Tomorrow's City Ride

Didn't get home until late tonight. I had a little shopping to do at a special jewelry show at Jen's house. Since I've been spending my free time cycling or doing house chores, I haven't made any jewelry myself.

I bought a cluster ring for my mother and one for me! Check out Tookie Trinkets for jewelry specials.

Our daughter called today and invited Bike man and I to come over to Minneapolis to ride the city trails. Her next door neighbor, who is an avid cyclist, said we should ride this one trail out towards Hopkins to a place called the Depot. Something about a bakery and a place to get ice cream.....I'm in, lets ride!

I also heard the weather forecast for 92 degrees and possible storms later that night. All we need is lots of water and some shade on the trails. I'm looking forward to riding tomorrow, especially since I've wanted to do this for a long time. Let's hope the storms hold off tomorrow afternoon.

What's This?

Could it be the turtle of Tainter? Thanks Mommoo.....I wear it with pride!

Another Travel Treasure

Here's a purchase I made in Seeley, Montana. A nice pair of rose quartz earrings with a small garnet bead. I know just the person who will receive these pretty little earrings!

Storms are brewing tonight after work, so opted not to ride my bicycle. Will spend the night getting my Montana photographs together. I hope to post all the photos on flickr.com, so will let everyone know when I actually do that.

It Was A Ghost Town

I know my post title doesn't match my pictures, but let me explain. First, this was a very weird day. Had to get up early this morning to be to the clinic for lab test etc. I stopped at home to make a quick sandwhich but then got a call from the Police Chief....all the electricity in our municipality was total out! He told me I could come into work, but all the businesses were closing, so maybe I should think about closing the library. Well, I ended up driving into work so I could empty both book drops.



Talk about a ghost town, wow! No cars in the down town area, however, down the side streets where people live, the yards were alive with children playing outside. It was like being back in the 1940's. Kids were actually playing outside....tons of kids. Even adults were hanging around outside in their yards. It just goes to show how television and computer/internet has changed our lives.



Now, getting back to my pictures. As you can imagine, I went back home today since I couldn't do anything at the library...oh darn! One of my hobbies (when I have time) is jewelry making. So, that's how I spent my afternoon. I was in heaven, really!


I had fun taking all my supplies outside and I sat on my deck making earrings this afternoon. I took a few photos of my bead boxes. I think I have six boxes, plus smaller boxes for crystals and seed beads.

I also like to keep my gold and silver spacers and findings separate. It's much easier when trying to design jewelry pieces.

One of my pair of earrings I made with a couple pieces of enamel, paired with small green crystals and gold clasps. Most of my jewelry pieces I give away to family & friends. I receive a lot of pleasure from just giving, rather than selling. Sometimes our talent (gift) is not meant to make money...but rather to share our joy with others. How could you ever put a price on a persons moment of joy, excitment or happiness?

PS. Well, I ended up going into work anyway around 4:45 pm because our whole computer system would not connect to WAN. I'm not good at troubleshooting computer equipment, and we are too small a library to employee a tech person, so lil Lis will just have to figure this out tomorrow.