What a deal!

On a mission to locate "bead ends" for my sister, I stopped at a local shell shop that also carries some jewelry stuff (Raider's Reef--if you are ever on Anna Maria Island, you gotta check it out!)--they had a bin of "vintage jewelry" in little zip bags for 50 cents, $1 and $2--so for less than $12 i found these treasures!

the dark chain bracelet with the crown pendant has already been usurped by my hunny--glad I could please her for a dollar...lol

a pretty pendant for $2

and how could i pass up the libra earrings for 50 cents??

Greetings from the sunny coast of Florida

Wow--i'm not sure where the month of May has gone!!

We are down in Florida now over the Memorial Day holiday, and I purposely only brought my laptop and a sketchbook hoping to catch up on my own blog and reading everyone else's--much to my own chagrin, the internet connection here is elusive at best!!  So I will hurry through a post, and hope the connection holds out!!

So maybe it is because I miss our little Hidey Cat, but this little ring holder kitty just meowed at me and I had to have her.

I finally made it to a crop before we left for Florida, but instead of scrapbooking, Becky and I worked on some jewelry. Now, my big box of bead projects is somewhere in storage, but I did have my grandmother's broken jewelery box of miss-matched jewelry bits.  Seven sterling charms (still on their cards), a brand new charm bracelet, and two broken ankle bracelets became a colorful new bracelet for me!!  Unfortunately, the jumprings i used were ineffective and I almost lost my two favorite charms--While sunning by the pool, i replaced the rings with wrapped wire and voila! my charms are safe for wearing!!