Oh goodie, goodie! I’ve got a stash of WildFire on the way to me, and it will arrive early next week. I’ll let you know when it gets here, and I’ll be selling it on my website. Kelly R. tried it yesterday at Bead Brunch, and she really liked it too!… Read More
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Teaching around Texas
Yesterday’s Bead Brunch was a super duper blast, as usual. Lots of folks I haven’t seen in a while, like Susan and Bobbi. And then the biggest surprise was seeing the sweet and wonderful Betty Rodriguez! Betty was a regular student in our classes for a long time, and she is a delight to have around.… Read More
I survived the garage
Okay, so maybe I was barely in the garage. (shuffling feet, guiltily) But I was up late late into the night working on labeling and repacking my seed beads into the flip top containers I purchased in massive quantities, as well as creating (finally!)… Read More
Vet visit
I figured I’d better report in after Maggie’s vet visit this morning. I know she has a lot of fans out there!
They couldn’t find any bone injury, and her x-ray didn’t show any arthritis in either of her hind legs, which is great.… Read More
Preview of Parisian Lights
Oo la la…what is it we have here? Perhaps a little preview of my latest project, Parisian Lights, which will be taught at Nomadic Notions in Austin. Probably in November and again in January – I haven’t set all the dates for my classes there next quarter quite yet.… Read More
New Product Review – WildFire
I received a sample from Beadalon today of their new beading thread product, WildFire. It’s their competitive version of Fireline, but instead of being plucked from the fishing department, this thread was produced specifically for the bead weaving market.
At first I was skeptical that it was necessary or would be much different from Fireline.… Read More
I’m so proud
My dear, amazing, talented, and insanely funny friend, Anne…
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Caution: Week of work ahead
Something terrible is going to happen this coming weekend. It’s so terrible, it makes me want to run screaming through the house to jump in bed and hide under the covers. So horrific, I can’t even imagine what the aftermath will look like.… Read More
Days are flying by
Looking at the calendar is increasingly confusing. I could swear we’re barely half way through the year, and yet Christmas is only 3 months away. Yup, that’s right. 3 months. Crazy talk!! I’m winding down on 2008 projects and winding up on preparing for 2009 ones.… Read More
Worker bee
Today’s beading efforts produced part of a Ring Around the Rosie bracelet in bright, happy colors. I did the first circle in our class last night and everyone gave the bold color combo a thumbs up. My mother, however, said “It’s so ugly.… Read More
Patience is a virtue
I got news today on my Big Secret Project – and the news is that I need to wait a little longer for news. Okay, I can do that.
I worked until the wee hours of the morning on this project – it’s a new sample for my Elegant Options bracelet.… Read More
There’s a lovely hint of fall in the air today. I did a triple-take as I was walking past the thermostat in the house earlier – it was showing that it was 77 degrees in the house and we normally keep it set on 79 in the summer.… Read More
Hurricane Ike visited, and all I got was some lousy wind
Not a single drop of rain in Austin. Not. One. Drop. To laugh or to cry, that is the question!
I’m dead tired tonight from my sleepless overnight vigil with the TV. Happily, my class this afternoon was full of life and silly fun to keep me going, and then I unexpectedly got to have dinner with my brother’s family and my mother.… Read More
How can I sleep?
I’m mesmerized by the TV coverage of the the hurricane tonight and it’s so hard to tear myself away from it. I’m supposed to be getting my things together for Saturday’s afternoon class, as well as Sunday night’s class too and all I can do is stare at the TV.… Read More
Vote in the poll
I added a poll over there to the left
Poor little Winston
Mr. Winston had a day at the beauty shop yesterday (groomer) and came back looking particularly fine and more cool. All that hair makes a boy overheated in Texas, don’tcha know. If you’ve been reading the blog since the beginning, you know that the first time we took Winnie to the groomer, it was quite an event.… Read More
Stubborn
A day of can’ts, shouldn’ts, won’t works, oh no you didn’ts (oh yes, I did!) from dawn to dusk today, from multiple fronts. I hate days like this.
On the other hand, if I’d listened to all the naysayers four years ago, I’d still be working 8am to 5pm in corporate cubicle land.… Read More
Watching that darned hurricane
It’s pretty odd to be several hundred miles inland of the Texas coast, but yet still needing to make some hurricane preparations. Ike is predicted to possibly come through the Austin area while still strong enough to be throwing 70mph winds, and up to 10 inches of rain Saturday.… Read More
So close, but yet so far
I’ll admit it straight up. I didn’t paint on Saturday like I planned. And I didn’t do much of anything on Sunday but laze around and read and watch TV. But some days you need the break, right?
Monday I bounced out of bead at the crack of 11am and got down to business right away.… Read More
One of these is not like the other
So I’ve had two different people email me today, both claiming responsibility for the comment that was written about my blog. Now if that’s not funny, I don’t know what is!
Today’s already been very productive – a trip to the post office, a stop by a local bead store, and a Home Depot fix (although they were out of the planter Mom wanted.)… Read More