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I'm not at all sure I've done justice to Georgie's achingly beautiful beads here. I actually felt guilty teaming them with my lowly polymer clay beads, but the colours matched so perfectly! Ah well, I can always break it down and try again! Lampwork glass, polymer clay, crystals, magatamas (yay for magatamas!) and silver.
In his later life, Qin Shi Huang feared death and desperately sought the fabled elixir of life, which would supposedly allow him to live forever. He sent Xu Fu, a Zhifu islander, with ships carrying hundreds of young men and women in search of the mystical Penglai mountain. There they were supposed to locate Anqi Sheng, a 1,000-year-old magician whom Qin Shi Huang had supposedly met in his travels and who had invited him to seek him there. These people never returned, perhaps because they knew that if they returned without the promised elixir, they would be executed. Legend says that they reached Japan and colonized it.
This fixation with immortality must go a long way to explaining the existance of the Terracotta Army.
I managed to drink three of these this year, compared to my one last year. And for those who may not know, these are 1 liter glasses, so imagine little 100 pound me drinking a 2-liter coke bottle filled with beer, and then another half of one. That's a lot!!! I don't exactly remember anything after my second, or for approximately 5 hours after my memory of the day stops, but from what I was told from other people, I was still having quite a bit of fun!
Three swimsuits from Elixir. The colors are very nice, and these are great for lounging around the pool, especially since summer is here.
The black version is called "Black Circuitry" and has a slight gray pattern to it that you can see when it is worn if you look closely, but is subtle enough to be overlooked at a distance.