Sometimes...

A small piece of happiness......

Bead Porn

Oh. Wow.
You MUST see all the new BeadPorn....that's all I'm going to say about that.

Click on the bead.

You know what to do.

Cool Warmth

CoolWarmth2
Originally uploaded by lorinicolls

I have always loved this bead....
I may even try to reproduce this style,
I really love how warm the orange/red is,
compared to the icy cool blue.

More Bead Porn!!

SnowPeople

I am famous. A legend. In my own mind. lol.....Do you want the good news or the bad news??

K. Good news first. A local bead store bought ALL my snowpeople to display in their store for sale. I was soo stoked.

For about 1 second I felt famous. It was gooood.

So next week, I need to go in with more stuff, so they can build up my lil' artists nook. Oh, no pressure there.

So, I just shook my head as she's telling me to bring in more stuff for the public, and inside I'm screaming...."WHAT??

Omigod, what do you want me to bring in? Guide me. Lead me, oh
Great Bead Store owner..." Guess I'll have to figger this one out on my own.

Oh, oops. The bad news? There isnt any.

So anyway....Im off on a venture to decide WHAT to bring in to the owner, so I can impress her AND keep her interest.

But aren't my snowpeople delightful?

Oh, and the tags? I take NO credit.
They are compliments of Genea Beads...only her tags say Genea and mine say Lori Beedz....but the concept is the same...so ThankU Genea!
You rock sister.

Reactive Colors

www.BeedzNest.etsy.com

These soo remind me of a mini Hurricane, don't they you?
Such an array of over reactive colors, sorta like the weather lately.
As much as the hurricanes scare the bejeeby's out of me, I still want
to move to Florida, lol....Who wouldn't want to live in The Mickey Mouse State anyway?

I've been beading every chance I get, unless the weather is of melting temperature. Be sure to jump over to Etsy and buy some beads.
Support your starving artists! Wink.

Etsy Treasury

I am famous.

Yep, you heard right,
Faaaa-mous. If you look up famous on Google, you'll see my name. That's right.

Ok, ok, so I'm not all that famous, but I'm a legend in my own mind. *winks*

Well, I'm sorta kinda famous...I got chosen out of thousands and thousands of bead pictures to be in an
Etsy Treasury! That's quite a big deal....I am very honored to have been chosen, really.

I was soo surprised when I got the email that I had been hand picked.

After deflating my big head from all that importance, I traveled on over to Etsys Treasury to see what all the fuss was.....lo & behold, there's my Kotton Kandy bead among other artists absolutely fabulous beads.

I was soo elated, I could barely contain my excitement, but after finally calming down, taking a good hard look around The Treasury....

I sat down, emailed the link to all my friends, fellow artists, neighbors and colleagues.

Then said to myself...."What the hell is a Treasury?"

Rainblo Bubble Gum

I heart anything Rainbow...especially
Rainblo bubble gum.

In fact, I LOVE bubblegum period! This bead just reminds me of Rainblo bubblegum balls.
Grape is one of my favorite flavors. Then orange, then maybe cherry.

Last time I was standing in line at the drug store, that's when I saw it.
The company brought back the pink bubblegum balls and they were plain old fashioned Bubblegum flavor!

Lawsie Mercy! The Bubblegum Gods love me.

I dont know about you, but I chew bubblegum just for the flavor, and either toss it in the garbage or swallow it, depending on where I'm at.
I mean, one must still act like a lady right? Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

I musta bought 6 packs of bubblegum balls. I chewed each one for the flavor, tossed it, chewed again, swallowed it, tossed it...well, you get the picture.

Remember the old wives tale, that if you swallow your gum it takes 7 years to digest? If that's a fact, then I will still be digesting bubblegum well after I'm dead..... My intestines are probably all stuck together.

It was then that I realized there had to be a better way to get that bubbleyummy flavor without all the hassel of chewing all those gumballs.
So, one day I'm off doing my "thang"....and stopped by The Andersons to get some fresh sweet corn, wattamelon, grapes, etc. You know the ol' drill.

There I am, husking sweet corn into the big barrel ~when right ahead of me, is a HUGE sign for Salt Water Taffy.
Oooooooo, I haven't had salt water taffy in years! I LOVE salt water taffy!

I grab a bag and decide to load up.

Nothing like taffy to pull all your crowns off your teeth...Oh ya baby!

Screw all that dental work...

It was then, that I realized I must have died and gone to heaven.

Lo & behold, what do I see? But BUBBLEGUM flavored taffy!

Oh hell no!

Life just makes sense at that exact moment...

Who woulda thunk it? Now I get the flavor of my bubblegum without swallowing all that gum, that I can't digest until I'm 200 years old.

How embarrassing, if I ever need an appendectomy & they cut me open only to find my appendix stuck to my liver & my liver stuck to something it shouldn't be. Yuck. How gross is that?

Now I can eat all the taffy I want, without worrying whats gonna stick to what...unless I end up eating 2 pounds of taffy in less than a week.
Um, oops....did I just say I did that?

Pffffft....it wasnt 2 pounds!

It was more like 3 pounds, who are you kidding?

ETSY

I finally opened an ETSY store, can you believe it?

www.BeedzNest.etsy.com Here's yer linky dink.

I'm just a little peeved off at FeeBay, er uh I mean eBay right now....all up in my goodies. Raising final value fee's etc., bologna, I say!
Oscar Mayer baloney. Pfffttt.....Do they think us sellers are stupid?

Lets see...0.20 CENTS to put a listing in Etsy.
$19.95 to put a featured listing in eBay. You do the math here.

So anyway....go take a peek & a gander around the new crib.

Buy something while your at it.

C'mon, help a sista out.....

Please?

Pretty Please?

With sugar on top.

And a cherry?

Im in LOVE

Im in love.

*insert best shower singing voice here*
"Cuz I'm in luv wit a strippa...."

No really, Im in love.
Look at this bead.

I said , look at this bead!
"LOOK AT IT DAGGUMMIT"

There. There.

Arent you happy you looked? I did NOT make this bead. I repeat, I did NOT make it... But I secretly wish I did....(shhh, don't tell Renee!)

Renee of JetAge Studio's did.....AND, AND, if you click on the booty-ful bead, you'll be able to look at more of Renee's work
& drool as I've done ~ all over my keyboard. ~

*Grabs kleenex to clean up spit - and hands you one too*

Oh Renee, I heart you. I soo totally heart you.

I mean, I really love your work! Is it possible? Is it possible, that Im in love with another artist that makes the most beautiful beads this side of planet earth?

Pfffft.....Anythings possible. Hell, look at the rack on my tomatoes! *grins & winks*

Somewhere Over the Rainbow....

I know alot of you have been waiting on my rainbow series, and well....Finally....here it is! These beads came out prettier than originally thought in my head. Bonus!

I'm not even sure which one I like the best. I like them all. Can I have them all? Please, Please! Oh wait, I made them. Nevermind.
Talk about bursting with color.....Im just pleased as puddin'.

I plan to string that turquoise heart on a navy colored neckwire, so
I will snap a pic later on to show you what that looks like, around your neck. Soo cool.

The girls have asked me to make them hearts to coordinate with their "back to school" outfits....so I need to torch....and go play with color.

Nothing like having a job where you get to play with rainbows.

Too bad, I never find a pot of gold or a lil' leprechaun at the end...
Could be a good thing, I hear those leprechaun's are shady little people.

Im offffffffff............

Im Sulking.......

Im sulking.
You'll find me in a corner today with my arms crossed and a biotch look on my face.
Why am I sulking and being such a big baby?

Because I can.
No really......why? Because NONE of my bead auctions got even ONE tiny measly bid. What's even worse....I had like 16 people look at my auction pages on FeeBay...er uh, I mean eBay. 16. Pfffffttt....

What do those numbers mean? It means the typical
-August is slow month- everyone's school shopping....but it also means NOT enough people drove into my auction. 16 people ? What a joke.

Where am I headed with all this babyish feeling sorry for myself biotch moment?
I'm headed towards the fact that it seems if you want to get noticed on FeeBay....er uh, I mean eBay - you are forced to pay an additional $19.95 to feature your auction. ON TOP of your listing fees.

Lawsie mercy, I mean....hello?? $19.95? It's just stupid.
Even then, there's no guarantee's!
But then again, life has no guarantee's does it?
ESPECIALLY when it comes to making a wage on eBay.

2 years ago, I couldn't keep up with my bead making.....Beads were flying off my torch faster than I could make them.

And now?

Pfffftttt..........
*Heads back to corner and stomps feet like a small child -
then smiles & grins, remembering how good an old fashioned
temper tantrum feels*