Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays & Happy New Year...

Hi all, hope you are having a great holiday season so far & are all ready for Christmas & an awesome Happy New Year...you may have noticed I have not blogged, added beads, updated facebook, twitter, flicker or any other means of communication for over 2 weeks now...Thanks for all of your concerned & whats up with you? emails & messages...

All is good & life is good in the world of Jelveh...I was just taking some time off from being out there so much...I think we all need to do that from time to time...unplug as it were...so back to our regularly scheduled program we go...lets see I have been rather busy making a ton of beads for fun, for special orders, for gifts & for our big Christmas Boutique at Graceful Studios which is this Sunday from 10-5...Grace also thought Garnet & I how to make soap, we made a ton of yummy gourmet soaps for the Boutique with Grace & for gifts...I tried & spend some time with family & friends too which is always nice...below are some photos of these adventures...oh yeah we got some NEW TO US furniture for the living room dinning room finally too...so yes busy busy here...

The cutest little girl, my niece is 3 years old on this week, she had a Shrek party & was dressed as princess Fiona for her special day...

Here is the cutest guy on our new couch, so yummy, both the couch & my hubby...

& here is a shot of the soap making party we had...so much fun, want to do this again soon...

OK the Winner of the yummy bead from two weeks ago is FiberOne of SC...please please send your address...in fact anyone who has won a bead in the past few weeks, please send your address, as I have some yummy beads just waiting for their new homes...OK for this past two weeks & the next two weeks, I am giving away 1 set of 5 beads, your choice of colors to 4 people...enter to win a set of beads by making a comment on this post...

Also in the spirit of the giving season, every purchase from my shop until the end of Jan, 2010 will get a 10% discount via paypal after payment has been made...Anything purchased after Dec 20th will not be shipped until after Jan 5th, 2010...wow 2010...how time flies when you are having fun...New Beads & goodies will be listed in my etsy shop soon, you just have to keep checking...

Thanks for stopping by, have a safe & fun Holiday season...Life is Good...

Jelveh

Peace

Leftovers & More...

Hi all, hope you had a great Turkey day...ours was was very nice...having 4 days off was really good, we did just about nothing...went for long walks, did a bit of yoga at home, did a bit of shopping & that's about it...oh yeah ate a whole lot of yummy leftovers, what about you?

this past weekend I managed to list a ton of beads as promised...I will have a couple of new yummy sets, focal beads & leftover sets by Thursday 2pm California time in my etsy shop...

On Wednesday last week I had a quick, as in short intro class to bead making with the nice people in the photo below...Sharon, Lisa & Kevin...Lisa was a natural, Sharon's beads looked really good for a beginner & Kevin did great too...he is also a boro artist, although we had very little boro glass at the studio, he did come back on Sat for about an hour & showed a bit of boro, the second picture is the swan he made for us...he is going to come back to our studio to teach a 2 day intro to off mandrel boro class sometime around spring vacation 2010, I will keep you posted of the dates...

Graceful Studios News: We have added a calendar of events to our blog upcoming dates of note are my lampworking class on Sunday the 6th from 9am to 2pm, & the Christmas Boutique on Sunday December 20th from 10am to 4pm...see you at the studio...

Last week's two yummy focal beads go to Amy, send your addy girl...for this week I have very special bead, I love love this apple core bead with a modified harlequin design...I was going to list it in my shop, then I realized I did not have a yummy bead for the giveaway, so now you can enter to win it by making a comment on this post...

Thanks for stopping by...Life is good...

Jelveh

Peace