Happy October & New Beads

Hello everyone...Hope your October is off to a great start...ours if good so far...


I am back from Turkey & have blogged twice since then, but this is the first newsletter...I made some beads before I went & a few since I have been back, I listed some in my etsy store...some of them in the photo below...

This past weekend we had a very glass weekend, we went to John Rizzi's 2nd Annual Sonoma County Glass Pumpkin Patch all for a great cause too...I along side Mike Hansen, Cynthia Tilker & several other glass people did a demos at the torch, I loved loved watching Mile make a great flower implosion marble with no practical marble making tools & then Cynthia made an off mandrel mouse & put it on a great big pumpkin, I love hanging out with glass people...we had a great time & bought a couple of glass pumpkins & got to meet Chris Johnson of Santa Cruz & Larry Cazes from San Jose...other awesome glass pumpkin people showing at the patch were Nick Lenoff of Monterey & Aleks Barilko. We had a great time & are looking forward to the next one...below are some photos of our trip...

Quote of the week: “The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.” by Eckhart Tolle.

Bead Giveaway: The hand of Hamza Focal & friends in this past post go to Leslie C. of Canada...for this post I have the blue goldstone focal vertebrate bead above, enter to win it by making a comment on this post...don't forget to check out the last two posts, first what I made with  my bead soup & then the details of my class in Turkey this past September...this one is a long read, but I think you will like it...

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

Jelveh

Peace