AND THE WINNER IS... drumroll.....

Summer Beauties!! 

and they will go to: 

Julie, 

from RockerJewlz.blogspot.com!!!

 I shook up the tin and pulled out your name.

 So please send me your mailing info and I will get your beads off to you.  

This was very fun to do so I will have to have another giveaway soon.  

I enjoyed all your organization tips and seeing all your websites too!  

Thank you to everyone who participated! 

Don't Miss the Deadline for my GiveAway!!

Just a reminder that the deadline for my first giveaway 

is tomorrow Sat June 5th at Midnite!! 

Simply enter a comment regarding your ways to organize your suppliers and/or supplies.  I was looking for ways to keep track of who I bought a particular product from.  I put my beads away nicely but where did I buy them? That is another story.  

I will put your name in the hat and randomly choose someone on Sunday morning.  

So be sure to add your comments to my May 22nd post.  

"Bo Jangles"!! 

You can see the giveaway prize there also. 

Okay, I have been drilling a lot of holes in my beads getting them ready to sell on Etsy.  

I decided to try a technique where you mix the crumbs from baked polymer clay into fresh clay to make faux stone.  

I also added my own idea which was embossing powders in translucent clay to look a little like quartz and mica. I also added embossing powders to blue/green to look like turquoise. 

 

I am very happy with the result.  

I call this "Pebbles by the Water".  Next time I will try to make Clay water in a different shade.

Etsy Craft Party in Vegas!! well, Henderson...

I am planning to attend this fun worldwide celebration of Etsy's Birthday- you can get more information here: 

www.handmadeinvegas.com

Sharing the Joy!!

I just had to share my delight at checking my email after two days of not feeling well and finding that:

Heather Powers from the ArtBeadScene Blog chose

 my Bead soup as one of her six favorites in the Bead Soup Flickr Pool. 

What a wonderful surprise! 

You see my Alamo inspired beads 2nd down on the left?  I am honored. 

 Whenever a really fine inspiration touches my heart and I let it happen it seems to take on a life of it's own.

Andrew Thornton's Giveaway!!

I was so lucky to come across this giveaway today and had to share it with all of you!  

Here are the Czech glass beads from Raven's Journey Andrew is giving away.

Go to Andrew's Blog to enter the contest.  Just leave a comment and you are in!!  

You have until midnite the May 31st so hurry! 

Great first meeting of the EtsyDoesVegas Team last night!

Thanks ot our fearless leader Sarah Flake  (who by the way makes adorable fanciful little creatures- click on her name to see her Etsy shop) the EtsyDoesVegas Team is up and running.  Fifty people showed up last night at the first meeting and Sarah ran a very well organized and concise meeting.  We have volunteers for many committees in place and our first Crafts Fair will be held at the Mount Charleston Hotel this summer. Date TBA.  If you want to connect with about 180 artists and crafters here in the Las Vegas area check out the web site: www.etsydoesvegas.com . GO TEAM!!

Also don't miss my contest-deadline Saturday June 5th.  Go to my the May 22nd- "Remember the song-"Bo Jangles" post for details.

I found a real fairy princess!!

I love to start my day at the computer with a cup of coffee.  My goal right now is to network and find like-minded people with a passion for creating.  Today as I was surfing the net, jumping from link to link and I found a real fairy princess.  She creates lovely jewelry.  

AND 

She is having a giveaway contest and these magical earrings are the prize.

Click here to go to her blog and check out her work and maybe you will want to enter the giveaway also!