Ooh! Shiny!

So when I design a piece, I usually have a complete image in my head that I set to work on and maybe tweak a bit depending on the supplies I have on hand or at my whim. This, on the other hand, w...

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So I recently came across this video and I thought I’d give it a try.  I was a bit hesitant due to my challenges with using the double needle technique (not technically using needles but b...

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So I was pretty busy last night, and by that, I mean this morning. I got to bed close to 3am. I was writing descriptions and listing things on Etsy. Before that, I set up my Etsy shop on Faceboo...

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Well, I am all out of my spiral bracelets. They have all been sold! So now I have money from buying them and I get to make some more, which is fun for me. So this is a win/win situation. Ano...

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So these are the colors that are forecast for Spring 2013: Challenge Accepted. Okay, so I thought it would be really bad-ass if I just ended this with "Challenge Accepted" and strut off wi...

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So this month I've decided to take part in the NaNoWriMo challenge. But I'll still be doing my beading of course. In fact, I have a boutique to sell at this Saturday in Signal Hill. It's at an A...

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So here they are, the templates for the necklace displays that I posted a couple of posts ago. See the previous blog post  to see how they are put together. You can attach them with velcro tape...

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So Sunday’s swap meet at Glendale College was a bust and I wish I hadn’t stressed out so much about it the night before.  I should’ve taken it as an omen when after I finished setting up,...

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Between helping my mom with schoolwork and prepping for the Glendale Swap Meet next weekend, I haven’t had the chance to post this blog yet, but here it is. So one day, I was looking throug...

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This is what the most common spinners look like When I first heard about bead spinners, a contraption that helps you speedily string up long strands of seed beads, my first response was, “...

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A project I’ve worked on recently is a repair of a friend’s mother’s necklace.  I’m not going to say a whole lot about it, except that I’m very happy with how it came out. I can’t t...

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So I’ve fallen back down the research hole. Which would be fine but in this particular hole, all kinds of sources have been throwing in conflicting advice. There is an elevator that will take ...

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 First off, I'd like to apologize for taking so long to get back into blogging. My laptop took a crap and died on me and so now I'm stuck with trying to do things on my netbook. The netbook is ...

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So I recently took a bunch of pictures of earrings for a friend to see and I figured uploading them to an old Photobucket account would be easier than posting them individually.  So now I'm chec...

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So this entry was supposed to be written a couple weeks ago but life got kinda hectic. It’s about a theme I was working on. Back in the last half of March, I had plans for the weekend that fell...

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This is a Russian Spiral bracelet that was the February bead-along project on the Seadbeadersters yahoo group. I was a very late start because for a while I was VERY behind on emails. I also...

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This is the Oscar bracelet, called this because I made it last night while watching the Oscars. It was modified from a bracelet called Lattice Lace Bracelet designed b7y Carolyn S DeGroff....

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Okay so this week, or at least the first half of it, I might decide to work up another pattern before the week ends, I made a bracelet based on the design of Carolyn DeGroff. I say “based on”...

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So this past week, the pattern I chose to do was a pair of earrings designed by Carolyn DeGroff. It was called Blue and white Feather Earrings, but I didn’t go with the color scheme of the p...

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This is going to be a quick post but I just had to share my finished bracelet. The first project of my challenge to use many of the old patterns I've saved up and haven't done yet. This was don...

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So I’ve been wondering what challenge I wanted to give myself for this time of year. Last year, it was to make jewelry with all the colors of the year's Pantone Spring forecast . While I did...

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I know I just made a post earlier today, but I just read a quote that I feel totally fits in this blog. So, because of that, and in effort to make a blog post more often than I do (my blog is dre...

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So because someone asked, here are pictures of the flower pin I was working on when I posted pictures of the carry-all I put together. I can’t wait until I get the room to set up my photo li...

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So this weekend, I had a play date; in other words, a craft day. My friend Becky was having some people over to work on bellydance costumes and invited me to bring my beads or any other craft I ...

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So as of two nights ago, seven of my UFOs (UnFinished Objects, for those who haven't read the last entry) have now become FOs I guess you could say. They are finished and they are GORGEOUS! ...if...

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