to change the blog today. These are a few more thimbles I have been playing with. I have to tell you I made a really pretty one yesterday but it was too wet to photograph this afternoon.
And Ring-A-Dings are being added to Etsy tonight. Go have a look.
and some new swirly buttons made with that glass. I have to say this box was fun to open and fun to play with. And there are a couple of the new colors I have not even tried out yet. Like Mermaid and Grape Ape.
These are some of the new two hole flower buttons I have been making. These ruffled ones are a lot like the poppy flower beads I make.
I really like these abstract flowers though and want to make some more of these as soon as the weekend is over and I can get back to making beads. There always seems to be way too many other chores on the weekends.
I know I posted this little lady bug on Etsy but I really wanted you all to see her. So here she is again.
Things are going on Etsy this weekend. Since I have been listing lots of Pandora size beads on Etsy lately I decided this weekend I needed to list a few of the other new things I have been making. So I just listed these Susie Flowers and have plans for other things throughout the day. We are also laying the floor in the bathroom today so I will be here off an on. You will have to check back to see what I have added.
Have been getting made for kits. I have the instructions about done but have been doing some tweaking to them. I am still waiting on a couple of little things I need to actually package the kits but they all should be here in the next couple of weeks. 
As I have been working on the flower bracelet kit I have also been making new color combos up for the 6 Strand Bracelet Kit so if you see me at the show in June there should be lots to choose from.
I was playing with layers of the same color in transparent and opaque then it needed some lighter shade dots so this one ended up very abstract.
These are smaller about 3/4 of an inch so I made a set. I am really liking making buttons.
No this is not the kitchen sink but it was what was in our bathroom until a couple of weeks ago. We are in the middle of a bathroom spruce up. I would say remodel but we are really not going that far. Thing is with all the strange problems it has been in the middle of it for a month now. Yesterday we found out that the guy who had the house before us tapped off the upstairs bathroom power for a plug in the downstairs bathroom. Just fun wild stuff. Any way I guess the cat thinks we never give him fresh water any more since he had to drink rain water out of the sink on the deck. 
This is the second sample for the new kit. I am off to work on the instructions now.
Just a few more of the buttons I have been working on. Figured out a rack to hang the cards on yesterday so have to get busy finishing that up.
On our trip back from Florida last month I lost my watch. It was all my fault it was in my pocket because I had not been wearing it while we were working on the shed. I must have pulled my keys out and dropped the watch. Any way to make this novel end I have been looking for a month for a new watch and since I am picky and we live in nowhereville I have not been able to find the kind I always get. So the other day I was in that place ( the place I Hate) and decided I had to have something so I was looking at the cheapest watches they had and looky FLAMES! I can't wear it while torching because it is plastic but hey it works in my pocket. Oh and if I loose it I can get another one that has purple flames for $7.00.
These are little button sets. I was having so much fun making these I could have done them in a bunch of colors but decided I had better stop in case other people did not like them as much as I did.
Well I made more buttons. A big one and a couple of small ones kind of like a set. I am getting better at it every day.
since I made one of these raised flower beads. This one has lots of layers in the base bead that are pretty hard to see in the photo. Any way I thought it came out pretty good if I do say so myself.
In the latest issue of Bead and Button, Sara Sally LaGrand shows off her pods and they were really interesting. I decided the other day to try one. It has some tweaking to be done but I think I really like it so have an idea for a bunch to make a necklace out of.
Well this is not actually the kit but this is one of the samples for my newest kit. The instructions still need to be written and pictures taken of the construction steps but it is all coming together. I have been working on flower beads for the kits the last two days and man is the orange one going to be pretty.
are finding their way out of the kiln every couple of days. Still playing around trying to get the dents in the top more even.
No these are not stone they are glass. I love making these beads to look like stone though you have to really heat up that glass and get it moving all around to bring out the colors.
Here are some buttons I made with the same idea. They are about 3/4 of an inch across and have a shank back on them. 
Well things never surprise me any more, at least not with this house. See the lovely orange carpet that was under the bathroom cabinet. Jeff was going to sand the cabinet in place but yesterday broke a pipe in the wall while trying to install shut off valves under the sink. One emergency visit from the plumber later the cabinet is in the barn being refinished as we speak.
