Alice Cullen From Twilight Necklace

My daughter is a Twilight fanatic. Her favorite vampire is Alice Cullen, and she's not messing around. She has the books and the posters like every other good fan, but she didn't stop there. She got an Alice haircut. And then she needed an official Alice necklace.

I was a beader and jewelry maker for 15 years so I took on the challenge, and made her one yesterday. She loves it!



If there is some interest I'll make a tutorial on how I did it, and you can make your own.


This is the picture we were going from, Ashley Greene as Alice wearing the necklace.

Elusive, Tingly Autumn Magic

I have always loved the not-too-warm, not-too-cold days of autumn, when the air is crisp and has a magical aliveness to it. It feels a little prickly, tingly, and sparkly. I love it when the leaves have turned every hue of orange, red, multi-colored greenish-yellowish-maroon, and they fall and crackle under feet on a leisurely woodsy walk. The heat of summer has subsided and the chill of winter has yet to pounce.

I used to live in northern Iowa where this fantasy fall only lasted a couple of weeks, sometimes less, then turned cold and snowy. Now I live in Texas where autumn just means we're no longer in triple digits Fahrenheit! But for two lovely autumns in Ashland, Oregon, and one perfect Fall in Boulder, Colorado, I experienced the magic of a long-lasting, woodsy-walk filled, delightful, leaf-crackling autumn of my dreams.

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