Springtime, New Beads & Thanks

Spring is officially here!  To get you in the mood for all things fresh, new and pretty I've made these delicate 'Springtime' beads.  They're made in palest green and a gorgeous peachy pink.  These beads and more will be for sale on the Freshly Baked Beads page of my website at 8.30pm (UK time) tonight.

I'd just like to say a massive thank you to everybody who bought my Beads For Japan and to those who kindly made extra donations.  Together we've raised £150.00 for the British Red Cross Japan Tsunami Appeal.  I'm very pleased with that. Well done us! 

Have a marvellous Monday!

Beads For Japan: Sale Three

Here are the final beads that I'm selling for the Japan Tsunami Appeal.

My Beads For Japan sales work on a first come, first served basis.  One hundred percent of the proceeds will go to the British Red Cross Japan Tsunami Appeal.  Once I have made the payment to the fund I will add a screenshot of the payment confirmation to this post.

Payment will need to be made by PayPal.

Please email me with your choice of bead/s and I will get back to you to let you know if they're yours and to arrange payment by PayPal.

Beads For Japan: Sale Three

'Blossom'
SOLD Thank you, Rebecca

Five green beads encased in dusky lilac and decorated with white stringerwork and a raised flower.  They've been etched to a soft velvety finish.  The beads measure 13mm diameter and they have 2mm diameter bead holes.

Price : £20.00 including worldwide postage.

'Lemon Meringue Cupcake'

SOLD Thank you, Laura

A cute cupcake with a light brown base, white icing and pale yellow sprinkles.  The bead is 16mm tall and has a 2mm diameter bead hole. 

Price : £10.00 including worldwide postage.

Many thanks

EDIT: I've just made the last payment to the Japan Tsunami Appeal. Jackie, who bought a cupcake in the first Beads For Japan sale, gave me an extra £20.00 to add to the Beads For Japan fund.  That's just super duper lovely!  So the final donation is £50.00.

Beads For Japan: Sale Two

Here is the second lot of beads that I'm selling to raise money for the Japan Tsunami Appeal.

My Beads For Japan sales work on a first come, first served basis.  One hundred percent of the proceeds will go to the British Red Cross Japan Tsunami Appeal.  Once I have made the payment to the fund I will add a screenshot of the payment confirmation to this post.

Payment will need to be made by PayPal.

Please email me with your choice of bead/s and I will get back to you to let you know if they're yours and to arrange payment by PayPal.

Beads For Japan: Sale Two

'Purquoise Spotties'
SOLD Thanks, Kanina.

Five turquoise beads encased in crystal clear and decorated with purple spots.  The beads measure 13mm diameter and they have 2mm diameter bead holes.

Price : £20.00 including worldwide postage.

'Cherry Cupcake'
SOLD  Thanks, Fi.

A cute cupcake with a light brown base, white icing and a shiny, deep red cherry.  The bead is 17mm tall and has a 2mm diameter bead hole. 

Price : £10.00 including worldwide postage.

I will be holding one more Beads For Japan sale so if you don't manage to get any beads this time there will be another chance.

Thank you

EDIT: I've just made tonight's payment to the Japan Tsunami Appeal. Kanina kindly added an extra £10.00 to her donation.  Also, when I sold the Springtime Shimmer beads on my website last night, Claire, the lovely lady who bought them, paid double and asked me to add the extra to the Beads For Japan fund.  How brilliant!  So tonight's donation is £60.00.

Beads For Japan: Sale One

These three beads are now all sold.  Stay tuned for more .....

Following on from my previous post, here are the first lot of beads that I'm selling to raise money for the Japan Tsunami Appeal.

My Beads For Japan sales work on a first come, first served basis.  One hundred percent of the proceeds will go to the British Red Cross Japan Tsunami Appeal.  Once I have made the payment to the fund I will add a screenshot of the payment confirmation to this post.

Payment will need to be made by PayPal.

Please email me with your choice of bead/s and I will get back to you to let you know if they're yours and to arrange payment by PayPal.

Beads For Japan: Sale One

These cupcake beads are about 16mm tall and have 2mm diameter bead holes.

Each one costs £10.00 including worldwide postage.

Please email me with your choice of cream icing, white icing or pink icing.

Cream Icing : SOLD Thank you, Tina.
White Icing : SOLD Thank you, Jackie.
Pink Icing : SOLD Thank you, Caroline.

I will be holding two more Beads For Japan sales so if you don't manage to get any beads this time there will be another couple of chances.

Many thanks

EDIT: I've just made the payment of £40.00 to the Japan Tsunami Appeal. Lovely Tina wanted to pay double for her cupcake bead.  How wonderful is that?  The confirmation of the donation is pictured below :

Beads For Japan

Photograph from Kyodo/Reuters

Right now it's near on impossible to watch the news and not feel totally helpless.  The shocking footage from Japan has made me cry on more than one occasion.  What really got me yesterday were the pictures of the little children in their wellies being carried onto vans and boats.  Their tiny faces looked so bewildered and frightened.

Photograph from Kyodo/Reuters

You just can't imagine what the Japanese people are going through.

It's horrific.

I was sat making beads yesterday, listening to the radio and I just felt awful.  There I was going about my normal everyday routine while these horrendous things are happening in Japan.

I'll tell you what, though - it's at times like this that you see the really ugly side of some people.  I felt physically sick when I read on Twitter that some people (nobody I follow, I hasten to add) seem to think that the Japanese earthquake and tsunami is some kind of karmic payback for Pearl Harbor.  Who the bloody hell thinks such a thing and then shares their disgusting, ignorant thoughts with the rest of the internet?  Such vile, spiteful people must surely be deranged?  Or stupid.  It makes me livid.

But of course, that's just a tiny handful of sick morons.  The vast majority of humankind want to help Japan and its people in whatever way they can. The British Red Cross have been in Japan since Friday with their medical teams and support staff and they've set up the Japan Tsunami Appeal.

So after I'd finished making my 'normal' beads yesterday I spent an extra hour in the shed and decided that I would sell whatever beads I made in that time and give one hundred percent of the proceeds to the Red Cross appeal.

I will do the same today and tomorrow.

The Beads For Japan will be sold here, on my blog, on a first come, first served basis.  I will accept payment by PayPal only and as soon as I have made the payment to the Red Cross I will post a screenshot of the payment confirmation here on my blog.  I know that you wouldn't think that I would pull an Arthur-Fowler-And-The-Christmas-Club-Money style scam but I want this to be done correctly.

I'll be posting the first three Beads For Japan here very shortly so please do stay tuned.

Thank you,