Pink!

Whenever I make pink beads I always think of one of my first ever custom bead orders. The beads were for a lady who is totally obsessed with the colour pink! That lady's name is Maria and I've decided to name this strand of very pink beads after her.

And talking of pink I treated myself to this fabulous ring the other day. Steph at Handmade Heaven has started making bold, funky, fused glass rings. This 'Mint Blossom' one is from her 'Stax' range and when I saw it on her blog the other day I just knew it had to be mine!

Make sure you take a look at Steph's website. She has some more 'Stax' rings on there in an array of wonderful colours as well as some very cool 'Bubblz' rings too. Then there's Steph's coasters, bowls, cufflinks, notebooks, cards and many other awesome items as well. Handmade Heaven indeed!

The Goddesses Project

A couple of years ago (way back when I did commissions and special orders) a lady called Maria asked me to make her some tiny pink beads. I didn't know it at the time but she was working on something she called 'The Goddesses Project'.

The other day Maria emailed me to tell me that The Goddesses Project was finally complete and she sent me a link to the finished piece - a beautiful necklace featuring pink beads that she'd commissioned from all her favourite beadmakers. It's a bit of an honour for my beads to be residing next to those made by Kandice Seeber, Lezlie Belanger and Corina Tettinger, I can tell you. Especially seeing as at the point I made those tiny pink beads I was still making beads in the kitchen on my Hot Head torch!

You can see the finished necklace by clicking here. Big thank you to Maria for involving my beads in such a wonderful project!

I'll tell you what though, as I was searching through my bead photo archives for those pink ones I was flabbergasted at how many beads I've made over the years. I saw beads there that I'd forgotten making that featured designs that I never do any more. I think I'm going to have to print some of my bead photos out and take them down to the shed and 're-visit' the designs and colours. Bring them up to date, as such. Could be fun!