Southwest Nature My Inspiration How Can I Not Fall In Love With The Beautiful Colors And Contrast.

Here are the mother of pearl I was working on I first post. Just love the copper!

All you ever wanted to know about turquoise even if you didn't think to ask.

Wait what? Two short chokers the beads are mostly 2 mm size. Green is serpentine and pure copper hand made copper. Black is crystal,hematite,1 1/2 tiny sterling silver beads, s/s corn bead n eye hook.

Gifts for my goddaughter and her sweet daughter.

Long necklace with sterling silver hook n eye clasp. Turquoise and quartz chips with

Dyed magnsite beads, turquoise bear fetish. The focal is lead free pewter.

Wrap braceletis glass pearls n beads, with silver accent spacer beads.

Earrings are a fun mix of shells n pearls with surgical steel.

Other Stone is hand cut lace agate drop wrapped with on sterling silver wire with a crystal beads.

My ILD and Double Lung Transplant journey. I was listed 10/2023. Was inactivated twice due to infection. After 1st reactivation, spring 2024 I received the call. However there was a complication with donor lungs. That was my first dry run.

Then another infection hit, and complications from GI issue caused by meds. It took 2 months to be reactivated. It was February 27th 2025 when I received the second call. I was sure it was another dry run, till I was lead into surgery. Surgery team asked if I wanted music, I picked anything Metallica. LOL

My kids and dear buddy who were my caregivers. I have so much gratitude. I posted on my socials and buddies offered prayers and kind words of hope for my journey. I requested they also pray for the donor family. What an amazing gift to someone unknown to them. 🫁🙏🏽☝🏼🫶🏼

Everyone is different and we all experience health journeys differently. For me, yeah it hurt! But I’m happy to admit, as bad as my pain was, I’m off pain meds, even Tylenol! Got enough meds to deal with for the rest of my life. And will mask up for my protection since immune suppression is high. Hey, it’s still the only choice I had. And I’m very happy my kids talked me into the transplant. Also my pulmonologist stopped asking and just sent me to UCSF to begin testing for transplant when my lungs continued to decline. Good on him. 👍🏼

If you haven’t thought about organ donation, please consider it. I intend to leave my bits n pieces for whatever other’s needs be.

I was finally released to home after 6weeks post transplant and in the aftercare program. All the time spent at UCSF preparing for this new venture. Also testing at my local Kaiser. Yes there are many more appointments to keep even now that I’m home. And I sure intend to keep doing what I must to keep this gift alive.

Quartz chips, sleeping beauty turquoise chips, mosaic turquoise, magnesite bear on the longer 2strand. Choker is quartz & turquoise chips with quartz arrow shaped beads. Both have lead free America made pewter clasp, larger has a cool drop pendant, removable. I usually offer my necklaces with earrings. I use surgical steel ear wires, or sterling silver, some may have gold filled. I just purchased ear nuts that I will include.

Shell found on a beach walk. Wire wrapped with freshwater pearls n magnesite starfish beads. Used heavy line to string abalone and Mexican turquoise drops, and magnesite and turquoise disks to finish with a lead free silver metal clasp.

Natural Charolite