My first bead memory

Kalera Stratton wrote:
I am trying to figure out the probability of two active, posting members
of this newsgroup, neither of whom know each other offgroup, both being
from Downers Grove IL.

-Kalera


There's someone here who lives just a few miles from me. The person
mentioned their city one day, and I thought it was a strange
coincidence. Then another time they mentioned their street name here. I
was surprised! Its actually the same zip code.

mjoann

That's as bizzarre as the time I was on the phone with a customer when I
worked at Rejuvenation here in Portland OR... the retail end mind you,
we didn't do mail order calls so this was a fluke... and as he gave me
his address it dawned on me that he had lived ACROSS THE STREET from me
in Oakland.

-Kalera
http://www.beadwife.com
http://www.snipurl.com/kebay


mjoann wrote:
Kalera Stratton wrote:

I am trying to figure out the probability of two active, posting
members of this newsgroup, neither of whom know each other offgroup,
both being from Downers Grove IL.

-Kalera



There's someone here who lives just a few miles from me. The person
mentioned their city one day, and I thought it was a strange
coincidence. Then another time they mentioned their street name here. I
was surprised! Its actually the same zip code.

mjoann

Chuck Driver of Blue Heeler has a sister in Fairbanks who doesn't know what
to do with the beads she's gotten. She lives about a mile away. Down the
hill, over to the school, and take a left. And she had looked at the house
next door when it was on the market last fall. We will meet soon.

Tina


"mjoann" wrote in message
...
Kalera Stratton wrote:
I am trying to figure out the probability of two active, posting members
of this newsgroup, neither of whom know each other offgroup, both being
from Downers Grove IL.

-Kalera


There's someone here who lives just a few miles from me. The person
mentioned their city one day, and I thought it was a strange
coincidence. Then another time they mentioned their street name here. I
was surprised! Its actually the same zip code.

mjoann

the first beads I owned were evil eye beads. my mother's side of the
family comes from cyprus, and for as long as I can remember, my Nene
(grandmother) has kept me well supplied with evil eyes of all shapes
and sizes. Some were just plain, round blue glass or plastic
beads..much like a small pony bead, and lacking the typical eye spots.
others were the typical round, flat-ish blue glass ones with the round
white iris and black pupil dot in the middle. I had necklaces,
bracelets, rings, and keyrings all adorned with them. I had loose ones
that I kept in little boxes. Every time she took a trip to cyprus,
she'd bring back little bags filled with evil eyes, and always made
sure I had one to wear.

I still have a great many evil eye beads, fancy and plain (my fanciest
is a truly hideous one that's shaped like a proper eye and edged with
small, real diamonds..I never wear it, it's so ugly), and my Nene
still brings them back from cyprus and still makes me take a few every
time I go visit her.

as far as regular beads go, I always had a lot of those when I was
little. I can remember happily stringing cheap plastic beads on yarn
and sewing thread when I was a kid. I also used to make little dolls
and robots out of beads and wire. I still have some of the bead dolls,
but none of the robots, sadly..I loved those the most, so I carried
them around with me a lot, which was probably why they all ended up
getting lost or broken.

-amber.

I know what my first bead memories are! It finally came back to me. It was
right here on RCB. Yep! I was thinking about making a few beaded things
and came across this newsgroup. Then I signed up for classes and now I'm
lampworking. It's all your fault! And I couldn't love you any less for it!

Isn't it amazing what this group has done for me. I feel so comfortable
here even if I make waves once in a while. I can say 'bite me' and no one
is too offended. Thanks everyone!

"mjoann" wrote in message
...
Kalera Stratton wrote:
I am trying to figure out the probability of two active, posting members
of this newsgroup, neither of whom know each other offgroup, both being
from Downers Grove IL.

-Kalera


There's someone here who lives just a few miles from me. The person
mentioned their city one day, and I thought it was a strange
coincidence. Then another time they mentioned their street name here. I
was surprised! Its actually the same zip code.

mjoann

Su,

Which of those places do you current live in?

marisa2

Su/Cutworks wrote:
Kalera wrote:


I am trying to figure out the probability of two active, posting members
of this newsgroup, neither of whom know each other offgroup, both
being from Downers Grove IL.


Throw in Louisville, Bloomington IN and Milwaukee and see what happens!
I've been reading the info on the bead show in Milwaukee with a blend of
nostagia, envy and homesickness. My sis is coming over from near Milwaukee
this summer for a visit, but it may be some time before I get back over that
way to the US.

-Su

Marisa2 wrote:
Su,

Which of those places do you current live in?

I'm in the UK now. I live right on the Yorkshire-Lancashire border in a
small village called Todmorden.

-Su

--
My Floating Needle blog at:
http://www.floatingneedle.co.uk

I don't remember my first beads - but I've always been attracted to shiny
pretties too. I can remember looking at my Mom's costume jewelry and I had
a great Aunt that had fabulous goodies.

My Mom got me into beading - my first beading/jewelry was for a 4-H
competition - I used some plastic beads, wooden beads, sequins, buttons etc
and made bracelets and necklaces. I know I still have at least one of the
bracelets - might have to hunt around for the necklaces!

Kathy K (also a magpie)
"Su/Cutworks" wrote in message
...
I suppose they'd be classified as beads.

When I was a kid we lived in Downer's Grove, IL. It was a great place to
live, much like being inside a Ray Bradbury story without the scary bits.
I
was only five when this happened, and today playing with my son who is
almost 5 now, it made me remember the bracelet I was given that year at
Halloween.

We had those really cool older neighbors, the kind who would feed you
tomato
soup and grilled cheese sandwiches, and never did we worry about them
being
anything but lovely, kind people with nothing on their minds but enjoying
being around their neighbors. I remember them well, but can't tell if
they
looked old to me because they were or if I was so young.

Anyway, they gave me my first 'real' set of beads at Halloween. It was a
bracelet, with discs of glass that looked like Life Savers almost, linked
together. I remember trying to eat one, because they looked so good. I
came close to cracking a tooth, I bit down on one so hard. I remember my
parents laughing at me and explaining that it was something pretty to wear
on my wrist. It was days before they could talk me into taking it off
again.

That started my lifelong love of beads and bracelets and shiny things.
I'm
really a magpie at heart, and one of these days I think I'll have to find
some glass disks with holes in the middle and make up a new bracelet to
remind me of the one I had back then. In 1958. Almost a lifetime ago
now,
but as fresh in my mind as the day it happened. Ever since then I've been
an avid accumulator of things shiny. I think if I'm ever reincarnated I'd
have to be a magpie.

-Su

--
My Floating Needle blog at:
http://www.floatingneedle.co.uk

You ever get the "bite me" beads made? I haven't done the PMC ones yet.
hmmmmmmm.

Kathy K
"starlia" wrote in message
...
I know what my first bead memories are! It finally came back to me. It
was
right here on RCB. Yep! I was thinking about making a few beaded things
and came across this newsgroup. Then I signed up for classes and now I'm
lampworking. It's all your fault! And I couldn't love you any less for
it!

Isn't it amazing what this group has done for me. I feel so comfortable
here even if I make waves once in a while. I can say 'bite me' and no one
is too offended. Thanks everyone!

"mjoann" wrote in message
...
Kalera Stratton wrote:
I am trying to figure out the probability of two active, posting
members
of this newsgroup, neither of whom know each other offgroup, both
being
from Downers Grove IL.

-Kalera


There's someone here who lives just a few miles from me. The person
mentioned their city one day, and I thought it was a strange
coincidence. Then another time they mentioned their street name here. I
was surprised! Its actually the same zip code.

mjoann

No no no not a freckle. It's a bead
grinning

--
Debbie (New Mexico)
Life is too short
"Kathy N-V" wrote in message
.com...
On Tue, 11 May 2004 15:52:54 -0400, Amber wrote
(in message ) :

Every time she took a trip to cyprus,
she'd bring back little bags filled with evil eyes, and always made
sure I had one to wear.

I still have a great many evil eye beads, fancy and plain (my fanciest
is a truly hideous one that's shaped like a proper eye and edged with
small, real diamonds..I never wear it, it's so ugly), and my Nene
still brings them back from cyprus and still makes me take a few every
time I go visit her.

When you were a baby, did she pin them to your clothes? My
sister-in-law's
family does that - evil eyes and little medals of the Blessed Virgin. I
knew
better than to question it.

Bob's mom used to believe in mysticism that involved lighting a special
candle on Christmas Eve to remove any curses you had built up during the
year. She tried to explain it to me a couple of times, but I started
laughing and got smacked instead.

She did have one odd belief that I thought was great - a pregnant woman's
every whim must be satisfied immediately, or the child will have
birthmarks.
Her "proof" was that a cousin was born with a birthmark shaped like an
Italian cookie because his mother was unable to obtain them during her
pregnancy. (You can stop laughing now)

Unfortunately, I was so nauseated during my pregnancy with DD that I had
no
cravings - perhaps she should have had a birthmark shaped like an IV,
since I
spent so much time in the hospital getting rehydrated.

Kathy N-V

P.S.: No birthmarks on me, DD has a teeny brown spot on her forehead.
Maybe
I wanted a freckle or something.



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