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I have updated my Etsy shop with an assortment of fun and funky jewels. There are some of my new stacked button pendants, a handful of stacked button rings, a bunch of earrings, Spamming quickly blasts hundreds of your links into many forums, blogs levitra cost of and directories. When the circumstances cerritosmedicalcenter.com tadalafil pharmacy […]
The annual Spring Workshop for the Indiana Bead Society is coming up soon. March 23rd is the day. I am teaching two half day classes. In the morning I am teaching my Bollywood Bracelet. This class covers a lot of ground in a half a day. We will learn 2 different components, a […]
Now for the embossing! The afternoon was spent embossing metal and playing with patinas. We used one of the newish Vintaj embossing machines. It’s sort of like a mini rolling mill. The square piece has no patina on it, nor has it been sanded. The disc and the initial charm have been patinaed with the […]
Last weekend the Indiana Bead Society hosted a workshop with Candie Cooper. She is awesome and always inspiring. We learned a new image transfer technique, made a scrabble tile pendant, and played with embossing metal. All in all it was a really fun day and I came home with a lot of new […]
It has been a crazy whirlwind fall and winter. There have been family health issues, a trip to Germany and Belgium, a trip to Minnesota, a cancelled trip to Dallas, three holiday sales/shows, the whole holiday craziness, and then a round of the winter blahs. But I’m back with lots of things to report. In […]
A few weeks back I got an e-mail in my inbox from the Beadin Path people. These e-mails are hard enough to resist on a good day, but when they were selling super snazzy kits for a bead challenge I couldn’t resist. Here’s what came in the kit. I am always a sucker for the […]
Here’s the project I will be teaching at the Bead Society meeting September 19th. There will be single and double versions available. I am not sure what kit colors I Men with fertility issue may also need TRT because testosterone plays an order cialis online important role in sperm production. What commander cialis Is It […]
Once I had recovered from Gen Con, I had a few obligations to fulfill. One of which was a bead swap for which I had to bead 11 tubes. Diane and her pal Stephney in England organized this swap. I had to make 5 tubes for people in the US and 5 for people […]
Just a quickie post to let you know my mom entered the Bags2Riches handbag competition and made it into the top 10. She would love it if you would vote for her bag. It’s the coolest one. (: Her’s is bag number 3. 20$ gets you 6 votes. The money goes to Trusted Mentors which […]
Here are a few snaps from Gen Con. Most of the photos I took were of games and game components for Stephen to use on the podcast. The best photo of the event was the awesome balloon sculpture dragon, alas, it is on my phone. If I can figure out how to get it from […]
