SO here's how it goes... Every year I sign up for the Bead Soup Blog Party.. I go shop at the Intergem show. I bring home more item's than I can possibly use because I am just always busy, busy with "things". I select my items.. I take a photo that looks like this
Then I pack it all up and send it off to the recipient
Beth Petricom ..
As I am trying to get this all together this year, I get a call from my husband while I am at work. My Brother In Law was working as a motorcycle escort for a funeral in Boise, ID. Someone decided that waiting for the procession to finish wasn't on his game plan. Pushed his way into the traffic and tore the front of Micheal's cycle right off. He ended up under the cycle, crushed his hands, pelvis and there was some internal bleeding. I wanted to run to her side RIGHT then. I mean this is the most LIFE altering moment since her daughter's birth!! For a change I am in the States, I can GO! Everything in me said GO!! She said 'STAY!!" I have this. so for 2 weeks, I stayed. I worried, I fretted. I am really good at these things as most people know..
Things were looking better. He was having some surgeries. They might have all the bill's paid for. He may never have full use of his hands, but hey what's a bunch of hard ware among friends right??? Don't mind those metal bit's in his pelvis and the fact that he has to use a specially modified walker to get around. I truly hope what ever he was in a hurry for, while flipping people off was worth what happened.
Then it came. My niece is home schooled, usually monitored by?? You guessed it. Michael. Teresa had to start working full time a bit ago to get health care (OMG was that not lucky???) and they have a home business that supports it's self ( the most amazing luggage tag's, name tag's you could ever want)
Crew Tags but needed her attention in the evenings for a bit when she got home. WHAT to do? I called work, told them I was going to be gone for 3 weeks, slapped a Dean R. Koontz book in the player and off I went.
Now in a corner of your mind I am sure your thinking "what the heck does this have to do with Bead Soup Blog Party!!" ... Well while all this was going down, I realized that my box hadn't gotten mailed!! So as I am packing to go I am throwing the box in the mail and not EVEN thinking "WAIT what about MY BOX!!"
I get to Boise, and settle into a routine with Sydney Ann.. Let's review it ok?? Aunt Arlene when mom get's home can we go to "Hobby Lobby"?? What is Hobby Lobby Sydney Ann?? Oh YOU'LL see!! So off we went..
And I found this! Wow the stand up dohicky is perfect for all the ribbon, soft flex and a couple other odds and ends we have been getting together for a project. Of course the note book with a clip will be PERFECT for making said bracelets on! RIGHT!! :)
Then I bought this stuff to make brass look like enamel. Well silly me I thought I only needed the powder. So we ended up having to go back so we could get the REST of the stuff for it. Thank you Ice Resin and Iced Enamels. WELL DONE!! Which of course meant we had to make sure we had stuff to do it WITH as well.
Then of course Miss Sydney Ann needed a box like mine, a notebook for her bracelets, scissors, a note pad mouse pad and some beads to make some really adorable cassette tape earrings
Now, I love my sister. I really REALLY do.. But you know she always thought it was so hard to follow behind me.. She never EVER realized how hard it was to grow up knowing she was behind me. You see how nice and neat poor Sydney's messes work area is??
Now look at mine!! This is after 4 days of sorting organizing and cleaning out all the stuff I brought over. It's lovely to be down to way less (you'll have to wait to see that photo later!!) Her whole HOUSE looks like something on a T.V. show clean wise.. Mine?? NOT so much!!!
She does have me pegged though Here's the ending thought for the day!! You never know what will happen in any given day, week, month or year. I have lost several good friends in the last year with little to know warning. As I left to come here? I hugged a good friend who was really sick with lung problems and general crappy health. She was sent home with 6 months to a year. 4 days after I arrived, I was notified there would be no happy reunion in three weeks. She had passed. She is in SUCH a happier spot for now. I pray daily for her husband and kids though. It's so hard to lose a parent no matter if it is time or not!. Why some are spared when others are not is a big mystery that one day we will get answers to..
in the mean time...
so as I am working on my piece today after coming up with a FANTASTIC idea... I realized that no Beth hadn't forgotten to send a clasp, but the wonderful item I thought was a pendant is really a CLASP in disguise!!
