My Second Summertime Item Review…

Artbeads.com sent me beautiful coin shape glass beads in yellow and white. They have wonderful little peacock spots on them. I love these! They are a little smaller than I expected (now where is my ruler? :o) ) so I did not make the bracelet I had planned. However, earrings developed and they’re so HAPPY, they make me want to dance! Artbeads.com has tons of beautiful glass beads, so check them out!

I also received these cool Bamboo beads in ..you guessed it! Yellow! I’m on a roll here… They are so interesting, with a little band of dichroic around the middle. The hole, which you may be able to tell in the photo, is an eensy bit bigger than I expected…(ruler, again) so my intended purpose did not work out. They are really awesome and come in lots of beautiful colors. I wonder how I will use these?

Well, I hope you guys like the earrings, but I’m not finished yet! I have one more item to show off, soon!!

Disclosure: As a participant in the blogging program, I very much enjoyed reviewing these items from Artbeads.com. They were sent free of charge to me. I have been honest in my personal opinion of the product, and I am not being compensated for my endorsement as it pertains to the component reviewed.

Recent additions to HPB…

While it might look like I’m stuck on blue, well, maybe I am! Evidently it’s my favorite color! And there will be more to come, cause I’ve been beading, not listing. So, I have a little pile of things which I will be listing on Etsy and 1kM! Some are blue-and some are not… So come on back in a day or two and see…

These MIGHT be my favorites, cause I love love these crystals:

Just thinking, do you enjoy wearing ear threads, or do you prefer other types? I’d love to know how they rate in your book! See ya later!

The Beauty of Spring…

…is the current theme for the Artbeads bloggers. Very good for me, because Spring is my favorite time of the year. If I were at home in Texas, I’m sure I would be pruning, digging, planting, and enjoying the birds and new growth of my garden. But, here I am in Florida at my “home-away-from-home”. In the Keys this time of the year, thoughts turn to the beach, water sports, tall frosty drinks, palm trees and sea creatures. So, here is my creation using items sent to me for review by Artbeads.com:

I first saw similar porcelain beads in Beadwork magazine, and really wanted to check them out further. But then, along came this fabulous porcelain shell bead at Artbeads! My favorite bead place! How could I resist?? No need! And it truly is as beautiful in person as in the picture. The porcelain shell bead is suspended by a peyote woven bail, and ends with a Hill Tribe bead cap (with shell design, of course!) and a Swarovski coral pearl. The S-clasp is a Hill Tribe Silver Starfish. The necklace is a spiral seed bead rope of various colors found in the pendant, mainly blues and greens.

Since I did not use all the bead caps I received for the necklace, I used them for a springy little pair of earrings, and I must say, they are pretty sweet!

Disclosure: As a participant in the blogging program, I very much enjoyed reviewing the items from Artbeads.com, and they were sent free of charge to me. I have been honest in my personal opinion of the products, and I am not being compensated for my endorsement as it pertains to the components reviewed.

Chic Something…

That’s the title of a pretty Treasury West curated by Demet of Demetgun3 on Etsy. She was so kind as to include my Summer Strawberries Earrings!

Demet has some lovely things in her shop! One of my favorites is her Twisted Snake Medallion Necklace. Hmmm, it would certainly be awesome for Valentine’s Day, or any other day for that matter!

New items for Hiding Place…

Yes, I’ve been a slug. No excuse. But here are 4 new pieces to try to make up for it. Forgive?

The Greatest of These

1 Corinthians 13:13 (CEV)
For now there are faith, hope, and love. But of these three, the greatest is love.

Citron Anklet

Surf and Pearls Necklace

Hmm..What Shall I Call These?

Yay, First Etsy Sale…

Well, I love “firsts”! Today, I made my first sale on my Etsy shop! It was for the Shimmering Sapphire Earrings I listed a couple of weeks ago. Not a big sale, but I am pumped and fully expecting this to be enough to pull me out of my “downy dumps” about NO sales!! I am very grateful, and look forward to many more, perhaps in the not too distant future!!