tomorrow is my 50th birthday, and...

And I am feeling very reflective lately. I did not expect to make it to 50, actually truth be told, I did not expect to live past 30!! The life I lead for the teens and twenty's was....the worst you can possibly imagine. So when I tell you I did not expect it, I really did NOT expect to be facing my 50th birthday.

Besides all that morose stuff, I made a pair of earrings I have been chomping at the bit to make!! I ordered some sheet copper and figured out how to melt the ends of wire to make those cool ball pins, and she's off!! The stone is something I found in a wash while in a very remote area in California. I have never seen it anywhere else, and it is very hard!! I wore out a diamond saw blade on making one cut of this stuff!! I love the colors in it though!!