Trunk Show with Jenny

We had a good time at the trunk show and loved visting with old friends and new ones. Jenny will be back next year with all of her beautiful beads! I want to thank Jacquie Carlson for sending me the pictures of the open house, I was so busy I never had a chance to take any pictures.

New Etsy Shop

With the help of Sandy I finally have an Etsy Shop! I am selling all of my handmade Dichroic Cabs. Please stop by my Etsy Shop to check out all the cabs my busy little fingers have been creating. I have my Open House coming up this Sunday with Jenny Friske-Baer, don't miss out on this great event!

Have a great week!

http://www.etsy.com/shop/KandraJoy

Love Saturday Morning!

I am going to mail off a few orders and then I'm heading into my studio for a day of glass, nothing better!

Back to watching Zoe on Fridays, I missed my little Zoe Bug she is getting so cute and loves to laugh.

I have had such a busy few weeks, we had Melanie Doerman here to teach for two days for the Central California Bead Society. What a wonderful two days of beading and talking with friends.

Then the next weekend I had Jamie Cloud Eakin to my house for a class and when she left I couldn't sleep because my head was swimming with ideas for bead projects. She is also a wonderful teacher and she will be teaching for our bead society in October.

After Jamie being here Melanie Doerman came back up to spend a few days with me and we spent a day in old town Clovis which was a lot of fun. We ate at North India Grill two days in a row and then she called me when she got home to let me know that she found another Indian restaurant on the way home. Here is a picture of our day in Clovis.

I found a cookbook from 1928 and I plan on making a lot of recipes from this book. Melanie and I were reading this cookbook laughing at the way they wrote a recipe in that time frame.

Melanie found a lot of keys and tin type pictures I'm not sure if I'm spelling that correct but they are metal pictures, she uses them in her jewerly.

Clovis is a fun town to look for antiques.

Well off to the post office and then to glass hope all of you have a great weekend.

Saturday Morning

What a beautiful morning, walked Coco, made a smoothie and I'm going out into the studio for a wonderful day of glass! I think I am going to start making sets of beads for a while because friends have asked for them. I have a new Granddaughter Olivia she is a sweet thing 6 pounds 5 ounces. Now I have 3 granddaughters and 2 grandsons, lucky me! Next weekend is our class with Melanie Doerman it will be great to see her, what a great teacher she is! Our bead society brings some great teachers to teach, in August Marcia DeCoster will be here for 3 days of beading. Well off to the studio and a bliss full day of glass!

A Fun Day With Glass

Some fun beads and cabs, I would like nothing better than to just do glass, so sad I have to work need to win the Lotto!

Can't Wait

I can't wait to see Melanie Doerman and take her classes, our Central California Bead Society is bringing her here March 27-28, 2010. Melanie is a wonderful teacher and our 2 days of beading will be wonderful! I already picked out my colors and started my netted rope for the Dragon Tears class. My time is so limited that I wanted to get a start on the time consuming part like the netted rope made with 15/0 seed beads. ha-ha I want to get out in my studio and make cabs, I made a lot of beads the other day but ran out of time for the cabs, maybe tomorrow. If I could just get more time in the day that would be wonderful!

April 25, 2010 Jenny Friske-Baer will be here for a trunk show with her beautiful Lamp Work Beads and I will open up the garage to everyone who comes, it will be a wonderful day of good food, friends and beads it can't get any better! It will start at 10am and go until 5pm, call me or email me for directions to my house. A picture of just a few of her beads.

Saturday Morning

Can't sleep to much going on in my head, I just hate those times. I think I will work with my glass all day, I want to try out some new colors with my beads and I have some new dichroic glass I want to fuse and make cabs with. This just sounds like the perfect day to me and I can't even be tempted to live home because Dennis took my car to the coast so I am without a car. I love the way my beads have been coming out it is so wonderful to create something from a rod of glass and not really know what the color will be the first time. Sylvia really likes the black with the raku frit on them of course those are my favorite ones also I love the way the raku frit changes color. Well off to the torch for a fun day. Love, Kandra