Snow, Sale, Sickness and Beads

So far this week we have had a snow storm, and ice storm, and now, I have a sick little girl home.  'Tis the season I suppose.

isn't she adorable?

So, my sale is still going on, use code snowday15 in either shop to save 15% off your purchase 

www.stacilouise.etsy.com

www.slartisanaccents.etsy.com 

I have been working really hard on beads for the upcoming Berks Bead Bazaar the first weekend of March in Reading PA.

the post card this year featured my beads !!!!  

I have apparently been making lots of donut shapes- so, I hope everyone wants donuts.  nothing is painted yet, and I still need to make metal clay components.  wish me luck.

I did finally get to make some connectors and such.  I hope to finish up polymer today / tonight and move into metal.  Then painting.  Feeling the crunch.

Also going on, Boot Camp for Feb /March over at Love my Art Jewelry is all about Asymmetry in Design.  We already have some great posts going on, so check it out - you can find the info each Monday on the blog- with links to any other boot camp posts from the previous week.

www.lovemyartjewelry.blogspot.com 

Oh- and did I mention that there was a lovely feature on my blog in Beads and Beyond February.  It made me blush!  

http://www.trapletshop.com/gb/p/16267/beads-beyond-february-2014

AND Bead Design Studio featured some of my beads in the Bead Art Section this February, 

http://beaddesignstudiomag.com/issues/current.shtml

as well as this great Make Money Now article featuring my Zen Doodle beads.....and my studio floor- which I am still soooo in love with.  I am so happy everyone likes it so much, and it was great to see it in a magzine!  The best part is, you can check that article out right on the website. 

 http://beaddesignstudiomag.com/makemoney/45/MakeMoneyNow_Feb2014.pdf

So, wish me luck, I also have 4 magazine submissions to write, and some special things to make because I want to enter Bead Dreams this year, oh yeah, and taxes.  I have to enter all my receipts......from the whole year....... (all before Berks).   

So if my posts are random, full of this and that, or not frequent, this is why.  Bead brain is in full effect.  Now please pass the coffee :)

Moving In and Movin On

So, now that I am in the studio, there is still alot of little fine tuning to do, and a lot of fear on my part, that I will trash it quickly and it won't be so nice anymore!

 

I tried to set things up in a logical way, giving myself extra room to lay things, since I tend to pile..............and pile............and pile.

 

What can I say, I like things in arms reach.  That is why I made this.

 

 

 

It is a shoe rack, that I used on my desk top for bead storage.  I spray painted it, and drilled holes on the bottom to add casters.   (ok, the hubs did that part!  not me)

Then I added an extra crate I had on top. 

 

Since I LOVE to have everything within arms reach when I work on stuff, and never have enough desk top, I needed something that would help to avoid the piles of things next to my desk. 

 

This can be wheeled over to sit beside me, and hold things like my stamps and molds, polymer clays, metal clays toold, paints, whatever I am working on, and then, if I am not done at the end of the day, it can be wheeled to the side, out of the way.

 

When I am done with say, polymer clay, the bins can go back on the shelves here and my "pile cart" gets wheeled to the side again.

 

Then I can always walk through the room, which didn't happen too often before.

 



 

So I got to use my cart today while making some long overdue polymer beads. 

 

I really just played, I had nothing in mind when I sat down. 

 

I made some big top drilled spikes that I really think will make nice sets.



I made some funky start spikey donuts

And some black beads to be painted with coppery metal paint.

 



 

 

I am going to paint designs on them, like my floor.  The donut below is a sample.

 

 

 

 I also got to play with some metal paint and patina's.  LOVE the results.  These are gonna be REAL fun!

Some more new shapes and things

 

And my favorite beads of the day, skinny sugar skulls!  Can't wait to paint these!  Such a fun shape.  I even made some double sided.

 



Have I mentioned I love my studio?  (sorry, still in shock)

 

Here she is all moved into.

 

 

 

 

Stop by tomorrow for a post about Bead Fest Philly in August, and where you can find me and some other great beady friends!!!!!!!!!!!!!