Saturday Studio Excitement!

OMG OMG OMG OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm REALLY a beadmaker again!!! I was going through the motions the past few times... just trying to make what I already knew how to make... nothing new, nothing creative (from my end), just making sure I could DO the work again.

(If you're not a beadmaker that won't make sense, so think of it like playing an instrument after years of no practice. It's SO physical... getting your hands to do what they need to do without your having to think about it. That's what I was working on before.... just getting back into the groove.)

But TODAY... I was INSPIRED! That's what I live for!!! I was sitting there making things and my brain started flying through possibilities.... things I could make today, things I needed to think more about... WAY more beads than I'd ever have time for anytime soon.

THAT was exciting!!!!! I'm back!!!!!!!!


and do I have something cool in store for my customers!!!! woo hoo!!!! I can't WAIT to reveal it!!! (only mom knows.... and maybe Marcy will because I've got to tell SOMEONE who gets it!)

WOO HOO!!!!!!!!!


tiny blah blah blah...

(and this will be a shocker)

NO COFFEE

NO MUSIC

and I had a great studio day anyways!!!!!! (other than burning my lip on a shocky piece of flying hot glass)

Happy Dance!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't usually post on Sundays, but today I am. And I'm doing the happy dance!!!

I made beads!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOO HOO!!!!!!!!!

I was on an errand with Griffin and we were talking and he said, "mom you need to make beads" and I said, "I know. I don't know why I don't. I'm scared of something." Because of that conversation, when we got home, I asked him if he would help me move some stuff around in the studio so that I could make beads. He agreed (a small amount of $ changed hands) and because we were down there working... it made it easy to just hook everything up and start making beads.

I was scared. I have to say that, but I did ok!!!

I made beads!!!!!!!

More on this tomorrow. For now, I'm going to read my book that is SO good I can't put it down (and it says a lot that I DID in order to make beads!!)






<---- these are the beads!!!












Tiny blah blah blah...

coffee - nope. didn't have any today!
music - didn't have a speaker for my ipod in the studio. Will remedy that tomorrow!!

what I'm reading... Twilight by Stephenie Meyers. I'm hooked!!!!

Quickie Saturday post.

Have a LOT to do today and have been up and going since 7:30 (those who know me well know that this is NOT normal for Saturdays). Cooper doesn't understand that we don't have to get up at 6:15 like a normal weekday, so he was very very insistent that I get out of bed before 7. Ugh.

BUT it did get me going early and I got into the gym and did weights and swam before it got crowded. YAY!!! Ran some errands, including a trip to the glass studio in town (you knew it was going to get around to talking about beads somehow!!)

SO while I was there I talked to the studio owner about teaching again!!!!!!!!! This is something I really really miss, so just as much as having the push to make beads, I have even more motivation if it means I get to teach. It is something that I love love love, and would make me VERY happy to get to do again.

WHOOPEE!!! Happy Dance (although nothing is for sure... I'm still dancing)

off to the other pool... this time to relax with my sister, niece and friends!

OOH! Almost forgot!! Must document the crazy thing I saw today!!! It was "throwback 80s workout man" And you would THINK that I saw this guy at the gym. Nope. He was exercising in... wait for it..... THE KROGER PARKING LOT!!!!!!!!!

He had big big headphones on (and he was not hip enough to be cool doing so), Dr. J sweatbands on his wrists (I can't think of a better way to describe them), TUBE SOCKS and was doing bicep curls with HUGE hand weights. The weights looked like something he bought at a garage sale from someone who stole them from an ancient YMCA. Not kidding!!!!!! Made me laugh. Made me call Denise to tell her what I was laughing at. I'm sure it made Denise roll her eyes. LOL

tiny blah blah blah

music- just a tiny bit on the radio (Dave fm)

coffee - Cinnamon Dolce Latte (I know! I undid all the good I did at the gym! oh well)

Hello world, it's Wednesday.

I have to say after reviewing my earlier happy dance posts that I am TIRED...all that dancing wears a girl out!

No seriously, I'm worn out. Good sales breed tired beadmaker/beadseller/bead enterprise CEO/Bead inventory Foreperson/Bead Website Design Diva and all the other hats I wear. If it wasn't for Marie, I would have collapsed by now.

I am so happy to have a thriving business, but SO SO tired because I've been working constantly since the beginning of January. A couple of nights ago I sat in front of the TV and did absolutely nothing and it felt weird. I'm so used to multi-tasking and almost always working on something that it just felt weird. I've been trying to knit or something else just to keep myself from working 17 hour days, but it's tough.

That sounds horrible, and I truly love what I do. I'm just tired, that's all.

AND my website is pittifully out of date. Must get help with that too I think. I'm going to call someone who might be able to help...just had brain lightbulb thing go off.

starbucks - Venti 3 pump Cinnamon Dulce Latte which is delicious and when they discontinue it (and I know they will since it was a Valentines thing)I'm just going to die a coffe-less death. So until then...Carpe Coffee :)

WHOOOPEEEE!

They like me they really like me!!!

(splish splash mermaid is a big success and I'm a happy camper!)

Much more exciting than the Gap selling talls, though that is pretty darn exciting!

off to work,

coffee - no, stomach is sick, so having a coke (and a smile)
music - my playlist on ipod called "if I were a radio station" has TONS of songs with no rhyme or reason that I like. You might hear aerosmith and then carly simon and then beck...you just never know what's going to pop up. very fun

I hate saying "happy dance" again, but it is!

The Gap now sells Talls online!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is huge, (no pun intended) I can buy a t-shirt that's long enough to tuck in!!!!! I love their jeans and their clothes, but had only been able to buy their jeans since they came in long and x-long lengths. Now I can buy shirts and jackets too.

Can you say....BIRTHDAY IDEA?!!!! Yes you can!

Someone tell my husband that I want a jacket! There's a really cute one that comes in black or white and a cute jeans jacket too! Oh my! So many good choices that will actually fit! woo hoo!!!!!

As for beads, which this is supposed to be about. I spent a good part of yesterday beading samples. Will it ever end?! Will I ever be able to MAKE the darn kits?!!

The beads are all here, but I'm trying to get samples and pics done so that I can market the kits. UGH. It's tough being a one-man show!!! Although Marie, the goddess of Beads makes it much less of a one man show than it was before. Three cheers for Marie!!!!!

coffee and tea today.
no music. forgot my headphones. :(

********happy dance*********

literally!

Dancing (well not this minute because I'm typing) to tunes on our new Bose speakers for ipod!!!!!!!

I had them on my wish list (to the left bottom of this page if you haven't been paying attention) and received them for Christmas from my sister in law. WOW! Was truly surprised, but am now dancing around the house to my groove tunes playlist.

Need to go to the studio and do some work, but want to stay and dance! :)

shake it like a polaroid picture....

off to work (or dance haven't decided which)

hey ya! hey ya!

happy dance!!!

Kids back in school!!!!!!!

Been making beads again and actually got to grocery shop on my own (that sounds so trivial, but honestly it was a big deal to me)

Not much to say, but want to make a valiant effort at writing again....we'll see.

starbucks today - new drink for me...iced coffee (was cheaper than a latte, so I'm trying to save...right?!!)
music - no, but listening to a book on tape-ipod by sophie kinsella

Happy Dance!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


I'm in a magazine, I'm in a magazine!!!!!! (sung in my best Sandra Bullock voice from Miss Congeniality when she "sings" "you know you like me, you want to kiss me...")

I was taking Brad Pearson's class today and Gerry, the owner of the beadstore where the class was asks me "will you sign my magazine?" YOWZA! It was my article!!! I knew that I'd been interviewed and sent pictures, but didn't know when the magazine would publish the "artist spotlight" about me. They did!! It's here!!!

Bead Unique...page 22!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bead Unique Magazine Current Issue
(this link is to the "current issue page" which as of today is not the current issue...hopefully it will change soon!"

happy dance!

And here are some beads from this week. Not my best photos, but they were fun beads!





coffee today - mais oui....iced venti hazlenut light ice latte (that's a mouthful!)

music - thanks to Brad Pearson, lots of fun reggae. I'm going to go find the album he played which was Bob Dylan songs done reggae!

p.s. funny link du jour...a blog (which wasn't what drew me in, rather this page with fortune cookie style quotations. I loved these!)
Fortune Cookie Quotes from Fussy

This is really quick, but a big big entry...



The Clothesline Sweater is IN the Storefront!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



I haven't had time to finish the announcement to e-mail or to put the overalls/jeans OR to even put it on my website...but it's in the storefront in all 9 colors!!!!!!!!!!!



woo hoooooooo!!!!



This is a huge accomplishment... you go Sylvie!

Since I've had two comments, I must add that while in Lowell- home of no starbucks and no restaurants open after 5 p.m. - My beads were on the front page of the "Lowell Sun" They had an article about the bead bazaar (that word never looks right, so I'm sure it's spelled wrong) and they took pictures of my beads...et voila! They were in the paper and on the front page no less.

Probably the coolest thing from my trip...I didn't know it until someone showed it to me, which was like a cool surprise present!

Ok...enough of notariety...off to do laundry...and bead