Last week my husband James and I went to visit our old school, Radford University. Radford University is located in Radford, Virginia, a town in the mountains of the southwestern part of the state. It's located right next to Blacksburg, Virginia which is the home of Virginia Tech. Radford is the place where we both met and we still keep in touch with some of our favorite professors, so this is a trip that we make every few years. We stayed with, Laurie, an old friend of ours and an alum of Radford who also happens to live there. The evening we arrived, we spent some time catching up and told Laurie about my jewelry and showed her some pictures of my recent work. She told me that my work reminded her of a pair of earrings that a friend of hers had bought as a gift for her. After we spend a little more time talking, she went to her room and brought back the earrings she received from her friend. Imagine my surprise when I saw that it was a pair that I had made!
It turns out that Laurie's friend had visited Portsmouth, Virginia last year and bought the earrings at Riverview Gallery, one of my retailers! We had a good laugh and talked a little about how small the world really is, a point that I still think of a week after the incident. James once said to me, "Imagine, there are probably dozens, even hundreds of people in this world, walking around wearing your jewelry. Wouldn't it be cool to walk down the street one day and see someone wearing something you made?"
Yep, it sure is.
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