You know how when you avoid a task for a while, it becomes bigger and bigger in your head to catch up on it, and so you avoid it more, and then it becomes bigger yet and it’s a vicious cycle from which there is no escape except just DOING it and then you figure out it wasn’t so bad after all?… Read More
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Possible New Kit
From June:
For a while I’ve been working intermittently on a lariat for a possible new kit. Since Jill left me all alone last weekend while she went and had fun at the Shreveport (LA) bead retreat, I had to entertain my self.… Read More
Design Time
I know it’s been a good couple of beading days when my right forearm is all achy. That’s also my signal to STOP and give it a rest already! Besides, I’m at that point in a design when I’m so twisted and turned in my thoughts that I realize I probably have no perspective left.… Read More
A little OCD
I read a quote in a magazine tonight that spoke to me quite perfectly. “If someone told me that I could only eat the same 12 foods for the rest of my life, I’d be perfectly okay with that.” Which is not to say I don’t eat a variety of foods!… Read More
In the meantime…
What a week! I’ve been hunkered down, working on a set of jewelry pieces I needed to make for a corporate client, and the deadline was today. Eight pieces in 10 days. AGH! How do I get myself into these things?… Read More
Bead & Button Show, Part II
At last. Part II. If I can still remember any of it. I spent the day today thinking it was Wednesday, and Mom spent the day thinking it was Friday, so we averaged out at Thursday. And you expect me to remember weeks ago???… Read More
Patience is a virtue!
I admit it…I’ve been missing in action on the blog lately! I can hear your disappointed sighs every time you pull up the page and find no new content. I mean it! I hear every single one of them!
Since getting home from the Bead & Button Show/Beads by Blanche trip last Wednesday night, there’s been little time for rest or catching up.… Read More
Just Wondering
From June:
Do you suppose there IS a Part 2 to Jill’s Bead and Button Show report? Just wondering.
Home!
From June
Hurray! Jill will finally be home today. Between the Bead and Button Show and teaching afterward, she’s been gone for 3 weeks. And who will be happiest that she’s home. Two guesses.
Bead & Button Report, Part 1
I have spent the last two days sleeping and gazing around dazedly, trying to recover from the myriad of fabulous experiences of the previous week. I’m still taking it all in. I have never worked so hard, or had so much fun in my life in such a compact amount of time!… Read More
Meet the Teachers Night Insanity
Last night was Meet the Teachers night at the Bead and Button Show in Milwaukee. This is where the B&B attendees got to….well…meet the teachers. Its frequently the only place someone is able to buy a kit for a class that they wished they could take.… Read More
It’s Bead and Button or Bust
From June:
Whew! 5:00 p.m. and Jill JUST NOW started the drive to Milwaukee. She was supposed to leave yesterday morning, but we just didn’t have everything done that needed to be done. So she will be driving hard the next two days.… Read More
Burning CDs
I have discovered that the middle of the night is an ideal time to burn CDs, print their labels, and slap those puppies on – while simultaneously browsing Etsy (i.e., Temptationsy.) I could spend a gajillion dollars on that darned site.… Read More
From June:
If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you’ve already met our crazy dog, Winston. Yesterday I picked up a $3 stuffed duck from Big Lots, and gave it to him last night. OMG. He is obsessed with this stuffed duck.… Read More
5am – time for bed!
I gotta say, the Bead & Button Show may just do me in this year. I am making so many kits. And I am so tired. And there’s only 22 more days until the show begins. That may seem like a long time to you – but I’m barely a quarter of the way through the kit making.… Read More
No fun without photos
As I’ve been reading through all the various blogs I follow, I realized how stingy I’ve been lately with photos! But here’s the thing: first off, I haven’t been beading! No new designs in ages. I do have a bunch of ideas and partial bits and pieces floating around, but until I spend a few days beading, I got nuthin’.… Read More
One bead…two beads…
My life has become a massive assembly line. For the next 27 days, I will be consumed by the myriad of mindless tasks that constitute kit assembly. My brain gets a workout only as I’m trying to calculate how much of what goes into which baggie, and trying to make sure everything is getting done.… Read More
Been there, done that
I’m home! Since we last talked, I flew off to Denver and arrived in the middle of a seriously lousy spring storm. My favorite part was when the rental car lady sent me to the LAST car in the LAST row for my own vehicle as 35mph winds and driving rain pelted me in the 34 degree temperatures (can’t even imagine what the wind chill was.)… Read More
Bye Miami – Hello Denver!
My weekend in Miami went by MUCH too fast! The good news is that I get to go back in December, but I’m getting ahead of myself with that.
This was certainly one of the more interesting shows I’ve attended in the last few years for a number of reasons.… Read More
Miami madness
And the show hasn’t even begun!
I flew to Miami with no troubles on Wednesday night, and man do I feel lucky! Everyone I know who flew in on Thursday had delayed planes, missed connections, and all sorts of traveling mishaps.… Read More