The Shop: Black Friday Cyber Monday
Sometimes I wonder just where time goes. It’s the end of the fall already! Etsy has this big promotional holiday sale on for the American Black Friday through Cyber Monday weekend and I figured I’d take part by offering Free Shipping in my shops. I loaded up my latest colour scheme this week – winterflower – which is a navy base with blue flowers. You can see it on a few of the beads in the bead shop or in the flowers in the cane shop:

Not Just Beads
Sometimes I actually make things other than beads with the canes. Sometimes I make things with the beads. Of course, that’s usually right before shows but that’s the way it goes. Marbly brown and pearl and gold beads wire wrapped the way I do a lot of my pieces.

The Shop: I Love Beads
Bet that comes as a shock huh? That I love beads I mean. So have a gander, check out the new latte ones. Also available on my Artfire site.

New Colours
Wow! Crazy bead making week! But in with the tablespoon of crazy was a nice scoop of productive. I got the initial batches and photos of my latest two colour schemes setup. This is latte, a sort of lighter version of my very popular coffee tones. It is all cream to dark brown, monochromatic so it should be an excellent neutral. It pairs well with the coffee tones, the crimsons and the sea garden colours right off which means I have some ’sperimenting t

Weekend Whirlwind
I’m a big advocate for simple living and removing complications and clutter but sometimes, even with the best of intentions, life gets busy! This week the kid had extra catchup work at school and haunted house building and her first middle school party to work on. The boyfriend had extra work commitments. I have some large (yay!) orders pending and the regular insane fall shopping season online. Phew! So because I’m supposed to be doing Other