Oh, the joys of computers! I struggled again to upload my photo, but had the advantage of knowing everything I tried last week, and was able to find a way that worked! I finished this piece in the summer. It is a kind of companion necklace to one I made last summer for an exhibit in the new gallery for the League of NH Craftsmen. I had made a gold necklace (Byzantium) for the Sunapee Fair last year and got on a roll. I had two gold pieces in the new League gallery, finished a third piece after the deadline, stopped work on a fourth necklace that by bizarre coincidence was so remarkably similar to a necklace in the exhibit that I felt uncomfortable continuing with it, then made another gold necklace (Guinnevere) that was in this year's Sunapee Fair. I finished this one several weeks after the fair. This necklace features gold and silver right-angle-weave squares with pearls and a crystal centerpiece surrounded by right angle weave. The crystal was from my mother's bead stash. (She died in August of 2008.) The first necklace was pearls and circular right angle weave surrounding more of those crystals. I have two sisters, and now they each own one of these necklaces. It feels like a connection I've woven between our mother, my beadwork, and each other. We all live in different places and are able to come together only a couple of times a year, so it is comforting to feel that my bead weaving has