Good bye January!

New Patterns

Wild Thing Slave Anklet made with fire polished beads, flower button beads, leaf beads and seed beads, using right angle weave and netting. CAN'T WAIT FOR SUMMER!

Tic Tac Cuff Bracelet made with bicone crystals, seed beads and bugle beads, using right angle weave and netting.

Ooh La La Necklace made with fire polished beads, bicone crystals and seed beads, using right angle weave and stringing.

Dangle Diamond Earrings, made with fire polished beads, seed beads and bicone crystals.

Bungle of Flowers Earrings, made with fire polished beads, leaf beads, flower button beads and seed beads.

Hawaiian Lei Bracelet, made with fire polished beads, flower button beads, leaf beads and seed beads, using right angle weave and netting.

For 2012 I decided to try to come up with 12 hot air balloon ornament patterns!

Hot Air Balloon Ornament #1, made with seed beads and bugle beads, using stringing, netting and ladder stitch.

Hot Air Balloon Ornament #2, made with seed beads, heart, star and double cone beads, using netting and ladder stitch.

Hot Air Balloon Ornament #4, made with seed beads, fire polished beads and round beads, using right angle weave, netting, stringing and ladder stitch.

Hot Air Balloon Ornament #3, is still on my beading desk, ran out of the beads I was using and just place an order for more this morning.

Etsy

My Etsy shop made a small profit this year! Woot-Woot! Not enough to pay me for all the time I spend at it, but it's looking up. Customer appreciation 2011 went to James E. and Susan S. they received a coupon code for 20% off on next purchase at my shop, good until the end of February. Combine they purchased 30 patterns from me in 2011. Top salers for 2011 where Bicone Crystal Bracelet and Crystal Bracelet for a total of 55 sales.

FaceBook

Remember to hook up with me on FaceBook for all my specials and give aways.

Beading Classes

Started doing beading classes again at Heartland Artists Gallery in Plymouth IN. I will be doing one class a month. This is what we did in January, the Snowflake Pin. I forgot my camera at home, so the picture is the one I made. My high school home economics teacher came to my last class! LOL! That was a little strange, me being the teacher and her being the student. She said she didn't remember me, "I must of been a good student" LMBO! But she did remember my sister Barb, said she talked a lot. TEE-HEE! And she signed up for my Feb. class.

Crocheting

Here are a few things I made. For Dara headband and fingerless mittens by Clare. She also has a great Facebook Page.

Beanie hat by Clare and scarf by Vicki Blizzard free pattern at Premier Yarns.

Again I made a beanie for Kayden using the same pattern and the scarf was a freebie from Redheart.

The next four pictures are Flowering Vine Scarf by Whitney Christmas freebie pattern from Redheart. I have made 6 of these scarves so far, they will be for co-workers Christmas 2012. The work up really fast just a little over an hour and one is done.

Two more pairs of fingerless mittens pattern by Clare. Both for me to match the scarves I made for myself. First pair shown is for when it's cold, the second pair is for when it's really cold.

Spending as much times as I can with Kayden, we made play doe and had fun playing with it.

Here are a few of our creations.

And last my not least picture of Kayden after a long day of playing.

Good Bye January...So glad to see January go! Looks like my 2011 luck has ran over to 2012. Hoping that February is much better. How many more days til spring??? Van broke down, just after I pulled into work. It's fixed now, had to borrow a car a few days to get back and forth to work. Was written up at work for passing a med. that was suppose to be held due to Dr visit. It wasn't in the MAR so I passed. I did pass my Med passes and I think that is all the test I have for work, that is until they come up with something new.

Until next time! Live with a happy heart.