Sue Beads

We're in Hilton Head - no photos yet. Maybe tomorrow! Friends stopping by tonight, then Kurama japanese steakhouse!

I got some new Thompson Enamel colors today so after I made beads, cleaned up, made dinner (ok, ordered pizza!) and whatever else I did, I went downstairs to try them out. I'm going to Hilton Head for a week so I will have torch withdrawal, so I just had to try them! Here they are, very earthy!

I just listed some more enamel head pins in the SueBeads etsy store !

Just heard on the news, for the first time in over 30 years, more peopled moved TO Pittsburgh than OUT OF Pittsburgh last year! How about THAT???

This one was sort of an experiment. I remember Melissa Lee made a pendant with a chinese fortune cookie fortune, with glass and she soldered it together, I believe. Or she made a silver pendant and inserted it, can't quite remember the details. But ever since then, I've been saving my really good fortunes. I decided to see if they would work in a collage pendant. It worked out ok, but it seems the paper is a bit too thin to go through the heating process. Oh well, a learning experience. I still like it, but think I'll try and come up with something else!

Ok, I finally got some photos taken after I made part of a bead order today! Of course, I neglected my kids all day, but... I will list more later on, after dinner, but for now, check out the SueBeads etsy store for some enamel beads if you want them!

The other day, I was reading Andrew Thornton's blog , and he mentioned that someone made a pendant out of a collage he had made. I remembered I had been the lucky recipient of a collage by Andrew when I purchased an Anne Choi heart from his destash sale. I thought, hmmmm, I made that heart collage for the Art Bead Scene challenge with punched out washi paper, I'm sure Andrew's art would look great in one of the heart pendants. Last night I punched out the heart, and glued and then mod-podged it in place. I wanted to wait overnight, so the glue would dry all the way and produce no bubbles. This morning I glazed it with Amazing Glaze and, tada! A beautiful pendant! I hope Andrew likes it!