Jewelry, Movies and Books

Sleepy Fox on Etsy

Be Still In A Winter Of Silence on Etsy

Making Jewelry
I live way out in the country and my studio window looks out into the yard where I watch birds, squirrels, chipmunks and the occasional dog play. We have an owl that has decided to camp out right by our house and I can hear her (or him?) hoot at night. We've seen foxes run through the fields, but I haven't seen one by the house yet. Every piece of jewelry that I make is based on what I see; all the colors and shapes that are all around me in this little piece of heaven I've found. I'm trying to figure out how to make a necklace of the stars in the sky at night out here, it's amazing! Because we're so far out, we don't have city lights getting in the way of all the stars in the night sky. I don't know a thing about astronomy or constellations other than the big or little dipper, but I'm totally enchanted (my favorite word ever) by the twinkly light show we're privy to almost every night.

Movies and Books
I've been sick for the last few days, not too sick, but enough to justify eating sugar and watching movies back to back! I watched Downton Abbey on Masterpiece Theatre, downloaded Justified onto  itunes,  watched EVERY episode of Kingdom on Netflix (sort of a British man Murder She Wrote), and have started the Doc Martin series which I'm so so about at this point. I have a Kindle (oh Lord thank you!) and am reading Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay which is pretty good. I've been mostly reading Scandinavian mysteries because I don't want to be sad or cry about people's terrible lives, but have heard such awesome things about this book I gave in. It's sad and I want to cry about people's terrible lives, but it drew me in and I'm glad I got it. I tried to read The Hunger Games because everyone's like "Beth, you'd love it, you gotta read them, they're all awesome...." no, they're stupid and I hated the sample I downloaded so no. Kids that kill each other for food? Really? 

That's what I've been up to. I ate every spec of sugar in this house, so today is sort of sad because I've gotta cut down on the old sugaire...I even ate all of the sugar free stuff! hahaha! I figured it was some weird deal because I was sick, like maybe my blood sugar was super low and I could've died if I didn't keep those levels from dipping dangerously down to the near death area. Yeah, ok, works for me.