Under $25

My exciting news...

I think I might have mentioned it briefly before, but I have some beads published in a magazine again.  In February an editor from BeadStyle magazine bought some beads from me for a piece she was working on.  I was so, so, so, so, excited.  They are in the special issue of "Under $25" that just came out.  They will be in most stores the 13th of May, but I know a few bead stores already have them such as Bead Haven in Cedar Rapids.  In the issue are pieces of jewelry you can make for under $25.  For some of the pieces is a little box titled "splurge" in which you can add or change something to the piece for a little more money (or a lot).  Lindsay made a necklace with my beads and it turned out wonderful. 

I added a special section to my website for sets that can be used for the necklace.  It uses 5, 18mm lentil beads and for the earrings 2, 15mm beads.

Beading Daily

Did any of you enter the contest put on by Beading Daily called "Bead Star"?  The deadline was yesterday, but thought it would be fun to enter something at the last minute.  The prizes are amazing if you won (can't remember right now what they are) so I thought "Why not?"  I kind of threw this together on Monday.  They had different categories such as plastics, seed beads, wire, glass, etc and your piece had to be 75% of the item.  I, of course, entered in the glass category.  It actually looks really nice on.

Exciting news tomorrow!

New Necklaces

A couple new necklaces I made over the weekend.  The bottom one features a PMC piece by Cristina Leonard.  That's one thing I love about doing shows, is meeting other artists and trading work.  I traded some beads for this wonderful toggle clasp.  I added some pearls and brass chain, and featured the toggle in the front.  

New Design

Wanted to show another example of what you could do with the  lentil focals.  I have showed you how I put them on leather with silver pendant 625 (sold on my web site)  This is another necklace I made that I just love.  I used some silver chain, seed beads (or small czech beads) and a "S" shape silver link (that I can make for you).  So many possibilities with this design.

Boro Lentils

These are what I hope to get added to the store later today.

  
 

New Boro

Happy Saturday!!!  I have a few new boro sets to add to the store.  I also have about 7 new boro lentil focals to re-photograph (wasn't happy with the first pictures) and I will try to get them added as well.

Boring Blogger

So sorry for the uneventful week.  I do have a few boro sets to clean and photograph.  We don't have much going on this weekend, so hopefully I can get that done this weekend sometime.  I don't have any new bead pictures to show, so I will add a picture of the kids the other night eating their popsicles.  An all time favorite snack...