Some Jewelry

I went on a wild spending spree (for me, that is) and bought a bunch of new beads..here's some of my newer jewelry items.
I have a real love for skulls - probably because I grew up in Los Angeles and was exposed from a very early age to decorative skeletons and such for Day of the Dead and Cinco de Mayo - Mexican holidays that seemed to blend Catholicism and native belefs into a potpurri of interesting and colourful images.
I also love turquoise- the colour, that is..always have...
I think that also must be a leftover of Southern California..lots of swimming pools in my past life.
Enjoy!

Twitter? Twaddle!!!

Tthere is nothing like Googling our names, or business name(s) to find out just how bizarre the online world can really be...
Apparently, I have a Twitter account with ten followers..no tweets as yet, which isn't terribly surprising since I do not now, nor have ever had, a cell phone, never mind a twitter account..what's going on?
Tried to find some way to get 'into' the twitter site to inform then that in fact I was not a participant in this silliness, and didn't want to have my name(s) attached to an account that was not mine..there is no account at all, and never has been...
Auuuuugggghhhh!!! The parrot is well and truly dead!
If you want, or are masochistic enough to need, an exercise in futility, just try, I dare you, to contact Twitter without actually having a cell phone to Tweet them! It's impossible...
Now my business name domain (mizdarlin.com) is coprighted, and so is the Domain name itself, so find it beyond irritating that someone (?) can simply say I have this or that when in fact I do not..
But wait! Perhaps the fact that I have gone to sites like HuffPost where they have tweets as responses to news stories, and might possibly comment on the tweets, without realizing it...could that be it?
Wish I knew how to deal with this...someone could say they were me and post anything, and I would really, really hate that...
*Sigh*
Now what was I crocheting before being so rudely interupted....?

Almost 10,000 Pageviews..Just Another Give-Away

Now for some of you with your thousands of Followers, this might seem to be not a big deal..I even had a couple of OCD types who clicked on this blog so often as to render my once-loved visitor's page redundant..guess they loved seeing 'their' clicks recorded as zillions of visits from the same city, but i knew it couldn't be valid, and it skewed the results, so sadly, I got shut of it..I kind of miss it, it was fun when someone from some exotic, faraway place, from New Caledonia to Nebraska, would have a new blip by their home..not quite the same as traveling, I know, but still, fun..
Milestones are just that, milestones, whatever they may represent..so guess it's time for another give-away..
Instead of a hat I was thinking that some custom earrings might not go amiss, since it is Spring, and thoughts of bejewelling ourselves once we stop covering up come to mind..
So, the winner of the give-away will be able to choose from any pair of earrings shown in my ArtFire studio, or alternatively, if you hate all of them, tell me what you'd like and I'll make you some...
Unlike many of the so called give-aways in blogland that are only limited to one's own area, I believe that the world is my oyster, therefore, anyone from any country anywhere on the planet can enter..
The usual stuff applies, I guess...one comment here equals an entry..and if you FB or Tweet, an additional entry - I'll have to trust you all on that, since I dont' do either, but I know that others find this concept
useful, so just let me know, and I'll give you another entry for each of those activities...
I'd appreciate anyone who wants to become a new Follower doing so, but if you are the lurking type, it isn't necessary..do a bit of 'lurking' myself at some blogs and websites..
That's it, have fun with it, and when I've passed the 11,000 mark on my country widget, I'll stop the contest..
The draw will be very scientific...little bits of paper with your names scratched on them, crunched up and put in a container of suitable size, then, one drawn out! Thanks in advance for entering....♥