I took my daughter to her weekly guitar lesson in Carytown yesterday, and while I waited for her, I wandered down the block to a very dangerous place -
Bangles & Beads. Very dangerous to my bank account, that is.
I didn't really go in with anything in mind that I needed (pitfall #1) so I was completely overwhelmed by their selection. After about twenty minutes or so of walking around with my jaw hanging down to my chest, I finally settled on a few things I simply COULD NOT go home without. Even after telling myself I wasn't going to buy anything right away for this yearlong adventure, I found the Christmas money I received to help with the endeavor was just dying to worm its way out of my pocket (pitfall #2.) I picked up some wire, a hefty strand of amethyst chips, a strand of garnets that just felt so nice that I couldn't put them down, and my favorite of the lot - a strand of
wooden skull beads that were love at first sight.
I'm not a Christian, and I'm certainly far from Catholic, but these beads inspired an idea for a project that will likely come together before the end of January:
a rosary. Maybe it's all the reading on Voodoo I've been doing lately, or maybe it's the way the beads look so neat and orderly on their silky cord, but I cannot think of making
anything else with them!
