So, what'cha gonna do? You have loaned your favorite bracelets to your two year old granddaughter so she can amuse herself while she visits you, tries on the costume jewelry necklaces, and fills a couple of fingers with CTR rings, then dances around the living room, with three visiting neighbor kids. Later, when it is time for her to return to Wyoming, only one bracelet is to be found - the Austrian glass trade beads from Jamestown, Virginia trip with my sister Jane. But not the ropes of silver strands one. So you ask the two year old, and her 7 year old sister, and they smile, but that's not the right answer....
So after the kids leave, and you are cleaning up, shaking out the bedclothes to wash sheets, and looking under the beds, giving those corners of the playroom a dose of your eagle eye, you think - oh relax, it is only a bracelet.... Yes, but it was a favorite. I don’t even remember how long I have had it - maybe purchased in Sheridan, Wyoming at Kraft's Jewelers when I bought some other Indian jewelry a long time ago. Buck up, just go get another one. But (in a whiney voice) it has been fun to wear it every day, reminding me that I am retired and no longer have the "no jewelry" restriction of working at the hospital and wearing scrubs.
Well, tomorrow is Sunday and I should vacuum one more time down here where the kids were playing and eating potato chips. Becky said something about Connor hiding his baby sister Emma's binky clip in one of his toys. You know how it is when you have to move toys to get the crud out from under them - surely not, but let's look in the trunk of the riding car. Glory Be! What is that shiny thing sticking out of the pencil case?? Halleluiah! It is my bracelet! LOL! I just had to take a photo :-)
Bracelets reunited :-) the third one with the magnets clasp is one Jane gave to me last fall on our way to join all those MacGregors in Georgia and Tennessee. The stone is buttermilk amber, traditionally from the Black Sea in Europe, and the silver is from spoon handles, made by Jane's friend Karen.
This is almost as good a mystery solved as the binky found hidden deep under the rigging in the Don Cox saddle, not to mention the plastic cell phone in the saddle bag.
Maybe if my brain was wired like a two year old, I'd get a lot more fun out of life! LOL
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Amelia should be great at hide 'n' seek when she gets older- she's always hiding things in the funniest places. Remember shortly after she started walking and we couldn't find her woobie at bedtime? We searched and searched, to no avail, and then the next day I found it in one of the little drawers in the white towel cabinet in the master bathroom. Funny girl!
Great profile pic! Who's your photographer? :)
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Kids are just quirky and funny. They think of the most unusual things. It's that knack of putting unlikely things together that I think we lose as we age.
P.S. I love your jewelry, maybe I could look through it sometime for inspiration. I might even figure out how to copy some of it!
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