Bead&Button editor Ann Dee Allen’s description of her recent travels made me remember my visit to Albuquerque, NM
this past April with my husband’s family. Whenever I’m in Albuquerque I always do some shopping at the New Mexico Bead
and Fetish store (it’s just off the square in Old Town). I enjoy looking at their selection of turquoise and hand-carved animal fetishes.
The desert colors of the southwest are very different than Wisconsin’s rolling green hills so I’m inspired to design something that
doesn’t look like the Midwest.
Our family also has a game we play when I go bead shopping with my husband and two brothers-in-law in tow - they like to
guess what I spent on the little bag of beads I carry around after shopping at a bead store. Of course their guesses are always wrong
(usually on the low side), but they’re learning that the size of a bag of beads has nothing to do with its value –monetary or otherwise.
Lynne