I just had to walk away from the living room. Mom is watching HGTV’s Million Dollar Rooms and it just pisses me off. Can you even imagine spending $1 million or more on a single room?    Not a whole house, but just one – single – room!!

Don’t get the wrong idea, I’m not jealous of their money. I wish everyone on earth could be as successful as they want to be. However, I look at these rooms, and at the houses overall, and I just can’t help thinking how insanely wasteful it is. Sure, people got work and sales were made, but seriously, who needs that kind of lavishness?

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Haha. Crazy title, right? Yeah, well, that’s how the slew of pink beads I have is making me feel. Not long ago Eric and I spent like a week and a half organizing all my beads so that I knew exactly what I had for crafting. What I discovered is that I have a disgusting amount of pink beads. I got them in trade and never really thought about what the hell I was going to do with them.

Now I have this crapload of them, and no idea what to do. I mean, I could do a lot of styles, but I don’t want my shop to look like attack of the pink or something. I guess I’m going to have to risk it, because I don’t know what else to do with them. The last trade I did resulted in me getting a box full of vomit-scented, allergy-inducing wool, so I’m a little leery on that idea.

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