Giant Lentils

I promise this is not all I have gotten done in the last week and a half but it is about all I have that is fun to show you. I have been working hard to catch up on all the little special orders and things I have needed for my trays for shows. Just all the things that make you feel like you are behind when you really aren't.
We are headed out again this Friday for Madison WI to the Art Glass and Bead Show. These great big lentils will be going with me and added to those trays. For some reason this shape and size bead is always so much fun for me to make. I think it is because it is a large canvas so I get to really play with the glass and different designs.

Headed out...........

............again this Friday. We are headed to Minneapolis for the Twin Cities Bead Bazaar and these new bead sets are headed there with us. Hopefully Jeff will have a better weekend this time than for our last trip. If you are anywhere near come and visit us.

Turkish Beaded Crochet

Jodie and I were looking at a You Tube video about Turkish Beaded Crochet and I started looking around for more info and found this somewhere. I am sorry I am not sure where I found it and I can not seem to find it again.

It is a crocheted flat braid with beads. You use two strands with beads on both strands. I had to make a little bracelet and I think it would be really fun to make a wrap bracelet by making it three times the length.

Last weekends show.

I have been really busy all week and doing nothing really fun to share so I thought that I would show you a few pictures from last weekends show.
The new venue is very bright and open. I actually ended up closing the blinds because I was squinting from the sun. There were some vendors not here this year but I really did not get to go around and look. That is actually a good thing because it means I was busy.
Jodie and Tera were busy doing something here. I think they were counting beads but they were really concentrating.

Some soft Spring.......

..........flowers are headed for Etsy this weekend sometime. They are made with the new Gold Mist glass and are just so yummy. This picture in no way shows off how pretty the pearly surface of the Gold Mist is.
I also have some cabs I have been making to play with beading around. I think I am going to take them to the show this weekend. So if you are near DesMoines, IA stop by the Windsor Heights Community Center and take a peak.

Beads are ready................

...............to be priced and packed for this weekends show in DesMoines, IA. Oh I guess it is really in Windsor Heights. This is the bead show that has always been held at Living History Farms and has been moved to 6900 School St., Windsor Heights, IA.
I worked on two different color family's last week and when I went to put them together into sets I had more than I thought which is always a good thing.

Froggy necklace..................

.............by Kathi Tiede. I am not sure when Kathi got this bead from me I do remember making it. She has made a gorgeous kumihimo braid lariat for the bead that shows it off perfectly.
You can see the frog a little better in this picture.