Did you ever ...... see anything as beautiful

A busy time

Having returned from Nottingham and visiting Lustre Contemporary Fair my feet don't have much time on the ground before our local Art Bazaar event this coming Friday 13th. Then Made 09 the following week in Brighton. So I dont have much to do really ! its all good fun and I love the fairs so much. Selling over the internet is wonderful of course but its always lovely to meet the lovely people the beads go to and of course recieve all the valuable feedback really only possible meeting everyone in person.

I have new beads on my web site this evening and then a few on Etsy later in the week , these are the ones you will see on there so keep an eye out !

New Banner for my website

Making some changes to my web site and hopefully ironing out all the glitches I have had this year and giving it a bit of a face lift. Would love to hear what you think of my idea for a new banner?

New Etsy Listings ..

For the first time I am listing some of my BIG focals on Etsy - kicking off with these two ...

These are BIG beads and will look fantastic worn on their own on any simple chain or piece of leather , to give an idea of size here is a picture of them with my chain ....

You can find them here .... http://www.mangobeads.etsy.com/

New Beads this evening

Including this little lovely , Gypsy a gorgeous Focal, so delicate and very pretty.Take a peak later this evening for lots more eye candy!

I have spent the whole day sorting out RSS feeds and linking everything together, to say my head is spinning is an understatement ! I absolutely love computers and working stuff out, but it doesn't come easily and I need a quiet house to do it in , not always possible !

The V&A

We visited the V & A at the weekend but have only just got round to looking at the pictures we took not many but a few things that we really enjoyed. We only looked round the new Ceramics Gallery and the Glass Gallery.

The Donkey Child in the Ceramics Gallery we particularly liked - depicting the heavy burden society these days inflicts on our children . My daughter says it actually symbolises Tom when hes ill but I'm not sure he would agree with that !

.... and the very old BC Beads in the glass gallery the only beads on display, but oh how familiar they look ,and what alot we have to thanks these guys for, all the skills we apply today in our lampworking evident and discovered so many years ago.

I was particularly shocked that they were the only beads on display, with so many talented Lampwork Artists in the world today, a display of beads since then would be of significant interest to many -

Something to be investigated perhaps ?

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