A Wonderful Surprise in my tree....

Yesterday I saw what I thought was a canary in my tree, but I dismissed it thinking...why would there be a canary in my tree. 

I was outside today and suddenly a parrot landed in my tree and then took off.  I followed him outside my gate where he went to a palm tree and there were 5 more small parrots in the same tree.

It was such a delightful surprise! I took a picture, but they took off quickly.

I am not sure how they got there, but I'm glad they did! It was a wonderful mood booster.

What I saw on my walk...

One of the beautiful flowers I saw while walking in my neighborhood...

I love how the rocks are colored with petals from other flowers surrounding this one.

Have a beautiful inspirational full day! I will try and share more photo's from my walk throughout the week.

my latest creations

Hi everyone! Yep, still here. Sorry for the long silence. I have been super busy. I had a bought of illness followed by a surgery, and am still on the mend. I did want to touch base though and share some of my latest creations.

This is a custom order I made. I had made one before, and had a request to make another. It is very similar to the first one I made, with just a little switch up of color patterns.

And this piece is simple but very special to me. It is a rosary that I made for my god daughter who is having her first communion this coming sunday.

I have been taking walks and taking lots of photographs of mother natures wonderful works. So I will be sure to get back on this week and share some of those also.

I hope everyone is doing well!

Have a beautiful day!!

LissC

New Beading Loom - looks very cool

hi everyone. I just wanted to share an item that I was made aware of on LinkedIn. There is a site (that I just learned about) called Kickstarter.

Basically it helps people who are trying to get a product up and running to raise money for the manufacturing of their item.

So this woman on LinkedIn (i dont know her, she is just a member of some of the same professional groups i have joined on linkedin) has made what she is calling a bead loom, but it's not a loom like we think. You don't do bead weaving on it. You do single or multistrand stringing on it for earrings, bracelets, or necklaces. It is not for bead embroidery, but I thought it would be a great tool for those times we do just want to kick out a quick necklace and not a bead embroidered piece.

I pledged $25.00 today, which means when and if it gets all its funding for it to be manufactured I have promised to pay $25.00 toward manufacturing in exchange for a loom once they are produced, which is less then the retail price at the store. the pledge process was super simple. I did it through amazon (which I love for all my book buying), and they don't actually charge you unless the item is going to get all the funding for sure.

Again, I am only sharing this because I think its a cool item. I don't know the woman, but she does share detailed info on herself, and the product. And I also think it is cool to support other artists, and jewelry makers out there, and also fun to get a product before it hits the stores. Fun fun!

Here is the link if you want to check it out. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1073198151/the-bead-it-up-loom

- LissC

EBEG Traveling Box

The EGEB team started a traveling box. It is our hope to keep it traveling between the members of hte group, so that we can all share our treasures with eachother. The only rule is that for what ever you take out, you put back in of equal or great value.

I got the box yesterday, so I wanted to share some photographs of all the goodies inside, and the goodies I am sharing.

I took the super yummy turquoise and gold fabric, and a few stones from this wonderful lot.

Isn't the ribbon wonderful? I took a set of blue and cream beads from this.

I took some pretty white shells that I thought had incredible texture to them.

This is my loot that I'm sharing. Lots of czech beds, and some fun stones. Hopefully there will be at least one thing in here that everyone will like.

Beadwork Magazine Challenge

I am a huge fan of Beading magazines and books, and among them Beadwork magazine. My favorite, and first section I turn to is always the beadwork challenge! I find it inspiring, and so interesting to see what each individual artists creates with the same products.

So last fall after participating in Lori's bead swap. I decided to take a leap of faith and try out for it. I wasn't super hopeful as I had never entered anything before, and had heard it can take years of submitting to get in.

So, when I received an email from Beadwork just 3 days later, I was absolutely shocked! So shocked in fact that I didn't believe it. I thought it had to be a mistake. I thought, perhaps a computer glitch? And everyone had gotten that congratulation email. Funny how our minds work, huh?

Well, it wasn't a mistake. I was one super lucky bead artist! I had been selected to receive one of their monthly challenge kits.  Thank you Lori for running the Bead Swap! that partnered me up with Marcy who gifted me the most adorable glass beads, that inspired my beaded garden, which I sent to beadwork as a example of my work, which won me a spot in the beadwork challenge!

SO here is my big reveal! I've had to hold onto this news for 7 months...

check it out! my very first publication...

still here...

Hi everyone. I hope everyone is doing well. I've been crazy busy, and crazy sick so I haven't been online in a while. So I thought I should stop in an do a quick update.

I have been working on a big piece that I am very excited about. I have many many hours ahead of me before it is finished and I can reveal it, but here is a picture of the mess my bed (which has been my studio since I have been ill) is every day!

I did manage to get a few simple pieces done a bracelet and barrette. I love how the bracelet turned out. So fun!

So that is it for now. I am having a surgery in two weeks that should make me feel much better! I look so forward to feeling better!

Have a fantastic day everyone! I hope everyone is well.

(hugs)

LissC