This weekend I took my annual trip to Spring Green, Wis. There is a theater company there called American Players Theater which does Shakespeare and other classic plays on a beautiful outdoor stage. The drawback is that when is storms, as it did on Saturday, they must cancel the production. The weekend wasn't a total loss. A friend introduced us to a yummy new cocktail at our (suddenly indoor) picnic. A French 75, a drink that was invented in WWI, is made with gin, lemon juice, superfine sugar, and champagne. It somewhat made up for missing "Timon of Athens." What really saved the weekend, however, were the pieces of antique costume jewelry I found at the Middleton Antique Mall. Visiting the mall is also an annual tradition. I bought two necklaces that I will probably end up dissecting for the beads. Though they'd look great on Rosalind Russell in an old screwball comedy, they're a bit much for me. The trick will be doing SOMETHING with them before they're are relegated to the limbo of good intentions. Any ideas on how to use these in a way that's wearable today but still respects their charm?