Upcoming Shows

It's always so long between posts that I I forget how to even DO it! Does anybody even READ this thing? :-) Well, just in case--here's where I will be (that I know of so far!) this year:

Bead & Jewelry Fair

February 21 & 22, 2015

Windsor Heights Community & Events Center Windsor Heights, Iowa 50324

Twin Cities Bead Bazaar

March 21st & 22nd 2015

Hopkins Eisenhower Community Center

Madison Art Glass & Bead Show

March 28 & 29, 2015

Alliant Energy Center - Exhibition Hall Madison, Wisconsin

Omaha Bead Affair 2015

April 11th & 12th, 2015

LaVista Community Center LaVista, Nebraska

Bead Blast 2015

May 2nd & 3rd, 2015

Overland Park International Trade Center

Missouri Bead Retreat 2015

May 15-18, 2015

ALHONNA RESORT | LAKE OZARK, MISSOURI

Looking forward to seeing you at a show near you!! :-)

BEAD SHOWS!!

It always seems to be SUCH a long time between blog posts for me! Where have I BEEN!?! Well, I'm not really sure, but I can tell you where I WILL be! I have three shows coming up this spring.

Twin Cities Bead Bazaar
March 8th & 9th, 2014

Twin Cities Bead Bazaar

Madison Art Glass & Bead Show
March 22nd & 23rd, 2014

Bead Show Madison

Rocky Mountain Bead Society Bead Bazaar 2014
April 26th & 27th, 2014

Rocky Mountain Bead Society Bead Bazaar

I guess I do most of my "blogging" over on the Facebooks. :-) You can find me there by following the link to the left over there <------

Hope to see you at a show this spring!

Map of the Bead Show!!

I want eveyone to come out to the bead show this weekend! Here's a map--it looks more confusing than it is. We will be at #13 on the map (it's circled).Hope to see you there!

Another Bead Show!

Unless something comes up, this will be the last bead show for me for the year! First Annual Fall Des Moines Bead Bazaar!!

Saturday October 27 10:00 am - 5:00 pm

Sunday October 28 10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Walnut Center Building @ Iowa State Fairgrounds
3000 East Grand Ave
Des Moines, IA 50317

Something for everyone!

Please come out and make this first show a success so that we can continue to have high quality and comprehensive bead shows right here in the Metro!

BEAD SHOW!!

I'm obviously the world's worst blogger. In attempts to reach as many people as possible, I often only remember to blog when I have a show coming up. I'm sorry about that. I DO have a show next weekend (info below) and I've got a TON of new stuff and the "bargain bowl" is overflowing!! I know how everyone loves to dig through that so be sure to come out!

Hope to see you there!!!

Happy August

It's half over already! I swear we've spent half of the summer inside because it's been too hot to even go to the BEACH! I know a lot of people are feeling the effects of drought throughout the country. It's so dry here in Iowa that part of house started to pull away! We had to water the house foundation for crying out loud! You might expect that in Texas but not here in Iowa! At least we were able to figure out the problem.

School starts next week and with one kid going off to middle school, I cna't say that I'm quite ready. I guess I'll have to GET ready--real quick. At least the first week is a short week. I guess it WILL be nice to get back to work. Trying to work in the middle of the night is playing havock. I used to be able to do it, not so much any more. :-)

What else? Pinterest? Everybody I know is spending WAY too much time on that site. Some fun stuff going on over there though. I'm guilty too. You can check out my boards if you want! I don't know why Blogger is not letting me add the hyper link, but you can get to it from the link on the left<<< or go here: http://pinterest.com/beadygirl . Seeing my page it's pretty obvious that I love colorful stuff. :-)

Speaking of colorful, we went last week to Reiman Gardens in Ames, Iowa where they were having their Lego exhibit. Very cool.

That's about it for now. :-)

Happy July

Times flies! I read somewhere that people forget about you if you don't blog often. Ugh well... it isn't that I don't love you or want to talk to you, it's just that not much exciting seems to happen in my little world! :-) The heat has been keeping me from making beads which really stinks! I HATE NOT MAKING BEADS!! I don't know how I ever survived BEFORE I started!

I was able to find some beads from my show stash that I listed today though.

I was trying to learn on the fly how to put all those pictures together in one photo in Photoshop but couldn't figure it on my own. I'll try again later. :-) Maybe I'll pick up a Photoshop for Dummies book.

Hope you're all staying cool.

2012 Omaha Bead Bazaar--THIS Weekend!

I know I'm bad about blogging. I guess it seems that if something interesting goes on, I put it on the Facebook. Silly, I know.
Well, anyway, here's where I'll be this weekend and I hope to see all of you! I really enjoy this bead show and I know you will too!!

Saturday, April 14th
9:00 am to 4:00 pm

$3.00 admission
$2.00 with coupon - available at local bead shops
$1.00 Kid's 12 and Under (must be accompanied by an adult)

Westside Community Education Center
3534 S 108th ST
Omaha, Nebraska


Hosted by:
Nebraska Bead Society
Omaha Beady Bunch
Midwest Lampworkers Guild

Take A Seat--A Week in Color--Vintage Chairs!

As promised, here are the treasuries I created with vintage chairs. If I had the space and the money--I would buy ALL of them! :-)













***In other news, I TOTALLY messed with the colors/theme/layout of my blog and can't seem to get it back to the way it used to be! I will fiddle with it more later. In the meantime--sorry for the EXTRA HUGE banner and the white background in the center. :-)

A Week In Color--GLASS

So I got through all of the colors (AND Rainbow!) for glass and even figured out how to get a treasury picture here!!
You can see ALL of my treasury lists by going HERE . Next up, vintage chairs! I was going to do A Week in Color with vintage items, but when I started looking for red items, I found there were a large number of chairs and seating things! That set me on a path toward a rainbow of vintage chair treasuries! See those next time!

A Week in Color--Yellow Bellied, Baubled and Beaded!--Glass

I was suprised that there were SO many great choices to pick for yellow! I could have done TWO treasuries for this one! A beautiful banana bead from the Etsy shop lunacyglass is just one of the yummy YELLOW

items in this treasury !

A Week in Color--Orange ya glad!?--Glass Treasury

I'm two for two so far this week! (although I'm kind of a day behind!)
Here's orange!

A perfect pumpkin from the Etsy shop AdamArtGlass1 is just one of the awesome ORANGE

items this treasury !

A Week in Color--RED (A Treasury)

A beautiful bud vase from the Etsy shop kivaford is just one of the wonderful red gems you'll find in

this treasury !



I'm going to try to do a new treasury each day this week for all the colors of the rainbow--you know how I LOVE them! We'll see if I can accomplish that. I might have to actually spread it out over SIX weeks instead!


In other news--It snuck up on me at the last minute but this weekend I'll be at the
9th Annual Bead Bash!!!
Sept. 30th & Oct. 1st, 2011
Best Western Regency
3303 South Center Street
Marshalltown IA, 50158

PLEASE come and see me! :-)

Crazy for Cream

Of course it's been months since I had an update here! Time goes by fast and yet for ME, not much comes up that is exciting as say, a CHICKEN showing up on your doorstep. Sadly we lost that chicken, but have added four more. More on that later. I wanted to show you some new beads I've been working on--most of them listed in my Etsy shop.




Hope all is well in YOUR world. I worked on Halloween beads last week so THOSE will be up next. Take care until then! :-)

In Need of Blog Material

Well, it's been a hot lazy summer so far. No shows, no vacation, just wet and then HOT. We've done the pool and the beach but that's about it. We did have a chicken come stay at our house. Just out of nowhere a CHICKEN shows up. I had to do a crash course in chicken care and did the best I could on such short notice but alas a raccoon got to her and she just went downhill after that.
We are now quasi planning to do chickens RIGHT (coop and THEN chickens) but it's been so hot that the thought of trying to do ANYTHING outside hasn't been very appealing.
Just needed to get some little thing up here because I hadn't updated in SO very long!
How's your summer going so far?

*clap clap clap* Bead Show!

Good Lord, my last blog post actually says "The holidays are almost upon us" (or something like that!) can you tell that not much exciting happens around here? Just beads. And even those, some people take pictures of their beads every day and post them. I'm not good about that either. WELL, if you're looking for a chance to see my beads in person, you're going to get four chances in the next four weeks!! Hopefully I will doing a show near you! (check events!)---------------------->
The first of my four shows will be this weekend (March 19th-20th):





I've got new beads and bookmarks even some earrings and pendants! Hope to see you there!!

Happy Holidays!

Well Christmas is virtually upon us! I was going to wait until Christmas Day, but I've decided to start the sale early! As a holiday "Thank you" to you, I'm offering 25% off everything in my shop EXCLUDING "Beads Made To Order" and the "Bead-of-the-Month Club" and Gift Certificates. Discount will be refunded to you through PayPal OR I can send you a revised invoice, whichever is best for you! Happy Holidays!
http://www.etsy.com/shop/beadygirlbeads
I was just reminded that I can use the Etsy coupon code thingy that will deduct your discount automatically so I'm going to go check into that right now.

I hope you all have safe and happy Holidays!

Twin Cities Bead Bazaar!!

This weekend! Come see me!!
MORE INFO

Lincoln Bead Bazaar

Hi beady people! Those of you who follow me on Facebook have probably heard that my in-laws have moved to Africa for a couple of years to work for Bead For Life. While I am sad to see them go, I am also very excited for them in their new adventure! They left last week and made it safely so I can at least breath a little easier. :-)
I will update more on that as they get settled and start sending pictures. We can share the experience vicariously through them!

In other news, this coming weekend I will be in Lincoln, Nebraska, for the Lincoln Bead Bazaar. This year the Bead Bazaar is being held in conjunction with the Textile Society of America's biennial symposium. VERY exciting!!





I hope to see lots of people! What better way to spend the day than looking at beads!? I'm sure many vendors will have "you can't beat it" bargains and even I will have a 50% off basket! :-) Come on down!

Iowa Bead Bash

This weekend you can find me in Marshalltown, Iowa at the 8th annual Iowa Bead Bash! Vendors from 8 states around the Midwest come together to bring you everything you could need to bead!
Sept 24th 5-9 pm
Sept. 25th 10-5pm
For more information you can go to the website:
www.iowabeadbash.com

Hope to see you there!
P.S. I have a 50% off bowl!!! :-)