Thursday, January 27, 2011

Old Town Custom Framing & Gallery


Yesterday I dropped off some more items for inclusion in Old Town Gallery's Feb 3rd Have a Heart Sale. Maria, the gallery owner, is busy filling the gallery with wonderful paintings, glass and jewelry. I selected things with red and or hearts as well as a few things Maria had seen in my online store. Be sure to stop in to the gallery anytime you are in old town Silverdale.

All have been  SOLD

Hearts Desire freshwater pearls

Fire and Ice - moonstones and red glass

Hand painted Porcelain Art Bead

Hand painted Porcelain Art Bead

Hand painted Porcelain Art Bead

Hand painted Porcelain Art Bead

Fire and Ice - moonstones and red glass

The necklace on the right. Red Jasper and Copper.

One of these red jasper and serpentine.

Glass Swirl earrings

Glass Swirl earrings

Glass Swirl earrings

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

New Look

So how do you like my new look? My friend Linda has been helping me with a new design for business cards. We adapted the new card to make a banner for my blog and etsy store. Clean, crisp, professional. I like it. Now I need to create all new graphics and signs with this new look and incorporate it into my website now under construction. I hope to get all of this out of the way soon so that I can get back to beading!!!!!

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Beadware is 10!

I realized today that 2011 is Beadware's 10th Anniversary!!

Hard to believe it has been that long. During that time I have made more than 2100 pairs of earrings, 1000+ bracelets and 300+ necklaces. Beadware has made a profit every year since its inception. Not too shabby for a hobby run a-mok!

For most of those years I did sales out of my home to my mailing list. A holiday sale, a spring sale and a late summer sale. Most of those were done in partnership with my friend Maria and her brand new soap business - Earth Essentials. My friend Rita created our first sale post cards - she dubbed us Beads 'n Bubbles. Boy those sure were fun!!

Up until 2010 Beadware was a part-time endeavor. This year was the first time I have focused on my business full time and the first year I have done sales outside my home. I took my new booth to 17 different venues for a total of 65 days. Since most of the events are on weekends, and there are only 52 weekends in a year, you can see I did not leave myself much free time this last year! I hope to make more time for fun in 2011.

Pictures from a sale at my home in December 2001. 






Pictures from the first Beads 'n Bubble's sale August 2002