With one of the groups of beads I bought there were some very 60's or 70's feeling beads. I have not finished the group because I am undecided if I want to do a clasp or stretch string. I do know I am changing the earrings to a hoop with beads. Trying to thing of something witty and worth reading but... I got nothing. Spent the first hours of the morning going through a group of photos on my phone. I also have a few thousand more than needed on my computer but that seems a bit more overwhelming. So here is today's photos....Enjoy, have fun and I hope all reading are happy and healthy.
Here is a post I did on fb... that does have something to do with beading. The idea of recycling in life, which beading is the best of crafts I know for recycling.
Throw away society
March 1, 2014 at 10:09am
When did it become such, the norm to just toss when no longer useful? It now became the norm not the exception. If you are going to keep up with technology you might as well toss whatever product you bought when you walk out the door because there is something new already in the pipeline. There should always be advancements but if something still works? Marc had an old stereo from college, when we moved our son used the receiver to create a kick ass surround sound in his room. The speakers still sounded great, although they were big and ugly and lacked the feel of today's audio components. As much as I want a new TV my Panasonic Plasma flat screen refuses to not look great. I know there are others that are much better but with limited vision it works pretty perfect for me. Other than it sits too far out from the wall, a whole 6 inches it has done no other sins. As far as phones go I have a pilot husband with a 7 year old flip phone that he still loves. Shock he can actual be heard and hear the person talking. He is worthless finding a gas station or a place to eat. He doesn't follow GPS so he is fine without it. I still enjoy hearing the imagined frustration in the poor female voice uttering "recomputing new directions" I swear she wants to say asshole but that might be my projection. Still he gets there and sometimes, in the adventure of being a bit lost you find the best things.
Some things should be changed out if it increases energy consumption and comfort. Windows, updating heating systems, sometimes plumbing fixtures and always things that are broken that can't be fixed. If we would have gutted out kitchen we would have missed out finding rosewood, ebony and other rare woods that make up our kitchen cabinets.
People, I do believe there are some relationships that are not healthy for either person but I missed so many years after my divorce from Charlie, not knowing his family. I have reconnected with wonderful friends that have made my life so much better. Maybe that is a case of timing. Do we give up on friendships because of disagreements? If that was true I would have very few friends here because of religion, politics, snap shots in their life that I realize I might have a hard time condoning. Yet, I also have found people with a poets soul, loving caring, even the most far right of my life are at times so lovely and kind. I am sure I have done the same with you with my posts. Yet do we just delete people and throw them away because of a disagreement in politics or religion.
Should I be gotten rid of due to my high health expenses? I am sure a newer model would be cheaper for my husband but luckily he is willing to keep. Plus, he would suck at the "trip to the farm" like we eliminate so many of our pets. That is where I am guilty. I have found new homes for some dogs that just didn't work out with our family. I also have had cats until there old age death that I have rescued. Why buy new when shelters have plenty to adopt. Go in with an open mind and make sure if the animal really doesn't fit in you family you can try again to find a perfect fit.
I have been collecting my mom's old jewelry to use to make new. How fun to reuse and recreate from an item that was going in the garbage. I was brought up by antique dealers so maybe that is where my respect for the old comes from. We have two older paid for cars that really don't fit our income level but we have that because we have reused, recycled, lived below our means and saved. The new car loses how much value when you drive it off the lot. I have one son who is still driving my 1994 Mercedes C280, because it still works. The other a 96 Eagle although it is sick at the moment. We pass down all our vehicles to our children so they can keep using until they die and then off to be recycled.
Sometimes I don't recycle, leave the water running longer than I should, toss food I should have used before they went bad.
I want a cell phone that doesn't break the month before I can get my new one. I want technology that will allow it still to work with older components. I want it to be my choice when I get rid of something/give it away to someone who still can use it.
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This was started about a question about what cell phone people liked and the comments that one should change out all your electronics to make way for a new phone.
Here is a post I did on fb... that does have something to do with beading. The idea of recycling in life, which beading is the best of crafts I know for recycling.
Throw away society
March 1, 2014 at 10:09am
When did it become such, the norm to just toss when no longer useful? It now became the norm not the exception. If you are going to keep up with technology you might as well toss whatever product you bought when you walk out the door because there is something new already in the pipeline. There should always be advancements but if something still works? Marc had an old stereo from college, when we moved our son used the receiver to create a kick ass surround sound in his room. The speakers still sounded great, although they were big and ugly and lacked the feel of today's audio components. As much as I want a new TV my Panasonic Plasma flat screen refuses to not look great. I know there are others that are much better but with limited vision it works pretty perfect for me. Other than it sits too far out from the wall, a whole 6 inches it has done no other sins. As far as phones go I have a pilot husband with a 7 year old flip phone that he still loves. Shock he can actual be heard and hear the person talking. He is worthless finding a gas station or a place to eat. He doesn't follow GPS so he is fine without it. I still enjoy hearing the imagined frustration in the poor female voice uttering "recomputing new directions" I swear she wants to say asshole but that might be my projection. Still he gets there and sometimes, in the adventure of being a bit lost you find the best things.
Some things should be changed out if it increases energy consumption and comfort. Windows, updating heating systems, sometimes plumbing fixtures and always things that are broken that can't be fixed. If we would have gutted out kitchen we would have missed out finding rosewood, ebony and other rare woods that make up our kitchen cabinets.
People, I do believe there are some relationships that are not healthy for either person but I missed so many years after my divorce from Charlie, not knowing his family. I have reconnected with wonderful friends that have made my life so much better. Maybe that is a case of timing. Do we give up on friendships because of disagreements? If that was true I would have very few friends here because of religion, politics, snap shots in their life that I realize I might have a hard time condoning. Yet, I also have found people with a poets soul, loving caring, even the most far right of my life are at times so lovely and kind. I am sure I have done the same with you with my posts. Yet do we just delete people and throw them away because of a disagreement in politics or religion.
Should I be gotten rid of due to my high health expenses? I am sure a newer model would be cheaper for my husband but luckily he is willing to keep. Plus, he would suck at the "trip to the farm" like we eliminate so many of our pets. That is where I am guilty. I have found new homes for some dogs that just didn't work out with our family. I also have had cats until there old age death that I have rescued. Why buy new when shelters have plenty to adopt. Go in with an open mind and make sure if the animal really doesn't fit in you family you can try again to find a perfect fit.
I have been collecting my mom's old jewelry to use to make new. How fun to reuse and recreate from an item that was going in the garbage. I was brought up by antique dealers so maybe that is where my respect for the old comes from. We have two older paid for cars that really don't fit our income level but we have that because we have reused, recycled, lived below our means and saved. The new car loses how much value when you drive it off the lot. I have one son who is still driving my 1994 Mercedes C280, because it still works. The other a 96 Eagle although it is sick at the moment. We pass down all our vehicles to our children so they can keep using until they die and then off to be recycled.
Sometimes I don't recycle, leave the water running longer than I should, toss food I should have used before they went bad.
I want a cell phone that doesn't break the month before I can get my new one. I want technology that will allow it still to work with older components. I want it to be my choice when I get rid of something/give it away to someone who still can use it.
Like
This was started about a question about what cell phone people liked and the comments that one should change out all your electronics to make way for a new phone.
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