Bead Room Clean Out Sale

Kit Sale from now til 2/28/2010

I have bead crochet kits left over from workshops, shows and web sales that are just taking up studio space. These kits will make between a 9" and 9.5", 6-around rope and have everything you need except a crochet hook.

*big-eye needle
*10 yards of 100% polyester thread
*safety pin
*beads
*stringing table
They do not show you how to do bead crochet.

I'm going to start with a series of kits that I have using variegated thread. The thread makes nice bands of color underneath the clear beads. It's the one way you can get banded color rather than spiraling colors. These kits can be had in either 8/0 or 11/0 beads. Quantities are limited.

This is a BLOG Special of $9 a kit

USA Shipping will be a flat $5 for one(1) to five(5) kits. Shipping will be free for 6 or more kits. International Shipping will be $15 for any quantity of kits. PayPal is the payment I can take. It will accept credit cards or e-checks also.

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Missing Beads

When you have about 300# of beads you would think that a person would have what they needed. It isn't always so....

I have gold Delicas, several shades in fact. However, what I wanted to use was a bright gold and the other shades just wouldn't give me the rich, royal zig-zag combination I could see in my mind's eye. Can you see this with a center stripe of gold, banded with matte cobalt, triangles of a glitzy green and a deep metallic red reverse? Oh yes, and cobalt drops to edge it with.

That meant a shopping trip to Tucson. Doesn't everyone think of making a 70 mile trip just to buy beads? OK, OK ..... other things had crept onto a Tucson list and we combined a shopping day in the big city with lunch with Judy Kintner, the Bead Spinner Lady. Let's see, we went for beads, brown mustard seed, Dutch Cocoa, metal shelves, drill press, and some thrift store shopping.

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Now I also know where the Cell Tree farm is.

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While wandering around the industrial section below the Air Base we came around a corner and found where they grow those ridiculous cell tower trees. Had a good laugh and wondered where these were going to go. Looks like they are intended to be palm trees. I hope I don't see a palm tree cell tower in Arizona as the pine tree one in Sierra Vista sticks out like a sore thumb.

Back to Work

I love the sunset display that goes on outside my Arizona studio window. Tonight's wasn't as spectacular as they can be, but nice enough.

I spent the weekend doing a New Year clean out. Now I have to make a run to the thrift store and drop the piles off. Makes me feel like it's a clean start to the new year.

My web site is back open for Book, DVD and CD sales. I found a few more copies of the out-of-print, "Bead Crochet Ropes" book. I have about 20 copies left and after those are gone it will only be available as an e-book. Amazon is sold out, but Rita Sova has half a dozen copies and Judy Kintner has a few copies.

Today I went back to work ... bead work. I am playing with this bead crochet rope design. I need to do an article for a German Magazine as well as the Bead Patterns magazine. The technique is new and different and by March I want to have enough done to do an e-booklet of patterns. It's got some awesome possibilities with the expanded design space.
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So I got some designs done & printed out. It will be fun to start pulling more beads for possible color combinations. I'm also thinking I may get some interesting effects by using daggers on one side and a smaller edge bead on the other side. I wonder how much of a difference in bead sizes it will take to make a natural curve.

I'm going to feel much better once my work table starts to have messy piles of beads on it. I really can't seem to function with a neat creative work space. Half the fun of any bead project is pulling beads and finding things that are possibilities. I seem to start out with at least three times the needed materials.

So, it's back to work .......

2009 had it's moments

There were happy days, filled with sunshine. There were sad days, cloudy and rainy/snowy. I bought a house, moved and didn't do as much beading as I would have liked. Overall, it was a decent year.

Happy New Year

may 2010 be a treasure chest

where your

life, endeavors, wishes, projects and time

are all positive.