Two Weeks & one day....

Well the time has come for me to pack my tools & clothes...purchased my ticket to Turkey today for my class in Istanbul...you can still join me if you like...click here for more information...

Between going to a Concert last week to see Def Leppard, Poison & Cheap Trick & the very nice mini vacation we took to Santa Rosa, Wine Country's cutest town over the holiday weekend, I have had no time to do anything but get ready for Graceful Customs to open on Sept 20th & my class in Turkey...

so no beads, well there are a few, I will try & list them in the shop by Thursday night...currently there are 19 beads or bead sets in the shop as well...as I will put the shop on vacation/in this case work/mode, while I am in Turkey, all orders made by September 18th will be shipped before I go...I will blog still, have photos of yummy beads & even have bead giveaways during that time...

Speaking of bead giveaways...The yummy focal from last week goes to Nancy, please send your address...for this week I am giving away the very yummy fish Named Rose above...enter to win it by making comment on this post...

The very yummy Necklace above is made by one of my great client/artist friends with my Lava Pools bead, Lee has a great eye & I love how she plays with my beads...

I also had a blog post this week on Watch Me Create...There is so much good information on that site...I loves it...

I hope your labor day weekend was good too & your life is fun & well maybe not as busy of mine...thanks for stopping by...life is good...

Jelveh

Peace

New Post on Watch Me Create...

I have a new post on Watch me Create, thought you might be interested to in reading it...its the story of one Bead designs journey & how it all came out of my busy head...hope you are having a great weekend...

Jelveh Peace

Watch Me Create...

My first post is up over at Watch Me Create. Stop by and check it out...

And I have listed the above bead on etsy for sale...

On a side note, just a reminder that people of Iran are still taking to the streets, asking for their rights, wanting their votes to count & needing their voices to be heard...the other day we went to an Iranian grocery store to buy some goodies like sour cherry jam which you can only get there...I was talking to the owner & we were trying to figure out why is it so important to help Iran & places like Iran to become free...I think many people do not like the idea of meddling in other countries business and some even ask why worry about Iran? when we are not doing much about Darfur? although they are worlds apart, at the end of the day the struggle is the same, fight for freedom, for religious rights & fight to live a good life like the rest of us do...we were lucky, my father had the means and the courage to take us out of Iran when everything went wrong...

Others do not have the same options, most Iranians have to stay where they are, just like most people in so many other places in the world that have issues have to stay where they are...maybe its lack of money, maybe its the guns in their faces & not to mention most western world countries including the US cannot & should not take them all in as refugees...we have to help these people where they are & help them live free lives like we do in their own countries...

More important than anything we have to realize if we do nothing, we too some day may be facing these kinds of ruthless leaders who want nothing but Power & Money...if the government of Iran really cared about its own people would they gas them at demonstrations? would they shoot them at peaceful rallies? would they arrest them, jail them? sometimes 200 to a jail cell, would they pull their finger nails out, beat them & kill them to make examples out of them? the answer is NO...

There are over 75 million people in Iran, over 70% of the women alone are college educated, many have masters degrees, we are talking about an advanced country here being pulled in to a dark pit of ignorance, hate & old barbaric, long passed ways of living...we have to pay attention, this could happen to us one day...

We can all do something to help, anything, talk to our friends & stay awake, send letters to our Representatives...we are a connected people, what happens to one of us, happens to all of us...it is fundamentally wrong to watch people struggle & die to be free & do nothing...

Don't know if you know, but Tehran the Capital of Iran is the largest metropolitan city in the Middle East with almost 20 million people living in it at the base of the Alborze Mountains which is 18000 feet above sea level...I am sharing this little bit of Iran with you, so you know although the Government of Iran is acting like they are in the Medieval Age, the people of Iran are not... Thanks for stopping by...

Jelveh

Peace