Artisan Component Market Grand Opening!!

Join me and my fellow bead mates for the grand opening of Artisan Component Market Place! To celebrate, I am offering a 25% discount with the code "GRANDE" We are also giving away tons of goodies!! Please help us bring to fruition a true artists selling forum. One that celebrates us fellow artists and won't bury us beneath imported mass produced crap!  

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Pissed Off about Picnik!

I got an email last week saying that Picnik my favorite photo editing site was closing on April 19!!  I am so mad!  I use this site for all of my shops photo's.  It's a perfect fit for me I am able to edit photo's in a flash! I love their clone feature and the quick importing.

 I am going to have to find another place for my photo edits.  I feel like I have been dumped.

On a happier note I managed to get a glaze fire into the kiln and take pictures and post most of it.  So here are some photo's of my new stuff. They are availble in my shop!

New Stuff New Start New Summer!

 I have been so busy with the kids and school the past couple of months that I have left my poor blog alone.  So now that summer has started  I will have more time to keep this poor blog updated. 

Here a some pictures of what I posted in my shop to today to kickstart the blog back up! Going to start rakuing again this summer and I have some non bead ceramic items in the works that I am excited about too!

Sweet Little Birds

I pulled new stuff out of the kiln this morning.  I tried out some new glazes which I found underwhelming...  I am going to try out some more today. 

I did get two sets of bird beads that I am pleased with.

And these new lentil beads I made are fantastic! I love them so very much! All of these yummy new beads are available in my shop right now!

Favorites

These turned out so pretty.  I had set them aside for myself, but then I realized I was hording my treasure again.  I decide to put them up in my shop. I can always make more right??

I really like how this double sided large bead came out. Especially with that green glaze on it.  I will put this set up in my store tomorrow!

These were also hard to part with but now the too reside in my Etsy shop.

Hippie Beads ... Man

I love how these babies turned out!  I am gonna try and make more. Lets hope the glaze fairies are kind.  These beads definitely tug on my heart strings, I wish I would have had them back in my Grateful Dead days.......

Peace man! Yeah I know I am a dork! These are dual sided with peace signs on one side and hearts on the other.
 Both sets and more are in my Etsy shop! Come on by and check out all my beads and baubles.

Woo hoo It is the New Year!

My first post of the New Year and let me tell ya whew, am I ever happy that Christmas is behind us.  No I am not a grinch but dang the holiday's are tiring. My daughter has been sick with back to back colds since Sept so that didn't help and I caught one over the holiday too.

 While laid up in bed I did manage to roll a few hundred beads so I am getting back into the swing of things.  I also got some new raku and porcelain glazes that I am eager to try out. Tons of new ideas for the New Year!

I want to take my shop to the next level and my social networking too.  I feel like I am blogging to myself most of the time, I need to find my people.

I am also in the process of posting all of my old stock and making room for the new beads on the horizon so here are some pictures.

Etsy Treasury's

I finally figured out how to do a treasury on Etsy. As always I made it harder than it was. I do find it a little more ungainly than the Artfire Collection maker, but maybe I just need to fool around with.
Licorice Whips and Peppermints

Giant Paper Flowers

My daughter's sixth birthday was last week and her Grandmother sent a treasure trove of crafty kits  for her. One of the gifts was a paperflower kit.

The kit came with lots of tissue paper in a rainbow of colors and pipecleaners to match.  The instructions were easy to follow and soon we were making beautiful flowers.  My daughter got bored after the third flower but I continued to make more. What a fun simple little kit.

I may have to buy my own kit now!

RockStar Beads

Yesterday I spent all day glazing and watching bad movies.  I tried a few new things out. I had bought these bright pastel underglazes awhile back but had yet to really give them a go.  I usually go with a more natural color palette but also I hate being put into a box and labeled as that one thing so every now and then I like to breakout of the box and do something different.

So here are a few pictures of my latest kiln fire and oh boy, I am super pleased. I had listed some in my shop already and am going to list more tomorrow!