New Beads, Tucson & Studio's next Get Together...

Hello all, hope your year is off to a good start...our life is good, I made some beads, Grace and I are going to Tucson & at our next get together at the studio we will be making beads for Beads of Courage...all of these things are great & I will give you more information on all of it later in this post...However...

The big news this week at our house is that my brilliant husband has published his first book, Jerusalem Syndrome on Amazon.com for kindle readers, pc readers & apple readers...which can be downloaded from Amazon... this is so exciting, Martin wrote this books years ago, when I met him he had just finished it...he shopped it out to a couple of print publishers late Aug 2001, after the tragedy happened on Sept. 11, 2001, one of the more famous publishers send him a hand written note explaining "that although the idea was awesome & original, the post 9/11/01 environment was not the best time for this book, as the story starts with a riot on Christmas eve in Jerusalem...The story is a Sci Fi / Horror Novel that happens in our time, so they call this kind of book Future Science...I am giving away a download of this book to the first person who makes a comment on this post...Shameless plug I know, but he is the love of my life & the book is a great read.

Speaking of being published, one of my Flower Implosion beads made it in to the Flow Magazine's current issue of Women In Glass...

Beads: I have some new beads to share in my etsy shop...below is a preview photo of whats to come & there are even more beads that need to be washed, photographed & listed, so stay tuned...

Studio: Join us on Sat February 26th from 12 to 5pm at our Studio in Gilroy. Bead makers & Glass Artists will be coming over to make beads for Beads of Courage, it promises to be a fun day full of Demos...come over for a visit, this is a pot luck party so bring a goody to munch on if you can...

Tucson: Grace & I are going to hang out with a whole lot of Beady people in Tucson AZ for a few days...it should be a ton of fun...I will have more news & photos of out trip when we come back next week...

Winner: The last beads for the giveaway, the 3 yummy focal beads go to Deci of CA. Please send me your address...This week's bead is a yummy focal with bubble eyes on each side, it is about 36mm long x 22mm wide. Enter to win it by making a comment on this post...

Tools: Don't forget to check out the newest cool tool from Grace & Frank, The Pinch me Tight is an awesome versatile tool that you will love having on your work bench...

Thanks so much for stopping by...life is good, even though the ceiling of our dinning room came down with a bad water leak last Wednesday, now the floor is being replaced too...we are thankful for all the good things in our life...
Jelveh
Peace

New Year, New Beads, New Tool...

Happy New Year everyone, hope you had a great holiday season & are now looking forward to a great new year like me...life is good, I have no excuses nor any real reasons for not blogging or listing beads for over a month...I am having a great time playing mom to Mooshi, she is such a great dog & we are so happy to have her...I did have a bit of a cold for a few days, but other than that all is good around here...

I made some new beads, listed some & will be listing more in my etsy shop...including a brand new design from me called Charming Grace, since the idea is really Grace's, over the holidays Frank made this new tool that Grace played with it & came up with this cool idea with love love the Pinch Me Right...a very cool hip tool that does a lot of fun things, you need to figure all the cool things that are possible with this tool...

Also with the new year we started our Private Beadmaking Parties at the studio...the group on Monday Jan 10 was so so so nice, there was 8 students in class and for 2 hours I thought them how to make one bead and I have to say they all did such an awesome job, I had a ton of fun with them, they are a very artsy fun group, I look forward to seeing Mary-Lee & her group of glass addicts again at the studio soon...can you tell in the photo below which bead is mine, no one had any experience in glass prior this two hour class/party...

Oh ok now for the winner of the last blog post which was oh my gosh all the way back in December 2010, is Janette from NV. Enter to win the trio of yummy focal beads in the photo above by making a comment on this blog post...

Thanks for stopping by, life is good...
Jelveh
Peace