  I got a whole thirtysomething inch strand of African beads from my wonderful local Fall Hill Bead and Gem.

I showed this last time.  Here it is all balanced better without that striped bead.

I also got some great rustic fused glass pendants from Fall Hill on sale during the Canal Days celebration in our town. It was about the only store having a real sidewalk sale like the stores were supposed to be having.  Most others were either closed or had a table with crock pots full of bbq-smelling meats on it.  Makes no sense.  It's like living in another country much of the time.

More crimping going on, still.  I love crimping.

I have more, believe it or not.  But I've also got a lot of other things going on.  Today I about went mad trying to figure out how/what/where to purchase my son's textbooks for school.  In a week he starts his first year of college; can't believe it.  We found a good program at a local SUNY community college that has transfer programs to Cornell and another college he's interested in.

My husband's three little grandsons were here all last week but I've had this dreadful ear infection for weeks and feel like I've been on the bottom of the sea hearing and looking and experiencing everything in the world through a flimsy seashell periscope.  It's a weird thing, being sick but not quite sick-sick--it was all very liminal and strange. I did manage to find some great rocks outside the hospital clinic.

A midafternoon snack of juice and hospital rocks

Midsummer mayfly dream

 We were driving back from the hospital with all the boys and saw this grand swarm -- Mayflies EVERYWHERE.  Strangely, my husband and I were the only ones who seemed interested!  I love bugs of all types except silverfish, house centipedes, and earwigs.  I've never seen anything like this swarm/infestation.  I got out and captured one in my hands to see it up close and it looked like a tiny fairy dragon, very magical.