All Strung Out

I don't often string beads, unless I plan to attach them to something handmade with wire. But after making a stylish, long necklace and having it quickly sell,  I realised that a simple string of beads makes a great base for jewelery. With that in mind I did a quick search on Etsy, looking for jewellery that featured the VW. And there it was! Fun and funky, short, long, bohemian, classic, it all works, depends what we like. Perhaps that's the limit, what we like, what we like to wear. It can usually be strung.

Fruit of the Vine

Beautiful fluorite beads, ranging in colour from deep purple to soft green are wire wrapped with sterling silver and suspended from hand crafted sterling silver ear wires. These are listed in my Etsy store.

Begin Again

Following a long, hard year, it's time to return to the handmade part of my life. It's been a year full of learning, about the difficulties people face in life and about that part of the world which fascinates me most, the political part. This year I've begun to realise that there is little, perhaps nothing in life that is not political. The political reaches into our lives and shapes us in fundamental ways. It reaches us in our mother's wombs, and continues to manage and shape us until the day we die. At times I find this overwhelming. But there is little time to be overwhelmed, life is short. We need to live life as fully as we can, the best ways we can. And we can. Human spirit is amazing, it clings, it struggles and it survives. We continue to live, sometimes in pain, but living none-the-less.

This Christmas I salute those who suffer and continue to live. I have the deepest admiration for you, you are the people I would like to be. Have a blessed, peaceful Christmas.