HELP! THE BEADS ARE TAKING OVER

Yep, they are taking over my beading area and a good part of the house. So it is time to try to sell some on my Etsy site to other aspiring jewelry lovers. Some would also make nice adornments for hats and shirts. So take a look you might find something you like.
Also I decided to try and jump start spring with a spring sale. I am more than ready for spring. Of course it is snowing tonight but there is always hope. It sure seems like a long winter, maybe because we didn't go south or west this winter but Alaska next summer will make that worth it. Really looking forward to that trip. We can only drive as far as Anchorage then have to fly the other 400miles, we are going to see my stepson who has lived up there for maybe 20 years. I have never been up there but have been told it is beautiful. I guess on a clear day you can see Russia from his deck.

A LABOR OF LOVE

Finally finished the purse or amulet bag I was working on. There are very close to 15,000 seed beads in it. It sure was a lot of searching the floor for those elusive little guys, they sure can bounce and run and since we have a pergo floor not carpeting they roll really good too. I never added the hours up that it tok me but that I am sure was high. I did learn a lot about the different types of seed beads. I would love to be able to take some classes but there just isn't anything this far north and we are way too far from the cities to take advantage of anything down there. I found a really nice place down in Anoka called the Garden of Beads, the staff is so nice and helpful just wish it was closer. I would like to try a picture made of seed beads but don't know what yet.

Time to Take Off

Time to take off for a few days. We had planned to go as far as Tennessee but the weather down that way didn't cooperate. We got stuck in a nasty ice storm heading towards Texas last year and it wasn't fun so we are only heading to Southern Minnesota. Maybe take in a casino or two. Freckles or " Square Dog" as we sometimes call her (she is as wide a she is long but much of it is hair) will hold down the fort for three or four days. She is an outside dog and has a comfortable very large pen and a house big enough for a couple labs. We also seemed to have been adopted by a cat that looks eeriely like my last cat. She is really spooky so we can't get near her but she comes every night to eat. When we come back I should have my beaded purse ready to list on www.sumjewelry.etsy.com so be sure to take a look next weekend.