Summer Fruit!

New Earrings! Yummm! Who can't resist dark sweet cherries and brightly colored apples?

Sweet Summery Bracelets!

Newly beaded and just listed - one on Ebay and the other on Etsy! I really love the pastel colors!

Ebay Special Interest Groups Got A Facelift

Not so sure I like it yet however. The old group pages were more individualized. But it's new and perhaps we'll all get used to it. I hope.

Speaking of the Ebay groups, I'm a member of several jewelry groups there. The first one I joined several years ago is the Glass Seed Beaders Group and that group will always be the most special to me - of course - I use a lot of seed beads. And it's a very small group compared to the other jewelry groups. But they are a talented bunch and very welcoming to anyone interested in those teeny, tiny seed beads.

At the end of 2005, a group of at least 20 beaders from GSBG got together and made a tapestry of 48, 4" x 4" squares. The tapestry was auctioned off on Ebay in early 2006 and the proceeds went to Habitat For Humanity in the Gulf Hurricane areas. Each person poured their hearts into one or more of the squares. One of our members, Trish Whitecloud (http://stores.ebay.com/Apache-Blue-Girl-Bead-Market), put the squares all together to make the tapestry and hung it from a wooden rod. There was also a pocket on the back of the tapestry for a journal, where each beader talked about the inspiration for the square(s).

Pictured below is the final Tapestry, and then my square called "Nature Fights Back".

More Pictures of the Artisan's Market!

It was a beautiful Ann Arbor Sunday, about 75 degrees, and sunny with bright blue sky. The Market had a steady stream of buyers all day and everyone was serenaded by wonderful guitar music!