Galactica - Heavenly Body Ring

Wee!!!! This ring was the bain of my existence for a bit but now I love it!!!! Will be in the shop this afternoon.

Hanging Gardens of You

Ah yes! The Hanging Gardens of You. Goodness I love a pun. A lovely customer of mine wanted me to make some flower earrings incorporating these little Czech glass beads that I use for my basket and flower vase necklaces. I came up with these! I don't know why I didn't do these earlier. Click the pic to see them in the shop.

Did you guys go vote for me yet? And then did you tell all your friends to too? ;D

A Vote for Me is...

well, a vote for me. Sorry I've got nothing witty to say. I'm excited though! Oooh weee!

My It's A Boy drip necklace is in the mix for Mother's Day Jewelry. Thanks Etsy! If you are so inclined, please vote for me!

In other news, I managed to keep my cookie consumption last night to two and my movie was cute! I got This Christmas.

Stupidly instead of going to bed after the movie I thought it would be a good idea to fight some more with metal and torch. Yeah. Should've gone to bed. Luckily, I live to fight another day!!!!

Free 99!

How I'm spending my Sunday night. I donated $1.00 for some charity at the grocery the other day and got a scratch off ticket to win $5,000 or a free product. I got free cookies! Everyone's a winner! ;P

I also was informed that you can get movie rentals for free at RedBox. Someone gave me a code and bada bing! Free movie! So it's me, a movie Mr. Beads would never watch (I'm notorious for picking bad rentals) and a cookie or two (or several).

Today is a good day. I didn't get to everything I wanted to this weekend because:
a. The weather has been beyond beautiful. I had to go outside.
b. It's just Mrs. Beads and young master Beads at the ranch right now.
c. Things did not want to work out! Sometimes you need to step back.

I will be sharing a sort of non-tutorial within the next few days to vent my frustrations from this weekend. lol...

Double Trouble

Well, I was inspired not by the park itself but in anticipation of going to the park! I wanted to wear this purple top I have and then I decided I wanted to make some earrings to match. So I used some lovely amethyst beads I had hanging around! Click either picture to be taken to the shop listing. I just now learned how to add a link to a picture. You'd think I was brand new to this thing. Yeesh!



In related news we stayed at the park for 3 hours. It was glorious!!!! This new park is very nice and D was a champ sharing his snacks and everything! I was a proud mama. I took a really cute shot of him on my camera phone. I need to figure out how to get it to my computer. As you may have noticed, I'm not that technologically inclined.

When the little guy wakes up we are definitely going out again. Perhaps for a nature walk this time. It is simply to pretty a day to be inside for longer than you have to be!!!!

Weeee! - Zip Line Sterling Silver Necklace

Hiya! This is dedicated to my son's first encounter with a zip line at a playground last weekend. We are going to another new park this morning. Who knows what I might come up with from that experience!!!


Weeee! - Zip Line Sterling Silver Necklace

In other news I got over my fear and soldered the 14K gold last night and I have to say it was sooooo much easier than soldering sterling silver!!! Woop! I might have to start buying gold more often (in small quantities of course). I will have to take photos and show you later.

Hi peeps!

I'm sorry I've been gone so long. I was working on some personal things like trying to potty train my child for one. I tried that "whole train him in less than a day" bit. I got it done in a week. lol. And guess what? I thought I was the business. You couldn't tell me NOTHING!!!! (For the grammar police I know it should be ANYTHING. Just roll with my enthusiam 'K? thanx)Well I guess my child just wanted to show me that he *could* do it because now he is totally uninterested. I'm OK with that (mostly). Just as long as he gets this ish (literally. heh) done by September for pre-school, we are A-OK.

I trust everyone is doing well and we've all fawned over the Obama's new dog already and cried that Ugly Betty is MIA. ;P

While I was gone I also took a class where I learned how to bezel set stones. Awesomeness!!! Have I done it again since class? No, but I plan to try this weekend! I haven't even taken pics of the item I did in class but here is a shot of one I tried myself before class:

I like it but I'm soooo glad I took the class! In other news I have a private commission to work in gold. I'm a little scared only because I've never soldered gold before and you know that gold is mad expensive!!!! I have the materials and am scared to take them out of the box. hee hee!

So I'm having a little grand re-opening sale through the end of April. If you want in, join my mailing list by emailing beadsinthebelfry [at] gmail.com.

Here are some of the new pieces I've been working on that I added to the shop!

Raindrops Keep Falling On My Finger Ring

Mottled Hoops