I'm Back!!!

Hello Kitty Pendant

Sorry for the lack of blogging recently... I am working 50hours (ish) a week at the restaurant and I'm sleeping like 8-10 hours a night so all in all not getting as much time as I would hope to make beads, make jewellery and blog all the time... if you haven't already, please read the post about my amazingly talented brother here.

I am very excited that I am working with a lady to make her wedding jewellery, for her, her mum and her bridesmaid, so tomorrow I will be picking and spending a bit of money on some sterling silver which I am very excited about... I am hoping to set up a website for wedding jewellery... Ooooh, I have so many ideas, so little time... I wonder how many off them I can pull off... Hehe.

Here are some Beadies....

Pink and Teal Encased Flower Beads - A sample of different style encased florals, for the ladies bridesmaid (her dress is Teal and she will be carrying a cerise pink bouquet of flowers)

Icy Silver Foiled Nuggets Bead Set

Encased Pink Flowers Bead Set

I'm a Very Proud Sister...

Back in July my very talented little brother (age 18) played his euphonium at an extremely well known, posh conference called TED http://www.ted.com/.

On the first day he played his 10 min "stint" between Stephen Fry's and Gordon Browns Talks. He became friends with a singer called Imogen Heap who we have both been fans of for a good few year, check her out here: http://www.myspace.com/imogenheap In his first 10 min set he played the piece of music that had actually gotten him the gig at TED... I won't bore you with that story but check the performance out here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5APf07w4J2c

It has only been on Youtube for 8 hours and already it has had 89 comments - good and bad... people are actually getting quite angry at each other for having such strong opinions!
Basically it is very different performance from what you would normally hear from a Euphonium, as it is a very beautiful sounding instrument and is normally considered as a classical instrument, so Matthew has totally taken it out of its comfort zone to create something totally different ... He is beat boxing and singing through his instrument to create chords... which I can tell you is not easy! it is a single note instrument so he really is pushing all the bunderies he can!!! Hope you enjoy it, and leave a comment
Im very proud of him, I think he is amazing!!!!!!!

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Sneaky Peek...

Above is a little sneak preview of a few glass chocolates... I am making lots more!

This pendant is about 4cm long... so the longest bead I've ever made... I love it, strung it straight on to a necklace for myself (how selfish of me !!! hehe) and will be making a few more and selling them on my focal beads page :-) I am working still super hard at the restaurant but will be getting up every morning to get a couple hours of bead making done!!! I'm getting withdrawl symptoms and I don't like it!

Get Down to it

Well, I'm here and I did my crazy 7 days in a row, and did ever so well in tips so I am ever so ever so happy about that. I got home last night and made a few beads so I could get some new stuff up on the site this morning, so thats what I have been up to so far with my day off !!!

Absolutely gorgeous glass... It's Double Helix's Triton, I am in love with it! this bead set it Triton encased in clear

Two Cupcake beads... the one on the left is a cupcake for a friend at work, and the other in on the website.

And a Big Red Heart - definately getting there with the shape :-)
right off i go to tidy up and get down to some really good bead making!

Finally ... (again)

Well, as you know I have a brand new camera which I love but haven't been able to do what I wanted in ways of taking pictures of my beads/jewellery on a white background... just purely because it has that many different settings I didn't know how or what to set to what and what to put it at --- ARGH!!! yes it has been somewhat frustrating on my part... I never do things I'm not good at, and I HATE HATE HATE it when I can't do something I really want to be good at... so anyway, Mum got this new light for her craft stuff and suggested I should try it with natural light and we have finally got somewhere :-) Now it isn't the final solution but at least I can now take pictures to use on here... my website and anywhere else I fancy showing off my beadies!!! so here goes...

Commission of Pastel Rainbow Hues

A flower bead on a ring... what do you think?

Meet the Friendly Bumble Bee (He doesn't sting!!!)

and a delicious cupcake with a cherry on top :-)

will be working lots but off next wednesday and thursday so will be getting as much beading in as I can :-) will keep you all posted :-)

A Little Torch Time Music

Well... I have been off work this weekend with flu... oh it has been horrible, I hate not being able to do what I want to do!!! I just couldn't concentrate on anything! so no bead making at all! I didn't want to burn myself - I've got enough scars from last time I insisted on making beads when I was ill... I don't need any more! So I went into work today for some training/meeting as the restaurant is shut for a couple of days for a refurbishment! fingers crossed its going to be good!!! it was only a couple of hours of sorting though our files and talking about things that needed to be talked about so it wasn't tiring but I am knackered now!!! No plans for today or tomorrow just chilling out to get better before back to work on Wednesday!!!

So... what do you guys do when you are making beads? or making jewellery? or what ever you like to do... ?

Well when I used to make jewellery I would sprawl out on my living room floor with everything I could possibly need and I would watch 24!!!! or a crappy tv show that I would get into... but 24 was my favourite... though actually I never got much jewellery making done when 24 was on... its way too confusing when you dont give it 110% of your concertration! haha...

and when I started making beads, I realised I had to have my complete concertration on the flame ... obviously much more dangerous than beaded jewellery making! So when I began torching I was on a hot head torch which is just WAY to loud to listen to music or even listen to the tv... but now on my new set up I listen to tunes the whole time! singing along and having a really great time!!! so I thought I would share my playlist that I made called "Torch Time" I made it using Spotify... if you haven't come across this program you should google it and download it! as long as you are online you can isten to as much music as you want for free (not every piece of music in the whole world is on there... there is a few essientials missing but its free so who cares!!!!) here it is... hope you enjoy it as much as I do :-)

Torch Time: http://open.spotify.com/user/vixwhite/playlist/0D0ewYeOwzx4k65nZW1bZA

Hoping to get enough courage to get behind the torch tonight... but we will see!!!