Da Beads! Da Beads!

Awesome weekend!  I had been working such long hours at my "paying" job that time for touching my the beads and creating were sorely limited...really to 1 night per week...(and most of y'all know,I play with my beads in some shape or form every day)...can you say FRUSTRATED!!!!

So I took a couple of much needed days off and let me tell you it was da bomb...besides sleeping, I revelled in bead time.  I was due to participate in Hilltop Marketplace in Georgetown, TX so I was on a mad rush to create Ceramic tile coasters to add to my inventory then the show got canceled due to weather...oh well...so over the course of Wednesday through Friday, I made two (2) pairs of earrings, four (4) bracelets (2 unfinished--I ran out of the beads).  On Saturday, the Jolly Jems met up at +Lapis Lane Beads for four plus hours of beading.  Of course, many members of the +Jolly Jems are members of the +Austin Bead Society board of directors so we had an impromptu meeting with this year's Bazaar Coordinator, +Maryanne Walker .  As a result, we decided to crash the Austin Bead Market on Sunday and distribute fliers in order to promote our upcoming Bead Bazaar.

Linda, Caron, Connie and Sally



My haul from Legendary Beads!

On Sunday, with my best beading girlfriends, (+Connie White , +Linda Burkett , +Betsy Glen), we took a little trip and visited +Legendary Beads and helped celebrate the shop's birthday and the Austin Bead Market. By the way, as part of the birthday celebration, I drew a 20% off coupon....

Stash from Bead Market and Legendary Beads

I was looking for a particular bead in order to finish my bracelets--nothing more--yeah, RIGHT!!! We all know how that goes!  Thank goodness all bills had been paid otherwise, I'd be eating some "Wish Soup" and camping out on someone's door step...LOL!  I visited my favorite vendors--+BeadStuff , +Queenly Global Trading  +Stick Lizard Designs plus some other new ones +Sandy Shores and +Bead Market.  Now mind you, our intent --at least my intent--was to hand out fliers and network for vendors for our bazaar...I did manage to do that as well...Overall, not a wasted trip.

We ended our day with dinner at +Texas Land and Cattle where we did a show and tell of all of our goodies!  Love hanging with my beady friends!  See y'all tonight at the Austin Bead Society's general meeting--did I forget to mention that I was teaching the Chenille Stitch tonight?  Yup!  looking forward to it!

Happy beading!