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

Wednesday Beads & Update...

Hi all, lets see last you heard from me I was telling you about Iran & the people's up-rising against their barbarian regime, you have seen the news, what has happened can not be put back, so the people of Iran, in some way or another will get their justice & will get rid of their oppressive government...my family is doing well & they have lots of hope for the future& the good changes that will come...

As for beads I made some yummy ones this week, at least I think so, you can check them out in my etsy shop...also changed photos of last week beads, since obviously they were not good...

This past weekend on Saturday I went to the ISGB NorCal big meeting & bead Bazaar that was held at Arrow Springs...I went with my friend & glass bead maker artist Cindy Allen, who although drives way too fast, is always one of the most fun people to go to these events with...if I had driven we would still be on the way back...

For the first time in 15 months I got to mingle with my buddies, lovely people & glass artists such as Craig, Sharon Peters, Toni Lutman , Lisa Fletcher & Nanettet Marie , just to name a few...the most exciting part for me, besides the $600.00 in glass that I purchased & the fun I had catching up with every one's stories & telling mine, was seeing Kim Osibin & her beads, I am not kidding you when I tell you she is the mother of all silver glass beads, long before nice boutique companies made us Silver laden glass to make yummy beads with, this glass artist was doing it on her own...if you ever get a chance to own a Kim Osibin bead go for it, you will not be disappointed...below is a picture of my friend Cindy on the left & Kim on the right both wearing necklaces of Kim's beads...

you can get a hold of Kim at kimosibin@gmail.com Now to the winner of last week's bead, I kid you not it goes to Ginny from Fl. The girl is just that lucky I tell you...for this week I have the yummy bead I made with 2 new glass colors and some goldstone, it is about 30x25x8mm...enter to win by making a comment on this post...

thanks for stopping by...life is good for many of us...

Jelveh

Peace

Twitter Revolution & Beads...

I was born in Iran, my family left 31 years ago when I was 14 during the revolution that changed the life of 75 million Iranians, the old government of Iran, although considered a dictatorship by some, was in fact a 100 thousand times better than the oppressive violent one that took its place in 1979.

Forever it seems many Iranians world over, inside & out of the country have been waiting for the moment that would bring an end to this mad government & free them. A moment that would take Iran back to a time before the Islamic Republic was in charge, a time where Christians Jews & Muslims practiced their faith as they wished, a time that women worked & dressed as anyone in the west does, where men & women could walk down the street without being married, where women had rights & were treated not as 3rd class citizens...

What we see & hear in our media today about the protests against the fake elections, is perhaps the start of this change & thank goodness there is Twitter to let it all come out...so we all know what is going on inside the country, while reporters have been kicked out, cell phone towers shut off & satellite signals jammed...sadly as it looks like people want change, it is important to note even the guy people are protesting for was chosen by the supreme leader, who is the real guy in charge, to make change he has to go...a twitter revolution may just change the everyday life of 75 million people, who want the same thing you and I have, the right to live a happy free productive life...

On to beads...below is the photo of beads that I have coming today, I am listing them in my etsy shop as the day goes on, hopefully by 3:30pm California time I will have them all listed...

The winner of last week's bead is Melissa, please send me your address...enter to win this week's yummy bead by making a comment on this post...The colors are amazing and there is a lot of shine...a great focal...

Thanks for stopping by...life is good...

Jelveh

Peace