Happy New Year to All!

Here we are, in 2008. I keep forgetting to up that number when writing a check! It always takes me about a month to catch up to the present.

I've been doing some beading this year, in preparation for next year (Christmas). I made all sorts of earrings that I'm not going to use as earrings, they'll hang on a small white tree next year.

I joined a super Yahoo group, Bead Chat, and have been having so much fun making all sorts of pretties. This year I'd like to get my dream Suncatcher done. I call it a "dream" suncatcher because that's all I've done about it so far......dream. I have all sorts of wonderful oceany things gathered up to hang from a piece of driftwood, but haven't found the right piece of driftwood yet! Maybe this year it will happen. I just made a couple of really cute starfish for it, too. I got the pattern for them from Alexis on our bead group.

I also got a wonderful pattern for a beaded bangle bracelet from one of the Bead Chat members, Ruby. Here's a link to her web page. Check out all the gorgeous things she makes! http://www.rubysbeadwork.com/ She has great tutorials on there, too. The bangle I made is for someone special for her birthday and will match a necklace I made her last year.


The snowflakes and Fuschia necklace are from patterns I bought from Sandra Halpenny. She has such wonderful patterns, so easy to follow. You can see what she has here: http://www.cyberus.ca/~davsan/

All the members of Bead Chat are so helpful and generous.

I'm going to try something new. I'm opening an Etsy store, so as soon as I figure out how to do that, I'll have a link on here. I'll have beaded items, knitted things, baskets, quilts and even some of my husbands squirrel feeders for sale there.

My daughter just opened a store from her blog page and has her GORGEOUS dolls and primative items that she makes for sale on it. http://diamondkfolkart.blogspot.com/

Her blog page is: http://ladysrepositorymuseum.blogspot.com/ . She has a museum in Colorado that specializes in ladies and childrens clothing from the 1700's to about 1850's. She totally funds it with sales from her web site and ebay.

Well, that's about all I've been doing lately. We're getting lots of snow, so it's a good time to "tinker"!