What's Going On ...

Oh and speaking of which, last night we decided to try out the new Whole Foods downtown (the headquarters is based here in Austin) and man is that place amazing...3 story UNDERGROUND parking, escalators that you can take your shopping cart down (like we did)to your car parked underground...I felt like I was going thru an airport at first, and then it was a like mass chaos and bedlam...there were exotic fruits, vegetables, nuts (I bought pistachios for the salad), a massive fish bar, fresh soup counters all over, paella (!), and even chocolate fountains in the dessert area...we were overwhelmed and decided we'd better get what we came for and get out...we still managed to spend over 125.00 on only a few things like hummus, corn on the cob, Coppola Merlot wine, and oranges (I juiced those and grapefruit last night - fun!)...I dunno if you have a Whole Foods or Central Market in your neighborhood, but its like you've traveled to other countries when you go...I highly recommend it, but don't expect to find 'normal' peanut butter or corn flakes...I was glad to see they had 'real' milk and we didn't have to get soy milk or rice milk or goat milk for our cereal...eeehhhh....

So, I've decided to try something new with the Focals that I've been making..I know some of ya'll are interested in them and most of ya'll prefer the sets that I make (which I will do again, never fear - sometimes I need to get out of the same old thing and stretch my brain and try new things...that's how the Fiore stuff came about...so give me some time to play and I'll be back at making sets again...) and so most of my focals go unsold...which is fine, really, its not like I'm trying to get rich of off them, but I thought I would try putting them up on eBay as 'buy it now'...now before you start going 'eBay - waaaa', lemme 'splain...There are more eyeballs on eBay than on my website, obviously...and so I might find an interested party out there that never would have found me otherwise...AND, 'buy it now' means you would NOT have to fight with anyone else for the bead, you could click on the price just like you do on my website...the main purpose of this would be just to cast a wider net and find more 'focal-interested' customers, that's all...SOOOO, if you are interested in the beads, look for them very soon on eBay..you can still find them thru my site, just click the 'ebay' banner on the left, and the price won't be overinflated, the eBay fees are nominal for this, and I'll eat those costs as advertising, so you won't be paying more...I'm just trying to put the beads in the hands of the focal-buying public who might not know that these are available...make sense??? I know eBay is 'bleh', ya'll have told me that many times...that's why I'm not making these 'auctions'...and besides, most of ya'll don't want them anyway, so it should be fine, right?...rock on kiddies...