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The Loot (Bead Fest Part 1)

 sheet metal from metalliferous


 Yummy Good beads from Diane Hawkey


 Chrysoprase and Jade from Holy and Pure Gemstone


 Delightful polymer and metal bead from Staci Smith


 Starry Road Studio Ceramic beads

 Got to meet Karen's Daughter Nellie- sweetest girl ever!  she brought me some Wooly Wire too!


 Stocked up on my Green Girl Studios pewter!


 Marsha Neal brought me a goody bag filled with some of her ceramic goodies!


 Snagged some pretty Fall inspired Petal Dots from My Elements


 Stocked up on Czech glass from Bokamo Designs and April Melody (below)




 Pretty little flower headpins, links and some buttons from C-Koop Beads. (and stay tuned, we are cooking up a new beading challenge with some of Sara's newest components!)


 Snagged some pretty enameled earring charms and lovely lampwork focals from my friend Anne of Gardanne Beads

 Snagged some of my favorite components and some new brass cube spacers from Saki Silver

 Ran into my friend Jamie Hogsett at the Antelope Beads booth! Was great to see her, and I bought some cool new leather findings, links and some toggle rings from Dorabeth Designs


 This cotton cording from The Bead Goes On has to be one of my MOST FAVORITE purchases of the weekend! It's something I haven't seen before and I'm excited to try some. I may try to stock a small amount in the Jewelry Accord store.  Also got some pretty awesome beaded beads there.


 Of course I had to stop in to see Kristi Evenson of CB & Co and hunt down one of her new Copper Owl pendants! Is he not the cutest!?



At the Creative Bead Chat get together Saturday night, I got this special little gift bag full of Shelley Graham Turners ceramic beads! They are funky!! Can't wait to get playing in the studio this week!

Stay tuned for part two - I'll share the very few pics I took throughout the weekend. I gotta get better at chronicling my trips!

Hitting the Road

Bright and early tomorrow morning, I'm hitting the road. Philadelphia or BUST!  Be back in a few days and will share a photo diary of the weekend, and lots of pictures of new beads! See you laters gaters!

Hump Day

This week is kind of meandering along like a slow moving stream, slowly but surely gaining speed. That's always the way when I'm anxiously awaiting a big trip. Friday morning I will jet down to Binghamton, pick up Nancy Schindler, and bold down to Philadelphia for Bead Fest.

I could not be more excited. 1. it's always a great time seeing all of my online bead friends! and 2. I can't wait to finally buy some things- I am in desperate need of beads!! I have been so good not spending as freely as I used to. Ever since I left my job in November, it's been sometimes a huge struggle to come up with cash for the mortgage and usually there isn't much left over to buy fun beads.  But I do admit, it's been VERY rewarding when I CAN make it happen!

I tried to write down a list of things I need, things I want to focus on buying this weekend. The list got VERY long, VERY fast. So I think I have to re-evaluate.  For example, it will be hard not to buy every art bead I see. But what I need are filler beads, like strands of Czech glass, seed beads, and strands of stones and hopefully maybe some metal findings like earring pairs and interesting links.


Also will be trying to keep my focus on getting some interesting focal beads like the ones I've been using in these multi-strand bracelets.  They are a lot of fun to make but I'm running out of interesting things to use.


Um wow. Next week is the reveal date for the Michael's challenge! DOH! I gotta get to work on that too! I hope you are finishing up your blog posts for the hop on tuesday!

I hope you are all having a fab week!

tin and a sale announcement

I won an ebay auction!! 

Check out the tin I am getting! I am so excited, so many great patterns and colors!!

These will be great for my tin components!















Sale announcement!

Enjoy 25% off today and tomorrow at my ETSY SHOP- use coupon code AUGUST when checking out!

Round Rabbit Update

Whooooooo's coming to the update today at Noon, est?  Don't miss it, lots of great new pendants and beads available! Round Rabbit Extra, Noon. Today. Sharp. Be there or be square, yo.

Erin's Webinar is TODAY!

Please join my friend [and co-author of Bohemian Inspired Jewelry],  LIVE  TODAY Thursday, August 15th at 12:30 p.m. EDT for a webinar presentation, Fiber Findings and Finishing Techniques for Jewelry. Find out about all her favorite tool, findings and learn her favorite techniques for finishing off leather, ribbon and cords in your jewelry. You will be able to ask Erin ANY QUESTIONS throughout the entire 60 minute presentation. If you can't make it to the live webinar, no worries! You can still download the fully recorded session and watch it at your leisure as many times as you want! http://www.interweavestore.com/fiber-findings-and-finishing-techniques-for-jewelry

Hump Day Recap

so last thursday night, this happened.


No, that's not a tree. that's a tree LIMB that just broke out of no where, on the oak in front of our house.  No wind, no storm. Evidence of carpenter ants was seen on the broken branch. That's my diagnosis, because the branch broke from the bottom, and not the top. So it couldn't have been lightning.  The trees are owned by the village, so luckily we were not responsible for getting it removed, and they were there to cut it up that same night, before I went to bed.  Of course, Joe wasn't home when this happened, he traveled home the next day- after having just returned from his annual camping trip with his friend.

The roof sustained some damage and we'll be needing to get that fixed asap- but I think it's something Joe can do, so we can avoid another home insurance claim.



On the weekend, we went down and helped celebrate Nancy and Scott's recent nuptials.  They had a great party on Seneca Lake and it was fun to hang out and see Lisa Peters and Hank Russ there!  The weather was wonderful. We stayed with my Aunt who has a beautiful home on Seneca Lake, right up the road.




Came home Sunday and tried to spend as much time outside that we could. The weather has been absolutely stunning.  Went for a nice bike ride at a local bike trail and I almost ran over this guy...
Don't worry. We got him off the trail to safety.


Monday was pretty uneventful. I made stuff all day.

Tuesday morning, I'm in the studio playing around on my iPad. Pandora was playing and I heard this chirping which I at first thought was the song that was playing. Then I realized it was much louder than that and I turned the music down. I walked around to see where it was coming from and when realizing it was much louder in the stairway, I came down the stairs to see a huge brown bat crawling along the floor of the foyer with my two shitbirds chasing after it.

I thought I was going to die of heart failure, but acted fast. Ran down, iPad in hand still. Unsure of whether I should smoosh the bat with the ipad or use it to shoo the cats away, the bat flew over to the front door. In one fast movement I was able to shoo the cats away, Close the big door behind, open the secondary screen door and the bat flew away.  Did I mention it was huge?  I mean, HUGE. really HUGE. SERIOUSLY like eagle sized huge.

Needless to say, the last 24 hours have been anxiety-ridden and now I'm sitting here waiting for the bat guy to show up to do some damage control.

I was going to insert a picture of a big brown bat here, but I got too skeeved out to do it. blech.


Okay, so bad luck comes in 3s? What's next??
 I'm still sitting here trying to figure out the significance of all this bad luck.

Jade Scott Update Today!

Be sure to check out the Jade Scott pendant update today at Etsy at 2pm central time. Jade creates handmade Resin filled Copper bezel pendants in all types of shapes and sizes. This Strawberry Dreams pendant is from Jade!  She's always coming up with new and exciting designs and I have to say, I've probably been shopping with her as a bead artist, for the longest time- about 3-4 years now if not more!
She updates her Etsy shop once a month, and you can sign up for her email update reminder by sending her a message at jadescott.etsy.com

Happy Shopping!

Newbies

These are now available both at Etsy and at my webstore.







But this Howdy Hooty is flying down to Australia.  I'm emphatically waving good-bye as it's one of my all time favorites ever. Planning on doing more designs in this style today.

A new Michael's Challenge

Who's ready for a new challenge?  I was shopping around at Michael's the other day and saw some beads I could not live without.  SO I thought, why not share in the fun and we'll do another blog hop blog beading challenge. That's a mouthful. But you get the idea.

Go to your Michael's craft store and buy these beads. This week, for an extra incentive to play along, the Bead Gallery beads are 40% off! Hurry though, sale ends this weekend.  Get as many as you like. I bought 2 strands of the white nuggets, and 2 strands of the ceramic blue and white rounds. But if you think you'll only use 1 just buy what you need. If you need more, go nuts.

Here are the beads, close up and personal, along with their tag info.

 Brass owl buttons- I found these with the leather, hemp and cording!



 Blue and White ceramic rounds- I just love the patterning and the graphic blue and white!



 Amber Mix shell Rondelles- great for added texture



 6mm Quartzite rounds in a chartreuse/green color- they dont photograph well



 White Quartzite nuggets- these reminded me of the beach rocks I found in Cape Cod
So here are some rules. 

You must have a blog to participate. It's a blog hop, people. 
Don't have one but want to start one? I did a nice ecourse on setting up a blogger blog from start to finish. Get it here.

 Use the beads shown here, and you can add in up to 2 additional bead types to your design.  Create Any piece of jewelry you like, with the beads, using your own choice of focal.  If you want to make a necklace, and some matching bracelet and earrings... the sky is the limit. If you want to make 80 Pairs of earrings, Amy Freeland, Go NUTS. :)

Choose any design you like, using any technique - that'll be the fun part of the whole thing- to see what different things you can do with these same beads.

You don't have to use the button as a clasp. You can use it as part of the focal. You don't have to use the button at all if you can't find it. Sub a different button if you couldn't get the owls! There are no rules folks.  If you find similar beads somewhere like Hobby Lobby, go ahead and use em.  Seeing what everyone does with similar beads, is half the fun.

Reveal Date: August 27th

If you want to participate-  Come to my blog the morning of August 27th (reveal Day) and use the Link Up tool to add your blog links. I find this to be the easiest way to keep track of all the participants. So mark your calendars, buy the beads, create beautiful things, and get your blog posts ready for August 27 for a great hop!

Please feel free to leave comments on this post, or questions too!