Well I am off in just a bit for Omaha and the Bead Bazaar. I hope anyone that is close can come it is a very nice bead show with lots of talented artists. If you can't come I hope you at least get to spend part of your time this weekend beading. Here is a link to the show if you need it.
http://www.geocities.com/nebeads/Omaha2007.html

On another subject my summer show applications are finally starting to come back. Most of the summer shows are juried which means that when I apply I don't always know that I will get to do the show. I am very excited with a message yesterday that I got into the Grand Cities Art Festival in Grand Forks, North Dakota and it's sister city in Minnesota. Here is a link to that show if you want to go look.
http://www.downtowngrandcities.org/artfest.shtml

Well I had best get a move on it is almost time to go. Have a great weekend.

Well here are just a few more beads before I have to leave in the morning. Omaha is about 5 and a half hours away so I have to leave the day before. This goldstone set sort of shows how sparkly it is but I promise in person it is so much better I almost had to keep this set for myself.

And this is one more of the great big lentils that I have been making. I just love what the copper green glass did in the heat it turned a reddish color that some of the glasses turn and I so love the effect it had on this bead.

I will be gone for several days but sure hope that if you are anywhere near Omaha Nebraska that you will come out to the bead show Saturday.

These just would not photograph. They are so sparkly and pretty in real life and they really just do nothing for me in the pictures. The are a new spin on an old idea of mine and they were so much fun yesterday that I really really want to make more. I am sure they will be a big hit.

These flower topped lentils are similar to one that I wear all the time. A friend really wanted it off my neck off the other night and she must have asked in a special way because other people have wanted it and I never tried to make more but I have made her a couple so she can choose.

These are the new spiky beads I have been working on. I have made lots of colors and the more of them I make the more ideas for jewelry I have using them. I have a plate full for the Omaha show this weekend then I am going to make a bunch just for me to use.

Well that was a lot of pictures for today but I had been trying to get them all photographed for the last couple of days.

Well I have been working hard all day and it is now 9:47 and I just sat down to do email and try to post to the blog and frankly I am too tired to go take pictures. I think instead I will try tomorrow especially since I have some cool (or at least I think they are) new focal beads in the kiln. Hope everyone had a great day our warm weather sort of went away but at least it has not been snowing.

Hi! I made it too the barn today and worked for a long while making more of those spiky beads. I will try to get a picture of those tomorrow. But for today here are a couple more bead sets to take with me to Omaha for the show there this weekend.

Here is a link to a map if you need one http://www.geocities.com/nebeads/Omaha2007.html and drop me an email if you need any other information.

Well good afternoon. I have to tell you that I still have not made it too the barn. I started a book that I borrowed from my friend Jodie called "Me and Emma" this morning when I got up and was trying to be a bit quiet as I had children all over the house sleeping because they had stayed up all night and because my hubby was still sleeping. Well even with all the other stuff I have done today I just finished it. It is a little too late to go make beads as I get too sleepy to be playing with fire this time of day so I am going to do some other things I need to do before leaving for Omaha on Friday but I thought I would show you a couple of the sets I have been making to take with me.

Hi again, I just kicked out the house full of kids I had all night long. They were up playing D&D (yes I have one of those geeky kids) and eating until about 7 this morning I got up and they went to bed for a couple of hours then I got them up and fed them and shipped them off. Now I am off to the barn to make some more beads. Have a good day.