Busy Busy May!

Spring is Flying By!!!

Spring Flowers!

Some of my spring creations! 

Purple..

...

Another one in purple....

Divine Crosses! 
A Class I took on Saturday by Cristi Prince.  I love her work so much that I am started on my third one.

My first and only loom piece topped off with a Marcia DeCoster centerpiece I made on the 2011 Bead Cruise.

I glued two needle holders together and put a green Rivoli on one end and a pink on the other so I could carry two size of needles with me and not have to search for the 2 separate tubes.

All is well with me.  I am keeping busy with teaching and beading.  I am headed for Raleigh, NC to teach at the Intergalactic Bead Show May 5th and 6th.

Blessings to ALL!

Sharon

Spring and Summer Have Arrived

I have been working very hard on my recent projects that I thought I would share with you!  The Flowers seem to be a "theme" this year.  I haven't even gotten a name for them yet.   The back side has a hidden bale for a simple chain or even a rope that I have in the back of my mind to make that is interchangeable with other pieces.  I think it will be in shades of greens.  The yellow daisy is one that I made last year and when I found this lovely pink bead it just demanded that I create one in pinks.   

Another flower!

I simply love this bead!  I have heard it called a "platter bill" my hubby thinks they look like teeth.  Whatever their name and origin I love the shape and this rosy color.  Don't you?  I had a bright rosy colored 18mm Rivoli and the crystals so when I found the beads in a shop in Iowa I grabbed all they had! 

 I just finished a bracelet too...ALOT of bling on this square Swarvoski Crystal.

Happy EASTER!  Blessings to all of you,  Sharon

I'm thinkin' "One more day closer to SPRING"

A few works in progress!

 

I am so busy making samples, developing patterns and beading for fun. 

This bracelet is my "SPRING FLING"! 

Love the colors!

The next bracelet is a beginner class that I am teaching at "Garden of Beaden" in Clarkesville, Ga and Bead Bayou in Alpharetta, Ga in March

Just a fun piece that I wanted to do...

I will be teaching this "Key Card Case"

for the March meeting of the

North Georgia Bead Society!!!

This was a contract Business Card Holder for a friend.....

The next one is a "contract" piece I made for my sister to give away as a gift to her dear friend.

It is 2:00AM and I must get some sleep.  This next week is a busy one for me....it's a secret and I can't tell you for now.  Next week I will let you know what is going on.

I love all my blogging friends!

That means YOU,

Sharon

2012 LOOKS GOOD FROM HERE

Bead Works

will be publishing my Tila Pendant in their August magazine! 

WoooHooo! I am so excited about the news.  It will be the first of my designs to "make the grade".  I have always loved their magazine so I feel it is a real priviledge to be included with other wonderfully talented beaders.

I have also started my own company

"BEAD ENVY by Sharon"

Now has it's own life and it's own tax ID number! 

It is a big step for me in my humble abode but I have had some invites from neighboring states to teach and I am looking forward to teaching again.  I have missed my students so much and went through a month of withdrawals but now am looking ahead to better days and meeting so many wonderful ladies! 

I have signed up to teach classes locally at

Bead Bayou

and

Beadiful

in the upcoming months. 

Maybe I will get to see some of my ole' friends again. 

Plus I will be teaching at

The Intergalactic Bead Show

February 4 & 5th. 

I have been busy as a bee making new products and writing the directions for each piece as I go...good girl, Sharon.

As I have said before, pattern directions are NOT my "cup of tea" but I continue plodding along, trying to improve the drawings and the wording.  (For those who have to plod through this process know how tedious it can be?) 

It takes hours to write each detail, every step, and

not miss a single stitch.

Oh, hum, just part of the job but the benefits are:

1.My Students inspire me to do better and more,

2.The clarity of my work, stitch by stitch teaches me to focus,

3.I feel satisfied and more confident about my teaching skills daily,

4.I am NO Marcia DeCoster but I am striving toward that goal,

5.I take less nerve pills now and relax in the process of design,

6.Plus my students show such appreciation which

I do not get from doing the dishes or

 laundry or cleaning the house!

It is a rewarding experience that I appreciate each day to be blessed in my new field of life after 65 years.

Below are just a few of the items that I have made since 2012 began...enjoy the view.

Beading into the Holidays!

I made some more Tila/items.  I just love the way they look surrounding the beautiful Rivoli's.   My favorite, so far is the bracelet.  It has ALOT of "bling".  (Just the way I like!...lol) 

Now I am bead embroidery crazy.  I am supposed to teach a class on these at The North Georgia Bead Society meeting in February.  The blue one holds those small Kroger/Drugstore/Retail club membership cards.  I also made one to hold the memory sticks or thumb cards but turned it in to the Bead Society before I took a picture.  It looks just like this one, just a little larger and longer.  The pink one I made for my daughters birthday gift.  It holds our business cards.  I have made numerous ones in this same style.

Merry Christmas Wishes

Merry Christmas to Everyone!!!!

Some of the decorations I have been working on!

Wishing you all a wonderful and blessed season of rejoicing in the good things, with Thanksgiving for all of the wonderful miracles that come our way this time of year.

More to come soon.  My pile of projects are finished and will be sending them soon. 

May your Christmas be merry and you lack nothing,

Sharon