Facebook Group Showcase.

Time just flies by I seem to forget to post here like I want to.  Tonight I realized I didn't even do a post about my showcase in the Facebook group Glass Open Market.  You have to belong to the group to see the posts but if you are interested the entire wall is filled with my beads until tomorrow night at 9pm.  Stop by and check it out.  https://www.facebook.com/groups/GlassOpenMarket/

Bead and Button Preparation is............

..........in full swing.  I will be a vendor for the first time this year and I have been very busy making beads and changing my booth some.  If you are coming to the show I will be in booth #209.  Please come by and say hello.

Omaha bead Show and kit samples.

 Well we are heading out again to the Omaha Bead Affair and I wanted to catch you up on what I have been doing.  While we were in Minneapolis I sold the last kit sample for my Party Pendant Kit, I of course forgot this and went off to Madison without a single sample to show. 

I set out to make one but four just seemed to pop up off my work table.  Of course my samples are always for sale, I am just making sure I have one to show off this weekend.

Off to another show.

I am headed to the Art Glass and Bead Show - Madison in WI tomorrow. We have to set up for the weekend and it is a long drive so I hope we see no more snow. The website is http://www.beadshowmadison.com/ if you want to see more about it. Please do come and visit if you are in the area.

Art Glass and Bead Show - Madison, Wisconsin 608-838-8011

beadshowmadison.com

Shiny metallic spirals.

We are in Hopkins setting up for the show this weekend.  Please do try to come and see us.  We will be in the back by the stage again.  I know some of you missed us last fall but we have out old spot back.  Here is a link to the show website if you would like more information.  http://www.beadsbydee.com/Bazaar/bazaar.html   And look shiny metallic spirals. I am bringing a few sets of these and I think they are way prettier in person.

Getting ready for the next few shows.

We are getting ready for my next couple of shows and I have been busy. I made some of these metallic glass wrapped beads right before going to Tucson and I have been playing with some new colors and making some more of the blue ones. This coming weekend we will be in Hopkins MN just outside of Minneapolis at the Twin Cities Bead Bazaar. If you would like more information please check here. http://www.beadsbydee.com/Bazaar/bazaar.html

Trunk Show and some classes.

I have started to do a little teaching this year and have lined up three classes and a trunk show at the Smiling Turtle Art Spot on Omaha, NE next month.  I will be doing a two day trunk show from the 13th - 14th of June and will be teaching both Friday and Saturday. 

If you want to know more about the dates and times of these classes or see more about the Smiling Turtle Art Spot be sure to check out be sure to check out their June newsletter, and do make sure to come to the opening reception on the 13th.

A Bright new Necklace

 I just got this new necklace finished up in time to take it with us to the show this weekend.  We are headed out tomorrow for Madison WI, for the Art Glass and Bead Show.  It is a great show and we get to see all our friends and eat really good Thai food.  Do come and visit us if you get a chance and see this necklace in person.

 I started the necklace while we were in Tucson so you can see how much jewelry I am Not getting done.  I guess I have been slacking off the last month but I have been making beads every day so I guess I have been busy.

 I just loved the colors of this piece together.  And we so need some color around here it is still so winter like.  It snowed again day before yesterday, yet it is supposed to be in the 50's today.  Spring might be on the way.

Of course I had to make a little pair of earrings to go with the necklace.

We are off to Des Moines, IA............

...............for the Des Moines Bead Bazaars second year.  The show is held at the State Fair Grounds in the Walnut Center Building.  The hours are 10-5 on Saturday October 26th and 10-4 on Sunday October 27.  Papio Creek Gems and Gifts are the promoters of the show and you can find more info on their website.  The fairgrounds has an interactive map if you are not sure where the Walnut Center is check it out.  It just so happens that Sunday the 27th is Jeff and my 29th wedding anniversary, so come and say hello.

 I did get a few more end of the day lentil beads ready to take with me.  You can see them in person if you visit the show. 

We are going to Nebraska.........

.........for the Lincoln Bead Bazaar this weekend.  The Bazaar will be held on Saturday October 12, at the 27th Street Conference Center.  The hours are 9-4 and the show is put on by the Nebraska Bead Society.  There is lots of parking and while I didn't get to go last year I have been told it is a great space for the show.  You can check the Bead Society's Blog or you can holler at me if you have any questions.  Do come out and see me if you are around Lincoln.

 I have been working on a new rose bead.  I wanted to have them to take with me to the show but I have not decided if they are really looking like a rose or not.  I do think they look sort of carnation like.  What do you think?

 Of course it does not help that once again my red is doing it's own thing.  This was supposed to be medium red but it is very orange if you ask me.

Headed to Chicago......

........once again.  This weekend we will be in Highland Park, north of Chicago for the Highland Park Bead Bazaar.  The show is Sunday September 29th form 10-4, at the Highland Park Art Center.  If you would like more information, the address, or coupon for $1 off of the $3 admission please check out Ayla's Originals website.  And please come visit me if you are in the area.

 I got a few more end of the day beads made to take with me.  These are some with a little Dicro sparkle in them.

 The bottom left one of these reminds me of floating paint on water for making prints.  The real name of that technique seems to have escaped me at the moment. 

There is also only a few days left to get an entry into my September Drawing.  Make sure to check out my blog post here for ways to enter.

We are headed out once again.

We are headed to Sioux Falls this afternoon for the Sidewalk Arts Festival downtown tomorrow. http://www.sidewalkartsfestival.com/

Do come out and visit us. We will be in about our usual spot.
And if you tried to find me last year I am again so sorry a family thing came up and I just couldn't get there.

Work Table Wednesday

 Wow and it is Wednesday.  Sorry I have been absent.  I have been working though.  I had a request from a good customer for a row counter bracelet that had the copper feel and clasp.  So many of my beads go with copper because I love it so, but for more than a week I couldn't find my copper mojo.  I reverted back to turquoise and brown always a good combo and found a few.  One of which the customer liked and ordered.  The other three are headed off to Hopkins, MN with me on Friday for the Bead Bazaar.  The show is both Saturday and Sunday and is in a great open gym at the Eisenhower Community Center.  Check the link for more info and come visit me.

I also have been giving myself a day off every weekend we are home and last weekend was playing with paint.  I did some giant sheets of paper very much like this small piece that are for another project.  This was a postcard that I have already mailed.  I really had lots of fun making layers and layers of paint. 

Some new Jewelry.........

...........that I got finished in time to take to the Bead Fair in DesMoines.  (If you want to know more about the show check out yesterdays post.)  I have wanted to make these wrap necklaces for a while.  They are long about 48" with no clasp, so you can wear them single or wrapped to make multiple strands. 

 

 They have all kinds of little treasures in the strand and I made several colors.  I honestly had trouble stopping as they were just so much fun to put together and decide which bead might be fun to add next.

 I of course had to make some earrings to go with the necklaces.  Since I wanted to tie in the seed beads from the strand I made a tiny seed bead flower which is a take off of one in the October/November 2009 issue of Beadwork Magazine.

The earrings of course had to come in all the colors too.

And off we go..............

...................to my first show of the year.  This is what my spare bedroom has looked like for the past two weeks as I was getting ready for the show.  I have been filling up trays with beads just as fast as I could and have lots and lots of new beads.  We will be in DesMoines IA at the Windsor Heights Community Center at the corner of 69th and School Street.  Saturday 10-4 and Sunday 10-3.  The Bead Fair moved last year from the Living History Farms to the Community Center and it is a wonderful building with lots of parking.  So come and visit us as the weather has promised to be nice this year and we will be having lots of fun.