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A very unfortunate situation and a resulting very unfortunate accident took the life of one of my beloved parakeets yesterday.

Looney Tooney Petunia was with us for almost 2 years, in fact, her 2nd birthday would have been towards the end of next month (May).

Tooney was more or less a “special needs” kid. She didn’t interact well with other birds, as she was always playing too hard, biting hard, and although I hesitate to say a little aggressive, she was a quite stubborn and usually stubborn at the wrong thing, and a bit destructive. She came to us that way as a baby, quite frustrated, a little super energetic and rough.

She spent time in the same cage on and off with her buddies, Violet and Peppy. There came a time when she had to be separated from them because of her nature. So I put her in a little home of her own, full of toys, and things to gnaw on and chew on, which she went for and I think enjoyed for a while, and then abandoned and bit the metal bars of the cage. This went on and off for a good while, and then I place her back with her friends hoping she would “listen” to them, as they would always try to tell her to play with her toys, not the cage bars and the metal bits she was actually able to bite off. She was happy to be back with her friends and even tried hard to integrate with them and “play nice”, although not always successful, better than before.

Tooney was a beautiful bird who loved to sing merrily, “purred” often and in tandem with her buddies and myself, and who was loving and adorable when in her positive mood swings. I loved her so very much and worked with her as much as I could to help her learn to play nicer and be nice, bite less and have more fun. I loved her for her, the positive and negative alike.

A little body might be gone and in my garden now, but there is a huge hole of emptiness here among us, and an empty perch, an empty song, and a huge hole in my heart.

Tooney, we all love you very much and miss you even though we know we’ll see you again some day when we cross the Rainbow Bridge, that time won’t come soon enough.

Love forever,

Your Broken Hearted Mommy, Moosie, Baby, Violet, Peppy, Lizzie, Sunrise, Sunset, and Hoover

True to my word I have uploaded a few more of my Czech glass seed bead hanks to my web store. I am determined to get them all up there and then start adding the scrap booking buttons, clothing buttons, and other beads and arts and crafts goodies.

Today’s seed bead hanks uploads are spectacular! Take a look below:

 Champagne Gold Czech Glass Bead Hanks

Dark Golden Topaz Czech Glass Bead Hanks

Hematite Grey Czech Glass Seed Bead Hanks

Ruby Red Czech Glass Seed Bead Hanks

Sapphire Blue Czech Glass Bead Hanks

Aren’t they gorgeous! Can you imagine them in your next arts and crafts or jewelry project?

This is a stunning necklace of smoky quartz gemstone beads and sterling silver spacer beads.

Here’s the details:

If earth tones are your preference, this necklace is for you!

A most gorgeous sable brown collection of smoky quartz (the national gemstone of Scotland) ~ graduated sizes of round smoky quartz beads intermingle with round sterling silver beads, working their way down to the center attraction ~ 10 perfect larger smoky quartz rondelle beads. Sterling silver fancy hook and eye clasp on the necklace.

Check it out:

It’s a bit on the heavy side ~ as opposed to a lighter weight necklace made of glass or crystal beads ~ but oh so rich and elegant!

Find out more here ~ it’s totally affordable and would make an excellent gift for Mother’s Day!

If you like, find out more about our entire necklaces and necklace sets collection!

Today was a busy busy day. Not only did I get alot done but the day just flew by.

I’m selling off my extra bead stock so made up my mind to take good photos of like “x” amount of beads every day and then put them in my web store. That keeps it manageable plus ensures that I will keep up with the project until all are listed. Sneaky aren’t I?

I worked on my taxes today as well………. yes, at the 11th hour, practically as now there is less than a week to go before tax day. I use Tax Cut software and it really does make it very easy to handle, business, personal, everything.

Cleaned the fish, the birds and the iguana today, so everyone is looking pretty shiny and spiffy. Unfortunately I lost two of my goldfish ~ I lost little Miranda to her wounds from when she was mauled by another fish, and Spot passed away suddenly two nights ago. I’m happy I was able to give Miranda a safe little home and Spot too. We’ll see them again someday when it’s our turn to go over the Rainbow Bridge. For now they’ll just have to have fun in God’s big fishpond!

So we’re down to my two darling bettas ~ Sunrise and Sunset, and one goldfish ~ Hoover GoldenFish. If you need an explanation about the “Hoover” first name, then you have not seen my little friend go bonkers when it is feeding time!! LOL Use your imagination.

Well, on to the extra bead stock ~ these are good sized hanks of number 11 Czech glass seed beads ~ 3600 to 4000 beads per hank. Glorious colors.

Take a look………………

Light Emerald Czech Glass Seed Bead Hanks

Amethyst Silver Lined Czech Glass Seed Beads

Purple Iris AB Czech Glass Seed Bead Hanks

Light Amethyst AB Czech Glass Seed Bead Hanks

To see all of the arts and crafts supplies currently available just click here. You might want to bookmark this as well since I will be putting up quite alot of goodies over the next few weeks!

I just created 7 new zipper pulls, all pearls and crystals, in gorgeous colors and color combinations. Chic zipper pulls like these are simply a must have fashion accessory simply for the beauty alone ~ they instantly dress up a sweater, or jacket, and better yet, a purse or handbag!! Put one of these little jewels on your handbag and be prepared for many compliments! (oh and when people ask where you got that gorgeous zipper pull be sure to say Jewelry Collectibles!!)

Here, take a look for yourself! (and they are all very affordably priced, plus make a fantastic birthday gift, Mother’s Day gift basket stuffer, and a great practical gift idea for those “just because” moments!)

Black Pearls Black Diamond Crystals Zipper Pull

Pewter Pearls Jet Hematite Crystal Zipper Pull

Silver Pearls Silver Crystals Zipper Pull

Bronze Pearls Golden Shadow Crystals Zipper Pull

Light Blue Pearls Montana Sapphire Zipper Pull

Rosaline Pearls Rose Crystal Zipper Pull

Lavender Pearl Lilac Crystal Zipper Pull

Aren’t these zipper pulls lovely and can you imagine them on something of yours? You won’t need too much imagination to do that, I don’t think! To see our entire collection of bejeweled zipper pulls, visit us here.