Well, surprise! I made more beads yesterday. Here are my favorites. Then I'm off to play with making jewelry and perhaps, if I get ambitious, figuring out how to use my acid etching to make matt beads (this is what you do when you, ahem, put your bead in the blanket too soon and it gets fuzzy marks all over it…not to mention flattening it when it was supposed to be round. Sigh. There is so much to learn!)
And, of course, the orange and mustard beads, which came out beautifully in the picture, seem to need to be clicked on in order to view them. Do so. I wish I knew why typepad does this!
Now I'm off to play with making jewelry with some of my abundance of beads. Have I mentioned how much I like making them? Oh, and then to have the joy of figuring out a jewelry design for them – and time to do that!
Life is truly marvelous!
Are you doing anything marvelous today? Won't you share it with us in the comments? (leave a link to your marvelous thing).
thought for the day: (ok – this is not the usual offering. It's one of my own poems. But I felt like making that the thought for the day…is that cheating?)
Tomorrow I will be
Wind remembering desert,
how sand speaks to itself
thinking no one can hear, sheds
tears which are not wet.
Yesterday I was
Water, dreaming of my mother –
a yellow comet that turned
from ice to snow to sea.
Once I was
Stone; but it took too long
to say my name – so I dissolved,
became Dust, Storm – learned
to see possibilities.
Sometimes I am Sun kissing Wind
hot against soft skin, and
Sometimes I am
Moon singing secrets,
tasting darkness, reflecting
in things with shiny eyes.
8 Comments
Just came by to spend a few moments. Somehow I think I missed this poem. This is awesome!
absolutely love the venus do wimdeldorf bead sorry for the spelling, will you be selling any of those? beautiful work.
Mercedes
The poem is so hauntingly lovely, Tammy! I want to read it over and over…and while I know some people do that regularly with poetry, I usually don't – but there is something almost tangible about the imagery, that makes me want to turn the words over and over…
But I need to get going to the Farmer's Market night- so I will have to come back later, and savor this some more. Glad you're having a marvelous day!
wow Tammy….onwards and upwards! Your beads are looking wonderful….I do so love the little body ones x
A beautiful poem from you as well….adorably thought provoking x
Most of my day has been spent with my eldest daughter and grand-daughter….a special day full of love and laughter.
tammy, your beads are wonderful. I love all the shapes, also when they are not round too:)
and the little torso's, reminding me the venus of willendorf!
love
Andrea
I'm so glad you mentioned about clicking on the orange and mustard bead 'red X' so we could see them……beautiful! Your poem was mesmerising….I read it three times. I loved the 'moon singing secrets' line too ~ 🙂
lol-no marvelous doings for me today but love your beads…you need to talk about them more often. 😉
Oh Tammy, the poem sings for me. There are tears in my eyes. You are doing wonderfully with the lampworking, but I am fixated on the moon singing her secrets. I have to hold these words close for a while and see what transpires.