Less than 48 hours............

Less than 48 hours until the bead soup swap reveal!!!  I can hardly wait to go "cruisin'".  I'm very upset that my camera decided to crash this weekend.  Of all weekends.  Egads.  Anyway, the camera phone did a pretty fair job of capturing my "items".  Tease tease tease.  I travelled to the Flickr pool yesterday and was amazed by the variety, potential and inspiration of the mixes!  Great job everyone....c ya on Wednesday.

Bead Soup Swag

Bead soup swag from Chile Cat

Hi all:  Felt too guilty just lying around so I wanted to post my before from Chile Cat.  This is the most wonderful bead soup mix.  The best of blue with that daisy like flower focal bead.  What is not to love!

Please excuse the less than wonderful photo...my digital died, this is from my camera phone.  Anyway, you get the idea.  This is such a wonderful project.  Thank you Cathryn and Lori and all the other beaders.

Nothing much to say

Hi all:  Not a whole lot to say today.  Did another lazy Saturday and I'm okay with that.  Have played with the furbabies and generally little else.  The day job has become VERY stressful to the point of unmanageable.  When I'm not at work I'm too exhausted to even contemplate doing something productive.  This cannot be a good thing.  WAH WAH WAH.  Enough whining.

It is a glorious 65' in El Paso.  Beautiful mix of turquoise sky and white cotton candy clouds.  We did have a heavy shower day all day on Wednesday, so we are above normal for precip.

What else....I have mentally cemented my idea for my bead soup goodies, which I will finish tomorrow.  I need to post the before tomorrow and then the after on Feb 10 along with everyone else.

More later all my beady friends.  Peace.  

I won a book...................

Hip hip Hooray.  I won a book from Lisa Crone at A Bead a Day!  How exciting to win stuff.  I'm in dire need of inspiration.  Real job stuff has been very stressful, so I truly need a bit of help to get going with some designs.  All my plans for the blog and etsy have fallen pathetically behind...ugh.

Cloudy and very cool here in Far West Texas and the dog babies and I have been VERY lazy.  Shamefully so!

Well, I'm off to a CSI marathon in my living room, ha.  Have a fantastic week everyone!!!

Smile big and often, every minute that you can.

Kisses.......................................

PS:  Here is Lisa's fantastic blog...enjoy
http://abeadaday.blogspot.com/

My bead soup partner

Necklace and Earrings by Kathryn Brooks-Williams

Hi all:  I just was looking at my parnter's blog, Chile Cats, and ran across a necklace and earring set she had just made (see above).  I just wanted to highlight some of her items as part of our bead swap!  Her cats are also a star of her blog which I love being a pet person.

Rainy and windy in West Texas today...so I've been napping most of the day and chillaxing with the dog babies.

I recently finished up some carved/stamped beads I have made.  I love the rusticness.  Please excuse the focus, just wanted to post some of my work.  Better pictures on the way, PROMISE!  :D

By Elizabeth Freeman  Jan 2010

Enjoy your weekend.  Peace out!

Book of Eli; Up in the Air

Hi all:

Saw Book of Eli and Up in the Air.  Both stories of redemption and purpose.  No spoilers here.  Denzel at his most grizzled (still hubba,hubba) and George Clooney all cleaned up and VERY pretty!  Up in the Air had the nice little surprise of Sam Elliott (hubba cubed).  Had a wonderful, gossipy breakfast with a good friend on Saturday.  She has been able to release some demonish relationships (very hard for her) and we celebrated over eggs and tortillas.

On the beading scene, played with clay yesterday and assembled my bead soup package.  Made a lot of beads yesterday using the tutorial I bought from Iris Mishley (heart pillow beads).  Making the clay fabric was soooooo liberating. If you want to purchase see here: http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=38689263.     Yellow, brown, pink orange, red...really...REALLY.  They worked, at least IMO.  The striped sheet didn't come out too badly either, if I say so myself.  Thanks to Iris for such a well done tutorial.  So inspiring.

What a great weekend.  I feel rested and able to work again.   Ahhhhhhh.... "See" you all some time this week.

BEAD Soup update!

Hi all:  Got my Bead Soup package from Cathryn in New Mexico.  Too wonderful for words!  All blue goodness, can't wait to play.  Mine will be on the way to Cathryn on Monday!  This is very exciting.....eeeeeeeeeeeee :D

I've been working like a madwoman this week at the day job.  Had a fantastic training on Mon and Tue about how to coach people.  4 amazing women who know their stuff.  I love valuable training and need valuable training.

I also sold my second car yesterday to the neighbor for their son.  He starting community college on Monday and is a great kid.  The funny part is the car is out of my drive way, but parked in front of my house, LOL.  I looked out this morning to check the weather and was surprised to see it sitting there.

Very sad about Haiti.  Truly makes me appreciate all the magnificience in my life.  I am very blessed and pray that many more get rescued alive.

Well, thanks again Cathryn and more soon.  Have a great weekend everyone!