I used to lie awake at night making up stories in my head to write. Lately, my mind moves in different patterns, and I make up jewelry patterns. Some of them work out in actuality, and others are annoyingly don't work out. There was a house on Center Street in the winter that had swag Christmas lights on the porch, and I thought it would make a nice design in gold bugle beads (which I don't have and local stores don't either) with maybe a counterpoint dangle in between swags. I started on it last night, in sea colors, since I have them. It takes a loooong time to string enough seed beads to make just two passes of a necklace. So, it's still in progress. I still like the idea of a clear, silver foil lined bugle bead necklace/bracelet with the theme of ice melt. By the time I finish it even Mount Timpanogas will be bare of snow though (except for the perpetual glacier). I also had an idea of barrel beads strung on a leather/suede strap with knots in between, but was blocked by the fact that most barrel beads have teeny holes which will only work with thread, and thus won't bulk up a design knot.

The sparkle of jewelry in the gloom of winter...like stained glass, it reflects light and beauty.