Flash!

It's pretty toasty outside today, Kids.

So, I'm doing things inside.

One of our library pages is leaving this week.

I made her this book:

Here's the inside.

You write down 50 things you want to do.

Cross them off as you complete them

and continue adding so that

you always have a list of 50 things.

I was doing this for our college library pages

long before the "Bucket List" movie.

It's the same concept.

If I had been thinking I'd have taken pictures as I went along.

You could be reading a tutorial right now.

As it is,

Your own best guess on how to do this is good.

That's pretty much what I did.

I am a "fly by the seat of my pants" kind of girl.

I knew you'd want to know that.

I also made her these:

Gwyneth Paltrow wore a pair similar to these

on the Grammy Awards this year.

And yes.

The bag of Sally Rand feathers is still out.

No.

I'm not taking up fan dancing,

but thanks for asking.

I also was doing research on

the green flash phenomenon.

Are you familiar with this?

When the sun goes down

sometimes

just sometimes

there's a bright green flash right before it 

disappears on the horizon.

I've never seen one.

I've always wanted to.

But it inspired me to make a bracelet.

I'm really happy with it.

It's all sunset oranges and yellows

with a little Caribbean blue thrown in for effect.

It is of course, sitting in my Etsy shop

as we speak.

The green flash beads are flashier in real life.

But then again,

aren't we all?!