WOW !!! Great Contest... Giveaway...

I saw this great giveaway cross posted on Tracey N.'s blog Thanks Tracey !!

Go check out this blog and sign up to follow. She is doing a great giveaway... whoever wins will be lucky indeed... Good Luck all... Hurry ends tomorrow Friday !!! Check out her Channeling Morticia necklace...

Deb

http://silverparrotdesigns.blogspot.com/

Happy Mother's Day !!!

Just want to wish all my gals a HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY !!! Enjoy your special day and take some time for yourself... As for me, my kids are cleaning the whole house and taking me out for a meal... I'll let you know how that turned out... LOL

Love, Deb

PS... this beautiful orchid pic was sent to me by my friend Barb who lives way up northern Cali and her orchids are loving the moisture in the air... Thanks B !!!

Want to share something with you...

This is a really important EFT event... so much so that when they went live yesterday at 5pm my time, over 40,000 people were trying to access at the same time... the servers really took a hit. I got an email today saying that there is still time to register and it is still free... AND they have fixed the problems... so if this is something you are interested in finding out about go check it out.

Deb



The EFT World Summit April 20 – 29 2009


· A major EFT Conference.
· Eighteen top EFT experts present (in this order):Carol Look, Nick Ortner, Dr. Patricia Carrington, Carol Tuttle, Margaret Lynch, Bob Doyle, Gwenn Bonnell, Dr. Sandra Radomski, Rick Wilkes, Loretta Sparks, Rue Hass, Brad Yates, Dr. Alexander Lees, Lindsay Kenny, Steve Wells, Ron Bell, and Jessica Ortner (they will reveal things that they’ve never shared in a live event before)
· There is no fee for the conference.
· No travel or hotel expenses.
· You access it online in your own home.
This nine day event begins on Monday, April 20th –– Starting in the evenings, with 2 major presenters a day, you listen to any presenter any time within the next 24 hours at no charge…
You can still attend this event without charge if you REGISTER NOW !

Belt Buckle # 2

This was actually done quite a while ago, just never attached to the buckle blank... Thanks for looking...

I am in the process of moving... We got the opportunity to move into a (very) little 2 bedroom house in Pasadena. I could just walk out the gate at the back of work property into my new driveway... LOL Is that a good thing??? It has a little yard and my son is envisioning partys!! my daughter is looking on-line for puppies... !! Hopefully this will all get done this weekend and it goes off without a hitch...

Have a great day !!!

Love, Deb

My Cuff is Done !!!! Finally !!!! Sigh...

Well.... I have finally finished my first bead embroidered cuff... I took a class at San Gabriel Bead Co... using a gift certificate that my friend Donna gave me for Christmas... and for a 6 hour class all I had done at the end was the I attached the focal cabochon and one side of the fanning nibblets around it... That is because my cab was a good size and you are bezeling 2 beads at a time on that first round... I used a chrysocolla cab for my focal and on the sides, also pyrite cabs, turquoise, coral and lots of black beads all shapes and sizes... Anyways... In whatever time I had free (when I was in the mood) I worked diligently at this and it really was fun... I love how it turned out and it is nothing like what I originally planned... So for the future I will do earrings and a pendant (I already have the cabochon for that! ) But first I have some catching up to do... Donna wants me to change the length of her necklace and I need to restring some puka shells for her (since last May shhh)... And fix 2 broken bracelets...

Thanks for looking and comments are appreciated...

I just finished this bracelet for a friend... my BBF best beady friend Carol... http://beadsandbirds.blogspot.com/ and have to get that in the mail soon... :-) This pattern is designed by Christina of Good Quill Hunting http://www.goodquillhunting.com/ who is also my good beady friend... Anyway the bracelet is called Ice Bracelet and you can get it from her etsy shop where she also has the pattern I do believe..... http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6005454

Christina is my beading idol... She does the most exquisite work and is always encouraging me to try something new... So Thanks Christina !!!

Snow in my cactus ?!

This is what I woke up to the other day... snow (just a dusting really) on my back patio, the roofs of houses on the way taking Missy to school... It didn't last of course.... Then the next day... 70 degrees again.. What wierd weather we are having... I really feel for those who have lost power due to the storms and am praying for them.

Have a great day everyone...

Work in progress!!

I received a gift certificate for Christmas from my good friend Donna and decided to use it to take a class at my LBS San Gabriel Bead Co. The teacher was great!!! Linda Kavalsky from http://www.lbkartwear.com/ go check out her site... She showed us how to bezel the cab which takes forever doing 2 beads at a time... She showed us all the steps to complete the cuff and one lady got everyones email so we could share finished pics when done.... Linda does stunning work and had several cuffs there for us to look at or buy... which one lady did!

This is only the 2nd class I have taken and it was lots of fun.... there were 5 of us from several areas... Two lady beaders came from as far away as Lancaster... Which is a good 90 minute drive... One lady was a baby wrangler... that is the person that gets babies to act... she worked with Sunny from Lemony Snicket... wasn't that baby so cute... We also had a police officer and a graphic designer... great diversity in beaders... We all have one thing in common... we are bead-a-holics !!!

So what i actually finished in class was the cab and one side of the matte black nibblets... I dyed the Lacy's almost black... but the teacher said there is a product out there that is crazy felt that comes in colors... I used for my focal a really pretty chrysocolla almost square cab... and was going to use 4 small pyrite cabs as accents, but then turquoise and coral jumped in... Then more chrysocolla.. Of course I love using matte black it really makes colors "pop" !! All my cabs were from http://www.farrinoconnordesign.com/ they have fab cabs... Great staff especially Sue !!



This is about a week later... my kids are Mom!!! beading again... you need to take me here... all about them... LOL

I can hardly wait for my day to end at work so I can get home to my beading couch... and see what is going to appear on the cuff next...





This is as of Monday night... I love bead embroidery... So that is the latest and greatest...

Lots of ideas for future cuffs... I am looking for matte black bugles in 3 mm... and I have these fab white stone cabs (name is escaping me at the moment...) that I envision with a black wavy line going down the center... we will see.. I have so SO MANY CABS... so little time... LOL Thanks for looking and reading my blog !!