Sue Beads

UPDATED to add:  There's a small hitch with the eBay auction, new details will be posted as soon as available. Today is the reveal for the Beads of Courage Charm Swap and Auction, once again hosted by Jennifer Stout Cameron.  This year the theme was Fairy Tales.  This was a bit of a challenge for me.  Until I got this in the mail: I don't even think this is the one I ordered, but I wasn't going to send it back to the UK and exchange it, so I kept it.  I immediately thought "pot of gold" when I saw that one roller section. So, I looked up the leprechaun and pot of gold legend and the rest, as they say, is history. First, here are my charms: And now, the story of the leprechaun and the “Pot O’ Gold” Fairy Tale: Leprechaun The Leprechaun is a type of fairy in Irish folklore.   They are depicted as tiny, solitary, bearded men who cause mischief.   According to legend, they spend their time making and mending shoes and hav...

Andrew Thornton hosts a monthly book club called Inspired by Reading.  He picks books and we read the section and create based on our reading!  Although I've been able to read only one book (and it was good) so far, this time Andrew was nice and provided me with a selection from this month's book, "My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales" , edited by Kate Bernheimer - basically adult fairy tales!  The story I chose was First Day of Snow by Naoko Awa, a Japanese fairy tale that borrows elements from folktales about disappearance. This story is about a girl who finds a mysterious round hopscotch trail and takes it for what seems like miles and miles.  She finally sees snow and hears a rhyme; it's the bunny rabbits, appearing as snow to take her away from the world and turn her into a chunk of snow.  The only way she can get back is by chanting a rhyme about spring and a mugwort leaf. My idea for the necklace was a white bunn...