Day Twenty -- Stop me if you think that you've heard this one before

So despite being knocked off my ass by the bead show yesterday… we went again today (I'm mayor now lol). I didn't buy anything there but a (outrageously tiny) brownie, a girl’s gotta eat sometime, but I did get to check out a Precious Metal Clay demonstration. It’s a lot less complicated than I thought and I can’t wait to get elbow deep in that stuff! Figuratively of course for there is no way that I can afford being actually elbow deep in it. I know Rob is very interested in it as well. I also noticed a few things that I didn't notice yesterday and I got a lot of cards and put my name down on a couple mailing lists.

After the bead show, we went to San Gabriel Bead Company which I had never been to before. Unfortunately, we got there around 20 minutes before closing so I didn't get the chance to peruse the merchandise like I would have liked to, but I did get nine tubes of seed beads. If I had more money, I would probably need a back brace to carry it all. Nah, I’m a bit more frugal than that, but I would've loved to get more colors. The beads look like a very good quality, (I haven’t opened them yet but the tubes are clear and they look excellent). I can’t wait to work with them. I’ll probably start tomorrow. It’ll give me something to do while Rob is at the doctor’s office. I really want to get back in the swing of things and I think my recent purchases are just the things I need to do it. I can’t wait. But then, I said that before didn't I? I should quit before I get too redundant.

Crap, I realized that I forgot to take pics of stuff I bought yesterday. Okay, here's one of SOME of it, taken on the fly.

Ooh! Shiny!!  ...wait, that's my other blog.

Day Eighteen -- Ask me, I won't say no. How could I?

So I’ve been walking around with a spring in my step all day. It’s not just because I didn’t feel as sick today as I had been the past few days. What’s had me all excited and feeling lighter than air is that I’m going to the Pasadena Bead and Design show tomorrow. It’s the first time I’ve been to a bead show in quite a long time and I’m actually going to have money to buy stuff. I’ve already got my lunch in the fridge packed up and ready to go. I bought a (cheap) water bottle that I can roll up and stash in my purse when I’m done with it. I’ve got my show purse packed with plenty of room left over for goodies. The only thing I don’t have laid out is what I’m going to wear tomorrow, but I do have an idea. Excited I am!

On another note… every night I sit here wondering what to talk about, trying to decipher out of thin air, what the 3 or 4 people who read my blog would like to know. Unfortunately, I’m not that psychic. So, I thought it would be cool if you who read this would put in the comments any questions you would like to ask me or what you would like my snarky take on. I’m pretty honest about things and if I don’t want to talk about something I’ll say so. Besides, I think it would be fun to do… and no, it’s not just me being lazy about coming up with things to write about. :-P

Day Eight -- More Beads Please...

I’ve spent much of today looking through bead patterns, thinking about the next thing I want to make. In other words, I’ve now chosen about 20 or so that I want to make and haven’t started any of them yet… and that’s just for the ones that I’m pretty positive that I have all the supplies for. I’ve decided that I don’t have nearly enough beads… Likely story you might say, but it’s true, considering all the things I want to make and finding out each time that I don’t have all the beads I need to make it. It would be so much easier if there were any good LBS’s around. That’s Local Bead Store for you lay people. There are great stores in Downtown LA and I hear there are a couple good ones in Santa Clarita. But I wish there was at least ONE that I could go to any day, on the spur of the moment to pick up specific beads for any particular project.

As for shopping online for beads, the only problem there is that there is so much that it’s hard to choose from and I don’t get to see anything in person. Another big problem is that I want to get the best prices so I spend too much time comparing sometimes. One thing that pisses me off is every time a bead show rolls around, I don’t have enough money to bother attending them. There is a bead show coming on the weekend of the 18^th through 20^th this month and right now I do have a nice little bit of money (and hoping to get a little bit more before then). I won’t be breaking any banks but I should be able to get a few things to supplement my stash.   I’m very excited because I think it's been a couple of years since I’ve been to one. Well, at least it seems like a couple years. I’m not all that sure as my memory isn’t the best when it comes to dates. I just have to keep any emergencies or stupid, non-bead-related purchases at bay in the meantime. Fingers crossed. 

Since I like adding photos to my blog, here's one that was sort of an accident. It was the day I was taking pics of the hat I made. I saw a cat that I wanted to take a picture of so I zoomed in to get a good shot of it. Afterwards, I turn the lens back to myself for more hat pictures and forgot to zoom out again.

I decided to play around with the colors and stuff and this is the result.