a guy pulls over to the side of the road to change a tire and while doing so, he places the lug-nuts into the hubcap for safe keeping? It is always about this time that a well meaning child with giant clown feet clomps over and flips the hubcap into the air, distributing the lug-nuts into the 4 foot high grass on the side of the freeway.
Now, take this scene, make the lug-nuts into hundreds of tiny beads and the roadside my studio, and make the clown-footed child be Jonah. Do you have the picture? OK, now do this SIX TIMES.
Usually, when I am making jewelry, I am doing it as a gift and there is a time-crunch. I mean, I suppose I could plan ahead, be relaxed and take my time, but where's the adventure in that? So on those gift-making days, when clown-footed children topple thousands of beads across the floor, I scoop them up by the handful and dump them all akimbo into a bowl so that I can keep working.
Everybody say it with me now: "I will sort it out later." (this phrase may also be used with junk mail, laundry, and closets).
I am trying to get ready for my Open Studio Sale. Mixed beads are not conducive to my creative chi. While I am getting pottery ready (because sorry, you can't crank out pottery the night before. People apparently won't like squishy, wet pots), I have asked Guy to awaken the OCD within him and help me get the beads under control.
***THIS IS WHY I LOVE MY HUSBAND***
While I throw pottery (ha ha, you're so funny. Yes, they would break if I actually threw them, but we don't. It's just the term we use) Guy has spent the past several evenings not just sorting out the bowls of beads that had been mixed like a Three Bean Salad, he is making me a "Beading Station", complete with beads grouped by size, color and type. He is organizing everything so that I can get to it easily and it will be out of the way of clown feet and sticky fingers.
But wait, there is more...
I came home the other day from Ballet with the girls to see my counters covered with tiny glass bottles. Guy had hunted out old spice racks from the thrift store in which to organize my beads.
There is nothing so wonderful as being thought of, but I mean really thought of; remembered, understood, appreciated. I felt so important to him. He has plenty to do with his time to not be scrounging around dirty ol' thrift stores or sorting out my messes. I smiled so hard and said to the rows of little bottles, "Oh, that cute man!"
In the movies, besides rescuing toppled hubcaps, men bring flowers. But show me a man changing a poop-soup diaper and I'll show you a real hottie. You can keep your movie man. In real life - my life, my sweetie brings me old spice jars.
*****
Congrats to my Hubby for the honor he will receive tomorrow night as
Teacher of the Month
for all of Sacramento County and Court Classes.
I am so proud of him.
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