Bead Soup Party

Lori Anderson, over at Pretty Things is hosting another Bead Soup Party.  This time I am participating.  Click on her link to check it out.  What a great way for me to get back into blogging ...

Bad Blogger with Good Intentions

That's me.  Here's wishing my readers, their readers and all the people of the universe a happy, healthy Holiday season and a New Year filed with JOY.  I will be back soon with new posts and a new focus.  Cheers!!!

Free Image Friday the 13th

Friday the 13th.

Some fear this day unlucky.  For me personally, I look forward to Fridays that fall on the 13th of the Month.  They've always been lucky for me!

For those of you who need some luck to come your way today, here are some beautiful butterflies -- said to bring luck then they land upon you.

Have a lucky day and may that luck spread throughout your entire life!

Enjoy!

Finally New Work ...

Now if I only had a new camera, I would be able to post really nice pictures.  This is a scan.  The aqua color beads in this piece are my own design.  Polymer clay with gold leaf.  The scan just doesn't do them justice.  The stones are died agate, I'm pretty sure from Rings & Things, but might be from Michael's, JoAnn's or my LBS.  The clasp I found at JoAnn's.

I really think that I have grown as a designer, comparing this piece with some of my earlier designs.  I get compliments every time I wear this.  I made earrings to match -- too bad I lost one at work the other day or I'd post a picture of those too.

Note to Santa (you never know who's reading):  the best possible gift for me this year would be an IPod Touch.  I've been a really good girl all year long!!!

Monday Movie Madness -- "Love in the Time of Cholera"

Based on the wildly popular novel by Nobel Prize winning Columbia author Gabriel Garcia Marquez this film is set in the magical and sensual city of Cartagena, Columbia at the turn of the century, a man waits over 50 years for his one true love.  Florentino Ariza (Javier Bardem), a poet and clerk for his uncle (Hector Elizondo), falls helplessly in love when he spies Fermina Daza (Italian actress Giovanna Mezzogiorno) through the window of her father's villa.  Through a series of passionate letters, Florentino gradually awakens the young beauty's heart.  When her father (John Leguizamo) discovers the budding affair, he is furious and vows to keep them apart forever.  He takes the screaming Fermina into the night and moves her to her family's farm in the countryside.  Years go by and the family returns to Cartagena and Fermina meets the young Dr. Juvenal Urbino (Benjamin Bratt) -- who has brought order and medicine to the city, stemming the waves of cholera that mysteriously besiege the area -- when she becomes ill and is treated by him.  Dr. Urbino asks Senior Daza for Fermina's hand and they are married.  Florentino is crushed.  The newlyweds go off to Paris for an extended period and when they returned to Cartagena to start their lives, Fermina has all but forgotten her first love; however, Florentino has not forgotten her.  He vows to someday have a life with her.  The years go by and Florentino discovers that sex with myriad women is the only thing that can help to ease his heartache.  His uncle leaves him the shipping company that he was clerk for and he becomes a very wealthy man.  His heart (and only his heart) is patient and he will wait a lifetime to be with his love.

I've always wanted to read this book, but somehow never have.  This film is beautiful, and the romantic in me was very moved by Florentino's character.  That being said, the rest of the characters in this story (perhaps it was just the acting) are very hard to like.  There is plenty of eye candy in the cast, sets and cinematography however, and on that basis, I recommend this film.  On a scale from 1 to 5, I give it a 3.

Free Image Friday

Paper dolls, I don't know about you, but I just can't resist paper dolls.  I loved them as a child and I love them still.

Have a blessed weekend!

Sandi

Just Peachy, Thank You

I designed this pendant a little while back, using polymer, embossing and mica powders.  I just love it's organic shape and the peach and rust colors.  I'm not sure how to finish it, however.  I really wish that I would have made some beads to go with it, and because I'm the type of color-mixer that doesn't write down what she mixed with what, there is no way that I could replicate the colors.  Any suggestions?