Monday Bead News & Contest...

Hi all, hope you had a great weekend...ours was just lovely...

I have new beads for you, see the photo above, I will be listing them here in a few minutes one at a time...also from now I will be listing beads as I go & not all at once, so there may be new beads a few times a week, you need to stop by the blog more often to find out...

You can win the 3 amber beads below by being the first person who guesses what relaxing activity I could use most right now...Please note, one guess & one entry per person...please make a comments here with your guess...

Thanks for stopping by...

Jelveh

Peace

Where are the BEADS??

Hi all, well I listed some beads & they sold before I got a chance to let everyone know they were there...thanks for the love, as I said a few times before I love listing beads as I go, more than a set time for listing beads...so once a week I will send out an email telling you whats up & the rest of the time you need to check etsy or my blog for updates...

Not sure if this is fair to all, but this is best for me right now... so the photo above is of some beads I am listing in the next few days & there is more in the kiln...send me an email if you want me to save you one of the sets in the photo...I will send out an email with the game to win the beads in the last post, on Friday AM my time...

Thanks for stopping by... Jelveh

Peace

Beads, are there new Beads?

Hi all, I was hoping to have new beads listed sometime today...but having a hard time with photos...so maybe on Thursday...maybe later tonight...all I know is the sun came and went...and the camera was having issues even in the photo cube...the photo below is of the bead giveaway for this week...still have to come up with a game...for now you can look at them... Thanks for stopping by... Jelveh Peace

Camden Market...

Over the weekend, Hubby & I went to London to visit the famed Camden Market. It was raining pretty hard, but we had a blast, it is perhaps the best Bazaar I have seen anywhere, although you will not find the same kind of items as you would in the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul, you would find just about anything you want, I am not even sure what more we could have found, it goes on & on, in & out of buildings, side street, & under ground & right off the street...its not really just a market as it feels like a market town...amazing...

click here to see a few photos of our day...it was hard to get the camera to focus & most sellers did not want photos of their shops taken, some of the outer stores did sell a lot of things not hand made, but there was just as impressive as a collection of Vintage, Antiques & of course Handmade Art...I even met a very nice glass artist who is from Turkey, she will be taking my advanced class in April in Istanbul at Glass Furnace... Hope yours was good too...Thanks for stopping by

Jelveh

Peace

Contest Results...Olympics

Hi all, Ginny wins the beads...she is too funny...she only named one of the 3 which was enough to win the beads, here is all 3 names: Metalica, Annie Lennix & Depeche Mode, you can not tell me you forgot the song People Are People, boy am I getting old...

My favorite Metalica song of all time was Master of Puppets...I was not a Metal Head, I love all kinds of music...but I loved & still love Metalica...I did get tossed from the Justice For All Concert for the hand cuffs that I wore as a belt on my mini skirt over my black tights, OK that's enough I am really old now & embarrassed & no there are no photos. My sister I am sure remembers that day...

Just finished w/ the shipping & been watching the Olympic Opening Ceremony...wow what a show, you got to give it to the Chines, just amazing. lots of work & money went in to this one, lets just hope the air is good enough to compete in...sad in a way, to spend $40 billion to put on the games & not much towards keeping the world green, which is by the way the theme of the Olympic Games in China...The Green Games...

Anyway hope they are fun & safe games for all, I am going to watch as much as of them as I can, my earliest memory of the games is when I watched Nadia Comaneci get perfect 10s & win the gold metal in gymnastics...what was yours?

Thanks for stopping by...

Jelveh

Peace

Win These Beads...

OK, here is a yummy set of 3 beads, that I made with a ton of silver glass from double helix, you can not see the color that well...the iris pearl is yummy in them...

Here is the question: name one of the 3 most favorite bands of mine from the mid to late 80s...

first person with the right answer get the beads, you must answer on the comment section of the blog, it can not be on the email...

N0 correct answers yet. its Clue Time!

couple of you have come close to my type of music, so I think it is time to give a clue...I was once thrown out of a concert for one of these bands...I was there to watch over my sister and her friends, I got asked to leave, because I did not have the key to the hand cuffs that I was wearing as a belt & they could not be removed as they were not allowed in the venue...lol...some chaperon was I...hope this helps...

Jelveh

Peace

Thursday Already...

Hi all, how is your week been so far...? ours has been good, we have opened some boxes, we saw Hell boy which was pretty cool, I like how some great action movies find a nice way to inform & educate without being preachy about it...this method is particularly great for the younger generations...Anyway the movie is great...

The rest of the time between bead making & shipping, I have been making arrangements for several upcoming trips, life is good...more on that later as they come up...

New beads will be listed by 6PM my time in England which makes it 10AM California time...I am going to try this new thing with etsy when I can list all of my sets at the same time or at least closer in time than before...

oh & we will have a bead giveaway today, as promised...details later in the email...

thanks for stopping by...

Jelveh

Peace

Shipping Day...

Happy Monday all, hope your weekend was good. We saw Persepolis the movie, it is so worth it. having gone through a lot of what the writer/director of this movie went through myself, at least the bit about the revolution & all in Iran, I find she held back a bit about the truth of what happened after the change. But it was good, I cried...I got it, I was there...I remember.

After a long happy slow lazy weekend, I am doing all kinds of shipping today...life is good, thank you for all the love...

The winners of the last of the weekly bead giveaways have gotten their emails, I will send an all email out to the rest of you probably by Wednesday when I will also have some new beads to share...

If you get a chance look over to the right & click on Tell Me...answer the questions if you will...Thanks a bunch...

Jelveh

Peace

Captain there be Beads here...

Remember that line from Star Trek movie "The Voyage home"?, Scotti said it to Kirk after he had the Whales on board safe & sound, taking them back to the future to save the earth...OK so I am a Star Trek nerd.

I refuse to go by that other name "Trekkie" even though I have a signed uniform by one of the crew members of Star Trek Next Generation.

So here is a way to win an awesome bead, the Star bead above, a $30.00 value. Guess which star signed my Next Generation uniform (need the actor & character name) & you will get it...answer here on the blog, to this entry, so we can see the time line, first person with the right answer wins it. one guess per person please. I will send out an email to all in a few minutes...

Jelveh

Peace

Happy Birthday...Sister

Today is my sister's birthday...she is the best sister ever, a bit of nut case, but being from my family that is expected.

She is awesome, from the kind of work she does, which I could never do, working at a breast cancer center, doing biopsy & mammograms, to being a great mom to a couple of awesome kids & a wife. On top of it all she is very nice...just last week she did a biopsy with the Dr. on my mom, she was fine with it. A few years ago, I was in a Dr's office with my mom, she was getting a procedure done, lets just say it was not pleasant, I passed out, while holding her hand for support, the Dr. had to get the nurse to help me up & take care of me!!

She is much braver than I am. Anyway Sweet Sister, have a great birthday in San Diego, I miss you much & will see you at Christmas...her son's birthday is on the 3rd, happy birthday to the little guy too...

Beads soon, I promise...

Jelveh

Peace