With the Women's Fair coming up I thought I should make some Christmassy themed beads so here's a preview of some I'll have available that day -



I've wanted to make some Goddess beads as well, but can't bring myself to try the torso type so decided to take another track.  There are some beautiful torso's out there, but I don't think I could bring myself to wear a naked body round my neck (it's the prudish side of me coming out I guess!!), so here's what I did instead.  I've got some ideas to progress with these which might be fun to try.  Don't pay too much attention to the trees, they will require YEARS of practise!



And here at last is CL's necklace, I am really pleased with how this project turned out, there are so many colours in it I think it would go with anything.  I took the beads into the local bead store to see how best to string them and got such a positive response from the owner and other lady that works there that I came away on cloud nine.

It is official, I now have beads on display at David Paterson's Glassblowing Studio in Merrickville, (my beads aren't on his site, but you'll see the kind of work he does)



I put a display stand together to hold some single beads on cords, and have also submitted some necklaces to The Grotto, I think they prefer to be the exclusive location in Merrickville for their artists so I've made sure that I have offered them items with multiple beads that are more complicated and only showing single beads at David's.  

Here are a sample, put together with help from my David who 
thinks of mixing things that I wouldn't!









I want to try and get some listings in my Etsy shop and see if anything comes of that and will also be on the look out for any other possible locations, maybe Carleton Place or Almonte.

So, I have not been idle, even though I've been quiet!

My beads are annealed and I'm thrilled as I only lost about three of them to cracking.  Now I've started making some simple necklaces and have to get some things ready to present to the Gallery.  Also David Paterson the glass blower who does the annealing for me wants me to stop by and talk about my face beads, perhaps he'll put some in his studio I don't know.


Adding murrini to the beads is fun and I'm still experimenting with that.

Here's the necklace I'm wearing right now, a cute little lady at the cash in Dollarama said she really liked it and made my day :o)



This necklace was put together by my good friend Carole Nelson and myself, she wanted it for her Daughter-in-Law, and I do hope Dacia likes it.