You know, we're all busy. Spending time keeping a website current is not high on anybody's list, but I am making a few changes. 

For starters, updates will be more frequent and less comprehensive. Previous updates will be archived.  Some of the pictures are worth looking at twice anyway.    September 2005

Starting May 1, 2006, a selection of beads will actually be for sale.  I will be starting slowly with six different Byzantine colors.  For details, Beads for Sale

Keep an eye out of the May issue of Lapidary Journal.  I don't know what possessed them, but they are publishing my absolutely final statement on art and craft.   It is anything but dry.

So here is a little of what we have been up to.

Mysterious strangers in Venice for Carnevale Rialto Bridge in the background
Dispensing fatherly advice to Davide Penso at his studio on Murano
Official 'Groupie' class in Minneapolis in January.  Brrrrr.
What's the deal with the car?  Well, we were outside Rogaska Slatina in Slovenia and Kathleen said, "Turn right there is a castle up there," and we did and the road got smaller and smaller and there was more and more snow and ice on the road the higher we went and I decided we should turn around and I had to back down the road and Kathleen said, "Don't get stuck," and I said, "I won't," and then I did, but we did get out after a while without having to walk back to nearest farm house which was about 4 kilometers back. There was no castle. Then we had lunch.
On top of Rigi near Luzern in Switzerland.  The earth seems to curve a little up to the right  at this altitude.
We bought this Yoruba coat and hat for Torben Sode's future bead museum. Heavy. All seed beads.
Sledding on Rigi.  You steer by digging your feet into the snow.  2 kilometer course with a drop of 500 meters.  Breathtaking, if not suicidal.
27th Wedding Anniversary in Tokyo, sake makes everyone look younger
Kobe Lampwork Glass Museum First lesson in Japanese with my teachers, Junji and Yoshito Miyamoto
12th century Buddha at Kamakura near Yokohama

Only other news is that Harriet and Alex had a little daughter, Monica, the end of February.  She came a few weeks early, but everything is fine and she is gaining weight all the time. Endless baby pictures coming soon. She is the cutest baby.............

Larry, Kathleen, Janet, Lillian, Willson and Kenny