One advantage to being laid up today was my LOTR marathon, the extended Fellowship, followed by our newly acquired copy of the 2 Towers. Anyone who tells me they are NOT in love with Viggo Mortenson is a big fat liar with pants aflame. I have SUCH a crush on him!! -- Marisa (AU) ESBC

I'd love to donate. But I've given all of my extraneous stuff away already. I'm sorry. :-( ~~ Sooz ------- "Those in the cheaper seats clap. The rest of you rattle your jewelry." John Lennon (1940 - 1980) Royal Varieties Performance ~ Dr. Sooz's Bead...

I STILL HAVE beads left.... HELP Me! Oh... and if you want to paypal me a few bucks fo cover shipping you can :) LOL... Here was my original post.... OK... Well this is an odd request... I have some Extra beads (How the heck did that happen) and I was wanting to

hi all!!! we are back from the southwest and we found a beautiful place in san cristobal (less than a mile from the d.h. lawrence ranch) right in our budget and... our landlady is a jewelry artist!!! yay!!!! :D so i am happily back and back to bidding, as kandice will see i am sure. :D so, now...

Good morning ladies, I was browsing Wet Canvas last night and found a thread on baking soda beads. Has anyone ever tried making them? I ended up making 16 beads in all. I have some with very large bubbles in them. I read that these beads may crack, but usually when you are making them. None...

Hi everyone! This is the first time I decided to get in on the action but I've been hanging around and snooping for a while now. I'm Nathalie and I'm what you would call a beginner beader from Montreal, Canada. I have alot of questions for you since I can't seem to find the answers anywhere and...

Hi everyone! I have some nifty new sets on both auctions, listed last night, and several pretties ending tomorrow. The new Ebay ones include "Bronze Age" which was something of a surprise. I'd envisioned softly glowing rose glass over ivory, with fragments of gold leaf trapped inside....but the...

www.beadbimbo.com/ebay/sunflowers.jpg Ok, I'll admit I was trying to make this bead NOT encased, but I cracked it, and the only way to heal a cracked bead is to melt it back together, so I decided to encase it before I melted it. It turned out pretty good, but after an hour in the torch, I was...

My girlfriend was coveting one of my dog beads. I decided I would make it into a pendant so she would do whatever she wanted with it. I asked her yesterday if she had done anything or if she wanted me to make her something else. She saw the cat bracelet I had made for one of my DH's customers...

You might be underestimating that you do look young. However the kids menu does seem a little over the top. I had to do the same thing with the wedding ring bit. Most times when I don't wear one of mine (yes I have six sets), I am treated more as a kid than an adult. When I wear one of my big...

Remember a while back I said in one of my posts that I purchased a huge lot of beads and items from a lady who collected stuff from around the world? I just found a small belt in one of the boxes. It's made entirely of seed beads. It's 29" long and there is a 5" section that was taken off...

Does anyone else do this? I just ordered a bunch of silver from Monsterslayer. It came in yesterday's mail. I sat down to do some beading yesterday and-- gee whiz-- it looks like I don't have any beads now. Nothing goes with anything else. But the reason I ordered all that silver was because I...

Hello all... I generally just read this group, but I had asked a question AGES ago about putting together stick pins. I promised to post picutures when I finished the project and now I can! I'm a member of the Embroiderers' Guild and wanted to make beaded scissor point protectors and counting...

Thank you Tina. I lived in New Mexico for several years, and I will always call it home. The colors of this one reminded me of this. jayne Christina Peterson wrote: Love that SW Desert. Tina

Gorgeous work, Sooz, can't wait to see more. Mmmmwhaaaa, smooch! -- Marisa (AU) ESBC Thanks to everyone who likes to show and tell, and share their beaded creations with us all.

Hey! Come back! This is totally unnecessary. Tink doesn't MAKE comments like the one you ascribed to her. She just doesn't. This is a mistake. Don't go. She was only trying to commisserate with Vicki's color distress. She hadn't even READ your posts! She didn't read the entire thread. You...

The manager was very very kind to me. He gave me some papers to send somewhere (corporate offices, I think...haven't had time to look them over yet)...VJ was right about the possibility of not having enough time when dealing with businesses! BUT the manager took me back to the craft dept...

man, i knew i should have bid 150.... i weap my whole being weaps. damn.

I wanted to let everyone know I have auctions ending later tonight! Please take a look if you have the chance: http://www.snurl.com/1sfe Thanks! -- -Kalera

I don't remember who it was that was talking about getting a "Flintstones" look using 12mm beads -- but in the latest Fire Mountain catalog, on page 26 (illustrating "Red Agate") there is a *stunning* 3-strand necklace based on agate nuggets, which manages not to look Flintstones-y at all. Smaller...