What do you think the earliest recorded use of beads is – is your first thought perhaps beadwork created by the Egyptians? Yes, there certainly were a lot of beaded items in Egyptian times, but beadwork has been found dating back to the Stone Age (the Upper Paleolithic period). Beads were added to rudimentary clothing; these beads were made of shells and ivory. Of course, the beads weren’t as finely crafted as later beads, but still, they were beads. So even in caveman times, men and women were interested in improving their clothing and appearance with the use of beads.

The beads that we tend to think of as traditional beadwork are called seed beads – because of their small size they resemble seeds. These beads were used in early beadwork – the work of the Egyptians.

The Egyptians used a type of bead called faience beads. Our seed beads today are made of glass, but Egyptians were using beads long before the invention of glass. Their faience beads were made from quartz particles fused together. A glaze was applied over the quartz. The beads were then woven or strung into a variety of jewelry and clothing.

Beaded necklaces were found in the tomb of King Tut. Other beaded items in his tomb were a pair of slippers he perhaps wore as a child and a hassock. It’s unusual for ancient beadwork to survive since it was strung on cords made from leather and cloth, which tend to disintegrate with age. We are fortunate to have these few examples to give us a perspective on the history of Egyptian beading.

Some religious texts from India refer to beads being woven into hair and into horse’s tails. These references were recorded around the 9th century BC. And beads were also widely used throughout Asia in ancient times. There were beaded items found in temples in Japan that date back to 800 A.D.

Early beads were fashioned from shells, ivory and stone. Early Egyptians valued the beads according to the stone that was used to create the beads. Different stones were thought to have different properties.

Lapis Lazuli, a beautiful blue stone, was believed to protect the wearer’s health. This stone was often fashioned into beads, as were carnelian, feldspar, amethyst, turquoise and jasper – many of the same stones we use today.

Glass was introduced as a component of beads around 1480, when Venice began drawing glass tubes and turning them into beads. Once the technology for pulling glass tubes was invented, it was easy to suddenly produce thousands of beads, all uniform in size, color and shape.

Modern jewelry and beading certainly benefits from the advances made in the production of beads, but there’s no doubt that even today, an individually handcrafted bead can be the star attraction of any beading piece.

Life, as we know it, is not always a bed of roses. Situations sometimes are not within our control. However, We can choose to see the situation as a whole picture by looking at it like a 3rd party, it will be easier to solve whatever situations we are in.

And always remember the intention of what we wanted in the first place. Test does comes in at the most awkward times to see how strong our desire is to our goals.

Love,

Happy

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HOW TO MAKE YOUR LIFE POSITIVE STARTING WITH FRIENDS!!!

It is so important to have a happy, positive life and if your not getting that then you have to look around and make some change in your life!!!!
Every day is a battle that we all have to fight but will we Win the war of life???? Thats the question we would all like to know, but the answer is within you and only you can change it…..

Being a young girl in college, and having lots of friends to go shopping, movies and of course sleep overs, is great fun!!!!
When your around your friends you can’t help but love the feeling of being wanted and accepted when being around them!!!!
But…. in your early years of becoming an adult, things start to change, like those college school friend will start getting into relationships, working full time jobs, and gradually move on with their life’s, and some people understand things do change, so the girls you may have known for years will diff away naturally….
Then that lets me move on to the small amount of other girlfriends that you may have in your life, that you use go to college with, and you made a great bonding relationship and are still great friends, but some of them could be unintentionally harming you, more and more everyday with all types of issues and their negativity!!!
We would call them the poisonous girls, it may be a strong word to call some girls, but there is a very good reason why we call them the poisonous girls!!!!
As young women, we normally stick to our true, loyal friends, but sometimes not realizing that those friends can be just as toxic as poison. So here are the friends that could be toxic for you!!!!!
By the way, we don’t want you to just dump your friend, but maybe by reading this you can help them to resolve their issues or if they don’t change i guess its time for you to go your separate ways!!!!

NEGATIVE FRIEND!!!
Negative attracts negative, so if you have a friend like that, no good will come out of your relationship and it will be all down hill from there!!!!
This negative friend is easy to spot!!!!
How can you spot them????
Its the friend that says things that are uncalled for, or sees all the bad points to everything you or she does!!!!!
Talks about other girls and guys badly and just always complaining about anything and everything!!!
So what you can do as a friend is to let that girl know that being negative will bring no good to her life if she continues, and also let know that you can help her change her bad habit.
So lets look on the brighter side to life!!!! first steps we would suggest is to get use to paying people genuine compliments about them. (selfless compliments, so these are the ones that you don’t do to get compliments back)
When looking in the mirror, if she is not happy with what she looks like, then help her with what she need, for example if she wants to lose a bit of weight then run together, if her hair doesn’t look great go to the salon together etc…. When you start looking and feeling good about yourself your less likely to be jealous of others and you can start moving on with life a bit happier, also this will help your friendship become stronger!!!!! There are so many ways of being positive, but its great to start it with working on your appearances and confidante and then it will help reflect the person within!!!!

DRAMA DIVA
Drama diva is the girl all about herself and no one else!!!! She will continuously talk about herself and her issues and what she want and needs, and doesn’t care about anyone else but her self. You would be the good friend who listens to her ranting, but this will have a toll on you, because when you have someone like that in your life you become the door mat and not important, then once she finds another door mat that she finds more fun, she will leave you if she bored of you!!!!
So in this situation, we would say the best thing to do is to have a heart to heart with her, let her know how you feel, and instead of her talking at you, try just having a conversation, and do things together to be able to have more things in common and it just have plan fun!!!! Life is for living!!!!! You can both be DIVAS with out the drama!!!!!!

NO SUPPORT FRIEND
This friend will be the one who doesn’t say much to you when you want to go for that big job, do things that you’ve dreamed of but just needed that one person to say ‘go for it!!’, That friend will want you to be the same friend that they met 5 years ago. But everyone know you can’t go, if your doing the same things you was doing 5 years ago!!!!!
So what you can do in this situations we would say its best to have a talk with them and say how you feel and it would mean the world to you if they support your dream and discussions in life!!
Support is that feeling when you was a kid in sports day, and you was running the 60 meter sprint against 10 other kids, and your mum and dad was cheering you on, to WIN!!! That is an amazing feeling if you got that from your friends, that why its so important to have a supportive friend!!!

WASTE YOUR TIME FRIEND!!!!
Time is so important, you can never gain more and everyone has the same amount of time, so once its pasted you can never have it again, time is always ticking, so it’s really important to use it wisely!!!!!
So that brings me on to that WASTE YOUR TIME FRIEND!!!!!
This friend will be that friend that says ‘yeah lets do this idea together!!!’ So you spend time researching and trying to put the idea together , then after a few week of you spending your time on the project, your friend turns to you and says ‘I don’t want do it anymore’ that’s one of many examples, here are a few other examples, gossiping on the phone about others, plans to go out but never rings to cancel, suppose to meet but doesn’t turn up, calls you but hasn’t got anything to say, and you end up trying to make conversation etc..
With this friend you can easily just nip the wasting of time by just saying no to things that you think its not wright for you, and also when you use your time wisely you can point out where your wasting your time doing pointless things!!!! So you will need to let your friend know, please do not waste my time if your not going to follow through with things as time is important and if she respects you then she will not waste your time!!!!!!! If she doesn’t understand then i guess she wasn’t a great friend to have around!!

It’s so important to have great positive people around you and also to have people that you can grow with or to help you grow as a person, there is a saying, ‘you become you environment so if you don’t like it change it!!!!!’. It’s the same with the people and friends around you!!!!!!
So make some changes if needed. Some times to grow, you have to step out of your comfort zone and meet new people. it’s nice to find some friends that you can learn from and some friends that are uplifting and positive, as that will have a great effect on you and your life!!
Don’t throw a side to your original girls, just realize that you may have to make some changes in your life to create that positive atmosphere that you desire, and see if it you that need to change too!!!!!

You know the feeling: half your life seems to be like a flash back in the movies and you’re always thinking about how life used to be. So how can you stop dwelling on things and move your life forward again?

1. Accept that the past is gone

I know, often easier said than done. But until we invent time travel, there’s no way you can regain whatever it was you’re reaching out for in the past. The brutal reality is that the past is no more. And while we’re at it, the future hasn’t happened yet either. There is only the present moment. Enjoy it for a change!

2. Talk to people

There’s almost certainly someone in your life who you use as a sounding board when things don’t go to plan. Book a time slot with that person and – if necessary – pour your heart out about whatever it is that you’re dwelling on and that’s bugging you on a near-permanent basis. This release of feelings may be enough to move you on in life and stop yourself from dwelling on past events so much.

3. Leave your comfort zone

Yikes! That sounds scary! But actually fear is typically more afraid of us than we are of it. So pushing the boundaries of where you feel comfortable will often be quite easy when you start. If you’ve built what amounts to a shrine to someone who has left your life – and many of us do this for departed loved ones – then have a clear out. If you really can’t bear to throw the stuff away – the stuff that’s helping you to dwell on all those past memories – then put it into storage so that you’re not constantly fixating on it.

4. Forgive yourself

If you’re forever dwelling on something, chances are that in some way you blame yourself for whatever you’re associating with that event. Stop constantly beating yourself up about it and actually forgive yourself. If you can bring yourself to admit this out loud – even if it’s just spoken to yourself with no-one else listening – you’ll be amazed at how much of a release this gives you. Try it. You’ve got nothing to lose unless you really do enjoy wallowing around in the past and dwelling on what happened – or what could have happened – that much. My guess is that you don’t enjoy it fully, so give the idea of forgiving yourself a try.

5. Trust in the universe

Whether you believe in a God or not, at the very least the universe is the bringer of things. What you’re currently getting in your life is what you’re currently concentrating on. So if you are permanently concentrating on what happened, what could have been, generally dwelling on things that you don’t have the power to change, shift your focus and place your trust in the universe to deliver a better solution and to help you forever dwelling on the past. You’ve nothing to lose but that thundercloud that’s constantly lurking above your head.

Some happy quotes to remind ourselves.