golfing jewelry

the golf pro at the country club was telling me that he planned on bringing in a new line of ladies' golf attire into the pro shop.  i told him i would happily help him choose some new things--and that i would really happily make some jewelry to pair with the new items at the open house he is planning to promote the new line.  

i thought about the jewelry i liked to wear when i was golfing (if you can't play well, you may as well look accessorized...) and decided it had to be something easy: nothing long or dangly or heavy.  but i felt like i always wanted a splash of color, something bold enough to notice on that little "V" of skin that the average woman's golf shirt allows.  so i came up with these: my favorite handmade glass and porcelain beads simply strung on tiny chain with accents of sterling beads and spacers.  at 15-1/2" long, the focal bead rests just at the hollow of your throat.  i haven't been golfing much these days, but i will be wearing mine with just about everything, as this is such a great length to wear with a t-shirt or even a scoop necked sweater with another longer necklace.

and, of course, there are matching earrings.  i didn't make any bracelets because they just get in the way when you're golfing.  it pains me deeply to admit THAT.

good books and good jewelry

have you read this?  a friend loaned it to me years ago and it sat, languishing (love that word) on my bookshelf.  every once in a while i would glance through it and decide that i must have left it there for some reason--too boring,  too wordy,  poorly written.  i do have a stack of books like that, started and abandoned and now, languishing (couldn't resist).  a week ago, when i started with this chest cold that is SO wont to leave me, i picked this book up out of desperation.  i found that it wasn't languishing, it was overlooked.  and man, what i was missing!  it's everything i love: excellent writing about ordinary things and ordinary people, with a plot that keeps pushing forward in a slow, steady, hypnotic way.  with characters you dream about, and awaken sure that they are, indeed, real people in your life.  i am halfway through and i don't want it to end.  that's a good book.

and i have been trying to drag myself away from gaea's porcelain beads.  it's hard, but i was able to finish a couple of hill tribe pieces.  i love these beads:  the organic feel and the soft sheen.  as irresistable as a good book.