One Down, One to GO!

Well I survived the Firefly Art Fair. My sales were down from the last time I did it, but I really try not to compare income from show to show. Especially in this economy! I am part to blame, I should of sent out post cards to the people that bought from me 2 years ago at this fair and I didn't. I know (Mom) I need to really work on the marketing part of my business, BORING! I just want to bead, bead, bead! I was happy with what I made, and it's always great to hear the nice things customers say about my work and display! I'm looking forward to beading what ever I want after my last show this weekend. Yeah! That and make some pieces I've had in my head for awhile. I want to make a few more things to show the art museum and see if they'll sell them in their shop. I've been tossing around the idea of making more high end pieces and try to get into some "fine art" fairs next year!? That's the kind of jewelry that's fun for me. We'll see, I'm still thinking about it!!

Happy thoughts for me this weekend. I'm expecting little so whatever comes my way will be a nice surprise! That and the help of a good man will go far!! (and he's cute too!)

Beading and Books, Baby!

Just when I thought I had nothing to blog about StumbleUpon
comes through for me. First I went here
then here found this along the way, who wouldn't want an idea for a new book to read, or hear. Since I started beading so many years ago I really missed reading books so now I listen to books on tape/CD. I find that's true with most beader's. I'm not sure how but I'd like to start some kind of book go round, you know, send the book/CD to beaders who sign up that want to listen to that book too. Plus I wouldn't mind paying so much for a book knowing it gets passed along to someone else. I'm going to think about this more and see if I can get it to really work. I know Marcia and Jeannette listen to books. Oh and so does Gail. Knowing their such awesome artists, I know I'd like most of what they like to read too.








See I told you they are awesome!

Crafty!

I use to hate winter it was cold, rainy, cold, snowy, cold and more cold, yuck! Now, now! I enjoy it, because all winter long I get to be "crafty". I say crafty because besides beading I'm knitting and crocheting. Now mind you I still have to cook, clean and do laundry, but I no longer need to work outside weeding, weeding and more weeding. OK, there is some fun gardening thrown it there, but mostly it's weeding.
So last week I started knitting this scarf.



I chose it because I never did the cable stitch before and this had just a little in the pattern. I was having fun learning this new stitch but after finishing the first part it was very small. By small I mean it was 1.5 inches across! I read my instructions top to bottom to see if there was something I missed. There was one minor word I that I did not pay enough attention to... It's called a "neckwarmer". Silly me I assumed by the picture it was a scarf. So now I'm going to try to use the same pattern and make it larger. Me, with little experience with knitting! But the "neckwarmer" pattern is pretty cool (it's called Twig) so I'm going to try and make it work. Wish me luck!
In the beading world, I did make this awesome (if I do say so myself) bracelet.




It's not my pattern I got it somewhere on the internet (that I couldn't find again if you paid me).
I couldn't wait to make this, and since it's not my pattern I wouldn't sell it in my esty shop so I thought I'd make it for a raffle my uncle Paul is in charge of, the proceeds go to help patient's with prostate cancer.
I am more than happy to donate to this cause especially since my uncle is a cancer survivor himself.
Hopefully people will bid high to own that beauty.