Sunny Montana...

Hi all, happy beady Wednesday to you...

Check out the cute photo of my other mom (hubby's mom) & one of her other sons Dobby, out for a fun bike ride in Sunny Montana. Another lovely day to spend with our family that we missed out on.

Beads later today for sure...I promise, I even have a couple of pumpkins coming.

Jelveh

Peace

A Preview...

A preview of some beads I will be listing later today on Etsy...there is more but you have to come back to see them.

Remember how I complained about the hot hot weather, well last night it rained like you would not believe.Now its gorgeous again.

Jelveh

Peace

HOT HOT...

Yes well, you would not think so, but its been really hot here in Oxford, I lasted all about 2 hours in front of the torch, before I had to give up. I know a few weeks ago all I could do was complain about the rain & the cold wind, but such is life. With the kiln, the torch & the muggy hot weather we are having here, it was like making beads on the beach in Bali in the middle of the summer, save for in Bali after it gets that hot & that sticky a nice afternoon rain cools everything down. This is not the case in Oxford today.lol

Hopefully I will make more on Tuesday. I will have some beads to list today...we shall see how much time I am going to have after shipping is done.

Thanks for stopping by...

Jelveh

Peace

Monday Monday...

Hi all, hope your weekend was good, we got a new hamster named Sam, Sammy is so cute, I loves him.

I am going to be making beads most of today & a bit of shipping. All who have won beads on this blog need to send me their address so I can ship your beads...you know who you are. have a great day.

Jelveh. Peace

Power of the BAD eye...

A couple of posts below I was talking about my parents, how much fun they had on vacation in Puerto Rico last month (dad got sick in Philadelphia & they missed a day or two of their vacation) & how my whole family is on vacation now in Lake Tahoe for a few days. I got a call from my sister this morning very early, saying they had been robbed in Tahoe, the very nice large mansion that they had rented, was broken in to while they spent the day at the beach. They are upset, the kids are upset & they are coming home, the place was gone through pretty bad, they lost a couple of cameras & a DVD player that belonged to my sister's little boy. Which I am replacing since his birthday is just next week.

Why is this post called Power of the Bad eye, well because in my culture & in fact many of the oldest cultures in the world including Christianity, we are warned of people being envious of others & what they have & to watch out for this.

My friends in Turkey always tell me not to speak so much of the greatness of my family & my life, just in case a person who is listening, would feel envious & without them even knowing it, the Bad eye or (as the Italians call it & have made glass beads for it for thousands of years) the Evil Eye would show its true colors.

You may not know the whole story of people's lives. For example, how my parents trip to puerto Rico was a gift & a result of saving for many months to be able to go, or my sister & her family saved for months so they can go on this trip to Lake Tahoe, what you hear is not always as Rosy as it sounds, life is good, one should never be envious of others lives, just be happy for them. I have a Friend in California who's grandparents are from Mexico & the Evil eye is commonly known in her day to day life as the Haters, those who can not stand the happiness of others, so they COVET & or are ENVIOUS of what they think they do not have.

So today I am sad for my family, for their vacation going bad, but you know what, I am happy for them always, as their hearts are good & they are safe & sound.

Jelveh. Peace

A New Family Member...

Today we went looking for a new family member, those of you who know us, know that we love little hamsters & have had 3 of them in the past 8 years, who have all moved on to the next part of their journey in the universe.

We found our new family member today, his name is Sam. He is a Syrian Hamster, larger by 3 times than our other hamsters who were Russians. This guy is so cool, he is soft & has long hair that you can brush, he is very funny & from what we see so far has a great curious character.

He is already full grown at 3 months. At the pet shop they called him Big Boy, when we were taking him & all of his home & goodies away, all the people who work at the shop, gathered around to say goodbye to him.

In the photo you can see how he already loves me. I hope, I hope.

He is now resting in his new home & getting used to us, we wont play with him for 24 hours so he can settle in a bit.

We are so glad we found him...he is lovely.

Jelveh.

Peace

Its Saturday...

So its Saturday morning here...life is good.

Today we are going to try & find a pet shop that sells hamsters, we tried last weekend but could not find one.

At this time, back in California, my parents, my sister & brother & all of their kids & family are in Tahoe on the Annual Jaferian Klan 3 day getaway.

I wish we were there, it is so much fun, the kids are great to spend time with in the water & on the beach. We rent a big house each year right on the lake, we bring food, cook & party & play games, its really fun. they called me on their way yesterday.

I have a great family, I mean just like any family we got our stuff. You can not be a Persian family without stuff, guess you can not be any kind of family without stuff, but I love them all & I would not trade them in for anyone. above there is picture of my fun parents on the beach in Puerto Rico just last month. They are so funny. Love the shorts dad...lol. for a man in his 70s and a girl in her 60s they look pretty good.

Hope you are having a good weekend. More beads on Monday, I played with Triton for the time, can I just say WOW.

Jelveh.

Peace

Does anyone know???

Hi all, do you know how to make the returns show up in the blog entry. I seem to not be able to get them to show, so my entry looks long and with out any breaks. Help. Jelveh. Peace

Waiting...FREE BEAD

Do you ever just wait & wait? until you forget what you are waiting for?Here in England I wait at the post office for so long, 1 hour 15 minutes the other day, I feel like Bart Simpson, writing on the black board in my mind over & over, "I will never ever say another bad thing about the post office in California. Take the case of our stuff, you know, bedding, photos, decorating goods, cool things we have collected from out travels, our carpets, our beds, oh yeah & there is the matter of 700 pounds of glass, 3 of my torches, all my presses, all the rest of my tools & all the goodies to make jewelry with, including my silver, crystals & what have you. We have been waiting since the end of May for our STUFF to arrive from America. We have already bought a ton of bedding, since what we had with us is not really enough, I had brought a torch & initial set up, also I have purchased a ton of Glass from http://www.tuffnellglass.com/ & countless other items. So apparently the wait is over, we should have our stuff soon. Cross your fingers. Be the first to Guess what I am missing the most out of my stuff & get a set of 3 beads. Leave the guess here in the comment section, this section is moderated, but when I post your comment, it will have a time stamp on it, so we will know who was first. OH yeah I have new beads....enjoy. Jelveh. Peace

Beady Tuesday...

Hi all, hope your Monday was good...mine was marginal. I got some work done, gearing up to do a big update some later today and some on Wednesday for Etsy...and maybe even a quick update note to all.

I am off to the torch for a bit. The Beads in the photo are sold in the past, I just like to add a bit of eye candy everyday.

Have a great day.

Jelveh

Peace