When I went to Springfield for the state tennis tournament, I found these great little handmade stoneware pendants at a hole in the wall bead store. But I misplaced them once we got home. SO happy to say that I found them this evening. I’m really looking forward to putting them to use. Gonna be a bit of a challenge because they’re a little on the heavy side and I like to keep my work as light as possible.

Holiday weekend is almost here — yay! And for a change, I won’t be watching the Wimbledon finals this weekend. I have no interest in anyone who is left. Federer…out. Roddick…out. Clijsters…out. Bryan brothers…out. What a weird year. Even the names in the draw are weird. Pavlyuchenkova, for example, from the women’s side. It’s like someone tossed a bag of Scrabble tiles out on the table and said, “Looks good to me. Let’s go with it.” Glad this woman was ousted early. It’s always painful to listen to non-tennis television anchors trying to correctly pronounce names that seem to have resulted from someone throwing up the alphabet.