Well, at least the beads are bumpy:
I would say that life, last week at least, was CHILLY. There was a biggish milestone in it:
I guess that means there’s now a teenager in the house. So far teenage kiddo seems much the same as twelve year old kiddo!
I took the leap of faith and put my name in the hat for the Bead Soup blog hop. And got a spot (and a partner to trade soup makings with!). My partner is Cilla Watkins, another Canadian jewellery artist, from the very pretty town of Salmon Arm in the British Columbia interior.
I was happy to see she has a little of the same jewellerymaking vibe as me. Makes it easier to pick out treats then even if I know we’re supposed to be sending challenging bits and pieces to our partners.
Cilla has her own site at Tell Your Girlfriends and sells her work on Etsy in her shop of the same name.
For Cilla, here’s a teaser of what I popped in the mailbox for you:
One of those few times I get to use the silly filters in Photoshop! Yay!
January has been off to a good start. One of the first things I did with my holidays and new year was to clean off the bead table, right down to the top. That means I’ve actually been making and photographing items at a steady clip since. Here’s a few from this week:
This bracelet was fun – using a tab bead in a way I hadn’t really thought of until I saw others doing it on the ‘net.
This is another necklace – I need to take these while they`re hanging, I know – with a pendant in an oval shape with little (downright tiny) blue flowers. There are a few coordinating blue, green and brass beads on this piece.
And these are the dainty little coordinating earrings for the above pendant.
Want to share what`s on YOUR bead table? Show us at: Bead Table Wednesday on Flickr
Some of the latest in my Etsy shops – the pic is linked to my Tooaquarius shop but the canes can be found in my Claychicks shop. There’s a few of my new textured and distressed pendants, my Valentine’s Day offerings, a pile of new cane sets and… geraniums. Yeah, I know that’s out there.
Next on my to-do list is the drilling of holes in the occupiers of my bead table:
There’s a similarly sized stack already done but I’ve learned to space out drilling tasks so the rest will be done today and the next few days. My hands thank me.