Man, it’s good to get out and do something DIFFERENT!

I just finished an adult education class, taught by Lily Chen, where I learned to make a leather wrap bracelet.  Ingredients are freshwater pearls (choose your color), brown or black leather, and a cute metal flower button.  Lily is a great teacher, and I learned fast and am now determined to make a million of these very cool bracelets – some for me, some for, oh, sisters and friends and such.

And the best part is that the materials for this totally rad bracelet cost all of fifteen dollars.  I’m sure if I were to buy this from some jewelry catalog (like maybe Sundance, which I love, by the way) it would cost a LOT more.

Actually, the best part is that I used my brain to do something non-work-related and creative and fun.  And I succeeded at it (unlike the pearl knotting class I took a few weeks ago, where I had a defective piece of silk and my knots wouldn’t slide and I got more and more frustrated and hot and sweaty and embarrassed at my incompetence).  It’s good to have a new obsession.  Abby happy.