LOSING IT!

For years, I've been religious about saving my computer stuff on one flash drive or the other ... have progressed from 32K to 1G to 2G ... AND have managed to "misplace" every single one of them.

Feeling rather uncomfortable about the thought that my little laptop might crash yet again (seems to happen on at least a semi-annual basis), I was on the hunt for a new flash drive.

While doing some errands yesterday, I dropped by Golden Sound (where they always give me great deals) and was talked into this, 

which holds a whopping 8G of storage - 

I went nuts trying to find something to hook it onto;  for some reason yesterday, there were no lanyards to be found (I don't carry a key chain so I couldn't really hook it onto one).

Here's where crafting somes into play ... I remembered in the middle of the night that I had gone through a period of making 10-repeat row counters, and knew that I had a ton of plastic beads left over from that obsession.  

I also had some really pretty ceramic beads, 

but they would end up being too heavy.  

So, I also luckily had a leftover piece of elastic, which fit perfectly into the teeny-tiny holes in the flash drive ... so, I created something that hopefully will prevent me from losing this one!