finished!

the purple crystal necklace is finished

my usual work approach is much longer -- usually there are "think breaks" between steps, but in this case, I did not have that luxury -- it was either get it all done by today or miss the entry deadline

not entirely my fault -- the materials took a bit longer to get here than I thought they would --

and originally I wasn't even going to enter this part of the competition this year, but then the folks that are doing the judging and saw my work last year called me and ask if I was going to enter

ok then -- so today I'll be doing the paper work and printing the picture that will go (I'm leaning heavily toward picture #3) and getting the packet all ready to go into the mail

geesh -- now we can go back to our regularly scheduled chaos!