Bead Stringing & Visual Merchandising

My days have been spent primarily working at Ten Window Williams Fine Jewelers in Eureka. I have been using my talents to create a strung and knotted turquoise & lapis bead necklace, plus adding new inventory throughout the Estate Room with an educated eye towards placement. We have the costume jewelry group, the sterling silver & turquoise group, the vintage group which includes our woven hair and mourning jewelry, and metal antique purses. I have taken out an as with THE TRADER for my enterprise called "Your Electric Secretary", which offers a wide variety of services revolving around correspondence, virtual assistance work, except no-one seems to know what that is...and ghost-writing. Boo!

online banking is for me

I have always looked at the granite real estate owned by banks for the sole purpose of maintaining my money. Apparently they rid themselves of my little dollars just as soon as I put them in the forms of loans to others. Often times they overbook whatever funds that handle to give themselves
HaHa! If a person overdrafts, then cannot catch up with the daily punitive fees added on, then that is pure profit for the bank. How convenient the same people who are in charge of millions of the public losing their homes, has no problem charging a ninny like me to keep up their own real estate!
I do not have any solutions for our current economy except to keep working, love modestly, and wish to high heaven that our government would play by the same rules. Fragmented personalities do require one set of persons to live one way, while the privileged ones, live another.
I am a Dave Ramsey fan, I love listening to his common sense advice on the radio about debt, money, collection agencies, big money, and eternal optimism. He suggested his audience try out an online bank and I was more than ready.
This bank has intelligent and attentive telephone help, and so far, so good.
It is called Perk Steet Bank, and a client gets perks (cash back) with use of the debit card.

Father's Day with Bob

Here is a pic of my dad and me at the Humboldt Bird Reserve.

Exciting opportunity for playwrights

I am just now going to join a group of worldwide playwrights, "all the world is a stage..." is their motto, and there is a method of publishing your own play. In my instance the title is: "Miss-Placed: The New York Years" copyrighted in 2004.
It costs $35.00.

www.stageplays.com

OK, I finished the first verse of my new poem.

I am putting out my tentacles
To seek a King of Pentacles

I search to find Identicals (yes, I made that word up)
In my heart, my soul, my mind.

Moving right along....I did the above study in colors for a class with the Art Institute of Pittsburgh. There are five color studies in a group that I am considering reproducing and selling.

LinkedIn seems pretty good

www.linkedin.com/pub/peggy-molloy/24/565/833
I am not a social networking junkie. I amuse myself with it from time to time. Unfortunately I don't always want to share with the many people I discover who may want to share with me. Therefore, Facebook is not my number one choice to see who is doing what. I much prefer "Linked In", perhaps because I am older or pickier or both.

Freelance opportunities

I have been pushing myself as a writer and pursuing getting Press Passes from convention organizers, which is terrific way of developing my own interests and friendships with others, but an excuse to travel. I joined "Elance.com" also, and they have scads of interesting jobs for anyone who i s interested.