Fire Divas Do It Again!

Looking for something to challenge your creativity???  Check out the Fire Divas Quarterly Jewelry Challenge! Check out all the details and then enter! Win really cool prizes and a chance to show off your best work!
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February is a time for romance and love. It's also the time to get your jewelry into our Fire Divas Quarterly Jewelry Challenge! The theme is That Special Bead. It is entirely open to your own interpretation and we hope you have fun with it! For some inspiration, head over to our Flickr page. You can win some fantastic prizes; see them below!

Winged heart bead like this one by Lori from http://www.ashlyndesign.etsy.com/

$20 Gift Certificate to janeldudleybeads.etsy.com

$40 Gift Certificate to hollysfolly.com

$15 Gift Certificate to teasebeads.com or teasebeads.artfire.com

$25 Gift Certificate to http://www.arensea.etsy.com/ or http://www.arensea.artfire.com/

A bead donated by Lara from www.lutrick.etsy.com and www.lutrick.artfire.com


A fish like this one by Laurie from www.glassbead.etsy.com

$20 Gift Certificate to http://www.artfire.com/users/BabsBeadsandDesign

$20 Gift Certificate to www.etsy.com/shop/uglyducklingbeads

This set of beads from RiversEdgeGlass

Now the boring stuff:

All submissions must feature Fire Divas' lampwork. We require the name of the Fire Diva who made the beads used in the submitted piece, so if you submit something, please be ready to provide that information.

We will allow one submission per person per contest, and a maximum of two photos per submission. Entries may be submitted here (http://www.flickr.com/groups/firedivachallenge/) for approval, no later than February 10, 2011. No Flickr account? No problem. You can also email your submissions to firedivas @ gmail . com (no spaces). Please include, in the comments section or in your email, the following:
Information about the beads:
Description of the piece:
Inspiration for the piece:
Submissions will not be approved without all of this information.

Fire Divas reserve the right to approve or reject any submissions.

Fire Divas reserve the right to modify or cancel the challenge at any time.

The winners will be determined by an open poll which does not allow multiple votes

Give Back Sunday

Sundays are now going to be my  "Give Back Sunday".   Every week I will find somthing that will be marked down  25% - 50%  every Sunday throughout this year for 24 hours only. It'll be my way of saying thank you to all my wonderful customers and friends for continually supporting me, encouraging me, and let's be honest....buying from me!


So today, right now , all e-book tutorials ( I only have two right now, but more coming) will be marked down 50% until 8:30 am , Monday, October 18, 2010.

Big Lip Fish Tutorial

Wired Leaves and Beads Tutorial

    

Click the link below to see more of my items in my Etsy Shop.
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Have a great day!

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I Appreciate You!

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you...

I would like to thank everyone who came out this weekend and supported me at the Fall Great Lakes Bead Bonanza! It's was so nice to see so many of you again... It's because of you that I continue to do this. Hmmmm. Okay I do it because I like it and its my job too.  :)   But, the plus,... the big bonus, is that you keep buying from me. That you oooooh and aaahhhhh, over the smallest details. And the biggest bonus, we're becoming friends, sharing our hopes, disappointments,... the little things in life that matter.

And to show my appreciation I have something special for you for any purchase you make from me at the "Winter Wonders Holiday Glass show" on November 8, 2010. Click on the link for all the information. But you have to be there for me to give it to you!

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Great Lakes Fine Art Fair

I'm really looking forward to the next weekend!  I'm doing the Great Lakes Fine Art Fair at the Rock Financial in Novi, Michigan and finally bringing back my Kissable Faces, both the Diva's and the Elders.  I took them to Bead Bonanza this past weekend and pleasantly surprised to see them selling again. The new ones have been growing in size and complexity since I started making them in 2001 and it was 'kinda cool to sit at the torch playing with them again.  These are the only 3 left, but will definitely be making more since they were received so well....

 

Check back with me later this week...all my bead show s are over and would love to show you the beads I'll be adding to my Etsy shop~ Ugly Duckling Beads.

Have a great day!

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Today I Overcame Fear...

I have this strange fear of posting on forums and just the internet in general.  I'm sure it goes back to my fear of being judged by people who don't know me. Rational,... probably not! But real to me....   In August I made my first post here, but then the fear took over and I haven't posted since.... So today I am facing those fears head on. How? In short I joined a great group of  lampworkers called Fire Divas who  support each other in their day to day journey selling Lampwork beads and jewelry on the internet.  To be part of this group it is expected to post, post, and then post more.  My simplistic version, but in essence what they are doing is creating exposure and visibility on the internet for everyone on the team.  So not only will I be posting pictures of my stuff, but I'll also post pictures of their beautiful beads and jewelry!  And of course musings into my everyday life....I invite you take this journey with me!

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month

The month of October is designated as Breast Cancer Awareness month.  To support the efforts of research I am donating 25% of all my Etsy sales in the month of October to the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure.

"Whats In My My Garden" 2010    

Later today I'll post those beads on the Fired Divas Blog page....

Before leaving let me part with a thought:  The Root of fear is the unknown, of what may lay ahead. Overcoming fear is not fighting or forgetting it. It means meeting that particular fear head on. Understand where the fear is coming from.  In many cases when we find where it comes from we can address and overcome it.  Today I know that my fear was baseless...

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