Indoor photo set-up working A-OK

Half Speed Harry
I have been taking photos and updating my Etsy shop with one or two things but it is very slow going. I seem to be operating at half-speed this week, I stopped taking beta-blockers a few days ago and obviously immeadiatly stopped sleeping and then went down with a ghastly migraine but I decided to stick with it anyway. I'm really hoping that in a few days everything will settle back down and I will be able to get some sleep and then pick up the pace a bit. So I will not be making any beads today and I don't think I can bear to take anymore photographs in the wind tunnel I call my garden so it's chores - wimper...so far today, I have scrubbed the kitchen and bathroom, cleaned all the l

Beadmakers Lexicon
Todays addition to the beadmakers lexicon....Beadmakers Arse - Definition.... "It's behind you""oh no it isn't""oh yes it is"etc.

Beadmakers Lexicon
I am working on a beadmakers lexicon. Words made up, mostly by myself and BG and used in our misguided attempt to normalise something that is clearly not normal i.e our rather bizarre existence at BCC - Bead City Central.De-mandrelate - to remove beads from mandrels by whatever means necessary, water, pliers, freezer, hydraulics, jaws of life, tow truck....whatever means necessary people, let's all work together and get that sucker OFF!I have more, many more, but do you have any? because I would love to hear them and any added will be properly credited to you for posterity....

I have a new friend....
I call him Rock the Prop... Shhh.. if we are quiet we can see him hiding in his natural habitat.You are going to be seeing a lot of Rock the Prop because I have discovered that, rather bizarrely, I have to confess, I think it is very photogenic! Yes it is a dirty, mankey lump of rock but w

Finally, beadcreep wins.
It's way past midnight, BG has gone to bed I have totally trashed the living room..again... it is FULL of beads. I decided some organisation was called for and that always ends badly... I now have a small drawer containing beads on Etsy, beads on my website and beads for print, so what? maybe 20 beads max in the drawer, and the rest? well like the title says, beadcreep wins. This mess has taken me all day to create and now I'm a little bit scared , it's going to take a long, long time to clear this up.On the upside I do have some wicked new photos for Flickr when I get round to it, you want to see? Well sadly I can't show you because blogger won't upload my photos - Grrrr. I wil