Impulsivity
About a dozen of my online my bead artist and designer friends were all planning on attending Bead Fest in Philadelphia last weekend. I yearned to meet these women in person because I had enjoyed and cherished our online communication so much. Once I got the idea of going to Bead Fest, I couldn’t get it out of my thoughts. Mind you, I live in the completely opposite corner of the United States. Flying to Pennsylvania for just a day and a half is totally expensive and frivolous. Etc.,etc.!
I wanted to go anyway! I’m retired, right? Time to have some fun. Well,I thought, I’ll just take a peek at online ticket prices…no harm in that. The first time I looked, tickets ranged from $565-$1500. Yikes! No way. But I kept monitoring the airline prices and by Friday night the prices had fallen to $507. I’m usually not given to impulsivity, but my desire to personally know my beady sisters, out-weighed any judgement or caution. I booked my tickets at 8:00 p.m. on Thursday night and in less than 24 hours, I was on my way to the Philly Bead Fest!!!
Bead Table Wednesday
So here’s what’s on my bead table today: my great new bead stash from Bead Fest. I know you’re jealous, but don’t drool on your keyboard, OK?
Hands of the Hill
Kazuri Beads
Dyed howlite & matte finish sodalite
Hand-painted porcelain
etched and matte agate beads
Rustic fire polished beads
Drop beads
Tribal beads and pendants
Delightful rustic glass beads
Lampwork glass flowers
Drilled river stones
Here’s Diana Ptaszynski demonstrating how we all felt after a day’s worth of bead shopping: exhausted! We revived ourselves with an excellent dinner at Legal Seafood—but more on that in a future blog post.
Bead exhaustion!!!
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Visit the BTW Flickr group and see what others have on their bead tables.
