I have added my etsy mini to the page at the right to give a better idea of what type of work I do. I have been working on some new things here lately. Coral the green eyed octopus bead sold and will be on his way to Malta sometime next week, in the meantime I am making more octopus beads to send along with him as a custom order. It is always exciting when someone contacts me for something specific, it shows that they have confidence in my work. I have had more sales in the past few weeks than I have had in a while and it is all very exciting!

Here is a froggie that I listed in my etsy store last week, I named her Ruby http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=6599073 I don't think I've given much background about myself here on this blog but I will today. I am a 26y/o female who began lampworking about 3 years ago, just after I finished LPN school. For the past 2 years I have been taking classes toward my RN and will begin my final semster in about 2 more weeks. I am planning to get married in early October to a man that I have been with for over 8 years now, together we have for bunnies, Bob J., Bugs, Gizmo, and Smokey. Due to the fact that working full time and being in a nursing program seems to take up a lot of my time, things may slack off some in my store and here on the blog, I will do my best to keep up, just don't be surprised if it takes on more of a "day in the life of a nursing student" feel than a blog devoted to lampwork! :)

I made several other froggies this week who are in the kiln as I type and may be listed in my shop as early as tomorrow. I also made a few focals that I was really pleased with so look for those soon as well!

Here is the set of big hole beads that I have been working on, I am really pleased with the way they turned out! As much as I wanted to keep them, I listed them in my etsy store.

I have been working on a new set of big hole beads to list in my etsy store when I get time and I think I finally finished them tonight! Look for them to be listed soon. I only have about 3 weeks left before I start back to school for my last semester of RN school and I am dreading it every day. I am ready for it to be over already! Well, off to go make more beads...I'm also working on some more froggies! :)

Well, I just listed Coral the octopus (bead) on my etsy site. http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=6529967I have had him for quite some time so it was qutie a difficult decison to part with him. I have been trying to sort through some of the beads that I have laying around and have over two pounds to donate to Beads of Courage. This is a wonderful program that uses beads to commemorate milestones in treatment for children with serious illnesses. This will be my first donation (the first of many I hope) and I am trying to decide if I should wait until the box is full, or go ahead and send them now. I'll problably wait a bit longer since I keep finding more to add. For more info on Beads of Courage, check out their site at http://www.beadsofcourage.net/