Ginger - Thanks for the reminder about the beads. Beading was a portable hobby that I could carry with me when traveling for work years ago. Now, with my tremor, I think my beading days are well past. I will go through my supplies, keeping the larger beads for my craft-crazy grandsons, and pass the rest along to someone who is housebound this winter. I will gather up the best quality findings to take to my friend who is a talented jewelry maker in northern Mexico when we travel there next time.

Like you, I have a few crazy "treasures" - one that makes people shake their heads is the little glass jug that used to hold one serving of cream (about 1 oz.) A huge treat for us girls was a once a year trip on the bus with out Grandma to the Kresges Dime Store in downtown Minneapolis, complete with $1 to spend and lunch in the cafeteria, where those cream pitchers fascinated me - I thought they were epitome of fanciness! One day my Grandma slipped one in her purse and brought it home - probably the only thing she ever stole in her life! After that, whenever I was at her house alone, I got to have milk tea and use it. When we moved her to the nursing home in 1979, it was still in her kitchen and I brought it home.
Sue