Vacation... and a little beading fun!!!!

I am on vacation this week skiing in North Carolina, and I love it! The weather has been pretty good for the most part. So far only one day has been rainy and foggy. Instead of skiing we decided to go down the mountain in Boone to do some shopping and hanging around. Luckily for me, I got to visit the Bead Box on King street. Awesome shop, I got some neat little goodies you see above, and was excited to pick up those evil eye pendants. My best friend is Greek and she just loves these, especially in her jewelry. I am going to surprise her with something special. I also got these neat little lampwork turtles, and some larger seed beads or e-beads. Can't wait to get them home and make something!



After visiting the Bead Box, we hopped over to the Mast General Store and shopped around for a bit there. I picked up some Badger Balm to use when making my metal clay pieces - I think this might work just a little bit better than the vegetable oil I have been using. After the General Store, we popped into an antique store - which was really cool. I saw a really neat old wooden tool box of some sort that I might of been able to make into a really cool bead cabinet, but two problems, they wanted over $750 dollar for it, and 2ND, I had no way to get home, it was heavy and sturdy (good and solid!!) but expensive to ship home.



Later on, in the store, I found a nice vintage key! When I went to check out the shop owner asked me if i wanted any more, and of course when I said sure, she plopped down a huge tin box for me to look through. I settled on these three keys to make some unique one of a kind pieces with... not sure what just yet, but I know it will be fun to create with!



Loving my vacation North Carolina, missing my beading, but will be home soon!

Ciao ~ Layne