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.

Kind of a boring week

New Patterns

All patterns can be found at ZaneyMay's

Tiny Crosses Cuff Bracelet made with fire polished beads and seed beads, using right angle weave.

Jack made with seed beads, using square stitch. I made this one into a pin, but it would make a cute pair of earrings too.
Bangle Bracelet made with seed beads and round beads, using a circular peyote stitch.

My Week
Spending as much times as I can with Kayden. We had a good time making silly faces.

Me & Kayden

Cross stitching I am still working on Hang Ten I have completed two pages and started on the third page. Sorry no picture yet, I keep forgetting.

Netflix-way back in April or May we decided to cancel our comcast for TV and we tried Netflix watch instantly and I have to say that I really like it. Here are a few good movies I've watched so far. Dear Zachary, Imposter, Sling Blade, Brothers, Winter Bone, Unhook the Stars, America, Fat Sick and Dying, The Edge, Ask my Children, Crossed Over.

Well that was my week, hope you had a good one!

It's been a few weeks...

New Patterns...All patterns can be found at ZaneyMay's

Ladder Stitch Bracelets, seed beads and bugle beads and of course using ladder stitching.

Diamond Necklace, bugle beads and seed beads, using right angle weave.

Tiny Diamond Ornament Cover, seed beads and bugle beads, right angle weave and netting.

Lace Ornament, bugle beads and seed beads, ladder stitching.

By The Sea Earrings, seed beads and gem stone chips, netting.

By The Sea Bracelet, seed beads and gem stone chips, netting.

By The Sea Anklet, seed beads and gem stone chips, netting.

Ladder Stitch Rings, seed beads and bugle beads and of course ladder stitching.

By The Sea Necklace, seed beads and gem stone chips, netting.

A few more beads...

Camping over Labor Day Weekend. I made my famous Campfire Bundles, recipe here. The place where we were camping had a DJ one night and we went dancing, came back to the campsite very hungry, so I made up some Pineapple Shrimp Packets.
Canned pineapple slices, 1 1/2 pounds medium shrimp, peeled & divined, 1/3 C chopped sweet red pepper, 1/3 C brown sugar, 1 TBS seafood seasoning, 3 TBS butter, softened. Place on double heavy-duty foil a pineapple. Top with shrimp and red pepper. Combine brown sugar, seafood seasoning & butter, dot over shrimp. Fold foil & seal tightly. Grill over medium heat for 10-15 minutes.


Last week I made Blueberry Streusel Cobbler with Blueberry Sauce and served warm with ice cream. This is a family favorite, it was gone in 24 hours after making it. I did get two pieces.

1 pint fresh or frozen blueberries (fresh is best), 1 (14 oz) can sweetened condensed milk (not evaporated milk), 3/4 C plus 2 TBS cold butter, 2 C biscuit baking mix, divided, 1/2 C brown sugar. Oven 325. In bowl combine blueberries, sweetened milk. In large bowl, cut 3/4 C butter into 1 1/2 C biscuit mix until crumbly; add blueberry mixture. Spread in greased 9" square baking pan. In small bowl, combine remaining 1/2 C biscuit mix and sugar; but in remaining 2 TBS butter until crumbly. Sprinkle over cobbler. Bake 1 hour and 10 min or until golden. Serve warm with vanilla ice cream and blueberry sauce. Refrigerate leftovers.

Blueberry Sauce for Blueberry Streusel Cobbler-1/2 C sugar, 1 TBS cornstarch, 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon, 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg, 1 pint fresh blueberries. Combine ingredients in saucepan. Gradually add 1/2 C water. Cook and stir until thickened. Stir in 1 pint blueberries; cook and stir until hot.




Went to a birthday bash a friend was having, it was a lot of fun, seen few people I haven't seen in a while.

Tami and Nikki

Wax Bomb!

And of course Bob and I took Kayden to the Blueberry Festival.

Stitching, I finished a card that I will send to Kayden for Halloween. I am also stitching on Hang Ten by Raise the Roof. I have one page stitched!!! Sorry no pictures of that.

Dancing at the birthday bash.

Wax bomb at the birthday bash. Sorry the video is sideways.

I Hate Hackers!!!

Hacked

Friday eve I received an email from one of the beading stores I purchase my beads from. The email said that their system had been hacked and the hacker could have stolen credit card information and email information from 220 people. Well, I happen to be one of them. On Aug. 3rd I was in the bank trying to get my money from purchases that were charged to my account that were not mine. On that day they told me that I would get my money back. So, thinking that was over I went on with my life. The day before I received that email, my email was hacked! So anyone that received an email from me PLEASE delete it right away. That night I checked my bank account and two of the purchases that the bank said they were removing and I was getting my money back-they let them go through on Aug. 8th. Saturday morning I went to the bank, to find out that the lobby isn't open on Saturdays, went through the drive through, they couldn't help me and I had to drive to the next town that had a lobby open. So, off I went...this time I was told I had to file a police report before they could do anything. THIS WAS NEVER SAID TO ME THE FIRST TIME, I was HOT! to say the least. So, back to my town to file a police report. By this time all banks are closed, so there was no more I could do. Monday (today) I was there before they opened the lobby, again they assured me that I would get my money back, but it would take up to 3 days!!!

New Pattern

Net Ornament Cover, with seed beads and 6mm round beads, using netting or net beading. All patterns can be found at ZaneyMay's or The Bead Coop.

Studio

A few changes to my studio... I now have the pictures of from the ILCS retreat that was in New Jersey and Tennessee. Two of my favorite retreats.

My birthday gift from Bob

Monday my new bead rack arrived, put it together that day and hung up my beads, the only problem is I didn't order enough hooks. I need at least 150 more hooks. I think this will work out much better then the one I bought last year. It started leaning and even through I reinforced it twice it still fall over, right before I bought the new one. Oh the black chair is a new addition from the last update.

Here is a picture of the old one.

Sunday

Was the perfect temp day. Kayden and I had such a good time together.

We even let Myrtle out for most of the day.

Well, that was my week. Hope your week was much better.