I'm selling jewelry today in South Hill. The safeway here is doing a charity yard sale and I rented a spot.

I got home from the hospital. I'm still not feeling that great but the good thing about beadwork is it isn't physically strenuous. So I can still do my work. Here are pictures of the projects I have been working on since I've been home. As you can see; I've been busy.

I have been working on a woven bracelet for my nephew with a monster truck design. However I am in the hospital again right now so I haven't been able to work on anything for the last 5 days. I hope to get to go home soon and get back to work.

The bead party for the 25th got postponed. I am still going to do the bead parties but I have to find time in my schedule. I am posting the pictures of the projects I did for the girls youth group.

A princess bracelet ordered as a gift for a child.

A key necklace with light colored (pink) beads.

These are similar to a pair found in my bead book. She wanted them the same except for in green.

One person ordered four Friendship-style bracelets with the word "prayer" for her friends/family.

Sorry, this picture is sideways. This is the bookmark one of the ladies ordered. My first time ever doing a bookmark.

I am almost finished with the orders I got from the girl's youth group. I only have one project left which may have to be mailed because they are going home tomorrow. I will post pictures of the projects I did for them tomorrow evening.

Since the gathering was such a success I have decided to put on  " Bead Parties ". My next one is on Monday the 25th at my sister-in-law's home. Hopefully it will be a success also.

We have a youth group staying in our area . So yesterday I went to the apartment they are staying at and we had a little bead show. I brought all my already made jewelry and my photo book. I sold several pieces and and took orders for several more. We talked and joked and had fun. It was a nice, girly, evening. And of course I made money wich is always a good thing.

Here are pictures of my recent projects:

A necklace with gold and silver colored feathers for a Native American friend. I also included gold and silver colored beads and hardware to match.

Curvy wires with stars. Nice and simple.

I love these beads! They are black with gold and copper swirls.

Green skulls with flowered beads.

These earrings have 3 charms. One is two keys with a heart,   one says I (heart) U,   and one is an envelope with heart that says 'with love' on the back.

These are matching bracelets that can be used like friendship bracelets. They have a triangle shaped charm that says 'I" on one side, 'Love' on another side, and 'You' on the last side.

My sister-in-law commissioned this bracelet for her young friend who just had a birthday. I like the way the cursive style writing turned out.

Now I am working on a bracelet for my nephew. It gets it's theme from the Atari game Space Invaders. I think it is going to look really cool.

I haven't been very good about blogging lately. But I have been working! I am finishing up a project now so I will try to post pictures of all my recent work tomorrow or the next day. It's so nice outside that I would rather be outdoors than indoors working so most of my work gets done in the evening when it is cool enough to be inside.

I just got the printed copy of my photo book. It is so nice. Now I can show people some examples without carrying a bunch of my jewelry around. Eventually I would like to get another book made with more examples in it and also get some photos of the pieces that customers have already bought.

Photo Book

Click here to view this photo book larger

I am kind of disappointed. The bracelet didn't get into the auction. It didn't make it to the auctioneers in time.  Oh well. Hopefully Network Tacoma can sell it and use the money that way.

Network Tacoma Auction

I finished the bracelet for the Network Tacoma Auction a few days ago. I am getting all dressed up to attend the auction now. I thought I would post a couple pictures of the bracelet before I go. One of the bracelet in it's box and another close up picture.  I am looking forward to seeing how the bracelet does at auction.

I finished the loom work on the bracelet. It is kind of cool. However I don't like it for the auction so I am starting a new one. The one I am working on now is made entirely with Delica seed beads. They are a high quality (expensive) bead made for loom work.  I am posting pictures of both of them. Neither one is finished but you can get the idea of what they will look like. The one on top is the first one I did. The one on bottom is the one I am doing now.

I have designed the bracelet for the Network Tacoma auction. I went and bought the beads for it today I think it is going to turn out great. I will post some pictures when I have done some work on it.

I'm going to start designing a piece for the Network Tacoma auction coming up. If anyone has suggestions I would love to hear them.

I FINALLY finished the earrings. I messed them up several times and had to restart a couple of times. I was able to salvage them the last time but they are different than I planned. I think they turned out really great anyway. I am posting a picture of them.

Well, the earrings got messed up again! But I was able to salvage the main part so I am going to continue making them but they will be a little different than the originals. As soon as I get a little more work done on them I will post a picture.

I have been lazy about blogging lately. Honestly I don't have much new to blog about. I am almost finished with my friend's earrings. I haven't been feeling well lately so I haven't gotten a lot of work done. I am going to try to finish the earrings tomorrow.

I have restarted the earrings. I have finished the loom part of the project. Now I just have to do the hand beading. I will try to post another picture when I get them almost finished.

I am posting a picture of the earrings I am working on. In the picture you can also see the pair of earrings that I have had done. Unfortunatly I messed up on the new ones so I have to start over. At least I got the picture taken before I messed them up.