New Autumn Bracelets!

The weather in Michigan is simply gorgeous with bright blue skies, lots of sun and the beginnings of color changes in the leaves! I love Fall the best of all the seasons and that's reflected in the colors of the following two bracelets.

WOW!!! I Won An Award!

Award Winning Summer Cobalt Garden Bracelet

I'm proud to say this bracelet won 3rd Place in its category at the Prairie Arts Festival on August 30th in Mississippi! See the last picture for the plaque!

No, I'm not from Mississippi but was visiting my niece and her family. My niece Kris is working on a PhD at Mississippi State University. I'm very proud of her! She helped me with my booth at the Festival despite 94 degrees of hot and humid weather.

New Bracelets For Spring!

The Ann Arbor Sunday Artisans Market started in April with beautiful weather, more artisans than last year and eager customers. We were all a little bit surprised as Michigan is acutely suffering from the poor economy. Perhaps the higher gas prices are influencing people enough that they are sticking closer to home and "shopping local". Whatever the reason, I'm working hard to keep up my stock both for the Market and online sites.

Hence, more bracelets, my most popular beaded item! The first one is up for auction this week on Ebay, and the rest will be listed on Etsy over the next week. And more earrings are coming, and cabochons featuring some of my own drawings. It's looking like this is going to be a great year!

New Bracelets!

I've been very busy for the last few weeks setting up a new beading/polymer clay/computer room, and turning the basement back into a pottery studio. Yes, I said BACK into a pottery studio. I used to make ceramic pots and teach throwing 20-25 years ago or so. But I'll have more on that later, and pictures of the beading room when it's done.

Here are three new bracelets, only one of which is listed on Etsy - the purple pansy bracelet. But I'll be listing the others soon, on Ebay or Etsy.

Etsy Beadweavers New Challenge RED

Yes, to bring in the New Year, and for the upcoming Valentine's Day, we have a theme of RED. So each member created a piece using primarily red seed beads. Here's a link to the Beadweavers Blog where you can see each entry up close and vote: http://etsy-beadweavers.blogspot.com/

And here is my entry!