My other family

On our many trips on the Crystal Symphony, each time we would return from a shore excursion tour, at a different port, the crewman at the bottom of the gangplank would check our passenger ID card and say enthusiastically, "Welcome home!" Made you feel so good. They always referred to the passengers as the Crystal family, and the service was always impeccable without ever verging on the obsequious. What nice memories.

The notice of my move from Canada to Tucson

But it is timre for me to move on to my next "adventure" and to put another pin in the world map on the wall. In September I hope to be established in my new home in Tucson, Arizona, and to be near my family. I will of course continue to make jewelry (how could I NOT? and will develop and expand my Online business. Leaving my beloved Kelowna will be the most difficult move of all the places I have lived in around the world. I hope that, through emails, Facebook, Skype, Twitter, etc., we will all be able to keep in touch and be as close as the nearest computer. I wish my successor in Studio 2O3 the happiness and fulfillment I found there, and I thank all the staff and my fellow artists at the Rotary Centre for the Art for the help and friendship they gave me over these last four years. With all the best wishes for the future, Janice Written in October of 2009.