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Who wouldn’t want to win a $10,000 Rio Grande gift certificate?  Or even $2,500 or $1,000?  I love Rio Grande with all my heart!  (Which reminds me…I need to place an order).

If you haven’t heard of the Saul Bell Design Awards, you should check it out.  Maybe even design a piece to enter.  This years categories include PMC, Beads, Silver, Enamel, just to name a few.

Not only are there great prizes but I’m sure you’ve noticed the winners’ pictures plastered everywhere in full page ads for Rio.

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Did you see?  Did you see?  Jill Symons started a glass bead blog!  I mosey-ed over to her site today and in the back of my head I was thinking…I wish this blog was somewhere that I could subscribe to it in my reader.  I kept reading on and saw that now I can!

Sorry.  I get a little excited about things like that.

If you know Jill’s beads you know that they are elegance and perfection.

Here’s a little secret…

Way back when I was just starting out, Jill was the one who inspired my photos on a white background.  The way I remember it, she was the only one doing the pure white background thing.  Don’t jump on me…I know that she’s not the first one to do that and not the only one.  But she is the one that I remember being pretty prominent with that style.  I worked up my courage to email her and ask her what the heck she used for her background and she was nice enough to tell me how simple it was with just white paper.

I don’t know what she does not but her photos are impeccable, don’t you think?

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This is what I’ve been working on lately.  These are the first round and I have to say I’m pretty impressed with myself.  Not impressed like these are perfect but impressed like they were experiments, first-try-and-they-don’t-look-like-cr@p, which most of my experiments do and they never see the light of the camera.

They were made with the Zoozii Cone Drop.  I don’t have the top part that makes the bicone but I probably should get it because it would make things go a lot faster!  I just love this shape.  There is something about it that speaks to me. The colors aren’t too shabby either.

These individuals are on sale on my site.  I know I’ve been remiss about selling on here lately and I do need to get back to it.  I have so many irons in the fire that I can’t choose which ones to focus on or what direction to go because they all hold my interest strongly.  From of course, a book, a new opportunity to make and sell more art pieces that barely include glass (can you believe it?), some jewelry shop and museum gift shop opportunities and travel.

But you see, then that thing called life comes in. And that takes precedence.  And all of those other things have to wait.  So, I guess I’m saying, get ‘em while you can because I don’t know where I’m going to be pulled next week!

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I just got lost for way too long with the Frantz Art Glass color picker.  Now I want to buy more glass.  That I don’t need.

How about you?

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8. There are wild animals everywhere. And I don’t mean the students. While there we saw immature bald eagles, deer and racoons, just to name a few. In her front yard. Within feet of us. I’ve heard there have been Orca spottings out her front window too. Be safe and stay home…you wouldn’t want to come into contact with one of those, you know.

7. You could develop an addiction. You think you’re immune to tool addiction and envy? Think again and don’t test your luck. You will want one of everything. And Andrea probably has it there for you.

6. Your fragile mind could be forever altered. You may find out what a gooey duck is.

5. You might encounter Canadians. And like them. And that could throw you into a problem-solving tizzy every time one of your sweet new friends mentions how hard or expensive it is to get something to them up there. Or how difficult travel may be for them to get to events that the ‘rest of us’ go to. And you’ll start wondering why there is a border and can’t we all just be one?

4. You’ll never want to eat seafood again. At home, that is. You may find that the breakfast sandwich at the fast food place in the airport has better seafood on it than your own local sushi place.

3. You’ll go home feeling neighborly-challenged. After getting used to at least three people/couples/families stopping by the studio daily, you will feel inadequate in your day to day life where no one drops by to visit you ‘just because.’

2. You could lose your whole customer base. After learning what you’re going to learn you will never look at your work the same again. Your $20 beads will immediately be transformed into $75 beads. You could lose your whole customer base because of that. Stay home and save yourself the trouble that this will cause you.

1.  It may end your bead making career. You could go home having learned how to make the beads that I’m showing here and then…what else is there left in life?  You might as well hang it up.  You have just reached the end of the bead-making universe.

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