Updated my Etsy shop

I've put some new focal beads on Etsy as well as some other beads. Etsy seems to be an ongoing task and I've been trying to update it every couple of days. It means I now have 47 items in my shop which is a lot for me and some of these items are ending soon so if you look at my older listings I've reduced the price of these items so you might be able to grab a bargin.

I ment to post these the other night

I ment to do a post with these bead pictures the other night but I couldn't get into blogger and I went to bead and forgot all about it the next morning, lol. The blue retro flower beads are now off to a new home (I'm going to make some more for myself) but I've done a pink version which I really like too.

I also haven't got through all the new frit I bought at the end of May, this is one of the last frit blends I have left to try out, I love these beads, the colours are so subtle. The final set is another set of encased raku frit beads, I'm loving my rediscovery of raku.

Phew!! What a hot day!!!!

What a hot day it's been today, we've bead to the Trafford Centre and it was so hot and muggy in there, even in the cinema it was hot!!!! Anyway I made these beads yesterday morning, I love this first set, i'm planning on making more of these for myself and I just had to try them in a different colour combo too.

I then came accross my raku firt, It's been a while since I've used any raku so I just had to have a play with it, I love it when it goes all blue like this.

Summer Brights

I've not had a huge amount of time this week to bead, what with sports day and the Cheshire Show but we've had some fantastic sunshine so I managed to squeeze in some time to make these beads, they are the same as my 'pools' beads that I normally make with silvered glass on a nuteral coloured base but I decided to make them in bright clashing colours and I think they are fab. I've just put them on my website with some of the other beads I made this week so please take a look.

Banoffie Pie

It was Hubbys birthday last weel and instead of the usual birthday cake he wanted a banoffie pie so me and DS (well just me really, DS wandered off with the bowl) made him his favorite banoffie pie. I took a picture meaning to show you then promply forgot, sorry, but here it is now and it was very nice as well.

Oh and if anyone knows where one of the ends of the barrel for my tumbler is can you please let me know, he seems to have gone on holiday and I have silver clay bits that need a tumble.

Orphan Beads

I'm over-run with Orphan beads at the moment, there's nothing wrong with these beads but I always make an extra bead for each set incase one is bigger or smaller than the rest etc etc and I just tend to save these up in a tub, well that tub was overflowing yesterday so I've decided to string them up into sets of 16 like this set of 16 fritty beads, there's also a set of 16 encased beads on Etsy, so if you fancy baging yourself a set please check out my Etsy shop here

Summer Sunshine Beads

Dose anyone else find the weather influences what you make and the colours you want to use? I do big time, it's been beautifully sunny weather here recently and I've found myself making tipically summer beads. The above ones are a beautiful dark bright pink incased in a pale transparent pink rather than clear.

With the sunshine and my holiday fast approaching I've been making more seaside inspired beads, the above one I love, the green in it is just stunning and below is another set of my rockpool beads which I have so much fun making.