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Written by Dara Spiotto
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Tuesday, 26 June 2007 |
 
The Seinfeld Article
In a conversation with my good friend Crystal who’s a huge Seinfeld fan, I realized that each episode of the show is randomly about nothing in particular. Not a huge Seinfeld fan myself, I’ve occasionally watched a show or two and agree with her that they can be pretty hilarious. It also got me to thinking that I’ve got all kinds of little ramblings in my notes that are basically, well… about nothing. ...Read More
But they’re all fun beady things and since they had no other home, I’m grouping them into this blog and I’ll call it my Seinfeld article. Remember that its all wacky and un-orderly random. Here we go…
 We went shopping for shoes today, my little man and I. I noticed two things. One is that polka-dots are HOT this summer. If you’re not wearing them, then you’re nobody. The other thing I noticed is that all the flip-flop type shoes out for summer right now are smothered in beads. In each store I went to there was an ocean of these shoes on display, far as the eye can see. Everything from wooden beads sewn into flowers to seed bead fringed tops. Wood, lucite, glass, seed beads, and more will be adorning everyone’s tootsies this summer. Go get a pedicure and then pick yourself up a pair. You’ll be hip.
And here’s a bedtime story... Well, its sad, but I learned this morning that I’m not a princess. I’m a bit relieved, actually. There’s a lot of responsibility with being a real princess, so I’m happy to be off the hook. See, I was beading in bed last night. A zippy little crystal number with flared out ends that finished off with a two strand clasp. Who knew that I dropped a big old Swarovski into my bed while I was in the midst of designing, only to have spent the night snoozing soundly on top of it. So if the story of the Princess and the Pea is true, I’m absolutely disqualified. See what I mean? This is totally useless information, but you must admit, you’re thoroughly enthralled here. HA! More useless tidbits…
 My bead bureau is in serious danger. (To see my bead bureau, go to The Bel Aire of Bead Storage.) I hide this gorgeous seed bead condo in the big closet in my bedroom along with tons of other stuff that my husband and I don’t’ want 18 month old Vincent to discover. Much to my horror and amazement, this little Superman can slide the huge mirrored closet doors from side to side, and there it was, my seed bead sanctuary, exposed to the world. My son instantly became an octopus-hurricane and all my beads were in serious jeopardy! Now I have to gate off the bedroom so he can’t Tasmanian-devil his way in. He likes to make this shrill, loud motor-boat sound over and over, just for fun… but sometimes when I hear that noise and it sounds far away, I think, “oh my dear God, he’s in the bedroom!” Does anyone know where I can get a size 3T straightjacket? E-bay? Ok, I’ll check. :-) And speaking of Vincent…
At least once a week, often many times more, I’m asked by former customers who shopped the vintage bead shows I once did when I’ll be out selling again. They’re not happy that they can’t browse through the beads at their leisure in person, and who can blame them? I don’t. And I don’t have an answer to give them...other than that I do plan to be back out there someday. Why not now, they ask. Well, here’s my reason, in all his wiggly-silly-giggly glory, my little Vincent. I am blessed to be able to stay home and raise our son while my husband is out slaying dragons for us every day. And I don’t want to miss a moment of motherhood, so I don’t have any major time-consuming-obligations to take me away from him. I don’t think people realize how almost literally all-consuming it was while I was selling beads back in the day. It was 70% preparation time, 15% traveling and 15% selling. So for now, my little guy gets all my attention, and so will his (hopefully) siblings. And then when they’re more independent I’ll be back out there. And I’m sure everyone will still love vintage beads by then. So don’t give up on me. Just be patient, that’s all I ask.
 So today I was out in the big world and I happened to notice a young girl with her father doing some shopping. I spotted her right away because she was wearing bright red sweatpants and a mint green sleeved baseball shirt. Was I not just saying in a past article how hideous those colors are together? I think it was in The Evil Instructor. Anyway, this young girl was just proving my point. She was a cute young girl, but oy… those colors! Now I don’t want any of you whipping up some “lovely” beadwork in mint green and red just to prove me wrong. It would be a total waste of time and you’d end up taking the sad little thing apart in the end. Blech. Just atrocious. When I was telling my niece Kristen about those colors that came to life, she said, “Oh, I have a better one for you. In the new home we’re buying someone painted the walls maroon and lemon yellow.” Ok. She wins. That’s worse than mint/red. If any of you can think up worse color combos, e-mail me. And if you’re ever in a bead challenge for the Ugliest Bead Project, then you’ve got a choice of color ideas! HA!
Ok, I guess I won’t make you suffer through any more of my tidbits for now. I can’t promise they won’t pile up in another article some day in the future, but this clears out my file for a bit. Thanks for the opportunity to do some late spring cleaning here! I’m inspired to go watch some Seinfeld now. Back to our regularly scheduled program… |
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