Here is the freebie lampwork bead for the month of November...all you need to do to qualify is to email me! I love to get mail..if you want to critique my site please do, I'm always up for ways to improve. I'll put your name in my draw bowl and on the 3rd Friday of the month I will draw a name, and announce the lucky winner of this hand crafted glass bead all ready to go with some .925 silver findings. Good luck~

The winner of Octobers draw is Roxanne Mendosa of Roxi Designs I've not decided what will be up for Novembers draw...maybe it will be a mystery box! :) I'll think about it and post a pic next week but its safe to bet it'll be a bead! or two, as in a pair of earrings. Congratulations to Roxanne and remember to drop me a line to get in on the draw!

Send me an email, I'll put your name in the draw on the 3rd Friday of this month, and you will be eligible to win these dainty handcrafted lampwork earrings. They're set on sterling silver wires..the glass itself is a mix of teal on deep green. Couldn't get much better deal than that..tell me who you are and where you're from and maybe, if you promise not to be too nasty, you could critique the site a little so that I can do a better job selling my work.

What a nice day today..my heart needs these days. My daughter and my two grand-babies came for supper..they live 2 hours away and although I see them often, it's never often enough. My niece and her husband were here as well and we had a turkey to celebrate Thanksgiving a little early this year ( Thanksgiving is officially on Monday I think) We had a game of scrabble..played in teams. My team lost. Talked about what we're all up to and generally just enjoyed each others faces for the day...mmm..good people in my family.
I listed a new set of beads up on the 'Bay this morning. It is a mouth watering set of multiple transparents glasses in rich fall shades of purples, blues, greens and ambers with lots of pure .999 silver leaf swirled throughout. The silver reacts unpredicatably with the base bead color of ivory and each bead is a mystery unto itself. I cannot even express the addiction to this medium. It just gets in your blood as odd as that may sound...it is an expressive, unpredictable, ever evolving art form and I adore it.

Adding this little post-script to show the beadie that came out of the kiln this morning...

I've let it set sail on the 'Bay...you can check that out here

Having a lazy Sunday today...the sort of day you can leave unplanned and follow your whimsy..don't you love that word? I was going to sleep in this morning but I'd made some promising glass beads yesterday and they were soaking in the kiln all night so when I woke at 7:oo my mind flitted to the beads and of course I had to go and see how they came out. I think I'll get some good sets out of a couple of them. One very pretty focal, I'll put it on today and link it here later. I've spent a few minutes updating my site and deciding what to put on for the give-away...hmmm I finally chose a sweet little pair of teal earrings set on sterling silver wires. All you have to do is send me an email...either with some critiques for my site and blog...or, if you are a person of few words..just your name. Be sure to include your own email address by the way, or I have no way of letting you know if you've won! So, these are on the table until October 31. You can view them on my site by clicking here.