A small manifestation

I have a huge "to do" list today, but I wanted to share something that happened yesterday. It really is nothing of huge interest, but it was one of those moments that make me pause. Manifesting big stuff -- cars, houses, jobs -- it's hard to take credit for. But it's the little things, like finding pennies, that make me think maybe I'm actually co-creating here... If nothing else, it indicates the lines of communication between me and the Universe are OPEN!

So here's the story. I have a big awkward piece of tagboard to which I have tied a 1" strand of each color of seed beads that I have for making my beaded flowers. But I decided I wanted something more portable that I can take to the bead store with me. A long time ago, on the beaded flower list I'm on, someone had said they made a small sample in each color and attached them to a key ring. So I wanted to make something similar.

I went to Office Max and searched the shelves. I decided on some round key tags for labeling each sample with the color number and manufacturer. I could easily attach the sample to the tag and string them all onto a big ring of some kind. I could picture this ring - it had to be big enough to hold about 100 samples, and open and close. I didn't know what to call it or how to describe it very well. The salesman did his best, but all he came up with was a small ring like for a three ring binder. I'm not sure if those would work, but they were too small anyway. I got all the other things I needed on my shopping list and so all that was left was to find this ring.

I decided to go across the street to a K-Mart store. I wandered all over from the hardware section to automotive to office supplies, even to the sports and bicycle supplies. Nothing. I decided I'd probably have to go to a hardware store. But on the way out, at the end of a shelf in the bath towels section, something caught my eye. There was just what I needed looped through a hole in the shelf. Just sitting there. Nothing attached to it. It didn't seem to be part of the display or to "belong" to the store in any way. I even wandered up and down several more aisles, but no other shelves had rings attached to them. So I didn't think I was stealing to take it. Probably some kid put it there. Who knows? I opened the ring and unhooked it from the shelf, feeling just a little bemused.

I'm still a bit bemused looking at it now. But I'm happily having fun making the tags and samples and stringing them onto my ring.