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No Postal Workers Were Harmed In The Delivery of This Soup
Y'all, I have discovered my bead twin from another mother, and it's my Bead Soup swap partner Nancy Dale. Check out her blog, and go enjoy the eye candy at her website.An envelope from Nancy arrived,...
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Wherein The Calendar Once Again Freaks Me Out.
You may not believe this, but some people actually consider me a fairly bright individual. I mean, I've got lots o' degrees, a know to close my mouth if I look up when it's raining, I usually put my...
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Adventures in Freeform - The Reveal!
Karen Williams and Mandi Ainsworth threw out a challenge - create a freeform peyote piece and share it for all the world to see.Some of the folks participating in the challenge are using this as a way...
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Jonquils On The Beading Table
If you're looking for my Freeform Peyote - Choose Your Challenge entry, go here. Then please come back!This will probably become a pendant when it grows up...Some days you just want to sit at the bead...
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At Least The Decorations Looked Like Beads
If you're looking for my Freeform Peyote Challenge reveal, please go HERE!They were made for a fundraising event, so there are no calories involved, right? Good cause = guilt and calorie free,...
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Birthday Dinner and Bead Shopping
It was only after seeing this photo that my husband finally admitted that he's finally been outgrown.My baby turned 21 this past week. (Imagine me, fainting dramatically onto the sofa.)We drove up to...
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This Is Why You Should Read the Blogs Every Day
If the blogs I had neglected reading over the past couple ofdays had been printed out, this would have been the stack. Y'all have been very busy people! Work and family obligations have meant that I...
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I Will Not Curse. I Will Not Curse. I Will Not Curse.
Y'all, some days the beads just do not want to play nicely. Apparently today is one of those days.I've been sitting here, trying to get something - ANYTHING - to work for Christine and Therese's Time...
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She Wasn't Lost, She Was Just Hiding
Please excuse the unidentified stuff on the beads to the left. The Muse apparently forgot to dust.The other night I was griping because I couldn't get the beads to work. Instead of the lovely designs...
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Harbingers of Spring, and Maybe A Challenge?
How do you tell it's springtime in your town? Daffodils and tulips blooming in a blaze of glory? The warmer rays of sun shining through your window? ANY rays of sun shining through your...
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Daggers and Spikes
No, I'm not planning the costume I'll be wearing for the season premiere of Game of Thrones...I'm celebrating the wonders that were contained in a tiny package that arrived from The Best Bead, all the...
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Hats Off! Challenge Sign Ups
Worried what you might do to occupy your beady imaginations after the BSBP? Come join me for the first Hats Off Challenge!This springs from my observation a couple of years ago that the timing of...
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BSBP7 Reveal! Hooray!
If you're looking for the Hats Off Challenge sign ups, go here!The spectacular Lori Anderson is throwing another world-wide celebration of creativity, the Bead Soup Blog Hop. My partner this time is...
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Hats Off! Challenge Update
If you're looking for my Bead Soup reveal, go here!Last night was the official kickoff of Derby season around here, with an absolutely enormous air and fireworks show called Thunder Over Louisville....
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Hats Off Challenge -- Beaders, To Your Gates
Last fall, when visiting old friends in another town, I said, "You should come to Derby some day."A couple of weeks ago, one of those friends called and said, "So, that invitation to Derby? I'm coming...
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Hats Off Challenge - The Reveal
Today's the day - the first Hats Off Challenge, not so coincidentally on the day of the Kentucky Derby. The idea is to make jewelry inspired by Derby (or Ascot) hats. There are a good number of...
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Diamonds in the Rough
A couple of months ago, the good folks at ZNet Shows invited me to be part of their design team. It's a chance to work with a wide assortment of their cultured sea glass and other wholesale beads.The...
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Time To Stitch 3 Reveal
The lovely Therese and Christine have gone and done it again, tempting weavers with a challenge to learn or get reacquainted with some beadweaving stitches in the third Time to Stitch challenge. This...
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Totally Worth It
Did I really need to spend 230 calories on a bag of milk chocolate M&Ms just now?If I wanted to avoid (a) a completely undignified faceplant into my desk in front of my co-workers, (b) slapping...
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The Voice From the Bead Display
So I'm walking through a bead show recently, when I hear this little voice saying, "Psst, hey lady, look over here!"It was coming from these luscious little purple glass drops with impressionistic...
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