Merry Christmas

I just want to wish everyone a very merry Christmas and the happiest of holiday seasons. I've not been able to make many beads in the last week due to getting reading for the holidays but that's ok. I'm enjoying my time with my husband and kids. I am finding tons of inspiration from all the colorful wrapping paper and decorations but I'll have to bank them for now because I need to go find more batteries for the new toys.

Have a wonderful day!!

Website or No?

It's been a while since I've posted here.
I've been working on trying to quit caffeine. Let me tell you, I have been a raging beast! My poor family. But I'm starting to feel better and it feels like I'm coming out of my funk. I suppose I took some time off because like my mom always told me "if you don't have anything nice to say don't say anything at all."

Now I'm debating if I should keep my website or not. Let's take a look at my pros and cons lists:

Reasons not to keep list: Money is super tight right now. I have this blog I can use instead, not sure if people visit my site, the site builder thing was kind of annoying, and I don't sell from it - I sell at etsy.

Reasons to keep it: customers like it? More web presence, serves as a gallery, it's on my business cards.

What do you think? Is it important to have a site these days? Could I do without the website?

My web site

I hope everyone has a wonderful day. We are snowed in today and schools were canceled so it looks like it will be a family cleaning day today.

Have a great day!!!

Friends are the Best!

I have to say I'm so honored to have such a cool friend! My friend Mallory took the time to promote me in her blog. What cool feeling that is to know someone cares about you, thinks your work is good, and appreciates what you do. It really made my day!

Mallory's Blog


The kids are being so weird right now, I better go see what they are really up to!

Busy Busy

What a fun day today! We had family portraits taken today. It was fun though. I felt sorry for the workers there though, that place was busy!!

The other day I went to order a present for my DS for Christmas. My husband didn't think we should get it for him since it was kind of expensive and money is super tight right now. So I said I would order it with my paypal money because I thought I had enough. I go to order it and I didn't take into consideration the tax. I was only $0.05 (5 cents) short! How frustrating was that!! That night I decided that I had to get my e-tutorial finished! So for the past two days I've been busting my bum finishing up an e-tutorial I've written on how to make a "Beads on a Bead" style bead. I get it all written up nicely and then the job of converting it into a PDF file was a job and a half! But thanks to one of my friends on wetcanvas, she sent me a link and made it super super easy then. You can now find my tutorial for sale at my etsy shop.

Here are some example beads made with the technique in my tutorial:

I hope everyone has a great day!!!