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!!! :-)

Fire Divas New Jewelry Challenge!

Hey Beady people! It was so nice to meet so many people at the Bokamo Designs
open house! Steve and Terry (and Ziggy!) are WONDERFUL hosts!! I didn't even get any pictures taken to share, but maybe I can steel some from them. :-) They have a beautiful set-up! Thanks to Steve and Terry so much for having me!

I wanted to tell you about another great opportunity for you!


The Fire Divas are hosting another Jewelry Challenge! The theme for this callenge is "The Holiday Season." Pick any of the upcoming holidays and celebrate them! You can see holiday-inspired Fire Diva creations in our Flickr. By entering this challenge, you have the chance to win:

http://www.beadygirlbeads.etsy.com/

http://www.twoglassyladies.ca/

http://www.etsy.com/shop/JanelDudleyBeads

http://www.arensea.etsy.com/

http://www.teasebeads.artfire.com/

http://www.artfire.com/users/BabsBeadsandDesign

http://www.lajewelrydesigns.etsy.com/

http://www.hollysfolly.com/

http://www.lutrick.artfire.com/

Owl bead from http://www.maybeads.etsy.com/

http://www.emakaye.etsy.com/

Now for the details:

All submissions must feature Fire Divas' lampwork. We require the name of the Fire Diva who made the beads used in the submitted piece, so if you submit something, please be ready to provide that information.

We will allow one submission per person per contest, and a maximum of two photos per submission. Entries may be submitted here (http://www.flickr.com/groups/firedivachallenge/) for approval, no later than October 15, 2010. Please include, in the comments section, the following:
Information about the beads:
Description of the piece:
Inspiration for the piece:
Submissions will not be approved without all of this information.

Fire Divas reserve the right to approve or reject any submissions.

Fire Divas reserve the right to modify or cancel the challenge at any time.

The winners will be determined by an open poll which does not allow multiple votes.

I encourage you to enter--this could be our best jewelry challenge ever!

Open House With Bokamo!

Bokamo Designs Open House!

I'll be doing the open house with Steve and Terry Rhoades for the first time and I couldn't be more excited! If you've never seen Bokamo Beads at a show, you're in for a REAL treat! They have the most amazing silver and every color, shape and size of Czech bead you could possibly want! Steve makes his own fabulous Boro beads and there will be jewelry and all kinds of stuff!

Bokamo will have ALMOST EVERYTHING 50% OFF!
Beads
Silver
Crystal
Lampwork
Czech Glass
Treats too!! :-)

I will have all carded beads & jewelry 20% off! (Which is basically everything I have besides baubles, spacers and bookmarks) A first for me!! You gotta come!!
Something for everyone at super-great prices!!!

August 6 – Noon to 7pm
Saturday August 7 – 10am to 6pm
Sunday August 8 – 10am to 4pm

5609 W. 99th Street (99th & Nall)
Overland Park, KS
913-648-4296

Anything not sold from my Etsy shop will be going to the show with me. As soon as I get back from the open house I'm off for Colorado. It's going to be a big driving week for me! In the meantime this week I'll be busy getting ready for the show, taking the kids to swimming lessons and taking care of 9 baby tree frogs!





They are so small and cute I can't stand it. Don't worry--we're taking REALLY good care of them. I've figured out how to get the live crickets in the cage without touching them so all is good with that! :-)
It'll be fun watching them grow. We may have to give some away though, the buying of crickets every other day is getting tedious and expensive! More updates (and better pictures!) on the frogs later.

Be sure to mark your calendar for the open house next weekend! Would love to see you there!
Ta Ta until next time XO

Fire Divas Summer Jewelry Challenge

I know I'm bad about blogging...
I didn't even get a chance to tell you that I was in the July edition of Bead and Button! I know right?
Page 52. Pretty exciting. My first time being in a publication. Whoo Hoo!

I hope everyone is having a great summer so far and that you had a happy and safe 4th of July weekend. Rain and more rain here but...what can you do?


I wanted to let you know about the Fire Diva's Summer Jewelry Challenge! The prizes for the Fire Divas Summer Jewelry Challenge have been announced! All the details can be found here. Now you can see what incredible prizes are up for grabs!! If you haven't been to the Divas' bolg lately, you should go on over to the new Meet The Divas section! :-)

I don't know much more for now. I'll be doing an open house with Bokamo Beads in Kansas City the first weekend in August. More information on that VERY soon (yes, I promise!).

Happy Birthday To Me!

I know it's been a long time since I've updated here. You should know by now that I'm bad about that!

Today, May 30th, is my birthday! In celebration I'm having a one-day sale. Since I'm turning 40, (GASP!) I thought it would be fun to take $4.00 off of each item purchased TODAY only in my Etsy shop . This DOES NOT include Beads Made To Order, but everything else goes! :-)
I've added a few new things and plan to add a few more later today.
Hope everything is going well in your world. The end of the school year is VERY near so I've just been working hard because once school is out for the summer (*que music*) my time at the torch is limited!

I don't promise that I'll update here again soon because well...it just never seems to happen! You can follow me on Facebook though, I post over there at least once a day. THAT I can do from my phone and it's MUCH easier! :-)

Hope to see you at the sale.
Have a great Memorial Day weekend. Bless our Vets!

Get Your Green On!

Happy St. Patty's Day! Hope you find a great way to celebrate! Everyone's Irish on March 17th, right?!
The Twin Cities show was fantastic! So great to see everyone--vendors and customers alike!

It's spring break and Grandma Lorna is here from Colorado. She brought food and new clothes and likes playing board games and will go on bike rides...it's great! :-)

The Fire Divas have a lot going on right now too:
The Quarterly Jewelry Challenge is going on with lots of fabulous prizes including a gift certificate from yours truly!

Don't forget to vote in the Easter poll and check out the beads of the day. Good stuff!

I've got new stuff on eBay
new stuff on Etsy
And if you haven't done it--think about becoming a "fan" on my
Facebook page! :-)

Have a great St. Patrick's Day! Go Green!