Jane is in Beadwork this month!

Wahoo! big congrats to Jane MacGregor Hamilton Mormino for her Let's Fly project in Beadwork this month. Jane had this lovely necklace featured in Beads 2007 as well and the editors were so in love with it then they wouldn't send it back until she let them publish it in Beadwork.

Actually, they still haven't sent it back! Uh-oh!

Check it out, the necklace is really even prettier in person.

Happiness and drawing

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This is a very cool bit of time killing web surfing for you...I found it at the blog Happiness Studio which is a new gotta-read-it-from-the-beginning addiction for me.

new rocks!

New silver ropey chain from India...very nice rope effect on this and I, personally, will hit it with a bit of liver of sulpher to tone it down a bit. I love handmadey looking chains as I don't ever have the time to make them myself...someday!













And here is a shot of our newest rocks, mostly jasper and we also have some yummy watermelon tourmaline, Peru opals, labradorite, lapis and more...it will all be out later this week.

free class went well

Ahh, so I taught a free class on Friday night. We have a free class once a month and I used to teach it all the time but this is the first one I have taught since Nora was born. It was fun, I taught a project from the book and used the directions. The folks that signed up were brave, they had no idea what the project was as I can't show photos of the book projects yet...Everyone's project looked pretty good. It was a bracelet with dapped filigree and a cabochon set into the filigree. I went home and made a few changes to the directions based on the input from Nancy and Elizabeth and other folks in the class.
If you have your own store, I recommend teaching a free class every now and then. I get a different group in the class than our usual registrants. Some take it 'cause it's free, some like the idea of a 'surprise' class (we don't announce the free classes with much lead time at all so you have to register QUICK!) and some folks will come out just because I call them and talk them into it. Not matter what, it's a fun way to spend a Friday night.
These pics are of Nora offering me some assistance today on the book. As you can see, she is already eager to bead.