About Elizabeth

I have always dabbled in something creative, pottery, painting, stitching and various crafts, and through the years I have accumulated many skills and not to mention many boxes of supplies. But I think beading has surpassed that accumulation and grows with each and every bead show I attend. Ladies you know what I am speaking of. Beading is truly an obsession. It grows in different directions each time our skill level grows and our ideas flourish. With each new project comes a new box of supplies, so when I learned to silver smith this February 2011, you can imagine the supplies needed. We both enjoyed a new RV resort we stayed in this winter in Tuscon, Arizona. John learning lapidary and I silversmithing, Oh yes I finally found John a hobby!!!  I have been having a great time with my new friends in the silversmithing shop and they have been giving me a hard time about the beading I have been doing around my  silver pieces. I have never been happy with my beading, to me it always lacked that certain something I just couldn’t put my finger on. Embarrassed really to sell or display anything, it just seemed humdrum to me. But with the silver I feel I have brought something new to the table and I am pleased with the outcome of my new pieces. I now have my silver shop set up at home. A complete overhaul of my old studio has left me with a clean and comfortable relaxing place to work and I have christened it SEAHORSE STABLES. John thought Seahorse Soldering Stables was too long. I was trying to come up with an anagram which was S O S as my soldering skills could use some help.

Our family has grown by two. My daughter Sarah married Kyle on Halloween 2010 and it was great fun.

Nathan and Teri had a beautiful baby girl Elora who is 2 now and I am having a great time being a grandma. Grandbabies are like “do overs” I’m doing all the things with Elora I was to busy to do with my own kids. If only I new then, what I learned over the years. My bout with breast cancer has given me a different outlook on life and I strive to be a better person now. Remembering not to be so sharp with my comments and forgiving others, and being kind and thoughtful to others. I hope to be  all these things in the future.