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For the Love of Beads Sponsors A Bead Giveaway bonebeads

These wonderful African Trade Beads are the next prize in the Beading Gem’s ongoing giveaway. She has had some neat prizes from various bead makers and sellers and this week its our turn! So if you want to win these great beads or are just looking for a good crafting blog to read, head on over there and take a peek:  Pearl always has interesting and informative articles on beads and other cool jewelry-related stuff.

Posted by Emily


It’s been way too hot to think in TO these past few days – the humidity is through the roof! – and so I have not had a lot to say. But, I promised TotusMel I would post a link to Wunderkammer’s Giveaway and tell everyone to go enter so here it is:  GO ENTER!

The prizes are awesome and the more entries, the more of the prizes get unlocked and she has really saved the best for last! Not that the other prizes aren’t great, but who DOESN’T want this fantastic bustle skirt by Crescentwench?

Steampunk Giveaway!  bustleskirt

It only requires about 30 more entries (last I heard) to unlock this beauty so tell your friends and get on over there to peruse the neat stuff she posts and enter this contest. I’m sure she’d appreciate a few tweets too if you have the time as she’s moving soon and super busy.

In other news, I broke my bent nose pliers working with some big honking rings and now I cannot get anything done until I get around to ordering new ones… maybe I should learn a new craft in the meantime – any suggestions?  I mostly finished what I was working on – pics to come most likely – so it’s not too big of a deal, they were not the best quality anyway and I had been delaying replacing them. I guess they made that decision for me! But its too hot to stare at the computer anymore, I am going to go relax in the slight breeze on the balcony that my kitties seem to be so enjoying.

Happy crafting!

Posted by Emily