Little Bo-Peep's Lost Sheep

"Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep..." goes the nursery rhyme.

Sometimes I wonder if we're more like Little Bo-Peep or the sheep. Everyday, we get so caught up in doing stuff until we not only tire ourselves out, we also end up losing our direction like little lost sheep.

All the recent CNY spring cleaning got me down. I felt like I was racing against time to make my house spick & span - wiping & dusting, scrubbing the floors, washing cushion covers, making new curtains - and all in a rush to finish before the clock struck twelve on 大年初一. Why? Just because it's a tradition to clean one's house before the new year?

But then again, just like every other situation we come across in life, there's always a reason for it. There'll come a day when we look back and realise, "Okay, so that's why that happened," or "Now I know..."

If not for the CNY season, I would not have noticed that those curtains fluttering with the wind have actually got all black and dirty; nor that giving that wall a new lighter shade of colour really made the room look more spacious. At least after all that madcap cleaning, I take comfort that my living environments are a little bit more germ-free. And when the nest is nice and cosy, the little sheep will look forward to coming home.

Just like Little Bo-Peep's sheep:
"... Leave them alone, And they'll come home, Wagging their tails behind them."

This pendant that I did a couple of days ago somehow evokes this philosophy. It's probably the most complicated pendant I've ever attempted. Made with silver wire twined around randomly, Little Bo-Peep stands, looking a little lost, amidst a web of crystal and glass beads; with a finishing touch of a royal blue ribbon that looks just like the one on Little Bo-Peep's staff.