So that’s what I do in between feeding and burping Luc.

While counting between contractions on the way to
the hospital, I received a phone call from Rome.

“Hello?”
“Leigh,
it’s Rome. Can I interview you for an article about women who make their own
jewelry?”

“Rome, I’m in labor right
now…”

Three weeks later, his article
came out in the Manila
Times
.

A pendant called “Night
Butterfly” I made as a holiday gift for a jewelry forum friend; a pendant/brooch
that makes me think of summer and citrus fruits; and a complicated cuff that
took days to finish.