Happenings and Occurrences

It's been an interesting last several days. I've been hard at work preparing for a craft market that I'll be selling my jewelry at on Saturday. Hopefully I actually sell things - I'm a bit nervous, as it's my first time really setting out my wares to hawk them aside from donating them for charity auctions. It's been good to get those creative juices flowing, and equally good to put to use all of those jewelry-making odds and ends that I've been hanging onto for at least half-a-dozen years now.

When not busy beading bracelets and earrings, I've been taking care of things around town, which inevitably leads to other occurrences. Delivering a jar of Outer Banks, NC sand to my middle school science teacher led to mini-presentations to her class and another former teacher's class on working in the parks. Picking up my sandals from the shoe repair led to a pleasant catching-up with an old school friend.

Both of these occurrences naturally led me to wonder (albeit, rather self-servingly) how people from my past see me now, which leads to lots of introspection. I'm sure anyone who "grew up" away from their childhood stomping grounds can relate.

In the meantime, I just finished listening to the first "Percy Jackson and the Olympians" audiobook, and started the audiobook "Around the World in 80 Days" this afternoon. Between all the jewelry-making, my current knitting and sewing projects, there's plenty of time when I can listen to something more mentally progressive than the semi-redundant drone of the radio. I've got more craft market preparations for tomorrow, then I'll be figuring out the pricing and displays on Friday, and Saturday I'll "test my mettle" as it were at the market. Wish me luck!