a few more, one of which is a repeat (the white one on top of the big dot bead)!

Hi all,

The sun is shining, and i am happy with my beads!  These dot beads are tedious and take quite a bit of experience to make these small dots with precision.  They remind me of seed beads and those indian woven necklaces i used to get when i visited those parts of the country as a small girl.  Oh, i remember the ones that had the big circle that i cherished as i skipped down the street in my moccasins with my precious keepsake around my neck.  These remind me of those memories and i am really excited to do these on a large scale.  They will flatter your bracelets wonderfully or buy them all and make a necklace, oh and dont forget to order a big focal to top it off!!

  I have continued the theme with a couple of black and whites with a pattern , zig zag and a diamond pattern around the circumference of the bead.  I was playing and will continue to perfect this. 

 Oh, and the wonderful purple i have gotten out of the bottom bead with wonderglass and the murrini bead with lapis, yummmmm, reminds me of a grape popsicle.  The top bead is wonderglass and it is so striated with teals and blue and purple that you will love this bead.  I am going to make more, and of course a seed bead bead!!!! 

Did anyone notice that there is a girl on american idol that does what i do?????  Im rooting for her because of that, i just get her, she is different and can hit that earth shattering note.  I am sure she learned that while sitting in her studio with a loud blast of gas coming out of her torch, followed by loud fans ventilating the harmful vapors.  She still has to have her loud music as well.  I sing all the time really loud, ha ha!!  ok, have a great day and i will let you know when i am taking these, i still have more beads to make though, any suggestions????

 Peace

steph

Nooooooo just these -

I have to do this quick, yes, i have been in a rut, yes, i have been sick with pneumonia, yes, i have not felt like doing much, yes, breathe, my house is going to be sold for a lot less than its worth, yes, teenagers have been hard so far this month, yes, my arm and carpel tunnel is so bad that i soak my whole arm in ice water twice a day and still want to cut it off, yes, the puppy has taken up a lot of my time and energy of which i do not have much, yes, i did not want to bore you with nothing good to talk about!!! 

Now the good news!  I am better, i have been torching a little and there will be beads at Yelton’s on Thursday!  The teenager is on track again, my sickness is gone, spring is coming, the puppy is doing much better, yes, yes yes!!

Enjoy the black beads, these are really tedious because of all of the dots and their sizes but i love them because well, they are detail, detail, detail!!!  Trust me when i say that you might have the new troll black and white but these will be the icing on the cake.  Troll cannot and does not put this kind of effort into their beads!  Yes, that is a little bit honest and maybe not very tactful, but hey, i warned you as to how i have been lately, ha!!!! 

Have a great day!!

Come see me at Yelton’s saturday from 10-5, i will make a one of a kind bead for you!!!

Valentine Beads are on their way to Nancy @ The Good Life Boutique!!!!  More later

Dont forget, I will be torching at Yelton’s on January 30th!!!  Come see me

Ok, here are the 4 fabulous beads that will be at the store today!!!  They are loaded with murrini that is handmade and very time consuming and beautiful once complete!  silver glass abound and two slices of dichro in every bead, Awwwwwwww!  One of a kinds!  Call or visit Yelton’s right away!

  Pics not do these justice!!!  Sorry

Meet “Alvin”, he is a sweet, adorable Yorkie/papillon mix that is just a breath of fresh air!  He literally is the best puppy, his personality is soooo sweet but it is mixed with just the right amount of mischief!  I understand now why the “tiny” dog lovers become so attached to them because they truly are like little babies!  Yesssss, i love babies and of course cannot have any grandchildren yet and that is the way I want it but this little guy will suffice, ha! 

Ok, I am making these really cool beads but i need a name for them!  charms?  bobbles?  Come on ladies, my thinker is not working, i am sleep deprived, ha ha!!!  Here are a few pics of the same beads, they are fun and will look nice on the bracelets!  I already have two on mine!  Nooooo, i did not take the best ones!

Anyhoo, this is a lot of shots but i wanted you to get better views since you all know my picture taking skills!!  Have a nice night, off to volleyball!  Come on ladies lets show our Bengal support this week for the game, yeah, ok it was a slaughter but this just might be the lucky “charm” you need to have on for the game, of course there are lots of black and whites and a few colored ones as well!

Peace~

 I look like a bobble head, ugh, where’s my body, oh wait i did not want that in the picture anyway!!!!!

I have not been on in a while and totally skipped Christmas as well on here, but guess what?????  I will give you three guesses as to what i am getting ready to do today????  You say feed my birds?  Nooooooo, Take the Christmas tree down?  Nooooooo!  Da Da Da Daaaaaaaa MAKE BEADS?  YESSSSSSSSSSSS!  There will be more beads at Yelton’s by next friday and ask them about me coming to make beads at the store!  I love doing that because i get to interact with people and I get to sit behind the scenes with Mark and Lynette!  Well, the bad news is that i have to control my singing and humming.  I love to sing loud and proud and i love to hum the same rhythms over and over as i make a bead (if no cd in the player), that way i have a rythmic way of applying that gets me in the groove and keeps me moving to the same tempo during a bead process.  It DOES make me appear to be crazy but hey, that is debatable anyway sooooo….  Mark and Lynette probably would not be too happy though so i have to squelch my behavior since i am in public, ha ha!!!

Pics from Christmas!!  enjoy

Gotta Love them, Anna is sooo silly!

Do you see the squirrel on the left side??  There were actually three but this guy kept charging at the deer and then running back to a safe distance!  It was the funniest thing, they were not fazed in the least!

Well, we woke up to snow this morning and it is the kind that is wet and sticky so the trees look beautiful!  I trudged out in all of my sickness to feed the birds so that i could watch while i drank my coffee!  It feels great outside and I have decided to emerge from this house later on today and get some stuff done!  hey, i am still going to be stuffy out as well as inside the house so what does it matter?

 If you look at the picture in the background, you will see cardinals waiting to take their turn at the feeder!  I had had so many visitors today as well as a black eyed junco and a towhee.  They are a little bit different than the usual woodys and other birds that hit my feeder.  I have decided i need a better zoom lens than what came with this camera! 

Have a great weekend and make sure you go to Yelton’s and check out the new beads!!  I will bring more this week!

Peace,

steph

The Open House is tonight and there are plenty of new beads to choose from!!  Bengals beads, colorful beads and some christmas beads as well.  Check them out, they will go quick!

Fa La La La La La La La,

I hope the holiday spirit is upon all of you, I know it is me and i am excited to really start my shopping this weekend!   

More to come later!!!! 

Is “Depth” what matters?  We are taught that what we are on the inside means more than the outside.  We are taught that our character will take us further than our outward appearances.  We have read “The Ugly Duckling” as kids and have seen every other kind of book and/or movie like that!  I know that he turned into a beautiful swan on the outside BUT i feel it was the character building and trauma he went through that led to his “depth” of real beauty!  I am not sure they really got that story right since he did not remain broken from his outward appearance by perservering through it, just that he finally became a beautiful swan.  Soooo, in my ramblings I created a bead that is different on both sides and it has true beauty within, encased inside of a bright layer of crystal clear glass!  Enjoy!  I wore this to my daughters volleyball banquet the other night after i got it out of the kiln!  I had a lot of people stop me and say “Is that one that you made”?  and “wow, i did not think you were THAT good”, and i respond “Please child, never underestimate a woman who eats chocolate while torching”!!!! Ha ha ha!

 Oh, and you really need to see this in person because I STILL cannot capture some of the goings on in this bead, ugh!!!

  (Who is that vision of beauty???)

So you all know that really i am quite crazy, and apparently not looking too great in this photo op!!  Ha Ha!  I was reading it (i love the Ellen show), and it just spoke to me when i read the interview with Ellen and Oprah!  You know, Ellen seems like such a genuine person and she has always been someone i love since i have such a love for animals as well.  The reason i had to run to the computer and write this little ditty (well, not a ditty, but it sounded good) is because there were two quotes in this article that really spoke to my heart.  We have all had ups and downs in our lifetime and some of them not so good.  I have had some personal struggles from some really horrible incidents in my lifetime and I have always tried to remember that they have built character in me and have made me the person i am today whether it was hard or not.  Soooo (there’s a point to all of this), when i saw these two quips, i had to share!!!!

 The first one is on page 225 of the December Issue:

“Personality can open doors but only character can keep them open!”  ~  author unknown to me

The second one is on page 276:

“Cracks in your heart let the sun shine through”  ~  a quip from Diane Sawyer to Ellen (Diane read it somewhere)

Soooo, what can we learn from this?  That we are all human and our journey is not complete without ALL of the ups and the downs?  That we should always stay true to who we are (this is what i think about the first one), or that people know when they see truth from people and shy away from the fakeness?  What about the cracks, wow, that is just soooo true! 

 Hey, on another front I want to take a poll of my readers here in Cincinnati Ohio!!  How many of you would love to order beads and then see me make it right in front of you???  Just a poll, nothing organized or anything, just wondering!!!!!  Or, how about if you bought a present (a bead of course) for someone and then they get to come with you and see me make it for them, maybe even a bead for them and the same bead for you, a connection between the two of you…… I don’t know, just wondering again!!  Ok people, i have to stop wondering and get my behind to the studio and make beads for “The Good Life” in Surf city New Jersey!!!  Have a great week!  More pics at the end or maybe even the middle of the week!!!!  Oh, and anyone who wants to be my friend on facebook, sign up and look for me so i can chat with you and also know what you would like to see!

Here are a few of the beads leaving out today for the Silver Rabbit in Michigan!!  There are single beads as well i just did not feel like taking snaps of them.  If you are familiar with my beads, you are aware of their size, lol!  The showstopper bead (black white and pink triangles) is quite large and will look awesome with a black outfit, or white, oh my!!  I almost kept it, ha!!  So is the “Spartan country” set with green/dichro/and flowers in the bottom one.  I am off to get oxygen for the torch, go to the bank and pick of the kids, well the teenagers that inhabit my car AND my house all the time!!  I guess i am happy that they all choose to hang at my house with Anna than her being gone all the time.  There is a visitation tonight for one of Anna’s classmates who died this week.  It was a very sad situation and make sure you hug your children and always give them hope no matter what!!! 

I hope the day is finding you all well and happy!!  I have been in the basement working on my next batch of beads for the Silver Rabbit in Michigan.  I will soon be working on beads for The Good Life in Surf City New Jersey.  They are open through December!  They will then go on hiatus through the winter and early spring and will reopen in May.  I will then start sending them a lot of beads since it is a busy time for them. 

The Yelton’s Grand Opening went absolutely wonderful and there were many people who came out in support of the new store.  It is amazing how much they did to get ready for that on the heels of a very mentally and physically exhausting month and the loss of their owner and patriarch family member Roy Yelton!  He would have been soooo proud and i just know he had the best seat in the house in heaven. 

Here are some of the beads that were in the case (some still are) for the opening!