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Bead Soup Blog Party Reveal
Here we are, finally, at the 3rd reveal of Bead Soup Blog Party 7! I’ve been waiting impatiently for this date for a couple of weeks now! Just a quick recap, for those readers unfamiliar with the Bead...
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Oh my!
Yesterday I got quite a shock. There I was scrolling through Lori’s blog post about the 46 (!) winners from the 7th Bead Soup Blog Party contest. And all of a sudden, my name, and a big picture of the...
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Bits and bobs
I’m working up to another market in mid-June, not sure what it will be like as by June it’s pretty cold and wet in Melbourne, which could drive down the numbers a bit. Still, as long as I can sell a...
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Mr Frog jumped out of his pond one day
Mr Frog jumped out of his pond one day And found himself in the rain Said he, “I’ll get wet and I might catch a cold” So he jumped in his pond again. This nursery rhyme inspired a necklace recently....
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Snowflake Bird: the 3rd Annual Handcrafted Holiday Ornament Swap and Hop
Today is the reveal day for the Handcrafted Holiday Ornament Swap and Hop, hosted by Sally Russick of The Studio Sublime. In this swap and blog hop, we were paired up and asked to send our partner a...
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A torn and bleeding heart
I’ve talked about Bead Swap USA, the bead swapping group I belong to, in the past. It’s a great group and I have met some wonderful people through it. Recently we had a swap for Valentine’s Day of...
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Introducing my BSBP swap partner
It’s Bead Soup Blog Party time again! This year marks the 8th BSBP, and there are almost 500 blogging beaders and jewellery designers from all over the world taking part. Lori Anderson has once again...
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Perlensuppe!
Perlensuppe is German for bead soup. And my bead soup has arrived! Yesterday I picked it up from the post office, a heavy little package from Germany! Of course I ripped it open as soon as I got home....
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BSBP: The other soup!
It’s just over a week until the BSBP reveal. So excited! Not that I’ve finished my pieces, far from it! But I thought I would show you what I sent my partner Sandra Wollberg. It took a quite a while...
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Owls and dragonflies: the 8th Bead Soup Blog Party reveal is here!
So here we are again, at the 8th Bead Soup Blog Party, the highlight of the blogging beader’s calendar! The premise is simple, participants are paired up by our amazing host Lori Anderson to swap a...
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Octoberfest: Better late than never!
Well, here I am, arriving a week late at Rita’s 3rd Annual Octoberfest party! I am so sorry, I have just been a bit swamped with life recently. Anyway. I thought I would pay homage to Autumn, even...
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Beads of Courage charm swap preview
I’m waiting on tenterhooks for my charms to arrive from the 2014 Beads of Courage Art Charm Swap and Benefit Auction. It’s my first time taking part in this fundraising swap, auction and blog hop,...
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The Beads of Courage Art Charms auction is live!
I recently told you about the Art Charm Exchange and Charity Auction to raise money for Beads of Courage. Well, today is the day the auction goes live and also the day of the blog hop, where I get to...
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Art Charm Exchange: the charms I received!
Last week I showed you the charms I contributed to the Beads of Courage Art Charm Exchange. So I thought it was only fair I should show you the beautiful charms I received too. There were ten in total,...
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Meet my Swap’n’Hop Partner: Niky Sayers
I’m taking part in the Bead Peeps Swap’n’Hop, a riff on the popular “swap beads with a partner and make something”-style blog challenges. I was thrilled to discover that my assigned swap partner is...
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Bead Peeps Swap’n’Hop: You’ve got mail!
A lovely package showed up in my mailbox yesterday, all the way from England. A bundle of awesome goodies from Niky Sayers, my partner in the Bead Peeps Swap’n’Hop. And she has totally spoiled me with...
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Bead Peeps Swap’n’Hop
The day has arrived for the Bead Peeps Swap’n’Hop reveal. This blog hop is hosted by Linda Anderson and the Facebook group Bead Peeps, and like other bead soup-style blog hops, participants were paired...
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Bead Fest or bust!
The view across the valley, Marble Colorado I’m off on a big overseas family holiday to the US in a couple of weeks, to visit the Rocky Mountains in Colorado with family, roadtrip through the Southwest...
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BeadFest part 4 — the people and the swaps
One last BeadFest post and then I’m done, promise! This time I want to mention a few of the people I met at BeadFest and afterwards. I’ve been involved in the beading/jewellery design online community...
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This is Halloween
Or rather, that was Halloween! Blink and you miss things these days! Well, in our case, a horde of children descended on our house to go trick or treating in our neighbourhood (how nice that it was a...
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