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a 50 something whose real name is Juel. From a very young age I was raiding my Granny's jewelry box and begging for the outdated faceted glass necklaces(& I still have them). When I was about 10 there was an archeological dig on an island near our house on Lake Gaston in VA. The dig boss was a friend of my parents and kept his boat at our house so I got to go play there. One day they let me and another kid do our own dig. When I showed them what I'd found there was much oohing and aahing and grabbing to put it in damp sand. Turns out it was a bead made from the jaw bone of a fox so I was hooked on a more ethnic view of beads, too. (That and National Geographic) I didn't get to keep that bead, though. Then on to seed beads and daisy chains and buying whatever I saw at the thrift stores. Somewhere along the way I started making most of my own jewelery. Eventually I opened a bead shop and learned to do lampwork(from Emilio Santini). DH changed jobs, I closed the shop and kept what didn't sell. I am more of an accumulator than a serious collector. I enjoy this forum because the broad range of bead topics and the eye candy. I am also a serious native plant gardener and am in training to be a companion animal behavior therapist using the Tellington Method. Oh, and I'm a radical turtle wrangler.
Juel
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