SUMMER...

I hope this post finds you enjoying your summer.

After getting beyond the Bead & Button Show, I've spent the past month listing lots of acorns, hearts, keys & beads in my Etsy shop. I've just finished posting the last of my copper & glass acorns until the fall.

I'm spending the rest of my summer getting my studio ready for teaching & doing a little bit of vacationing before the kids go back to school! This next week, however, I'm going to be busy preparing for a big 50th birthday bash for my sweet hubby! Fifty... hard to believe. :o) It's going to be fun...

Till next time...

KALEIDOSCOPES....

I've been having fun making kaleidoscopes the past few months & I'm getting pictures ready for listing them on Etsy. Just finished these pictures...... I thought this was a pretty cool looking kaleidoscope & these pictures really  made me fall for it all over again.

Am I allowed to tell you that I messed up when I was making it.... notice that the dots are a different color than the scrollwork? I grabbed the wrong glass... they looked the same in stringer form, for some reason, but obviously they're different. I really like it, though...... a true one-of-a-kind collectors item, I'm sure. :o)

Check it out. (click on images to enlarge)

.....it'll be listed on Etsy tomorrow.

Till then.....

BEAD & BUTTON & BEYOND....

Well.... The Bead & Button Show was a great success.... always a great time, I love to interact w/ customers & I especially love catching up w/ friends.

I really went crazy getting inventory ready for the show, so I came home w/ plenty of product to stock my Etsy shop w/... so that's what I've been doing since I've been home.
Plenty of acorns....

some fabulous large hole beads....

some gorgeous heart beads....

heart bead keys....

....& several kaleidoscoopes....

I have more to list over the next several days.... so much work!

Next on the agenda.... cleaning out my studio & adding a 2nd torch for teaching!! I bought a new torch @ the show, so excited about hooking it up!

Till next time....

THE BEAD & BUTTON SHOW...

...it's coming up quickly!! I'm ready, are you?

Heart beads, heart beads & more heart beads....

European-Style Charm Beads & bigger beads, perfect for necklaces 

& my new Duel-Length Stacking Charm-Bead Necklaces (bracelets, too!)

Plenty of cute earrings & jewelry

Glass & Copper Acorns (& acorns & more acorns!!)

Even a new size....MICRO...so cute!

Etched & enameled copper oak leaves & my sterling silver twig changeable bead holders, too! So much more!

Hope you'll stop by to check everything out.... booth 1136!

Here's a coupon for you, too... for 20% off one item at my booth....

& Click here for coupon for $2 off admission &/or Sunday's 2 for $10 special   

COMING UP NEXT WEEKEND...

I'm getting ready for the Bead & Button Show that's coming up rather quickly (June 10-12)... but next on my agenda is Art-a-Whirl next weekend!!

May 20th-22nd, Friday-Sunday

Northeast Minneapolis Art-a-Whirl Open Studio & Gallery Tour. Over 500 artists open their studios & galleries to the public for the largest tour in the US! 

Click here to print out the Art-a-Whirl map.

I will be showcasing my work as well as demonstrating glass beadmaking along with my local ISGB chapter, Star of the North Glassworkers, at:

FOCI / Minnesota Center for Glass Arts (click link for more info)

Glassblowing demonstrations all weekend, FOOD, live music & entertainment & an open gallery full of new glass art from a variety of local glass artists. 

2010 E. Hennepin Ave. 

Building #10
Minneapolis, MN 55413
(watch for sign on right, turn in @ sign & drive all the way behind the buildings on your left...FOCI is on the back side of the building)

Friday: 5-10pm

Saturday: noon-8pm

Sunday: noon-5pm

There will be nonstop glass beadmaking demos from the group.

   I will demo, tentatively:

      Friday: 5:15, 7:15, 9:00

      Saturday: 1:15, 2:45, 4:45, 6:45, 7:45

      Sunday: 1:15, 2:45, 4:15

I hope you will stop by to see me in action!

Here's a coupon for 20% off any ONE item at Art-a-Whirl. 

Hope to see you there!!