I'm not into seed beads. Never was. Oh, I bought my share of tiny white hearts with intentions of making a cool necklace but soon found out I lacked the patience and the talent for jewelry making. So why was I drawn to make this purchase? They were cheap. There were other beads I wanted but the prices are prohibitive. I was drawn to the light blue beads first, which were intermingled with opaque blue strands and others. Haje showed me the shank of clear beads which I hadn't noticed and I was immediately enamored. Images of Native American beadwork immediately came to mind. Haje talked about his brisk seed bead sales in the Northwest. I got out my lupe to look at the clear ones and Haje broke into a smile and said "look at them in the light, they look like gooseberries!" They had striations left from the manufacturing process.

Now these beads lay on my table at home. I keep going to them and picking them up, tangling them, then untangling them and wrapping them around my hand. They are hypnotizing me!